Feminist Malcontent

Life at the intersections of feminism, academia, motherhood, and humanity.

[we-kant-even]

you’re not alone

[indyviv]

For all of the young women and femmes on their first day of philosophy 101. Stay the course. It gets better.

[ppaction]

#SryNotSry 💁

[lovful]

[indyviv]

The blockade hurts ordinary Cubans and does very little to effect regime change. How do we justify this policy on human rights grounds given our own moral failings and those of our allies?

[thelonelyconservativememe]

All of you out there supporting planned parenthood should really remember what the woman who founded them said…. just saying. Do not stand with PP

[officialclinicescort]

Oh wow, you guys are still trying desperately trying to paint Sanger as a racist huh? Okay, if you’re gonna flat out lie like this you can at least try not to be lazy about it.

You’ve given no context to this quote and conveniently left of the first half of it. The sentence in it’s entirety is “ “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.” I know you manipulated it that way because you wanted to make Sanger seem as evil as possible, and also because literally the only thing pro lifers know how to do is lie, but admittedly the full sentence by itself looks damning enough. I think you know this, which is why you provided no context. If you had, your entire argument would have fallen apart. Here are Sangers words with context;

“It seems to me from my experience where I have been in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas, that while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. They do not do this with the white people and if we can train the Negro doctor at the Clinic he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I believe, will have far-reaching results among the colored people. His work in my opinion should be entirely with the Negro profession and the nurses, hospital, social workers, as well as the County’s white doctors. His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us.

The minister’s work is also important and also he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

The article I linked goes into better detail about Sanger, the so called “Negro project”, and the lies spread about her by the pro life movement. I encourage you to read it the next time you feel like spreading lazy, manipulative propaganda bullshit like this.

[eve-made-the-right-choice]

TL;DR: The full quote states that Planned Parenthood wanted to hire Black doctors in order to make their Black patients feel safer and respected. It also states that Planned Parenthood wanted to work with Black ministers, and encourage the ministers to tell others that Planned Parenthood was a safe clinic for Black patients.

[cecaeliawitch]

In other words, she didn’t want this exact lie to start circulating

[americanninjax-deactivated20191]

Reblogging not just to spread this out there but so that I have it on hand the next time someone tries to feed me this crap, I can provide them the facts.

[indyviv]

Get it right. History and context matters.

[bi-privilege]

there are only 4 doctors in the united states that can perform late term abortions, and an anti-choice church is trying to shut one of them down

dr. carhart is one of only 4 doctors in the entire united states that can perform late term abortions, and he is the only doctor doing so east of the mississippi river. while less than 1% of abortions occur during the 3rd trimester, the people who seek these abortions are often those with the greatest need for the procedure: their lives or health are endangered by their pregnancy, their pregnancy is nonviable, they have extremely limited financial means or were incarcerated and thus were unable to seek an abortion earlier, they live with an abusive partner or abusive parents and were afraid or unable to seek medical care earlier during their pregnancy, etc.

dr. carhart provides abortions for people in need, at great personal cost. when his home state of nebraska made it illegal to perform late term abortions in most cases, he opened a clinic in maryland, where he flies to work every week. he faces regular threats & acts of violence. in 1991, anti-abortion terrorists set fire to his house & barn in nebraska. there are always protestors outside his clinic, and he frequently switches hotels and drives different routes to work in order to make himself a more difficult target for terrorists like the one who shot dr. tiller, another late term abortion provider, in 2009, or the one who was arrested in 2006 for planning to bomb another clinic in maryland.

an anti-choice church has raised enough money to buy out the property that dr. carhart currently rents out for his practice. it is difficult for many abortion providers to find new spaces to rent, as landlords are often concerned about the threat of violence from anti-abortion terrorist groups. he is currently trying to raise $2 million with the hope that he will be able to purchase his own clinic, which he will also use to train other doctors to provide late term abortions. you can donate here.

after tiller, a documentary focusing on the four remaining doctors struggling to provide late term abortions, is available here.

@howprolifeofyou

[indyviv]

The agenda is to make medical unavailable to deprive women of their rights and of desperately needed medical care. The long game is to ensure that women have no access to any form of birth control and are shamed for having had sex no matter whether they consented or not. It has not ever been about saving the unborn' but rather about constraining, humiliating, and enslaving women.

[chartier]

Trump voters, the bullshit “liberal bubble,” and accountability.

[helloandwelcome-dc]

I’m just gonna put this here, for my cousins, and for my other family.

[quasi-normalcy]

We don’t hate Trump supporters because we don’t know what they’re really like; we hate Trump supporters because we know exactly what they’re really like.

[passionplanner]

#Plannerhack! 😁📓🖊

Get creative with your monthly layouts! Draw, doodle, or even write in your shopping list or to-do list this holiday season 🎄🎁🖌

Tag a friend that would find this tip useful! 🙋🙋‍♂️🙋

[indyviv]

This is a great planner!

[rhaenyrastormborn]

Trump supporters when people call them out on their racism

[tamarrud]

Learn to defend against a bigot grabbing your hijab from behind!

In this post-election hate-crime spike, self defense is more important than ever. Practice this move until it becomes muscle memory and teach your body to react before thinking.

(via Zee Abdulla)

[thingstolovefor]

#Love it!

[plannedparenthood]

Check out The Trans Life and Liberation Art Series! This amazing series celebrates the artists and activists leading the trans liberation movement. 

Click here to learn more about the project and the incredible artists>>

[indyviv]

Beautiful art for beautiful women.

[exiledpageone]

Imagine when those female voters for Trump realize the rollback of Roe v. Wade, Reproductive Rights, Reproductive health and Equal pay comes into play come Inauguration Day 2017!!! Why people vote against their own interests is bizarre.

[indyviv]

Not bizarre--sad. 

[theblvckcool]

[femalerolemodel]

Cat Calling

[indyviv]

Road trip, day 3--Columbia, MO to Denver. 

Feels dystopic. Maybe it was the 700 plus miles we logged. 

[indyviv]

Important read about how rape culture is normalized by the media and how rape survivors are marginalized from their own stories. This is also a window into the inner working of academic history.

[thinksquad-deactivated20190405]

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/3/10895804/st-louis-police-hunchlab-predictive-policing-marshall-project

[indyviv]

This is how they will justify their killings in the future. We need to be wary of predictive technology.