in brief

There will be cats. I. 22. ♀

[adayinthelesbianlife-deactivate]

Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns she is worthless.

Dr. Myra Pollack Sadker (via staininyourbrain)

[cosmicspacegirl-deactivated2018]

[brownnesscrew]

[prettyvulva]

people are more concerned with allowing boys to wear makeup rather than telling girls they don’t need to

[catsuggest]

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[realisationpar]

The Lip Print Handkerchief with vintage Gucci. 

[theradicalresistance]

You can’t be empowered by something that was created to take away your power.

[theradicalresistance]

For those who do not understand my point: femininity isn’t “oppressed”, it’s oppression, a tool to keep women subjugated; the exploitation of women can never be empowering for women since it is based in patriarchy’s project to maintain ownership and constant access to women’s bodies; and it should never be a feminist project to reinforce the very gender norms that were created to subjugate us and take away our power, because that is literally the only thing they will ever do, however much liberal feminists insist they’re “choices” and that “choices” are all that matters.

[soggydenim]

Ventrone Chronicles

[flyartproductions]

WICKED OR WEAKNESS

Last Supper (1465), Dirk Bouts / HUMBLE., Kendrick Lamar

[castelvetrano]

[sophelstien]

i’ve seen an appalling amount of news stories regarding the rise in anti-semitic hate crime and threats over the past few months, yet here on tumblr i follow TWO non-jews who blog about it regularly, almost always reblogged from myself, and one who blogs about it sporadically. not sure why goyim seem to think they can defeat nazis when they are willfully ignorant about a primary target of nazis.

there have been 48 bomb threats to jewish community centers across the country over the past two weeks and the only blogs i saw posting about it were jewish bloggers. according to the fbi, in 2015, over HALF of religious-based hate crimes were anti-jewish, yet this stat has only been brought to my attention by other jews. a man drove cross-country to my hometown with an explosive compound to “desecrate” my temple this summer. this is real, it’s happening, and it always has been.

raising awareness is the easiest thing to do in the age of social media and instant information, so goyim, it’s time to step it tf up.

[redsatinsheets]

i hope all u ugly white feminists realize that the founders of the women’s march are a latina woman, a black woman, and a palestinian muslim woman. they didn’t create this march for all of you to talk about your pussies and spew cissexism. :^)

[psxgfx-deactivated20180706]

conservatives: shut up about your vaginas and reproductive health already

tumblr libs: shut up about your vaginas and reproductive health already

[areasonablydressedwoman]

[waysbunny]

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

[oncethingslookup]

Jing Wen backstage at Topshop Unique Spring 2016 RTW

[stay-human]

We’ve been taught that women need to be flawless even when our flawlessness is wildly implausible, sexy even when our sexiness is a break from plot. We’re sprinting through Jurassic Park in heels, fighting supervillains in strapless corsets, being stranded on deserted islands for days without a hint of stubble. Real female bodies are so taboo that hair-removal-cream ads show hairless legs even before the cream is applied… So, for every teen girl leaning into her bedroom mirror, wondering why she doesn’t look like a celebrity: Please know that nobody wakes up like this. Not me. Not any other actress. (Not even Beyoncé. I swear.) Here’s the real deal: Before each public appearance, I spend 90 minutes in a makeup chair. Three to six people work on my hair and makeup, while a professional touches up my nails. My eyebrows are tweezed and threaded every week. There’s concealer on parts of my body that I could never have predicted would need concealing. I’m up at 6am every day and at the gym by 7:30. I exercise for 90 minutes and, some evenings, again before bed. It’s someone’s full-time job to decide what I can and cannot eat. There are more ingredients in my face packs than in my food. There’s a team dedicated to finding me flattering outfits. After all that, if I’m still not “flawless” enough, there are generous servings of Photoshop. I’ve said it before, and I will keep saying it: It takes an army, a lot of money, and an incredible amount of time to make a female celebrity look the way she does when you see her. It isn’t realistic, and it isn’t anything to aspire to.

I Didn’t Wake Up Like This | Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor writes about her struggle with body image and the way media sets unhealthy and impossible standards for women–even the ones who are the standard.  (via bookphile)

[moqawama]

Female Palestinian protesters are seen during clashes at the entrance of the Israeli Ofer military prison in Ramallah, West Bank on October 21, 2014, following a protest against the entry of settlers to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem. (Issam Rimawi/Getty Images)