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Planned Parenthood Keystone

[savedbythe-bellhooks]

[savedbythe-bellhooks]

Source: Communion: The Female Search For Love by bell hooks

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Your 5 Most Common Questions About Alcohol and Consent – Answered

“What if they're BOTH drunk?” People have lots of questions about drinking and sex – and how alcohol affects consent. Here are the answers.

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Why Don't Colleges Offer Abortions?

Forty-two percent of abortions are sought by college-age women, yet no student health centers appear to provide the service. The reasons why make little sense.

College health centers are responsible for many aspects of reproductive health- why not abortions?

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6 Awful Things That Happen When We Think 'Good' People Can't Be Rapists or Abusers

Whether they're celebrities or people we know, we tend to believe “good” people are nothing like the “monsters” who rape and abuse. But here's why we need to drop this idea – for survivors, for community, and for yourself.

"Because sexual assault and intimate partner violence are complex issues, it’s necessary for us to break out of the binary of believing people are either 'good' or capable of violence."

[ppkey]

Like Totally Whatever

"It's like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were geniuses for turning women into question marks."

[gurl]

6 Tips To Remember For Body Confidence This Summer

[queer-feminist-quotes]

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi (via queer-feminist-quotes)

[plannedparenthood]

Black girls must be at the table. Black women must be at the table. Not just the college professors, celebrities, business leaders, and elected officials, but our cousins, our sisters, our grandmas, the girls who didn’t make it out, the ones we locked away, the voices that have been silenced.

Melissa Harris-Perry (via plannedparenthood)

[feministlikeme]

[8cosyintherocket8]

I had my ups and downs But I always find the inner strength to pull myself up I was served lemons, but I made lemonade

Freedom  (via 8cosyintherocket8)

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[wearmoonlight]

I belong deeply to myself.

Warsan Shire Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (via silencednomore)

[karenhurley]

Thinx is a brand of underwear for humans that menstruate. Those humans are not necessarily always going to be cisgendered women, as transgender men can, and do, menstruate. With its latest subway campaign, which took over New York’s Union Square station today, the brand has represented exactly that.

“Trans inclusion is something that has been on our radar since the iteration of our Boyshort, which was specifically designed with the trans male menstruating community in mind" Miki Agrawal

[uneutral]

respect non binary kids!

[buzzfeedlgbt]

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Wonder Woman Wednesday: Warsan Shire

You probably know Warsan Shire’s poetry from Lemonade, but you should take the time to read more of it- it’s amazing.

Her published collections include Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth and Her Blue Body. Extreme Girlhood, her first full poetry collection, will be published soon (Source).

Shire “uses her work to document stories of journey and trauma. She curates and teaches workshops around the art of healing through narrative” (Source). 

[savedbythe-bellhooks]

Source: Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks.