Women's And Gender Studies

Palak Shah

[ps24704n-blog]

Thankful for these two today and everyday💕 (at Stamford, Connecticut)

[angrymuslimah]

"Gulabi Gang" is a gang of women in India who track down and beat abusive husbands with brooms.

[urban-mulan]

this is too thug not to reblog

[resized]

That’s not all they do - they’ve got more information on their website. 

What else they do that is awesome:

Stop child marriages

Persuade families to educate girl-child

Train women in self-defense

Oppose corruption in administration

Create awareness about the evils of dowry

Register FIRs against sex-offenders and abusive husbands

Publicly shame molesters

Encourage women to become financially independent

[askulloffoxes]

ULTIMATE GIRL POWER

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Chelsea Peretti

[theforce]

Using a Lil Wayne related hashtag to fight sexism. #Remarkable.

[sea-change]

how to be dangerous

[carrierudzinski]

Remember remember this in November.

[ps24704n-blog]

Inside The Secret World Of Child Brides

In the June issue of National Geographic, writer Cynthia Gorney takes an in-depth look at the illicit, heartbreaking world of child brides. Though the practice often defies national laws, child marriage is still understood by communities around the globe as an appropriate route for young women, especially when the alternatives are even more bleak.

This is an article about child brides which is something I have heard about before but to read the kind of life these girls have to live is truly heartbreaking. They are scared of the people that they are married to and it makes me question what goes through their parents minds. Don't you want your daughter to be happy? Sending her off with a complete stranger just so she doesn't end up alone is no way to treat your child. Living in constant fear and having no lives of their own is the way these girls are forced to live.

[whoneedsfeminism]

I need feminism because when I say I don’t want kids, I’m told that “I’d be defeating my only purpose.

[wsangel14-blog]

I’ve heard this a couple times in church and that sucks

[ps24704n-blog]

This shows how close minded people can be. It sickens me to think that some actually believe that the only purpose of a woman is have babies and take care of a family. No where does it say than woman are not allowed to have their own dreams and desires. No one should be able to take that away from us.

[literallysame]

Artist Nickolay Lamm took the CDC measurements of the average 19-year-old woman in America to create a “real” Barbie - [source]

[cate-e-blanchett]

[black-culture]

[ps24704n-blog]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/aerie-unretouched-ads-photos_n_4618139.html

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[haylesbian]

 We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs, or for accomplishments — which I think can be a good thing — but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.

[uncollectedstory]

“The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story. (via andthemountainsechoed)

[zeloveinitiative]

Culture does not make people, people make culture.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists (via zeloveinitiative)

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