Anyone can tell you there’s no more road to ride

A blog focused on stories/news/facts/quotes of oppression, abuse, empowerment, women's rights, race/class/gender/sexuality, ableism and many many more. We welcome criticism (see below for contact) in order to keep having an on-going dialogue what what NEEDS to change in us and in the world around us. We hold a strong belief that actions stem from ideology and philosophy. We need new philosophies and new ideologies. Actions and inactions around us in society currently demonstrate an old ideology/philosophy that still excludes people. We want and need to transform that.

[just-shower-thoughts]

One armed people probably make the best big spoons.

[seaofbadstories]

new Anonymiss Media video

a video against oppression and rooted in empowering other young folks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1sKd84ah8Y

[seaofbadstories]

[nickturse]

This summer, an estranged husband violated his wife’s restraining order against him, shooting her — and six other women — at her spa job in suburban Milwaukee, but since there were only four corpses the crime was largely overlooked in the media in a year with so many more spectacular mass murders in this country (and we still haven’t really talked about the fact that, of 62 mass shootings in the U.S. in three decades, only one was by a woman, because when you say lone gunman, everyone talks about loners and guns but not about men — and by the way, nearly two thirds of all women killed by guns are killed by their partner or ex-partner).

Rebecca Solnit, The Longest War | TomDispatch (via nickturse)

[bettyfords]

Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

-First Lady Betty Ford, on her pro-choice stance. (via bettyfords)

[tangledskein]

*By the five classic lies they tell 1. If you want to see real oppression, go to the Middle East. 2. How can women expect us to respect them when they won’t respect themselves? 3. Stop criticizing domestic servitude! Some women are proud to look after their families. 4. It’s a science thing 5. Men are oppressed too, therefore women aren’t! Or something. This is the last bastion of the misogynist’s argument – their self fancying checkmate, if you will. What these people are basically saying is that …

How to spot a misogynist (via tangledskein)

[georgeorsonwelles-deactivated20]

Ryan Gosling on the MPAA’s decision to give Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating over its inclusion of an oral sex scene. (x)

[the-beauty-of-words-blog]

(via/follow The Beauty of Words Blog)

[youknowyouareasurvivorwhen]

you have a thousand people willing to listen and nobody who knows how to make it better.

[emyphoric]

Grief is a normal and necessary reaction to loss. It doesn’t have to be loss of life. Like Joe, you’ve probably experienced tremendous losses in your childhood: loss of good feelings about yourself, loss of feelings of safety, loss of trust loss of joy and spontaneity loss of nurturing, respectful parents, loss of childhood, loss of innocence, loss of love

Susan Forward (via metaphoricheart)

[remember-the-lost]

This is a blog to help people who are in need; that means eating disorders cutting or anything that you just need to talk about. We will listen and we will help you as much as we can. We are Skye and Andy, two juniors in high school. Both of us have been thru depression and have cut and...

[lasluchasdelcorazon]

The thing about patriarchy is that individual men, gay and straight, are often really wonderful people who you love deeply, but they have internalized some really poisonous shit. So every once in a while they say or do something that really shakes you because you’re no longer totally certain they see you as a human being, and you feel totally disempowered to explain that to them.

(via historicalslut)

[justas-sane-as-i-am-deactivated]

Just gonna leave this here. 

[aconitemare]

I just circled all that applied.

[newbarktownalumni]

I love how Romney

Is pro woman, b/c he wants to hire women and give them the flexible hours they need to go home and get in the kitchen and watch the kids.

[femmetronic]

[runfromhome]

Today in my WGST class we watched this pretty powerful trailer which upset me quite a bit so I thought I’d share. From Dream Worlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video