Selena Kyle

Meow

[la-laborista-republiko]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[beepbeepdaddad-deactivated20180]

i have a deep respect for scotland because i was at an ireland vs scotland football match and their chant was “we hate england more than you”

[brood-mother]

one time at a germany vs scotland game some german fans started the “stand up if you hate england” chant and the whole stadium stood up

[gan-firling-deactivated20141208]

WHAT DID WE DO?!

[regularlesbian]

[squidbroom]

[texnessa]

When old people in England complain about all of the immigrants, I always reply:

“Well then perhaps England shouldn’t have run around the planet sticking its dick in every bloody country. Inviting them over for tea is the least England can do.”

[la-laborista-republiko]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[wocinsolidarity]

December 17th is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers [x]

Infographic reads: 

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, December 17th.

[Headline states] You’ve been assaulted, but you can’t get help.

Sex workers face more violence in the United States than anywhere else. Decriminalize sex work, give victims of violence the same access to safety and justice as their perpetrators. 

[A graphic showing the rates of violence against sex workers in the U.K. versus the U.S. In the U.K., 1% of sex workers are harmed indoors; 27% of sex workers are harmed outdoors. In the U.S., 42% of sex workers are harmed indoors; 80% of sex workers are harmed outdoors.] Violence is four times higher in the U.S.A. In the U.K., commercial sex is legal (brother owning, public solicitation, and pimping are crimes.) In the U.S.A., it is criminalized. Rate of assault is up to 40 times higher in the U.S.A. than U.K.

[A graphic shows images that correlate to statistics, such as a red fist to show police violence and black lips to show police sexual assault]. Police hurt more than help. Of 104 interactions with D.C. police, 9.1% [of sex workers] report physical assault. 17.3% [of sex workers report that] an officer requested sex favors. Police rape: in rape cases involving Chicago street prostitutes, 25% of sex workers identified the rapist as a police officer. National Blacklist: in reports of clients to avoid, there are four times more complaints about police than about pimps. 30% of complaints [by sex workers] are about police officers in N.Y.C. and Aspen, Colorado. 

[A graphic shows how many sex workers were assaulted in Norway in 2009 before and after sex purchase was banned. In 2008, the rate was 22%; in 2012, the rate was 33%]. Criminalization increases violence. [The] rate of assault [on sex workers] increased 50% after demand was criminalized. 59% of sex workers were exposed to violence only after the sex purchase ban.  

Being queer in dangerous. 1/3 of U.S. sex worker homicide victims are trans women (according to a 2015 study). 23% of the 2012 GLBT homicides were connected to sex work. 

Stigma is violence. Sex workers face alienation, moral ‘rescuing’ and rights denial by banks and health care providers. 

Sex workers are… parents. Friends. Male. Trans. Black. White. Asian. Latino. Criminalized. Vulnerable.

Support sex workers in their fight for human rights. Attend an event, host an event, call out ‘dead hooker’ jokes as a form of violence, share the facts.

End violence against sex workers, visit December17.org

All citations can be found at: http//www.december17.org/2015 

Published by the Sex Workers Outreach Project, SWOP-USA. 

[mysharona1987]

[deerthing]

RIGHT???

[blackwoolncrown]

Sick

[la-laborista-republiko]

[ithelpstodream]

[black-culture]

Stop demonizing riots.-@zellieimani

[quasi-normalcy]

The main contradiction of liberal democracy is that it has largely been shaped through a history of various forms of illegal civil disobedience against entrenched power structures. Such civil disobedience is (retrospectively) seen as justified, and the people committing it are (retrospectively) seen as heroes…but each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.

[mikkeneko]

each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.

[zanabism-deactivated20200529]

bravery is not an option for us. girls HAVE to be brave in order to work the night shift, to take the last bus home, to walk to a friend’s house alone. we do not have the luxury of choosing. 

[harry-potter-on-meth-deactivate]

Or you could learn to defend yourself. don’t tell me that “girl’s are smaller than men” because Ronda Rousey is smaller than I am and she could beat my ass. And don’t say “not every girl is Ronda Rousey” because she worked her ass off to get that way, so it is possible for you too as well.

[zanabism-deactivated20200529]

Right indeed yes—instead of being granted (what should be) the uncontested right to walk home safely, all girls should become professional mixed martial artists in order to ensure their possible well being. What a logical and reasonable solution. 

Why don’t you tell the parents of girls lost, and injured and attacked that the onus of their daughters’ assault lies not with their attackers but with their daughters’ inability to roundhouse kick their way out of a situation they didn’t even ask for? You think you’d have the guts and humanity to do that? You think you’d have the guts to tell the parents of a girl who’d been hurt that their daughter was attacked because she wasn’t UFC-qualified? 

[malemisandry-deactivated2021081]

And not everyone is physically capable of combat you big dickhead

BUT

All men are capable of not acting like predators (but lots of men choose to ignore this capability)

See the difference?

[uppityfemale]

I say this every time I argue for raising the minimum wage. I never hear anyone else say it and I’m glad I found this.

If you build your business and your bonus on the backs of others who you don’t pay a living wage you don’t deserve to be in business.

[kittykat8311]

this is making capitalists bleed from the ears keep reblogging it

[intheicyairofnight]

Since I tend to get into this with people who argue that robots will replace minimum wage workers if they get too expensive, I like to lean into the robot metaphor.

If you have a machine performing a valuable talk for your company, the upkeep of that machine is part of your operating cost. You have to pay to power it, to upgrade it, to fix it when it breaks. And if you can’t afford the machine, the manufacturer doesn’t have to do business with you. They’re free to take their service somewhere else where they think the price is fair.

For humans, a living wage is the operating cost. If you can’t afford to pay your worker enough to live nearby, feed themselves, and get basic health care - all of which are things they need in order to be able to work for you - you’re failing to pay for the cost of their service. 

The difference is that humans have to eat, like, all the time, so they often don’t have the option of taking their business somewhere else if the price isn’t fair - even insufficient food and shelter is better then starving on the street. But that means those people are not really able to act as agents in a free market, and it’s easy to exploit them under the guise of “the market setting the price.” People can’t act like reasonable economic agents when they’re desperate. As for as I can tell, that’s the whole point of having a minimum wage. 

[glittercontusion]

Keep reblogging this, it’s making capitalists mad and reaching out to the working class

[shadowlhunters-deactivated20200]

You know how 1st world feminists get told that they don’t need feminism? They’re told that they should be glad they’re not “really oppressed” like the women in 3rd world countries. That things could always be worse.

You know what my mother tells me? She says I don’t need feminism because I should be glad I’m born in an urban city of Pakistan. She says, at least I wasn’t born in a rural area where girls are married off to men twice their age. That things could always be worse.

And our house maid, Shabana, who was married to her uncle at 15 and, at 18, has 2 children, she doesn’t even know what feminism is. She was told by her father that she should be glad her husband doesn’t beat her and hasn’t thrown tehzaab (acid) at her. That things could always be worse.

Am I the only one seeing a very disturbing pattern here?

[challahchic]

It’s an implicit threat. “Don’t complain or we could do worse.”

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

like genuinely… liberals and centrists view themselves as Above All This, as On The Sidelines. they cannot imagine themselves actually engaging in political action, because to do so would be to take a side, which they cannot do. taking a side means “showing bias”. taking a stand on anything is “extreme”.

[redflav]

SELINA KYLE I WORSHIP YOU I REALLY DO

Btw, catwoman swordfighting is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen

[selinakyle-13]

I LOVE (1) WOMAN

[kimyadawson]

Things We Know and Sometimes Forget

The last time I was helping the first grade class during math I couldn’t figure out how to do the worksheet and felt really anxious and overwhelmed that I, pushing 45 years old, didn’t understand 1st grade math. Yesterday during math one of the boys wouldn’t come out from under the table, where he was rolling around and kicking chairs, and wouldn’t do any work. After spending quite some time, and using a handful of different strategies, trying to convince him to come out from under the table I crawled under the table with him. I instantly felt more relaxed under there. I have always, especially as a child, felt safer in small spaces - in closets, under the bed, burrowed down under a shrub, in a tent or fort, in the bath with my ears under the water, or with a blanket over my head - than in open overwhelming spaces. It was like I had forgotten how little spaces like that calm me because I was too busy seeing his behavior as intentionally disruptive. I said “I see why you are under here. It’s nice under here.” He asked if he could always stay under there and I said it wasn’t up to me but maybe we could talk to the teacher and counselor about finding a solution if he could actually get some work done. We looked at the workbook together and figured out number bonds. He got 4 pages done and I understood it well enough, and felt focused enough, to check his work.

Under the table.

He was overstimulated and needed help calming down, not to be forced into the space that was causing him to feel overstimulated in the first place.

[xplodingunicorn]

[beard5]

Yup