That's Not My Name

For feminists who are smart, loud and angry.

[caterinasforzas-deactivated2014]

[goforthandagitate-deactivated20]

amen sister

[moosebl0od]

[raxn]

Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes women acquire free drinks at bars?” is like walking into graduate school during Philosophy finals and saying, “Have you considered that the color blue that I see may not be the color blue that you see?” Imagine you are the guy who just walked into that Philosophy class and laid that shit down. Imagine the class full of students who have worked very hard and committed themselves and sacrificed to be here, students who have spent several years of their lives learning about this subject. Imagine now their feelings when you go to the head of the classroom with a smirk on your face and demand the professor give you an A for effort. Imagine now that they think you are a douchebag asshole, because they do, and because you are. You are a douchebag asshole because you are obviously so self-centered, arrogant, and completely ignorant of the world around you, that you thought you could walk into a high-level course with no background and no work and say something profoundly simplistic and totally unrelated and also everybody should congratulate you for having done this thing, so brave, so provocative. [….] You are not asking us a real question. You are simply illustrating, for all to see, your own ignorance. You are saying, “I have not considered the implications of the question I have just asked. I have not taken the time nor effort nor commitment to sit down and ask myself this question. Instead, I have come into your philosophy classroom/office/feminist blog and shat out my question with a smirk, because I believe that my two seconds of thought are worth more than your long-term analysis, because I believe I am worth more.”

Fugivitus: A few things to consider when you find a feminist blog (via absolutely-spiffing)

[natashamaximova]

[cupcakesandtv]

Johansson was so determined to avoid looking like a movie star pretending to be a zookeeper running on empty and fueled only by her devotion to her motley assortment of big cats, zebras, and kangaroos that she refused to wear makeup for the film. A big deal for a female movie star, but it works, helping to anchor her performance in the details of actual manual labor—shoveling shit, feeding slabs of red meat to the lion and tigers—that we don’t see much of in American movies. (x)

[fka-radamari]

This is a swedish advertisement for an energy drink. They are using a hairy model, which is like, so awesome I can’t even like explain it, omg.

[smartloudangry]

Hot

[misstanwyck]

[annetdonahue]

The importance of consent: a narrative.

[the--watcher-blog]

[gaytransguys]

I love how this makes more sense than doing 15 minutes of argumentative Trans 101 with an adult.

[smartloudangry]

Untitled (You Look Good) 

Barbara Kruger

Spotted at the Frieze art fair in NYC. I would like this piece on my wall. Too bad it sold for $250,000. I'd say its about 12ftx12ft. 

[kulturedkrap]

[smartloudangry]

I love tank girl, duh. 

[dozydozy-blog]

[poesiegrenadine-deactivated2020]

Interview with Lindsay Joy on her “Anxiety Series”

[souryellows]

one down, three to go

[fuckyeahginatorres]

I walk into a room, and for this industry, I’m impossibly tall. When they find it hard to pair you up with the opposite sex, then what’s left for a woman? Either you’re the ball-buster or the not-so-attractive girlfriend standing by the lead. I mean, traditionally not so attractive. Because you have your starlets and then you have their best friends who are these character actresses. When you fall within the cracks, you thank God for sci-fi, because they’ll give you a gun, and they’ll say, ‘Go over there and conquer that world. You kick some ass, girl!’

[hungrylikethewolfie]

Gina Torres for ANY AND EVERY FUCKING ROLE SHE WANTS

[smartloudangry]

Thank god for sci-fi

[nikeandlululemon-deactivated201]

unretouched esquire outtakes from 2010. absolutely beautiful. 

[runningistheremedy]

oh my god I just love you so much Wow, I love this. Maybe if I saw things like this more often I’d actually LIKE my body.

[fitnessdesire]

I wish the unretouched outtakes from every shoot would be published for the public to see..

[get-healthy-and-love-yourself-d]

Omggggg she’s so beautiful i just can’t

[usedtobedeanasana]

I wish shouts weren’t retouched

We’d see real modelling and photographing skills

[hbmntngr]

A cold voice answered: ‘Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye.’

A sword rang as it was drawn. ‘Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may.’ ‘Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!’

Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. ’But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund’s daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you if you touch him.’

[smartloudangry]

I'm a sucker fr geeky feminism, I als know Miranda Otto very well and this is one of my favorite scenes in the books and films. 

[janetmock-deactivated20221031]

Read this Village Voice cover story this morning and got my life + became a fan. Specifically here:

“Quattlebaum says he hates … the field of queer studies along with it. ‘I have a lot of problems with the academic queer community because it’s a community that exists completely removed from reality,’ he says. ‘Those kids who are selling their bodies on the West Side Highway, on Christopher Street, they don’t even know what the fuck queer theory is.’”

Hence our need to be rooted in grassroots, in the streets, in solidarity with those who are “marginalized.” I’m done with folks and organizations speaking our names and bodies in theory, in death, in stats. Yet ignoring the same folks they discuss in theory without ever knowing us, without ever trying to engage, without ever “outreaching,” without ever lending the stage and resources to us. 

As a trans woman of color - no matter what space I enter - I have one stilletoed foot on the street. Always.

[audscratprophetlilith]

<3 <3 <3

[peaceshannon]

this is a constant inner-struggle i have with myself. the balance between academia and grass-roots activism. it’s a sad reality that having academic ‘credentials’ makes people listen to you more when you are doing your activism work. trying to keep the balance so i can be as an effective voice as possible. not easy. this is a good reminder what it’s all about. 

[pistahalwa-deactivated20251022]

mykki blanco is quite honestly amazing if you haven’t seen the music video fo wavvy i highly recommend

[the-original-dtwps]

yes good

[princesstsuka]

Fell in love with fuckyeahsubversivekawaii recently. ♥ Cutie demon girl won’t stand for your shit. ♥ (I kinda want to make her into a sticker or something.)