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I know you’re a Leo but I don’t know your birthday so happy belated or early birthday😭😭😭😭😭

Not on here much anymore but thank you honey <3

I thought this would be a cute little latin class-- mostly vocab, little more than the present, past, and future tenses. Little did I know the class actually prepares you to be able to read latin texts in the original in 7 weeks. I’m dying. Future passive and active 3rd and 4th conjugation verbs: kiss my ass.

Full Metal Jacket had a scene with a vietnamese prostitute, and basically her whole purpose was being fetishised and made fun of by some american soldiers....

I know this. They also torture a female fighter if I remember correctly. The point is that GOT did a worse job with the same kind of, “ersatz anti-war messaging while reveling in depictions of violence.” Mainly because at the end of FMJ you’re at least disgusted with everyone.

So interesting that the amendment which underpins the Roe v. Wade decision-- the 14th Amendment’s due process clause-- is one of the Reconstruction Amendments, created to help protect the rights of newly freed Black peoples in the US. Especially now that neo-confederate white women in the southern states are playing such key parts in the destruction of other women’s rights.

Reading comprehension on this website sucks especially among white radical feminists.

I’m on twitter watching this white anarchist argue that Black people had better living conditions under chattel slavery than under current regimes of precarious wage labor and... phew. White people, why do you do this to yourselves and why do you make us interact with it.

Men are the most craven beings on this planet and that is why the SCUM manifesto continues to captivate and resonate-- Solanas was obviously performing a kind of Neitzschean turn but she’s not wrong when she calls men fucking cowards.

I still needed an abortion.

I didn’t call the police — not after he left my dorm room and not after I discovered I was pregnant. I never once imagined that calling the police could help my situation. It could only make things worse. I envisioned prosecutors, courtrooms and interrogations. I was trying to survive my first year of law school, worried I might fail out, wondering how I would make it through my first round of exams. The last thing I wanted was to become a court case myself. Nor did I want a baby. I had no extended family to fall back on; no one who could loan me money to help raise a child; no place to go except to my parents’ rented home — a place that felt temporary, at best, given their financial insecurity and recent eviction. I did not want to give a baby away and I did not want to raise my rapist’s child.

At the time, I felt terribly alone but my circumstances were far from unusual. Black women have the highest rates of abortion in the country, undoubtedly due to the severe wealth gap between black and white families — a gap that holds even among the poor. The white household living near the poverty line typically has about $18,000 in wealth — primarily due to intergenerational wealth transfers — while black households in similar economic straits typically have a median wealth near zero. Although women of all colors who are poor are far more likely than those who have greater resources to choose to end their pregnancies, the situation for black women is especially dire. Although our families often want to help, as mine certainly did, that frequently proves to be a practical impossibility. A 2014 report found that for every dollar of wealth owned by the typical white family, the median black family owns just 5 cents. Even if I wanted to give birth to my rapist’s baby — which I did not — I, like so many others, could not turn to my family for help.

During my second year in law school, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case, Rust v. Sullivan, that many worried might overturn the constitutional right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade. I recall some male law students arguing that abortion bans wouldn’t be so bad, so long as there were exceptions made in cases of rape. I wondered how a “rape exception” to an abortion ban could possibly help women, like me, who did not want to report a rape to the police and who could not possibly prove that a rape occurred if the man denied it. Criminal cases take months, even years, to be resolved. Would abortions be allowed based on mere allegations of rape without any proof? If not, what would a woman have to prove in a matter of days or weeks to get an abortion in the first trimester? How could she overcome the inevitable denial? What man would admit to rape knowing that he’d face a likely prison sentence?

#sexual assault #abortion #tw rape #abortion rights #black women #michelle alexander

Not sure how many of you are absolute trauma monsters but after months of my physio dropping many hints that my back problems, while caused by an acute injury, might also be related to psychological trauma as well I decided to check out this video I found and-- this series of exercises is really worth doing. I can’t explain how much more grounded and heavy (as opposed to tense and as if all of my lower body muscles are trying to retract up into my abdomen) the lower half of my body felt and the emotional relief I got from crying after I experienced the quivering caused by the muscle fatigue following this series induces. The tightness in my psoas that was causing my hip to constantly pop and pushing my SI joint out of proper position (leading to chronic nerve pain) got way, way better. Anyway-- it’s probably also worth doing if you just sit in a chair for long periods often.

Is Saudi Arabia the 2nd or the 3rd worst thing to happen to 20th c. geopolitics just like... God.

Can’t believe that in a month I will leave an actual Caribbean paradise to spend 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, learning Latin. Why did I do this to myself.

Anyway I’m actually not going to debate these braindead birds, have fun crying about how a bitch with a chauffeur whose plantation house was passed down through the family betrayed you.

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These rich white women who cut away at women’s rights are never, ever betraying themselves. They are not confused. They will always have access to abortion by virtue of money, which is what buys “a right to privacy” when the law does not enshrine it. They will always have recourse to police. They, by virtue of links with rich men– their fathers, their husbands–, will always have access to power. The fact that you think they are harming themselves when they make it harder for you, a poor woman, a working woman, to prosecute a rapist or get an abortion means they have succeeded in buying your allegiance.

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they are harming themselves. full stop

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the idea that anti choice rhetoric is weaponized by a privileged group of women against marginalized women while rich white men are impartial and happily facilitate their abortions is batshit actually

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Maybe donate one synapse to the thought that the law in Alabama was written by one white woman and enthusiastically signed into law by another white woman in a state that has an abysmal rate of infant mortality which disproportionately impacts Black women. And that the same men who try to make abortion illegal are happy to procure abortions for the women in their lives when it is convenient for them.

Anyway, everyone screaming in my notes about how being rich doesn’t de-gender women can go calculate the “sudden” “inexplicable” percentage increase in female “”appendicitis”” cases in Alabama and Georgia in 2021.

Of course being rich doesn’t “make a woman not a woman anymore” and I’m sure a few rich women with ultra-patriarchal men in their lives will have men attempt or even succeed to exert control over their bodies but the point is this: Even if you assume husbands/fathers who are controlling-- who can subtly convey to a medical professional that they trust that they may need an illegal abortion?: It is only a woman with a doctor that they have a long-standing and trusting relationship with by virtue of good insurance, a woman with the kind of social conditioning that makes her feel entitled (not grateful, but entitled) to good care (as we all should feel), and the woman who has the kind of societal standing that inspires people toward empathy and discourages criminal prosecution even for illegal things. Isn’t it a rich white woman?

Read Dorothy Roberts and what she has to say about the fates of wealthy white women who do cocaine or other illegal substances while pregnant versus poor Black women who are addicted while pregnant. Both women navigate the strictures of patriarchy but former often comes out unscathed, recommended for therapy, while the latter is jailed and has her children taken away.

And it isn’t so much that one woman is interacting with sexists and the other isn’t-- we know now that sexism is on ongoing issue in women’s medical care regardless of class-- it’s that one woman-- by virtue of money and race-- has access to certain notions of privacy, her body is not apprehended as subject to surveillance. When doctors interact with her, even if she is doing something illegal and harmful to her baby, doctors understand that she has a right to private treatment of her disease and thus the state ought not to intervene. These “rights” are not extended to the poor, racialized woman.

These rich white women who cut away at women’s rights are never, ever betraying themselves. They are not confused. They will always have access to abortion by virtue of money, which is what buys “a right to privacy” when the law does not enshrine it. They will always have recourse to police. They, by virtue of links with rich men-- their fathers, their husbands--, will always have access to power. The fact that you think they are harming themselves when they make it harder for you, a poor woman, a working woman, to prosecute a rapist or get an abortion means they have succeeded in buying your allegiance.

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HBO frantically e-mailing me since I haven’t watched new episodes of GOT. Because its all everyone talks about on twitter I’m reading commentary and it’s incredible how people will just believe what the showrunners say to explain idiotic plotting and then invent logic for it after the fact. One person used the fact that the dragon girl killed her brother who threatened to have her gang raped and constantly assaulted her as “foreshadowing” to her being an evil bloodthirsty bitch, people are just out here losing their heads over this stupid show that contributes nothing good or human to the world. Full Metal Jacket has better politics than this supposed critique of the brutality of war which revels in gratuitous violence.

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