Stir the Pot . . .

focused around issues regarding gender, race, and sexuality. posts are largely related to the USA but do help raise awareness of global issues.

[arwenundomielarchive-deactivate]

Sign the Petition

Justice For Noura ! #MaritalRape #DeathSentence #Sudan

#JusticeForNoura 

SIGN AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY OF NOURA HUSSEIN

“At 16, Noura was forcibly married off by her father. She refused, and in protest left her family home on the outskirts of Khartoum to stay with her aunt in Sinnar, a city almost 250 kilometres away. Noura lived with her relative for three years before her father called to say that the wedding was cancelled and that she should come home.

Upon her arrival, Noura found that she had been tricked, that the wedding to which she had never agreed was still happening, and shortly after was given away to her unchosen husband.

According to her testimony, Noura refused to consummate the marriage, resisting him for the first four days. On the fifth, she says her husband raped her, with the help of a number of his male relatives (cousins and some people said the husband’s brothers as well), pinned her down while he was raping her right before their eyes. The following day, when her husband attempted to rape her again, she stabbed him in self-defence and it killed him. When she told her family, her father delivered her to the police, and then disowned her.

That was in 2017. On Sunday, April 29, 2018, Noura was found guilty in court of premeditated murder, the punishment for which is death by hanging.”

- Alucan (source)

[micdotcom]

Deeniquia Dodds, transgender woman, shot dead in D.C.

Police are investigating the death of a 22-year-old transgender woman of color, identified as Deeniquia Dodds, who died Wednesday night after she was shot in Washington, D.C., on the Fourth of July, a local television station WRC reported. Joeann Lewis, who raised Dodds, told WRC that she was a “beautiful person” who “loved to make you laugh.” Why police are not yet investigating it as a hate crime.

[teafortwo29]

[aliasvaughn]

RTd this stuff earlier and it’s worth to look at it here. too. SPREAD THIS PLEASE. This is from Lisa Bloom, she is a lawyer and she is awesome!

[stayingwoke]

I saw this earlier, this is way worst than Bill Cosby but of course, the mainstream media is going to ignore it.

[ambelle]

Why was this not brought up ever? Very suspicious.

[thisiseverydayracism]

This is rape culture.

This is white male privilege.

This is injustice.

The rapist and the judge are revolting, sociopathic spawns of the devil.

[thisiseverydayracism]

Rapist: Brock Allen Turner Judge: Aaron Persky

[assgod]

A slap on the wrist. What a female’s body is worth, apparently.

[1990smalaise]

 Babes In Toyland- Bruise Violet (1992)

[kattipatang]

URGENT: STRAIGHT MALE ALLIES NEEDED TO SHUT DOWN LEGAL RAPE “INTERNATIONAL MEETING”

This coming Saturday, February 6, at 8pm local time, followers of “Roosh V”- noted sexist, racist, homophobic, and overall horrible monster (not a human being)- will be holding secret meetings to rally for rape to be legalized. You didn’t read this wrong THEY WANT RAPE TO BE LEGALIZED. 

This shit is dangerous af, and as they have barred anyone who isn’t male or straight, so we need all our white male allies to gather and shut this shit down. If you are a straight man of colour, please be careful. Even though the website says the meeting is for straight men of all races, the Roosh V following has also been known to be very racist and xenophobic.

Here is how the meeting will take place, as according to their website (I’m not going to link it because it does not deserve any hits, but all the info here is authentic- you may google and see for yourself):

We will have 165 meetings in 43 countries for our international meetup day on February 6, 2016 at 8PM local time. Hosts have been instructed to wait at the meeting point from 8:00-8:20pm before moving on to the final location. If you arrive at the meeting point at 8:21pm, you will miss the meetup. Arriving on time within the window is absolutely paramount.

To identify your fellow tribesmen, ask the following question to a man you suspect is there for the meetup: “Do you know where I can find a pet shop?” If you are asked this question, answer in the affirmative: “Yes, it’s right here.” You can then introduce yourself and get details about where to proceed at 8:20. If you ask someone for the pet shop and they appear confused or actually try to direct you to a real pet shop, they’re not there for the meetup.

If you are a woman, DO NOT GO, your safety is at risk. Roosh V has made it very apparent that your presence might be met with violence.

I won’t be able to attend a shut down (obvs- brown gay turban guy), but we need to shut this down ASAP. So to all my white brothers who identify as allies, now is your time to stand up and act.

I will be calling the RCMP and reporting this, make sure you report this to your local police as well.

Here is a list of all the locations where these men will come together (Roosh V himself will be at the Washington DC location):

UNITED STATES

Alabama

Birmingham – In front of Ohenry’s coffee shop, downtown Homewood (not the Brookwood Mall Ohenry’s)

Alaska

Anchorage – Elderberry Park, near the Oscar Anderson House, a museum. Meet by the chairs and table. Address: 1297 West Fifth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99501.

Arizona

Phoenix – Meet in front of main entrance of tallest building of Phoenix Plaza (Qwest Tower).

Tucson – Arizona Historical Society (949 E 2nd St, Tucson, AZ 85719). Meet at statue near corner of N Park Ave and E 2nd St. Image.

Arkansas

Little Rock – First Security Amphitheater , 400 President Clinton Ave, Little Rock, AR 72201. Image.

California

Long Beach – Parking lot of Glory Days Sports Bar, Carson Blvd and Woodruff Ave.

Los Angeles – L.A. Live in front of Starbucks entrance. Address: 800 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015

Newport Beach – The outdoor fountain directly in front of Macy’s department store at Fashion Island. Image.

Orange County – The fountain in front of the Ferris wheel at the Irvine Spectrum Mall.

Palm Springs – Fountain at Mercado Plaza (Palm Canyon Drive)

Redwood City – Parking lot of IHOP. Address: 491 Veterans Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94063

Roseville – Royer Park (the large park on Douglas Blvd), next to the gatling gun statue. Image.

San Diego – Corner of 16th & Broadway, in parking lot of the Goodwill

San Diego (North) – The Village at Pacific Highlands Ranch. Meet in front of The Baked Bear Shop.

San Francisco – Balboa Park Bart station, by the arched exit. Image.

San Leandro – Northwest corner of the intersection of E. 14th St. and Estudillo Av. Meet at the public fountain.

Santa Barbara – Steps of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, located on the corner of State Street and Anapamu Street in downtown Santa Barbara

Sherman Oaks – Sherman Oaks Galleria, between the fountain and Cheesecake Factory entrance. Image. Address: 15301 Ventura Blvd.

Colorado

Boulder – North Boulder Park, beside the shelter. Image.

Denver – 19th Ave and Gilpin Street, on the south side of Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center. Image.

Connecticut

New Haven – World War I Memorial, beside flagpole

Stamford – In the little square on the corner of Franklin St and Broad St. Image.

Florida

Orlando – The Red Chinese Tang pavilion at Lake Eola, beside red pagoda.

Tampa – Curtis Hixon Park, between fountains and grass. Image.

West Palm Beach – Clematis Street Fountains, on the side of North Clematis street

Georgia

Athens – The Arch at the University of Georgia

Atlanta – Piedmont Park, corner of 10th street and Charles Allen Dr by the sign. Image.

Hawaii

Honolulu – Pearl Ridge Downtown, underneath globe sign. Image. Address: 98 – 1005 Moanalua Rd, Aiea, HI 96701

Idaho

Boise – Idaho State Capital Building, 700 W Jefferson St, Boise, ID 83702. Met by the statue of Abraham Lincoln.

Illinois

Chicago – Rogers Park, beside the flagpole. Image. Google Map.

Chicago (Homewood) – Parking lot of Balagio’s. Address: 17501 Dixie Hwy, Hazel Crest, IL 60430.

Iowa

Cedar Rapids – In Sokol Park beside the gazebo. 16th Ave SW

Des Moines – Parking lot of the VA Hospital beside pictured tree.Image. Address: 3600 30th St. Des Moines, IA. 50310

Louisiana

New Orleans – Magazine Street and Lawrence Square, besides the big tree, across the street from 4318 Magazine Street. Image.

Maine

Bangor – Bangor Public Library, in front of main entrance below the stairs (145 Harlow St)

Maryland

Annapolis – Downtown/Historic Annapolis Harbor, Main Street, by the Kunte Kinte memorial statue. Image.

Baltimore – In front of Cross Street Market entrance in Federal Hill

Massachusetts

Boston (North End) – Paul Revere Statue in Paul Revere Mall

Michigan

Ann-Arbor – Nickel’s Arcade in downtown Ann Arbor. Meet at the center column near the entrance off State Street.

Lansing – Lansing River Trail, top of the fish ladder steps. Image.

Macomb County/Clinton Township – The Mall at Partridge Creek. Meet in front of the fountain between Brio Tuscan Grille and P.F. Chang’s. Address: 17420 Hall Rd, Charter Twp of Clinton, MI 48038

Rochester Hills – Elizabeth Park, beside center bush. Image.

Minnesota

Duluth – Leif Erickson Park by the stage. Address: 12th Ave E & London Road, Duluth, MN 55802

Missouri

Kansas City – North side of the World War 1 Museum, on sidewalk directly above monument. Image.

Nevada

Las Vegas – Beside Vegas Vic neon sign on the old strip.

New Hampshire

Portsmouth – In front of main entrance of The North Church. 2 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH 03801

New Jersey

Atlantic City – On the Boardwalk in front of main Taj Mahal entrance

Hoboken – In front of Mulligans Pub underneath the canopy. Address: 159 1st St.

New Mexico

Albuquerque – East side of University Of New Mexico Bookstore. Address: 2301 Central Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106. Image.

New York

New York – St. Catherine’s Park, next to the spiral kids slide. 1245 1st Ave between 67th and 68th st

New York – Washington Square Park under the arch

Rochester – Eastman School of Music, Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St, Rochester, NY 14604), Meet at intersection at Gibbs and Main, where the concert hall entrance is. Image.

Syracuse – Columbus Circle, next to the statue. Address: East Onondaga Street, Syracuse, NY 13202

North Carolina

Charlotte – Romare Bearden Park. Meet by the benches behind the gazebo-like structure on the corner of W Martin Luther King and Church St. Image.

Wilmington – Riverfront Park, across the river from USS North Carolina, beside map kiosk. Image.

Ohio

Cincinnati – I-75 and Sharon road has a large parking lot with a grass field next to a Speedway Gas Station. Meet on the grass.

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City – In front of Harkins Theater at 150 E Reno Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73104. Image.

Pennsylvania

Harrisburg – Steps of Capitol on the west side. Image.

Philadelphia – Washington Square Park, between 5th and 6th St right off Walnut Street (it is the size of a city block). Meet specifically by the memorial to the Revolutionary War Soldiers eternal flame.

South Carolina

Anderson – The Carolina Wren Park located downtown at 111 E. Whitner St. 29621 in the Pavilion. Meet beside the fountain.

Camden – King Haigler Tower, main entrance. Image. Address: 950 Broad Street, Camden SC 29020

Tennessee

Chattanooga – In front of Dollar General. Image. Address: 5952 E. Brainerd Road

Mount Juliet – Parking lot in front of entrance to Big Star Cigar Lounge. Address: 3384 N Mt. Juliet Road, Suite 1100, Mount Juliet, TN 37122

Nashsville (North) – In front of Baileys in Rivergate Plaza Shopping Mall

Texas

Austin – Palm Park by the stone structure. Image. Address: 711 East 3rd Street, Austin, TX 78701

Dallas – Meet at the old school phone booth In front of British Beverage Company (BBC). Address: 2800 Routh St, Dallas, TX 75201″

Denton – Denton Square, beside the little arch. Image. Address: 110 W Hickory St, Denton, TX 76201.

El Paso – 301 W Missouri Ave, El Paso, TX 79901. Meet on corner next to statue of man. Image.

Houston – Near the arch of the Sam Houston Monument, adjacent to Houston Museum of Natural Science (5555 Hermann Park Dr, Houston, TX 77030)

Nederland – By the gazebo in Doornbos Park AKA “Duck Park”. Address: S 24th ½ St, Nederland, TX 77627

San Antonio – In front of main door of the Alamo

Utah

Provo – Provo City Center Temple on the corner of University Avenue and Center Street. Meet at circle pathway in front of main entrance.

Salt Lake City – Salt Lake City Library, at the top of the amphitheater. Address: 210 E 400 S. Image.

Virginia

Charlottesville – Lee Park, beside the statue of Lee

Virginia Beach – Mt. Trashmore, at bottom of stairs. Image. Address: 310 Edwin Dr, Virginia Beach, VA 23462

Washington

Everett – Clark Park, next to the gazebo. Address: 2400 Lombard Avenue, Everett, WA 98201.

Seattle – In front of main entrance of Seattle Public Library. 1000 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104.

Seattle (North) – Statue of Lenin. Address: Corner of Fremont PI N and N 36th St. Image.

Washington DC

Dupont Circle, on the north side by the Starbucks. Image.

Wisconsin

Kenosha – In front of Brat Stop. Address: 12304 75th St. Kenosha, WI 53142.

La Crosse – The large water fountain at Riverside Park.

GLOBAL (Alphabetically)

Australia

Brisbane – In the middle of King George Square in front of City Hall.Image.

Melbourne – In the middle of Federation Square. Image.

Perth – Ocean Beach Hotel on sidewalk. Image.

Sydney – Picnic benches in front of Coogee Pavilion on Coogee Beach

Sydney – Fountain in Hyde Park

Sydney (South) – Brighton Le Sands beach, close to the stairs leading to the local shops. Image.

Austria

Graz – In the dead center of Tummelplatz square

Wien – Museumsquartier, Treppe von Mumok (Stairs of Mumok). Museumsplatz 1, Wien 1010. Meet at bottom of steps.

Bahamas

Nassau – In front of main entrance to Fort Montagu

Belgium

Brussels – Place Royale, 1000 Brussels. Meet beside the statue. Image.

Bulgaria

Sofia – Statue of Saint Sofia. Map

Cambodia

Phnom Penh – The royal palace in front of main entrance. Meet at the bottom of the steps.

Canada

Calgary – The CORE Shopping Center, in front of Starbucks

Edmonton – Churchill Square, to the left of “Tix On The Square”.Image.

Montreal – Palais des Congrès, 1001 Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, in between the pink trees (indoors). Image.

Ottawa – Right inside the front doors of the Arts Court Building (a former county courthouse). Address: Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave.Streetview

Surrey – City Central Mall, north entrance, in front of Blenz Coffee.Image.

Toronto – Edward VII Statue in the center of Queens Park

Vancouver – Vancouver Central Library, south side on Robson Street at library steps. Image. Address: 350 W. Georgia St.

Victoria – BC Legislature War Memorial. Image.

Windsor – The Burt Weeks Memorial Gardens, on mini-pier. Image.Homepage.

Winnipeg – St. Vital Mall right outside the entrance to Chapters.Image.

Chile

Santiago – Plaza Italia, next to the statue

China

Shanghai – People’s Square Exit 1, street-side, left corner. Image.

Colombia

Bogota – In the center of Parque de Usaquen

Czech Republic

Prague – Republic Square.

Finland

Helsinki – Kolmen sepän patsas (Three Smiths statue) in Helsinki next to Stockmann department store. Google Map.

France

Nantes – Crossing of Rue du Chateau and Rue Mathelin Rodier. In front of the main entrance of the castle is a little square with a statue of Anne de Bretagne. Meet beside the statue. Image.

Paris – Place de la République, beside the lion statue. Image.

Germany

Aachen – In the center point of Katschhof

Berlin – In front of main entrance to Cafe Lichtburg. Behmstrasse, 13357 Berlin. Map.

Frankfurt am Main – Bank entrance of Frankfurt Dome / Frankfurter Dom, in front of the souvenir shop with the red sign. Image

Hamburg – Hamburg Rathaus, in front of the main entrance

Munchen – München Olympiazentrum, BMW Welt, main entrance.Image 1. Image 2.

Nurnberg – Willy-Brandt-Denkmal (monument) at the Willy-Brandt-Platz, next to statue. Image.

Würzburg – Warriors Memorial near the Wurzburg Residence. Image.

Hong Kong

In front of Joe Banana’s Bar in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island (Jaffe Road and Laurd Road).

Iceland

Reykjavik – Leif Ericsson statue in Hallgrímstorg Church

India

Mumbai – D-mart in Powai, beside the tree by the main entrance.Image. Google Map.

Iran

Tehran – Niavaran Park, Tehran. Meet at the eastern side of the main fountain in front of the ice cream shop.

Ireland

Naas – In front of main entrance of Naas Courthouse

Israel

Tel Aviv – In front of the main entrance to Sarona Market

Italy

Bari – Parco 2 Giugno, in front of main entrance on Viale Einaudi.Image.

Reggio calabria – Museo Nazionale, in front of main entrance. Image.

Rome – At the Spanish Steps, in front of the Montcler store, at the corner of Via Condotti. Image.

Japan

Osaka – Next to the KFC beside HEP 5 shopping mall. Address: 6-15 Kakudacho, Kita Ward, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture 530-0017, Japan.Image.

Tokyo – Ebisu Garden Place Glass Square, beside glass structure

Mexico

Mexico City – Beside Kiosko de Coyoacan. Image.

Morocco

Settat – Horse Fountain. Image. Google Map.

Nepal

Kathmandu – Patan Durbar Square, between the two tall columns.Image.

Netherlands

Amsterdam – The center of ”Spui”, a square, meeting in front of the ”Maagdenhuis”. Image.

Utrecht – Center of Neude Square

New Zealand

Auckland – Aotea Square on Queen Street, next to the industrial statue

Dunedin – In front of of Dunedin Town Hall at archway below the steps. Image.

Wellington – Glover Park, in front of “The Rogue & The Vagabond” under the minarets art sculpture.

Philippines

Manila – Greenbelt mall beside the R-letter pedestal at the entrance near the Hermes store. Image 1, Image 2.

Poland

Gdansk – At Fontanna Neptuna

Katowice – Spodek (Saucer) in Katowice. Address: ul. Korfantego 35

Warsaw – In front of Starbucks across from the Mariott Hotel. Image.

Wroclaw – In the middle of Plac Solny (“Salt Square”/Flower Market), beside the Iglica (needle) statue. Stare Miasto 50-061/50-062, Wroclaw.

Portugal

Lisbon – Restauradores – Monument to the Restorers, in front of the obelisk, near Hard Rock Cafe Lisboa. Image.

Romania

Bucharest – Piata Universitatii – Fantana. Image.

Russia

Novosibirsk – Next to the statue of Vladimir Lenin on Lenin Square

Serbia

Belgrade – Trg Republike, in front of horse statue

Singapore

Singapore – Fort Canning Park, Dhoby Ghaut, underneath big arch.Image.

Slovenia

Ljubljana – “The Illyrian Provinces Monument” (Ilirski steber) at the “French Revolution Square” (Trg Francoske revolucije)

South Korea

Seoul – In front of Bosingak Belfry. Jonggak station, subway line 1, exit 4.

Spain

Barcelona – Underneath Arc de Triomf monument

Granada – In front of Granada Cathedral

Sweden

Stockholm – Medborgarplatsen, in front of first glass structure. Image.

Switzerland

Basel – Baarfuesserplatz Tram Stop, by the tall pole. Image.

Taiwan

Taipei – On Tap Pub, in front of main entrance. Address: No. 21, Alley 11, Lane 216, Section 4, Zhongxiao E Rd, Da’an District, Taipei City, 106

Thailand

Bangkok – In front of Starbucks Terminal 21

United Arab Emirates

Dubai – Dubai Mall, in front of Tim Horton. Image.

United Kingdom

Cardiff – Beside female statue in front of Hilton Cardiff on Friary Road. Image.

Edinburgh – Covenanter’s Memorial in Grassmarket

Glasgow – George Square. Meet by the tall obelisk statue.

Leeds – The center of Millenium Square

London – Royal Airforce Bomber Command Memorial, Green Park (Hyde Park Corner side)

London – In front of Royal Exchange beside horseman statue (outside “Bank” tube station)

Manchester – In front of the main entrance to Sinclair’s Oyster Pub

Newcastle – Beside Grey’s monument

Shrewsbury – Frankwell car park, bottom of the pedestrian walkway.Image.

Please please pleeeease do not ignore this or simply “like” it. Reblog, share a permalink with your friends who are not on tumblr, and get this out.

This bullshit MUST be shut down.

[watchoutfordinosaurs]

Shit it’s real

[kittyit]

there is a growing community of trans and detransitioned radical feminists on tumblr. if you’d like some more reading, i have a list of blogs i can send you, just message me off anon. these are people who agree with what i have to say and have been a huge help in figuring all of this out. i am not alone, which is why the things you’re saying (that i’ve all heard before) aren’t hurting or frightening me. i’ve never met an ex-radfem but i’ve met plenty of ex-radical queers.

[iridescentjaq]

Since you mentioned that you’d never seen an ex-radfem: here I am. I believed all that bullshit until I actually started listening to trans people’s experiences.

Did you know that cis, afab people can be rapists too? Because your list of 40 trans rapists is nothing compared to this: “A telephone survey conducted in 2010 for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 43.8% of lesbians reported having been raped, physically abused or stalked at some point by an intimate partner; of these, 67.4% reported the perpetrator or perpetrators as being exclusively female.”

And this: “Nearly 7% of men, however, reported that at some point in their lives, they were “made to penetrate” another person — usually in reference to vaginal intercourse, receiving oral sex, or performing oral sex on a woman. This was not classified as rape, but as “other sexual violence.” And now the real surprise: when asked about experiences in the last 12 months, men reported being “made to penetrate” — either by physical force or due to intoxication — at virtually the same rates as women reported rape (both 1.1% in 2010, and 1.7% and 1.6% respectively in 2011)“

If your only evidence that trans women aren’t real women is that some of them are rapists and abusers, then all these cis women must not be real women either! Or maybe you believe your 40 trans women are more valid rapists/abusers than the cis women? Which is just plain wrong. Especially since female-on-male rape is so under reported. The amount of men being made to penetrate is happening at the same rate of women who have been raped. And besides all of that- trans women face more violence than they create: “The majority of the victims of hate violence homicides (72%) in 2013 were transgender women.” And “Transgender women were 1.8 times more likely to experience sexual violence when compared with other survivors.” You wanna talk about patterns? There’s some patterns for you.

You also stated in another post: “gender is constructed, and we are taught to reenact these constructs. unlearning this stuff takes conscious analysis, willingness to change your behavior when you see that its hurting others, and self education. trans women who are told their socialization was female do not undertake this effort.” Really? Really?? You don’t think trans women have thought about gender and gender constructs??? How do you think they came to call themselves by the label “trans woman”? Just the act of no longer accepting the “male” label when you are not male means they’ve clearly done some thinking about gender. This is clearly out of touch with the reality of being trans. From the same post: “cis and trans isn’t a perfect binary. people who detransition, or who have severe dysphoria and never transistion exist. a lot of people who still experience dysphoria realized that the transition treatment model wasn’t right for them, for a lot of reasons that vary a lot between individuals.” Woman-man isn’t a perfect binary. Female-male isn’t a perfect binary, as evidenced by intersex people. You’re right- cis-trans isn’t a perfect binary, but very little is in this world. People who used to be gay exist. People who used to be gay but realized the gay community didn’t have what they were looking for. That does not mean gay people do not deserve to have their identities ignored/to be treated and talked about as violent rapists and abusers. Some people having different trans experiences does not invalidate those who had a more “typical” experience. Also, the treatment of people who have not transitioned is what we call an intracommunity issue. The people who have not transitioned but experience severe dysphoria, or the people who have chosen not to transition for other reasons- their interaction with the trans community is frankly none of our business because we are not in the trans community. You and I are cis, which means for intracommunity issues, our opinion means jack squat (and injecting an opinion like yours into a conversation you are not a part of is not smart nor helpful). Stay in your lane. The thing about socialization- yes, men and women are socialized differently. But just as you can see the experience of how men are socialized, and understand how the roots of their emotions and actions are built off that, men can also see how women are socialized. It’s not like all men are totally blind to the experience of women, and your belief that somehow trans women are able to grow up being sheltered from society’s views on women is ridiculous. Couple that with the post-transition treatment of trans women- did you know they get murdered on a regular basis? Do you understand the kind of violence trans women receive from cis women and cis men (who you somehow believe to have the same socialization experience as trans women! How!)? Maybe you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the experience. These are not men who wish they were women and who bluster into communities where they are not helpful or welcome (like you are doing with these inane posts). These are women who have examined themselves inside and out, and have realized that the way they were socialized doesn’t match up with who they are. Here’s a very surface level example to help you understand: Imagine you’re really into chocolate, like reeeally into chocolate, and everyone keeps telling you “nah, dude- you like vanilla!” If you did like vanilla, that experience would not be unpleasant for you. If you did like vanilla, that statement would be true, and everyone’s insistence that you like vanilla would not make you upset. If, however, you like chocolate- that same sentence, in the same context, has a very different effect. No longer is it an affirmation of who you are- it is directly denying your experience! It is a lie! It is not true, and you recognize that! The whole situation is changed by virtue of what you’re thinking internally- socialization doesn’t happen in a vacuum outside of the self. It happens to the self, and the self is an integral part of it.

(statistics taken from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender http://www.avp.org/storage/documents/ncavp_transhvfactsheet.pdf http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/09/22/rape-cdc-numbers-misleading-definition-date-forced-sexual-assault-column/16007089/ )

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Today marks the 26th anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre, in Montreal, Canada. A cowardly, misogynic act which left 14 promising women dead, simply because they were women:

Twenty-five-year-old Marc Lépine, armed with a Mini-14 rifle and a hunting knife, shot 28 people, killing 14 women, before committing suicide. He began his attack by entering a classroom at the university, where he separated the male and female students. After claiming that he was “fighting feminism” and calling the women “a bunch of feminists,” he shot all nine women in the room, killing six. He then moved through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, specifically targeting women to shoot. Overall, he killed fourteen women and injured ten other women and four men in just under 20 minutes before turning the gun on himself.[1][2] His suicide note claimed political motives and blamed feminists for ruining his life. The note included a list of 19 Quebec women whom Lépine considered to be feminists and apparently wished to kill.[3]

After this despicable act, Canada adopted gun control measures. Since gun control measures were adopted there has not been another mass shooting killing more than 10 people in Canada. Since École Polytechnique there has only been 9 massacres in Canada; 9 in 26 years.

Please remember these women.

Tweets by the YWCA of Toronto

[thingstolovefor]

The brutal beating of Marlene Pinnock by the California Highway Patrol was just deemed “legal and necessary.” He’ll face no charges even though the state settled and paid this woman $1.5 million. This is not Justice.

I just don’t understand why the justice system protects these clowns. They cost the state millions, and they are right back on the job. #Hate it!

[infernalseason-deactivated20180]

What possible justification could they have for this. None. 

[total-queer-move-blog]

LOOK. IT’S EVERY SINGLE STEREOTYPE ABOUT MEN’S RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PUT INTO ONE HANDY-DANDY DEMOGRAPHICS SURVEY SO IT CAN BE STATISTICALLY VALIDATED!! [x]

THANKS R/MENSRIGHTS!!

[tropiuz-deactivated20200618]

LOL

[izyurfimenipaflanyant]

this is the funniest thing ive ever seen

[spinsterhoods-archive]

Why am I not surprised?

[salon]

People are demanding #FreedomForKesha: Here’s what accusing a powerful producer of rape has cost her

[piratesagainststardust]

Y'all she is one of my faves and being able to see her in concert was amazing and I want more people to experience this!! Fuck him for reals and fuck everyone who thinks she was somehow deserving of this oh my godddddd

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Rachel Dolezal Colonizes Black Womanhood As Six Black Women Are Executed In Emanuel AME

Black women’s lives are considered an afterthought, our histories deemed irrelevant, our identities, cultural expressions and experiences deemed White colonized goods, and our relation to structural power itself–an oppressed relation–was deemed acceptable via Rachel Dolezal’s cultural appropriation. I don’t have the luxury of pretending Dolezal’s colonization of Black womanhood should be considered frivolous–which I discussed in Rachel Dolezal and White Parasitism: New Media Frenzy; Old Colonial Violence–as actual Black women are executed because of the same White colonial violence and entitlement. My 10 tweets above allude to how this is in fact the same White colonial violence. Her actions are not a “distraction” insofar as this is ALL White colonial violence. 

6 Black women were killed last night. White terrorism targeting Black churches by default is a bullseye on Black women’s bodies–even as 3 Black men were also killed last night–because of Black women’s relationship to The Black Church, political organizing and socializing in that space; it automatically makes Black women more likely to be killed. There is a history of White terrorism towards Black churches. Black women tend to outnumber Black men in those spaces.

Dylann Roof committed terrorism (and there are no true “lone gunmen” in a system of White supremacy) in the name of White womanhood (which ignores how in fact White men have raped for centuries for profit, power and pleasure, violence that fuels capitalism in the country formed in anti-Blackness and settler colonialism that he wanted to “take back;” yet he invoked the Black “brute” myth) and White supremacy; the same White womanhood that allows Dolezal to colonize Black womanhood; the same White colonial violence that enforces the gender binary in the first place, even as transphobic people suggest Dolezal’s colonization should be permitted or transgender people cannot exist. All White colonial violence. (This terrorist literally adorned his body with flags that symbolize White colonialism and White supremacy, in past photos.)

Do actual Black women matter to anyone? Are we simply wigs, tans, lies and attention-seeking like Rachel Dolezal? Was a week of virulent misogynoir towards/erasure of Black women in defense of her worth it, amidst centuries of dehumanization of Black women? Rest in peace, sisters. I will not let you be forgotten. You mattered. 

RIP all victims of Emanuel AME Massacre: Rev. Clementa Pinckney (SC state senator [D]) (41); Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr. (74); Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor (49); Rev. Sharon Singleton (45); Susie Jackson (87); Ethel Lance (70); Myra Thompson (59); Cynthia Hurd (54); Tywanza Sanders (26).

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Black Trans People in Media

B. Scott

Laverne Cox 

Isis King

Janet Mock

Andre J

Ts Madison

Amiyah Scott

Juliana Huxtable

Tiq Milan 

 Kye Allums

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When I was 13 years old and curious about sex and love, I asked my mom if she had had sex before marrying my father (of whom she is still married to, and has been since before I was born). She said that that wasn’t really a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question. I said ‘sure it is, you’ve either had sex before him, or you haven’t’. She brought me onto the couch and sat me down and told me about the boy she liked when she was young and how one night she snuck into his house while his parents were gone and they were kissing and he said they should have sex and she said that she wanted to save sex for marriage and he laughed and basically took all her clothes off and he raped her and as my mom was telling the story she cried and this was the second time I had ever seen my mom cry. She was 12 when it happened.

In grade 8 I got a call from my friend in the middle of the night and she was drunk in the park crying and told me that she went out that night with some other friends and they drank a little and her guy “friend” starting flirting and yes she laughed at first but then he tried to pull her shirt over her head and she pulled away and he ripped her shirt and it was her favourite shirt and then he pushed her to her knees and HIS BEST FRIEND HELD HER JAW OPEN WHILE HE FACE FUCKED HER. And so I went to the park and picked her up and took her home and slept in her bed with her except we didn’t sleep because she just cried and her mouth bled and this was four years ago but I still have to be the one to bring her items to the till it the cashier is a man, and she still has anxiety attacks and she’ll get a rash all over her body and I just want to kill those boys but instead they are still walking around. And I’m in the bathroom with her, dabbing at her skin with a warm cloth until it returns to its regular colour.

And in grade 9 one of my closest friends was kinda seeing this boy and so they hung out one night and then she said that she really had to be getting back home and he said that she wasn’t going anywhere until she gave him what he wanted and he parked the car and took off her clothes and she said no and he ignored her and so she laid in the backseat totally limp and just cried and it wasn’t even sex, he just masterbated by using her body instead of his hand and she came to school the next day with vodka in her water bottle and she drank all day and I had to fight her to get the alcohol away from her and she just cried and threw up and I skipped class while I held her hair back and that same boy texted me a month later, asking if I ever wanted to hangout sometime.

And in that same year my very best friend who has never even kissed a boy, confessed to me that when she was 9 years old, her 12 year old cousin made her give him a hand job and he told her that was what cousins do and he gave her a chocolate bar afterwards and she told me that he probably doesn’t even remember it but that it’s something that she’ll never have the luxury of forgetting.

And in grade 10 I knew a girl who invited her best friend over to watch Disney movies and then he started to put his hands down her pants and she said no but she is 130lbs and he is 220lbs and he called her a tease while she tried to fight him but he used one hand to hold her down, and the other to put inside of her and i was the one to push her inside of a classroom and stand in front of her while calling the police when he showed up at our school looking for her and she was so damn scared.

And a few months later I skipped class and was in the car with a guy who i had had unprotected sex with in the past while under the influence of cocaine but this time I was sober and I insisted we use a condom but he told me he couldn’t feel anything while the condom was on so he ripped it off and I said I refused to have unprotected sex again and so he just grabbed me and forced himself into my mouth and I was crying and he pulled me onto him and I just came saying “stop” over and over like a broken record but he must’ve heard something different because he went until he came and I just sat naked in the backseat while he drove me back to the school and said “we should do this again sometime”. And I had five showers that night and I scratched at my skin so hard to try and rip his fingerprints off of me, I still have the scars.

And I found out soon afterwards that that same guy had raped a classmate of mine, 5 months earlier and she told me about how he brought her McDonald’s first, and how he said they could take things slow and she told me about how he didn’t listen to her either. And he goes to our school and so after she told me about her incident and I told her about mine, we decided to report it to the police and the trial is currently still going on and he told people about it, except in his version we are just “asking for attention” and all his friends talk about how bad they feel for him. As if HE is the one that still wakes up screaming. As if HE felt like his skin no longer was beautiful, no longer belonged to him. And I held her in my arms as she bawled after giving the police her statement. And she did the same for me.

And I met a woman a year ago in a paint store and she had a service dog and I asked what the dog was for and it turns out that she had been so brutally raped and abused in her life, that the dog is literally trained to keep men away from her.

And I’m so FUCKING SICK AND TIRED OF THIS WORLD WE ARE LIVING IN. How many rape victims eyes have I already looked into? How many more will I? And how many more friends will I hold while they shake? Because I don’t know how many more I can take. And who the fuck still has the nerve to make rape jokes? And… Something just has to change. Please, someone just start being that change.

-16 year old girl

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I’ve been doing a series of comics about men being deceived by makeup. 

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She is awesome! Slay!

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So here for it!

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5 black women have died in jail this month:

Sandra Bland’s alleged suicide by hanging in a Waller County, Texas, jail cell on July 13 sparked suspicion of foul play from her family members and advocates Bland was 28 years old.

Kindra Chapman died under similar circumstances. The 18-year-old’s death by asphyxiation in a Homewood, Alabama, jail cell was ruled a suicide Monday by a Jefferson County coroner — a conclusion with which Chapman’s family agrees, despite some outside suspicion.

Joyce Curnell, 50, was found dead in a North Charleston, South Carolina, jail cell on July 22. She was arrested for an outstanding bench warrant for shoplifting, and was seen at a local hospital the day before her death.

Ralkina Jones died Sunday by yet undetermined means at a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, jail. Police said she’d looked “lethargic” in her cell beforehand and was being shuttled back and forth from a local hospital the night she died. Jones was 37.

Raynetta Turner, a 43-year-old mother of eight, was found dead in a jail cell Monday in Mount Vernon, New York. Turner, who had been arrested for shoplifting at a food and restaurant supplier, also had multiple medical problems and was taken to a local hospital shortly after her arrest.

To fully understand why this keeps happening, we have to look at the way black women are treated by the justice system and the issues of black mental health in America.