Some facts:

1) Black Americans created jazz. 2) Jewish Americans created comic books. 3) These things are said to be the only original American art forms.

4) black Americans invented rock and roll.

5) Black AND Jewish Americans created musical theatre. 

Brilliant

Go, Stacy, Go.

Highest recommendation.

hot damn she went for the jugular

Pretty clear that a lot of people simply do not take misogyny as seriously as they take any other form of systematic repression

Show this photo to your daughters as they grow up.

Show them that courage is important, even in the scariest of situations. This woman stood up and faced her fears, spoke her truth in front of a group of men while balancing the world on her shoulders. She is a hero. She is a representation for all women who are done being assaulted and abused.

I Believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford

Women fighting for healthcare and abortion rights in the 1960s

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2018/07/30/lebron-james-promise-school-akron-ohio/862159002/

Some people don’t understand how big this is, opening a school, especially a public one is a huge undertaking and even with LeBron money it’s costly.

It’s really nice to see black celebs and athletes actually show their support for the community, rather than sparing a few words about it.

This is Beautiful

Wowwwwwww

possibly controversial opinion: i think “natural” makeup is, over time, more damaging than bold, obvious makeup

I don’t think that’s controversial at all. 

@qualr sure I’ll explain :-)

Mainly because makeup itself, the generic concept, is an integral part of human identity. People have always done it (even Neanderthals used makeup) and we’re always going to keep doing it. The concept of decorating our faces/bodies with colored pigments is practically hardwired and on a deep level just plain FUN (look at how much kids love to get their faces painted at fairs and carnivals and so on). The concept is also totally gender neutral. In some societies, men traditionally do it more than women, for example. Using your own body as a canvas for art taps into a mystical, childlike sense of wonder. First you look one way, then… another! Like magic. 

But mainstream commercial makeup culture as it exists today is incredibly exploitative, misogynist, colonialist, colorist, and hurts women, especially poorer women and women who don’t fit the racial ideal as expressed by the mainstream corporate beauty industry. And a big part of that is pushing “natural” looks. All women are supposed to look “naturally” poreless, for example (which isn’t realistic or healthy) and are punished socially and often financially if we aren’t. Another example: contouring is supposed to accentuate the “natural” lines of your face but for me and a lot of other Asian women with moonfaces, it’s the furthest thing from natural! The further you are from the rich thin young lightskinned bigeyed straightsmallnosed highcheekboned look, the more weirdly artificial the word “natural” becomes. We’re supposed to sink all this time and money and resources into achieving this bullshit “natural” look until it all feels a bit like Sisyphus rolling the stone up the hill. 

Putting a bright blue streak on your eyelids and walking out the door might take five seconds and probably makes you feel expressive and happy and good about yourself, even if it seems “tacky” through the lens of mainstream makeup culture. But taking an hour and trying soooo hard, using all the latest expensive products to make it seem like you’re not really trying at all, makes a lot of women feel worse about themselves, not better. In fact it leads to a lot of women feeling insecure about their real face and their real skin. There are many ways to look garish, but only ONE way to look “natural”. Instead of turning your own face into a canvas where you’re the creative artist, you’re following a ruthless set of instructions and doing a sort of strict paint-by-numbers that you’re never going to do right anyway. So it represents giving up more power over your own face/body than you’re actually getting back. Subjugation to the social norm, not creativity.

Why men in Iran are taking selfies wearing hijab

A feminist organization called My Stealthy Freedom is behind a new movement in Iran fighting back against compulsory hijab for women. And it’s really taking off.

Images: Facebook/My Stealthy Freedom

Awww! 💖

Campaigns like this are so effective because the trappings of femininity really do look ridiculous on men. And that forces people to realize that they are ridiculous period.

She’s so badass!! I love her

#Ireland Saturday May 26th 2018 #togetherforyes #repealthe8th #Repealed

“I was at an East Coast Ivy League school, where some female students became increasingly angry during my presentation. They accused me of denying them free choice to embrace our hyper-sexualized porn culture, an idea that was especially repugnant because, as rising members of the next generation’s elite, they saw no limits or constraints on them as women.

Then one student made a joke about the “trick” that many of them employ as a way to avoid hook-up sex. What is this trick? These women purposely don’t shave or wax as they are getting ready to go out that night so they will feel too embarrassed to participate in hook-up sex.

As she spoke, I watched as others nodded their heads in agreement. When I asked why they couldn’t just say no to sex, they informed me that once you have a few drinks in you and are at a party or a bar, it is too hard to say no.

I was speechless - these women, who had just been arguing that I had denied them agency in my discussion of porn culture, saw no contradiction in telling me that they couldn’t say no to sex.”

- Dines, Gail. “Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.” (p. 100) (excerpt)

This book is so good, I cant recommend it enough. Its up there with Dworkin’s “Intercourse” & “Woman Hating” in the RadFem’s required reading list

This is the humanities version of that spoof about scientists reminding the world that clean energy is ready to go whenever.

Shout out to Eric Andre

women: have wombs

republican men:

—Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women, p. 174