Small brain: trying to convince yourself that every part of your body is beautiful; saying your body is valuable because you’re still pretty.

Galaxy brain: recognizing you don’t have to be attractive; knowing your body is valuable because it helps you move, and simply because it is yours.

Recently the Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter had it’s city funding cut due to claims of transphobia. That means that they will lose out on $34,312 that the city had originally approved. Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter is Canada’s oldest rape crisis center, located in Vancouver, British Columbia. The shelter was established in 1973 and has operated a feminist transition house since 1983, offering women shelter from men who are abusing them, including fathers, husbands, sons, pimps, johns and landlords.

This is one of the few female spaces left for women in need. Please consider helping:

Donate to Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter

6 Easy Ways to Give:

How about since they’re losing 34,312$, can we get 3,431 notes on this? Even if you can’t give, spreading this far and wide makes sure women who can give know what’s going on.

Canada has made it clear: if women slight a man they will be punished by the government. 

I’ve donated 20$. Not a whole lot, but if only a fraction of people who sees this gives, there is hope for the Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter. Let’s show this government this will not happen on our watch.

The women in pornography are real women. Real women who are humiliated, physically hurt, spat on, tortured. They matter. Their pain, emotions and the abuse of their bodies, matters.

Porn is NOT ‘just fantasy’, the degradation and abuse in pornography happens to REAL WOMEN. We know you’re so pornsick you can only see them as object, so here’s your wake up call.

yeah, real women who you feel deserve no legal protections for their labor and who you certainly don’t trust to be experts on their own experiences (unless those experiences perfectly match your political line). death to radfems.

Being raped and sexually degraded on camera is not ‘labour’.

You are not a real Communist and you think that not spreading STDs and HIV is bigotry.

You do not have the right legalise men raping women and girls to give them diseases, internal injuries, broken bodies, trauma and because it makes you feel better about your HIV status.

We will not miss you when you finally die

Porn is so ~empowering~ u guys uwu

Being born female is a specific experience and if you don’t respect that you don’t respect women.

For anyone who needs to hear this right now, you’re doing really well, I’m so proud of you. I care about you and I love you.

Keep going.

Prohibition in America 

i put new yellow shoelaces on my boots to show people i am Cool. I walk to my work full of old lady cashiers. “I like your shoelaces.” one of them says to me. I see my life flash before my eyes as this ancient test is presented before me

just a reminder:

as an adult woman, you have a cultural impact. When you decide not to wear makeup, you help show little girls who see you that wearing makeup is not an inevitable task in their future. When you spend time with your girlfriend or wife publicly, you let little girls know that that is normal, too. All this is to say that your choices in society can let young women know that they also have those choices. I haven’t worn makeup in quite some time, and when I babysat little girls, many of them just thought that makeup was just something that “old girls” have to do, and were somewhat relieved to discover that they don’t have to in order to grow up and be a real girl.

just HAD to repost this from @bodyposipanda 💛 please please hang in there, we can get through this together 💛

“And remember: the sky is the limit! You can be anything you want to be!”

“Thank you. I want to be a secretary.”

That stopped them short. “What?”

“A secretary,” she repeated.

“But…” they trailed off, dumbfounded. “Why? You could be a CEO, a scientist, a law–”

“I don’t want to be a CEO,” she said. “I want to be a secretary.”

They scoffed. “You want to answer phones all day?”

She smiled. “Yes.”

“Schedule appointments?”

“I like organizing.”

“Be a second banana?”

An affirmative nod. “I’m skilled at helping.”

“I just don’t understand,” they said. “HOW could you be okay with all of this?!”

“I enjoy the work.”

“BUT YOU CAN BE WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BE!”

“I know.”

“Then WHY?!”

She shrugged.

“Because I want to be a secretary.”

Honestly though, this is very similar to my mom’s experience. She’s always been super bright, but has realized as she’s gotten older that intellectual pursuits just aren’t her jam. She dropped out of her PhD program to have kids, and although she has her master’s and was a pretty good school psychologist, she hated having to make huge decisions. She’s a church secretary now and loves it, and she’s GOOD at it; she’s letting her school psych certification permanently expire this year with zero regrets. If you can be anything you want, that includes the things we don’t tend to value as highly as a society. Not everybody is built for or wants the “respectable” careers.

My grandma did this to me, saying that i didn’t want to get stuck on the outside, making coffee and filing papers. The thing is, that’s exactly what I’ve always enjoyed the most, making and organizing things. That would be enough for me.

Nobody seems to realize that if you tell people they can be anything they want to be they will. And not everyone WANTS to be doctors or lawyers or CEOs or scientists. Sometimes, they just want to be a secretary.

This is basically me. LIke, I just want enough money to live in relative comfort with my hobbies and not get any life destroying debt.

Hey i actually love this

Little feminist ideas:

Supporting women who don’t want to have children and deserve not to have motherhood forced on them while Also Supporting Mothers. 

THIS is supporting gender non-confirming boys

how insidious to make young girls buy hundreds of dollars worth of makeup, to force them to read up on its theory, to make them practice it for hours in order to escape mockery, to make them feel safe only when performing this hyper femininity, and then to even have the audacity to package it in feminist language so that they firmly believe it sets them free.

everybody loves a woman’s independence until it threatens their ego.

hello…. is it okay if I post now?

maybe