Recommended reading for all. Here are some choice excerpts:

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For all the men whining about me being a “swerf” because I call out men who watch porn and buy sex. Your rhetoric is transparent, and we know what it is you really care about. It’s not the children and women and their rights.

No, guys. I will always defend and protect women in the sex industry. My priority is exploited and abused women and children, and it always will be. It’s you I despise. The exploiters and abuser. And I always will.

Irena Sendler

Omg what an angel.

Listen man, women who reclaim bitch aren’t suddenly the “bitch community”. There is no “queer community” it’s just y'all reclaimed a word that’s it. Stop acting like it’s anything more than that, and that you’re somehow “super LGBT” for reclaiming a word a lot of LGBT people don’t ever want to hear associated with them.

Support lesbians of color.

Asian, black, Latina, Middle Eastern, East Indian, Aboriginal - every single last one is beautiful 💞

“some of us are Black”

Follow this link to find a bundle of videos and resources related to the sociological study of sexuality

BUT WHY DOESN’T THIS HAVE ALL THE.NOTES. This is too beautiful and important not to reblog

Massive smile on my face right now

<3 THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL <3

There are two types of men in this world

I hit reblog so fast.

im sorry but can you believe that cis women are out here believing that trans women honestly don’t understand stigmatisation or demonisation of genitals, like come on

uhh yeah dude. 

you grew up with your genitals being drawn on everything, everywhere, since childhood, with your genitals being used as a cultural symbol of domination, strength, and power. “dick” as an insult means someone who is using their power in a mean way. a “pussy” is someone who is weak and inferior.

Japan has a penis festival. but there’s a woman artist in prison for making a kayak shaped like her vagina.

Iceland has a penis museum. lots of cultures celebrate dicks.

your viagra prescription is safe and still covered and that ain’t up for debate.

you have never been shamed for periods that you don’t have. it is literally physically impossible for you to ever understand what this is like to go through.

and I personally have had more abortions than every trans woman who has ever existed or will ever exist combined.

oh no, a few lesbians don’t wanna sleep with you?? not getting access to sex isn’t a form of oppression, you ignorant fuck.

this is what male privilege looks like. your support for us is taken for granted to such an extreme degree that we have to make ourselves forget about reality to accommodate your egos.

I was reading an article about a FTM trans person suing a Catholic hospital for refusing to allow a hysterectomy and the comment section was so ugly

“Wants to be a man, still a stupid bitch.” “Hysterical whiny bitch” “This cunt deserves whatever happens” “Stupid bitch” “Ugly slut deserves to be pregnant”

So, you know, misogyny doesn’t exactly end once a female has transitioned.

I hope you don’t mind me adding a comment like this but I was just thinking about how a lot of the porn that involves trans men (or c*nt boys) also involves things like threat of/forced pregnancy, humiliation based around their female anatomy, or being vaginally raped. A lot of transphobia against trans men is just straight up misogyny, often incredibly violent and sexualized. And I’m sure that having to deal with it only further fuels their dysphoria, too.

Misogyny is not the hatred of the feminine, but hatred of the female. Unfortunately you cannot identify out of experiencing misogyny.

i would love to add this post:

this was during 2014, where transwomen would attack critical thinking transmen.

Holy shit… how fucking male. And I’m supposed to believe this is a woman?

@lesbian-lizards is this one of the reasons there are articles by transwomen about how watching porn helped them become comfortable in their identity, while i’ve not really seen anything of that number from transmen…

Anybody remember that post a trans woman made that just said: MtF > FtM. I do.

Or this?

i think it’s pretty progressive because we’re getting an LGBT film depicting an interracial couple considering LGBT cinema always feature white couples.. its very seldom to see an Asian person as a love interest in an LGBT film so it’s a good start

Mizrahi Jewish People in the Holocaust

The Israeli school system teaches the average 11th grader all there is to know about the Holocaust and World War II, yet seems to nearly neglect mentioning the Holocaust in non European countries such as Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Iraq. A classmate did a class presentation the other day, talking about her grandmother who’s a Holocaust survivor from Libya. My white, Jewish, American teacher’s response was “oh, i didn’t know the holocaust was there too” or something equally as ignorant.

The Nazi policy didn’t spare Jewish people outside of Europe -  the 400,000 Jewish people in France’s territories in North Africa (French Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) were included in the number of “the Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe”. Jewish people in Libya, that was under Italian rule, suffered from Anti Semitism and economic restrictions as Italy’s relations tightened with Germany. In 1942, laws of racial discrimination were activated in Libya, men were recruited to forced labor and Jews were transferred to concentration camps. The Vichy rule in Algeria from 1940 cancelled the Jews citizenship and activated the same restrictions that applied to the Jews of France. The Vichy rule in Tunisia was pro Nazi and in 1942, the Nazis occupied  French Tunisia. The commander of Tunis was then Walther Rauff, who was involved in the development of death gas vans and the Final Solution in Eastern Europe and instituted anti Jewish policies. Iraq was for a short term under the Nazi allied regime of Rashid Ali Al Gaylani. Among its results was the Farhud which was a pogrom that killed 180 Jewish people.

You will not be taught about Mizrahi Jewish people in the Holocaust, although it is as important to know.

I know y’all only care about america but listen up for a second

so today, january 26th, is australia’s national day. but actually, it’s better known to indigenous or aboriginal australians- australia’s first peoples- as invasion day. and here’s why:

january 26th 1788 was the day britain first claimed australia for the british king with no regard for the people already living on the land. what followed were the frontier wars, containing a series of massacres of indigenous australians by white settlers.

did it get worse? yeah, obviously. the australian government implemented a series of policies over a decade that aimed to literally turn aboriginal people white and “breed out” their colour until their cultures died out. in addition to this, thousands of children were taken from their loving families and put on white christian missions where they were disconnected from their culture and in most cases abused. many still haven’t come home. 

and this bullshit continues today. indigenous australians form a large percentage of our prison population and are often abused in custody. just today, I was at an invasion day protest where indigenous people and supporters were shoved and sprayed with fire extinguishers by riot police- all because one indigenous guy was burning an australian flag in hurt and anger, which is NOT a criminal offence here.

a lot of people in australia want to move on from this and use australia day to celebrate unity- but we just can’t when the very day marks division and aboriginal australians are STILL not being respected in australian law.

this day, january 26th, marks the beginning of genocide, and australians celebrate it. 

I’m white, but I recognise that I live on the land of the dharawal people of new south wales. one of my ancestors was a proud wiradjuri woman of western nsw. they take care of this land.

australian land is, was, and always will be aboriginal land. 

this is the australian aboriginal flag, and below it is the torres strait islander flag. don’t forget them. 

“POC” is a popular term thrown around on tumblr but you guys are really happy to use it to make everything about america and group all ~people of colour~ together when they have different experiences and cultures. keep this day in mind, and speak out with people in australia.

don’t let the australian government get away with invasion day. 

You can make your point without starting if off like that

tbh disregarding the recent protests to destigmatize menstruation as “white feminism” doesn’t sit right with me when woc have always been involved and it has always been a global fight:

pakistani students sanitary towel protest

indian women launch happy to bleed campaign

kiran ghandi free bleeding during london marathon

chinese swimmer fu yuanhui breaking period taboo

delhi students hold rally to campaign against menstruation taboo

pads against sexism movement picks up in kolkatas jadavpur university

aditi gupta: menstrupedia

menstruation themed photo series censored by instagram

especially as things like this are happening:

nepal teen dies in menstruation hut

an act of solidarity and protest for an issue that effects millions of women worldwide should not be silenced

🏳️‍🌈GAY COUNTRIES ARE A REAL THING🏳️‍🌈

most of them I could find have little to no online presence which I find very strange and what I did find was very outdated but I wanted to share them with you all anyway 

Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands 

Off the coast of Australia, Governed by Emperor Dale and the Gay Government, founded June 14, 2004, Pride flag is it’s official flag, Capital is “Heaven” on Cato Island. 

Gay Parallel Republic 

Gay Homeland Foundation

Also check out this book on Gay Nationalism  Gay Politics: Sixteen Propositions by Michael Danneny (1981) 

Let’s go SSA!

I'm moving to the gay and lesbian kingdom of the coral islands

I feel like there’s a lot of infographics out there about STI prevention, but not enough about what happens if you already have one.  (The answer is not “you give up because your life is over.”)  So here, have some education!

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- In the UK all girls aged 13 are offered the HPV vaccination at school and it’s opt-out, I think

- It is possible to get preventative medicine if you think you may have been exposed to HIV but I think it’s a multiple treatment thing and you have to keep in contact with your doctor because it’s still not 100% perfected

- There is a vaccine for Hepatitis B

- If you’re in London, there’s a clinic called Dean Street Express (it’s in Soho) where you can get pretty much same day results for STD tests. Blood tests I think can come within a week, but sometimes the same day if they’ve got a lower number of people coming through, and you get a card when you sign up so you can tap back in next time

100% here for the way The Playlist describes the upcoming Polanski film

I too enjoy subtle things.

And do you know who’s going to be the president of the 42nd Cesar Awards ceremony on late february 2017? This fucking rapist Roman Polanski. There is a big polemic right now in France, truly how can we let men like that go free and even put them on a pedestal at such a cinematic event?? i’m so angry and i’m certainly not the only one here

I love being the bearer of good news, so let me just share the fact that less than a week after being nominated president, Polanski had to pull out of the César jury due to an outcry from French feminist associations (which “deeply saddened him” because he found it “unjustified”) and a petition with 60k+ signatures demanding his removal. Kudos to everyone who signed the petition for helping make a rapist sad.

everydayfeminism has not one, not two, not three, not four, but five articles on how butch lesbians oppress femme women. somehow

the types of ppl who write these articles are SO self obsessed

teratomarty:

just so yall remember...

Jean-Paul Agon, CEO of L’oreal

Christopher de Lapuente, CEO of @sephora

Fabrizio Freda, CEO of @esteelauder

Tiim Warner, CEO of @urbandecay

David Greenberg, President of @maybelline US

remember that these are the men in charge of the makeup companies. these are the men profiting off women’s insecurities and society’s lie that a woman’s worth is based on her ability to look flawless every second of every day.

and as long as mainstream feminists continue to uphold makeup as a “fun”, “harmless”, “empowering” form of self-expression, these are the men who will be getting richer and richer.