January 2012
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December 2011
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“White queers, including white trans people, are at the LOWEST risk for pretty...”
– DTWPS (via zorascreation)
Truth! Fuck the ‘it gets better’ campaign!
(via kenzmirage)
The person I reblogged this from is fantastically...
fatbrat:
esbatm:
autumnbed:
I dislike the word hot, it’s really impersonal and does a terrible job at describing somebody.
I fixed it, and it’s very true.
trrrruuuuuuuth
I have always felt this way about the word “hot”. I think it’s because I have mostly heard it in the context of men blithely assigning value to women based on their appearance (especially when I was...
"Hey, remember when you had a crush on-"
wowfunniestposts:
“Anti-femme culture (and feminists aren’t immune to this) thinks the effort put...”
– The Rotund by Marianne Kirby (via ellielamothe)
The desire for weight loss is never about weight...
randomlancila:
When a person is craving weight loss, they are never craving weight loss. Weight loss in and of itself is meaningless. A person tends to crave weight loss because they believe that lost weight will change their life in some way. Hirschmann and Munter talk about this in their book When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies, saying that women tend to fall into the mistaken belief that you...
“[TRIGGER WARNING: Rape] Fat women are treated as utterly undesirable in our...”
– Jaclyn Friedman, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety (via khaleesi)
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Tracy Chapman has the best website ever. Trust me. →
“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes...”
– “Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley (via anorable)
i love some good language analysis.
(via katmayer) me tooooo! #englishmajorswag
(via ethiopienne)
I also dislike how the term “taking care of yourself” in common usage...
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“Nobody tells an actor, “you’re playing a strong-minded man”. We assume that men...”
– Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women” (via ethiopienne)
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“The word “transgender” is an adjective, and a descriptive word; not a noun or a...”
– How to Respect a Transgender Person (via fatmolly)
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Deportation could split up lesbian couple legally... →
tierracita:
Frances Herbert and her wife, Takako Ueda, were looking forward to the New Year’s Eve family concert at the Baptist Church, the town fireworks on the pond and then a night at home to celebrate the arrival of 2012.
But federal immigration authorities have told Ueda she needs to leave the United States for her native Japan by Dec. 31, a move that would split up a couple who have...
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