c’est moi! by iurisandthesea
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A beautiful Alan Lee illustration for the collection of Welsh legends, The Mabinogion. My scan.
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Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
I Am Your Sister by Audre Lorde
I can’t find Zami or Sister Outsider without DRMon my computer right now, but I will post them here if/when I do.
and I also threw in:
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Let me know if any of the links/files don’t work for any reason.
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Student loan debt, at $830 billion, now exceeds total US credit card debt, itself bloated to the bubble level of $827 billion. More here..
my new life goal is to move to france and run a literary salon and act like it’s the early twentieth century
fellow radfems are invited to join me of course
I hereby RSVP YES PLEASE
“There is nothing sexy about a woman being tortured or raped. If you find it sexy, you need psychiatric help, plain and simple.” —
hedonisticparadise (via killyourenemies)
(side note to sex-positive sympathizers: i can’t believe this needs to be said, but yes, if it looks exactly like what a psychopathic misogynist would do to a woman whom he virulently hated, is in fact a recording of a real man behaving towards a real woman in that way — you are well within your rights to call it disturbing and patriarchal!)
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“The Angel,” by Claudine Doury. (via The New Breed of Documentary Photographers)
E-mail from straight female supervisor:
Please take time this summer to choose an alternative text for this class section. The men in your class found the focus on feminism alienating.
Title of class: “Women’s Experiences in the United States.”
Number of men in the class: Two.
what in the fuck
Is He Ignoring Your Text Messages? Read this! « sisters of resistance -
“This is about a consistent pattern of behavior. It’s about controlling the conversation.”
Actually a really interesting article. Unfortunately I see Dudes Past in this. Validating that it’s not just me or my problem that I started to feel crazy/worthless…
This is a fantastic article, although I know this issue transcends heteronormative relationship dynamics. Technology has both accelerated our ability to communicate, exchange information and share ideas but has simultaneously accelerated ones own ability to exercise privilege over another. I have been through this dynamic many times - where a privileged partner exercises that privilege by picking and choosing when and how communication takes place - and it is a pattern that, once I see occur, I simply can’t engage with. I don’t care if we are just fucking or if we are seriously dating - communication is key as it not only establishes a line of communication, but it symbolizes ones acknowledgement and respect for the other person. Thoughts?
Yeah dude, I am a female who doesn’t shave or wax or pluck anything on her body, or wear makeup or do pretty much anything to her hair, but I also wear both pants (and shorts) and dresses, and I only wear flat shoes, and I’m interested in both technical stuff and fine-motor stuff, and …
I could spend time worrying about what that makes me (trans? butch? genderqueer? a freak? ALL OF THE ABOVE?!?!), like I used to —
or I could just accept that one can be and do and have all of those traits and still be female, because females come in endless varieties and there are almost zero things exclusive to females other than certain genetic similarities.
There is nothing wrong with being female and that says nothing about a person outside of what their genetics probably are (eg, XX, although a certain amount of variability occurs, eg XXX or XO etc.)
Also nobody should harass anybody for not shaving anything, but they still do. That is a form of social conditioning, and it explains why many female-bodied people don’t feel comfortable transgressing those social expectations, which is why it often seems like “all women shave, so if you don’t shave, you must not be a woman!”
fwiw this is why i am constantly frustrated when people get called “femmephobic” for critiquing compulsory femininity (make-up, shaving, so on). we don’t CARE whether women choose to shave or not. but most women can’t actually choose freely. i’m lucky to only get laughed or stared at. my sister was forced to start wearing make-up when her company hinted they would fire her otherwise (for “sloppy dressing”).
Re: “sloppiness” — not cool. At all. I get some iteration of “you’ve let yourself go” and “wouldn’t you feel better after a makeover?” a lot (among harsher things), and have definitely been fired from jobs or denied hiring to begin with more than once. It’s no fun. I can understand the desire to try to mitigate this effect by claiming it as an innate identity (“I was born genderqueer! You can’t make me go against my nature!”), but that leaves women as a class high and dry. Which is why claiming a separate identity to justify one’s choices does not actually help humanity in the long run.
Also, re: “femmephobia” — compulsory-feminine behaviors are not actually innately ‘feminine’ (eg, tied exclusively and biologically to women) either. So saying we are not into compulsory femininity is not “femmephobia”. I guess “capitalistphobia” and “compliancephobia” didn’t have quite the same ring.
ETA: this response is in regards to people who propagate this shit (bullying women who do not conform, and/or using the term “femmephobia”), not to sendforbromina!
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