May 2013
21 posts
Support a Sex Worker and Rape Survivor's Legal... →
rubyrevolting:
Support a Sex Worker and Rape Survivor’s Legal Battle - please reblog and spread far and wide!
I’m Ruby - a sex worker of 7 years from Melbourne. I’ve been involved with Vixen as well as organising the inaugural Festival of Sex Work.
About 3 years ago I was raped by a serial ugly mug. Due to his history I decided to report it to the police. The committal hearing happened in...
commiekinkshamer:
i have no problem with pointing out that anyone of any gender can be an abuser, rapist, pedophile etc because that’s absolutely true.
but the problem with always emphasizing “yes but it happens to everyone, not just women (or people of colour, or trans* people, etc)!” is that it depoliticizes the issue.
violence is not an accident, it is reflective of social power relations...
moss flowers: cupcakesnotbombs:... →
cupcakesnotbombs:
robot-heart-politics:
yuriadventure:
One of the most ridiculous concepts that society promotes is that we should always consider “the other side”, that we should always compromise, that the truth is always “in the middle. The problem with this is that it ignores how many stances and opinions are completely not compatible with each other.
Feminism, anti-racism, and other...
“Some men who want to compliment random women on the street are genuinely good...”
– Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot » Brute Reason (via brute-reason)
^^^^^^^^^^^^
(via misandry-mermaid)
The latest on Norway's sex purchase ban →
“If you think that the nice guy ranting only happens on the internet, you’ve...”
– It’s Not Just the Internet. It Never Has Been.
(via loveyourrebellion)
“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large...”
– Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via sociophilia)
“The use of the word “sex worker” is not a mere preference. Its use is identified...”
– Christian Vega, sex worker and activist
(ref)
“Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you...”
– Fugivitus: A few things to consider when you find a feminist blog (via absolutely-spiffing)
Radical Sister: Why pornography is oppressive →
emigrl:
radsis:
Porn actresses can only give consent by contract, but a contract does not constitute meaningful consent. A meaningful consent is such that it can be withdrawn anytime, including during a sex act.
Of course. Porn actresses have the right to withdraw their consent at any point, as much as any other worker has the right to walk out on their job (assuming that doing so won’t...
Dicks Ain't Shit: iflybikes: Egalitarianism is for... →
iflybikes:
Egalitarianism is for people who think the past has no bearing on the present, who can’t fathom why social justice movements might be more focused on one subset of people than another, and who get their feelings hurt at the implication that they might have some kind of privilege….
Punishment for rape in Ancient Rome: Rapist's gonads were crushed between two stones.
Punishment for rape in America in 2013: 1-2 years of jail and victim-blaming, rapist-sympathetic media coverage.
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Petition the Bank of England: Keep a woman on... →
This week Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, announced Winston Churchill will replace social reformer Elizabeth Fry as the face of £5 notes. This means that, other than the Queen, there will be no women featuring on our English bank notes.
An all-male line-up on our banknotes sends out the damaging message that no woman has done anything important enough to appear. This is...
Trans woman stabbed, dumped in pond tied to... →
taleth:
slightmayhem:
dansphalluspalace:
mayathestrange:
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
A transgender woman was stabbed repeatedly and dumped into a pond tied to a block of concrete in Cleveland, Ohio.
police announced yesterday they had identified her body after she went missing a month earlier on 27 March.
The 20-year-old was found three weeks later naked from the waist down with multiple...
April 2013
27 posts
Why are you here?: Teacup versus the Media... →
accioteacup:
http://kingstribune.com/index.php/weekly-email/item/1789-sex-workers-facts-and-myths
I am not at all interested in pandering to the theoretical black holes of radical feminism, nor am I about to attempt to console women who feel threatened by sex workers. Intelligent people do not read…
“’Slut’ is attacking women for their right to say yes. ‘Friend Zone’ is...”
– And “bitch” is attacking women for their right to call you on it. (via dezi-desire)
9News: Brothel raids a waste of time: sex workers →
Police raids on Asian brothels are a “waste of time” and do nothing to prevent trafficking of sex workers, a federal parliamentary inquiry has been told.
Jules Kim - migration project manager at Scarlet Alliance, the Australian Sex Workers Association - told the inquiry into slavery and human trafficking on Tuesday there was a bias towards the sex industry when it came to the number of...
“[TW: rape]
First you’re taught to fear a phantom, a man in black, a man with a...”
– The Female Gaze: SO MUCH PRETTY by Cara Hoffman - review Cara Hoffman’s really amazing, really important novel So Much Pretty at The Female Gaze this month. (via sssssophie)
“So to say women are their own “worst critics” when it comes to beauty puts the...”
– Women Are Not Their Own Worst Beauty Critics
Miss Representation blog takes on the bs surrounding that Dove commercial and the implication that women are somehow the worst part of beauty culture.
(via drst)
This operates in the same way as woman-on-woman conflict or “cattiness”, for that matter....
“More girls have been killed in the last FIFTY years, precisely because they were...”
– Nicholas Kristof, Half the Sky
Read that AGAIN.
(via kateoplis)
“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their...”
– [x]
As a teacher, I give girls what I hope is a lot of attention. I don’t know if I give girls their fair share, but I aspire to, especially after noticing that boys are willing to use their greater share of teachers’ attention to get girls who they feel aren’t being quiet and docile enough...
iflybikes:
When men talk of women and girls in terms of legal/not legal, what they’re really saying is “I already sexually objectify this child and would attempt to fuck her if there were no laws in the way.”
You can’t deny that is fucking scary.
acylates:
if you’re a man and your reaction to a woman saying she wants equal rights is “so does that mean I can hit you now” maybe you should reassess your entire pitiful life
I AM A CAT! MEOW, MOTHERFUCKERS!: Words You Should... →
racismschool:
It’s time to take a few words back from the ignorant mouths of those that applaud injustice.
1-Victim. Victim is not a bad word. Stop using it as if it were a negative. The entire point of the word is that something happened that a person had no control over. If you say…
“Online discussion of sexism or misogyny quickly results in disproportionate...”
– Anita’s Irony is an internet law stated by Joseph Reagle (via femfreq)
[TW] Canadian feminist activist receives rape...
feministdisney:
deafmuslimpunx:
lagertha-lodbrok:
glittertitties:
abaldwin360:
(manboobz.com) - And so the MRAs have found yet another woman to hate.
Earlier this month, as many of you no doubt know, a Men’s Rights group sponsored a lecture at the University of Toronto. The event drew protesters, and the protesters drew MRAs with video cameras. One of the MRAs filmed a confrontation...
“I also think the burden should not be placed on women to control misogynist and...”
– Zahra Stardust
Fucken perf <3
(via trashprincesss)
“Abolitionists, while purportedly having sex workers’ best interests at heart,...”
– Carceral Feminism: The Failure of Sex Work Prohibition (2012)
“White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be...”
– bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From margin to center (via ceedling)
As long as these two groups or any group defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others.
Key. This is why my feminism...
TW: Rape. To the anon in my askbox: Rape jokes are...
naughtynerdy:
TO THE ANON COMMENTER WHO LEFT A SHIT TON OF COMMENTS IN MY INBOX: IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY RAPE JOKES ARE UNACCEPTABLE, AND IF YOU CAN’T RESEARCH SOMETHING THAT BASIC- WE HAVE NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT. THIS IS NOW MY GO-TO POST FOR ANYONE WHO ASKS ABOUT THIS STUFF.
RAPE IS A SINGULAR, REAL AND COMMON TYPE OF MALICIOUS TORTURE WHICH HAS NO PURPOSE THAN TO DESTROY, DEGRADE AND...
“It’s easy to be considered a misandrist when men are socialized to feel entitled...”
– (via angrywomanistcritic)
annnnnnd BOOM
(via stfuhypocrisy)
Katie Sloane: I just wish that strippers /... →
trashprincesss:
katiesloane:
I just wish that strippers / everyone would stop saying “and I have a post secondary degree! and so do my coworkers!”
because the reality is that you don’t need to have a post secondary degree to ~deserve~ basic respect. You don’t need to be ~educated~ in order to be seen as being ~successful~.
when we feel the need to distinguish ~educated strippers~ from...
“Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you...”
– Worry About Your Own Uterus: (via veruca-assault)
“Worry about your own uterus” wise wise words.
(via triplash)
“It is unfair to ask a woman to leave aside her personal experience and discuss...”
– Shakesville: I Am Not a Political Football (via veruca-assault)
“What is demonstrably more dangerous than sex work is intimate partnership....”
– juliet november (via ourcatastrophe)
Rabble.ca : Sexism at the border: a personal... →
trashprincesss:
criminalcunt7:
trashprincesss:
What do you do when you’re detained by powerful officials, everything you say is presumed deceptive, arbitrary “evidence” is held against you, and you’re treated like a moral deviant? And what if its 2013, you’re a woman, and the “evidence” is that you possess condoms?
It happened three times in two weeks — being detained by U.S. border...
“To that anon: why wouldn’t you support prostitution as a career? Consenting...”
– From a Friend of The Site regarding last week’s anonymous ask on how to support sex workers without supporting sex work.
Thanks for sharing, love.
SW5
(via sexworkerproblems)
March 2013
66 posts
“I am tired of trying to have an intellectual discussion about dog-whistle sexism...”
– Lindy West for Jezebel, Sexism Fatigue (via seelions)
looking for good articles/essays/etc on racism in...
