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For some reason, it is entirely OK for a strange man I don’t know to approach me in the street and tell me he’d like to violently stick his hard cock in my anus. If I turned around and say, spat on him or stabbed his eye out with a fork, this would not be OK. Moreover, if I tried to press charges, I have the stinking suspicion that without a physical assault my complaint wouldn’t be taken entirely seriously. And yet the same man gets caught taking a piss in a public place and he’s a sexual offender in the eyes of the law. ARE FERAL LANEWAYS AND BRICK WALLS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WOMEN?

onebillionrising:

“Eve Ensler’s work, she makes us feel something.  She ignites something within us, a fire, a passion.  Eve isn’t telling us we have to do X, Y and Z. She is showing us people’s experiences, our experiences. She is revealing brave women’s stories to us, women that we can relate to.  She is making us feel something, the power within ourselves.”

—Read the full article by V-Girls guest blogger Emelina Minero here.

hell yes.

hell yes.

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s0ulbride:

#feminism (Taken with instagram)

s0ulbride:

#feminism (Taken with instagram)

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A Voice of One's Own: bleeding from her wounds.

voiceofonesown:

for a friend

“my hands held onto the hurt so tightly that they bled

my palms became rags soaked through and

my fingers were my understanding,

but the spaces between them could not be filled.

I could not know, but I could try

and I would fail

so I would try again,…

Fuck yeah, feminists!: What does objectification mean beyond just “treat someone like an object”?

becauseiamawoman:

What does objectification mean beyond just “treat someone like an object”?

Here is a helpful tidbit on objectification according to feminist theory, which I found here. It gives a pretty comprehensive overview of different kinds of…

I don’t know if rape jokes encourage rape culture. I don’t care. You still shouldn’t tell them.

Statistically, if you have told a rape joke to a group of more than five people, one of the people you told it to was a rape survivor, possibly of multiple rapes. They will not necessarily disclose this to you; rape apologism is endemic in society and most rape survivors are cautious about whom they tell. Some may even be too ashamed of their rape to admit it to anyone, or because of rape-minimizing narratives like “men can’t be raped” and “I consented to oral, so I couldn’t have been raped” may not admit it even to themselves. The fact remains: if you’ve told dozens of rape jokes in your life, then you have almost certainly told a joke that minimizes or trivializes rape in front of a survivor.

And if you put as your Facebook status “I totally raped at Halo today” for your two hundred Facebook friends to see, statistically, you have just reminded thirty-three people of one of the worst experiences of their entire lives.

To describe how well you did at a video game.

Good job!

browneyedamazon:

powerful sign: bigotry wrapped in prayer is still bigotry.

browneyedamazon:

powerful sign: bigotry wrapped in prayer is still bigotry.

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voiceofonesown:

darren criss + being supportive

love you, A.

project voice.

voiceofonesown:

i am more than pleased to announce that i have joined forces with one of the most incredible people i have ever met to create project voice.

there will be much, much more to come on this.

with hope and excitement, mt

A Voice of One's Own: the story of my salvadoran grandmother:

voiceofonesown:

“We were told to flee all the time because the troops were coming. We had a man watching over near Victoria; whenever he saw the troops coming a bomb would explode. When we saw the explosion we had to flee.

“My son would always cry before we fled, whenever he heard the warning bombs he would…

slutofbabylon:

Why am I wearing a ribbon that clashes with my dress?
Why are you still letting me and everyone else with my anatomy make 77 cents to the dollar?
End Pay Inequity! End it now! Now, now, now, NOW!

slutofbabylon:

Why am I wearing a ribbon that clashes with my dress?

Why are you still letting me and everyone else with my anatomy make 77 cents to the dollar?

End Pay Inequity! End it now! Now, now, now, NOW!

(via fuckyeahfeminists)

incredibly uplifting. thanks, MCB!