We don’t owe [the men in our lives] unconditional love and support and forgiveness when their acceptance of us as human beings is conditional to our relation to them and our compliance to their needs.

The Attic on Eighth, “We Don’t Owe Our Fathers Anything.” (via theatticoneighth)

vorematty:

vorematty:

I know ive discussed it before but. blind sex positivity is counter productive. telling girls to have sex can be equally as harmful as telling girls to be ashamed of sex. especially 20+ year old women talking about “sex positivity” to 15, 16 year old girls. even if you mean well, it can be harmful

this sounds anti-feminist so let me rephrase. the normalization of female sexuality is so so so important and a huge step in the right direction when done correctly. in a perfect world nobody would be ashamed of their sexual history or their sex lives. but that’s not how it is, and when i was fourteen or fifteen, even sixteen, i was force fed this idea that sex was empowering, and it got me into sexual situations that were consensual but still traumatizing because i was too young and too unprepared to handle them. i am ashamed of it. i live with that shame still.
sex positivity is important. it is vital. but putting “be a slut, do what you want” over pastel backgrounds and encouraging girls to be a Ho or whatever isn’t doing shit. we need to teach girls how to know when they’re ready and have knowledge of how to handle situations. we need to give girls a safe way to own their sexuality. we need to teach and guide girls to make safe and educated decisions about sex. we need to teach girls that while there is nothing wrong with having sex, there are repercussions. we need to fucking protect girls

nevertrustamanwho:

On women’s anger

From “Loving to Survive” by Dee L. R. Graham

emma-watson:

January 21, 2017: Women’s March around the world

becketts:

jfc what an amazing photo

Feminist Resources

aloofshahbanou:

Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Aurora Levins Morales’s Radical Pleasure: Sex and the End of Victimhood

bell hooks’ Cultural Criticism & Transformation

Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

Combahee River Collective Statement

Dorothy Allison’s A Question of Class

Judith Butler documentary

Leslie Feinberg’s We Are All Works in Progress

Paula Gunn Allen’s Who is Your Mother?: Red Roots of White Feminism

R.W. Connell’s The Social Organization of Masculinity

Sandra Lee Bartky’s Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power

Sandra Cisneros’s Guadalupe the Sex Goddess

Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I a Woman?

Susan Bordo’s The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity

itamedgojira:

throughout history it has been a man’s job to provi..

no, throughout history men have actively prevented the independence of women, they have actively prevented our mobility, rights to an education, and livable income. they’ve abused our reproductive capability and passed us around like properties, they’ve used religion to rationalize their hatred of us, and to put us in a place of subordination. so y’all can shut the fuck up about men being “providers” like it was some benevolent gesture, in an attempt to rationalize sexism.