Overseas Experiments

Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their love natures — restrained at every turn! Your blasting lies would even blacken a child’s kiss. Little girls must not be tomboyish, must not go barefoot, must not climb trees, must not learn to swim, must not do anything they desire to do which Madame Grundy has decreed “improper.” Little boys are laughed at as effeminate, silly girl-boys if they want to make patchwork or play with a doll. Then when they grow up, “Oh! Men dont care for home or children as women do!” Why should they, when the deliberate effort of your life has been to crush that nature out of them. “Women can’t rough it like men.” Train any animal, or any plant, as you train your girls, and it wont be able to rough it either.

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—	Voltairine de Cleyre (via liberationfrequency)

grrrlshapedthing:

pkpow:

gabriellaerica:

What if men were photographed the way women typically were? I love this!

I’m going to allow this.

How do we make this what-if an reality

…and sweet dreams ;)

androfeminine:

Andrej Pejic - Rosa Clara Barcelona Bridal Week for 2012

*pleasant sigh* Good night :)

We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.

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(On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off)

(via librariesandlemonade)

Most beautiful family.

(via karenhealey)

Wow. Go, Will Smith!

A general message to the kyriarchy, my country of origin, life, the universe and everything…

If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your whiteness affords you a privilege that shields you from a lot. You must also acknowledge that you are afforded privileges that some men in this country do not have. Racism and sexism are tightly intertwined. You cannot fight one while ignoring the other.

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—	ladyatheist (via transformfeminism)

Our femininities are often marginalized and delegitimized. We are often seen as heteronormative, apolitical, less radical, and less queer in a community where being visible and valued depends on being masculine or androgynous.

This femmephobia in queer communities—this devaluation and stigmatization of queer femininity—is a form of misogyny that is rooted in dominant patriarchal culture. It’s a form of sexism that intersects with cissexist, heterosexist, racist, classist, ableist, and sizeist views of femininity, women, and what it means to be queer.

The accusation that femme women “pass as straight” undermines our own self-definitions of our femme identities, our empowered embracing of our femininities, and our blatant disruption of the normative constructs of what it means to be feminine and a woman.

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—	Jeanette Young, Resisting Femme Invisibility. (via transformfeminism)

cleolinda:

Image description: product picture of a navy blue short-sleeved crew-neck t-shirt featuring an illustration of our pal from three entries back, in full Asgardian regalia, wingy Viking helmet that Vikings never wore and red cape and everything, and lifting mighty Mjölnir (which actually is as big as his head this time) in a burst of lightning. Beneath, in sort of a faux-Norse red lettering outlined with gold: THORGI.

Y’all, I didn’t even get the appeal of corgis until I got a tumblr.

corgis-everywhere:

corgiaddict:

twosillycorgis:

I need this for reasons… Shut up and take my money!

I too need this for reasons.

me 3

Another world is possible...

society: Everyone's beautiful.
society: Don't eat though, you don't want to get fat.
society: You don't eat? Anorexic freak!
society: You're a size 4? You're supposed to be a size 0!
society: You're an A cup? What are you, 8?
society: You're a C cup? That's my mums size.
society: You had sex?! Slut!
society: You haven't had sex? Hah, you're frigid!
society: You don't think you're pretty? Attention seeker!
society: You think you're pretty? Conceited much?
society: You believe in gay rights? Homo!
society: You don't believe in gay rights? Homophobic dickhead!
society: You're depressed? Attention seeker!
society: You cut yourself? Still attention seeking!
society: You can't go on? How much attention do you want?!
 -someone kills themself-
society: Oh, they were so beautiful! Society sucks!

The magic of makeup, lighting and pose. ;)

Photo credit: Tracy Ingle <3