December 2010
82 posts
wandering stars: visible →
meloukhia:
One of the things members of marginalised groups are often told is that they should be more visible to break down stereotypes and stigmas; how can people learn if they aren’t aware of the details of the identities of the people all around them? I don’t really subscribe to this idea and in fact…
“THE HANDY GUIDE TO NOT RAPING PEOPLE IN SEVEN EASY STEPS
1. When you meet a...”
– Ben Pobjie: The Handy Guide to Not Raping People (via monkeytypist)
i may print this out & tape it all over my school. Seriously. Make this a thing guys!
(via newwavefeminism)
I want this to be changed from “Girl” to “person” not just because “girl” isn’t a good word to call feminine people...
“Quite honestly, my objection to rape jokes is not even because I particularly...”
– http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2010/08/survivors-are-so-sensitive.html (via kittyradio)
this ain't livin': Beyond the Binary: Transition →
The medical community doesn’t really recognise nonbinary gender in general, and there’s resistance to it in some sectors of the transgender community. Among people who aren’t binarist, there’s a lack of understanding about what it means to be nonbinary, and many people think ‘oh, they don’t need to transition.’ This isn’t the result of bigotry, simply ignorance, because the numbers of out...
Questioning Transphobia - Community Resources... →
this ain't livin': When Rape, Evidently, Isn't... →
meloukhia:
Content note for discussions of rape in pop culture.
And if you do identify these things as rape when they happen to you, pushback will come from all sides, thanks to the people around you who have been trained to reject the definition of ‘rape’ for these situations. That leaves you in a bit of a dark wood wandering; you have no one to turn to, you do not know who is safe, you are...
tangerine trees and marmalade skies: It was... →
thecurvature:
Probably at least 3 years ago, in fact. I had stopped over at my parents’ house, when my brother’s friend Shaun made a joke. I don’t remember how exactly it went, anymore. But it was about blowing up an abortion clinic. And how funny that would be. My dad was sitting there, and laughed very…
“Those who profess to favour freedom and depreciate agitation are men who want...”
– Frederick Douglass, 1857 (via kinelfire)
Off-Duty Cis Cop Allegedly Assaults Trans Woman,... →
Officer Radon’s version of events just so happens to follow a convenient popular narrative regarding trans women as both violent (and therefore “manly”) and sex workers. The latter allegation, particularly, is one which a set of dangerous, (trans-)misogynistic cultural biases regularly allow to work against trans women. As both sex workers and trans women are portrayed as deviant and hypersexual...
We all come naked into the world, we have to...
Sady Doyle: "But the Names Were Already Out... →
sadydoyle:
This is one thing that I have to address, in re: #MooreandMe. It’s one of the most common defenses I’m hearing, for why Keith Olbermann and Michael Moore shouldn’t be held accountable for leaking those women’s names to nearly a million people - first Keith Olbermann, then Michael Moore from Keith…
Choice Ireland - Founding Documents →
Dec 19 1973 - Ireland's Supreme Court declares...
Transgender American Veterans Association Salutes... →
Suggested Sunday reading (12/19/10) →
rosietint:
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Was alleged Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning's... →
jadedhippy:
It appears that Manning may be a trans woman not wishing her current picture being attached to stories about her. It’s unclear, but please read the story, pass it along, and keep it in mind. That puts a whole other piece into their imprisonment and treatment.
Sady Doyle is so, so right.
rosietint:
queenieinmanhattan:
No matter what the actual truth of the Assange case may be, the effect this has on women who are raped is profound, and profoundly terrible. Because it teaches them that, if enough people like your rapist, it is literally unsafe and unacceptable for you to report your own rape.
Exactly. I could not have said it better myself.
Excellent point. I so wish more...
Anonymous asked: I'm confused. What is your gender identity? And I'm SOOO sorry, seriously, if that's the wrong terminology. And feel completely free to not answer and ignore this. Just think you're cool and want to know more about you.
rosie.tint: "Progressive" men: READ THIS →
lalalimonada:
“Progressive” men: READ THIS.
I would rather face a demon in the daylight than the darkness.
The greatest majority of sexual assaults are committed (they don’t “happen to women,” they are committed) by men they trust. Men they’ve known for at least a year. These are not…
That's right, I'm spamming your dashes will all...
rosietint:
Because I AM PISSED OFF. Rape culture PISSES ME OFF. A LOT.
And when people say or imply that we, the people who are pissed off, should STFU? I GET LOUDER.
“There is a culture aimed at making women — every woman, everywhere — afraid to...”
– Sady Doyle
(via robot-heart-politics)
Every fucking day.
(via rosietint)
The Feminist Hub: #Mooreandme: What Matters (A... →
thefeministhub:
Sady Doyle: #MooreandMe: What Matters
sadydoyle:
I’m asking everybody who supports #MooreandMe to donate to an anti-sexual-assault organization, as much as they can (and trust me, I get not having cash. But you probably have at least some cash. You probably have $5, or $10, or $20, or…
“…When I am assumed to be cissexual [i.e., non-transsexual], the sexualizing...”
– Julia Serano, on the hyper-sexualization of trans women in our culture. (via lipsbetweenthehips)
Yeah. :( I really hate how Patriarchy allows trans women to exist only as fetishes.
(via kiriamaya)
I’ve noticed this too. o_o
(via genderbitch)
Full Fat Milk: In which I rant and swear at... →
mymilkspilt:
Rape apologists JUST FUCKING SHUT UP.
Just. Shut. Up.
You have nothing to add that is of any value to anyone. If you think your desire to shoot off your mouth and sound clever or righteous or however the hell you think you sound trumps the right of survivors to feel safe and to not be triggered…
Sydney people, let's have a meet up! →
Sady Doyle: I Hope You All Are On Twitter. →
So, who remembers the climactic scene of Roger and Me? Everybody, right? Poor little guy Michael Moore, standing up against The Man, standing outside the office of The Man, in fact, just because Roger has done something that has immeasurably harmed his community, and he wants to talk to the…
rosietint:
bluebears:
It would be nice if certain prominent members of the so-called progressive left could contain their defense of Assange to a simple:
He’s innocent until proven guilty and I’m sure he’s anxious to have his day in court so as to defend himself against these charges. This doesn’t change my own personal support for Wikileaks in any way.
Instead of the victim blaming, rape...
tangerine trees and marmalade skies: It's amazing... →
thecurvature:
I’m not stupid. Or hell, maybe I am. I don’t fucking know. I just know that intellectually, I’m never surprised. I’m not. Disappointed, but not surprised. Intellectually, I know better. So, so much better. Intellectually, I expect it. Intellectually, I know that this is par for the course, to the…
Genderbitch Lite: Now With More Rambling!: Why am... →
genderbitch:
Face the facts, you don’t know if Assange is guilty or not. None of us do. And however much you may like his political work that doesn’t change the fact that yes, he still could be a rapist. Tons of great SJ activists, anarchists and others have been in the past. Fuck, I was raped by a great SJ…
A few words on ableism in the press
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
Behind the whole “Frankie Boyle bad, Richard Littlejohn good” ableism ethos of the Mail (and also the BBC’s treatment of Jody McIntyre) lies the very simple fact that once a disabled person reaches adulthood they are considered totally fair game. It’s no longer a case of “awww… poor little mite” but “what a failure as a human being”. Whereas throughout my childhood i only...
The Ways We Excuse Sexual Assault →
thefuror:
Click through for the commentary about “Denim Day” and their “No Excuses” campaign.
#1 SHE WAS WEARING TIGHT JEANS:
In 1999, the Italian High Court overturned a rape conviction because the victim was wearing tight jeans at the time of the assault. The justices stated that the victim must have helped her attacker remove her jeans, from which they inferred consent. People all...
