December 2011
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Ahmadinejad’s Ready-to-Wear: Government Approved... →
When reflecting on the fashion dictates of her time, Elizabeth Cady Stanton asked, “Is being born a woman so criminal an offense that we must be doomed to everlasting bondage?” For Iranian women, the answer, it seems, is yes.
“Street harassment teaches women that they are... →
It’s sad but true how, because of street harassment and sexual violence, women often feel unsafe in public unless they are in a group. Even in Yemen, where women are very modestly dressed and veiled, they still face street harassment and are the prey with street harassers as the predators. Street harassment is not about what we wear or how we look, it’s about disrespect for women.
“All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is,...”
– Rookie, The Season of the Witch (via girlinthepurpleshirt)
Filed under : kick-ass on point feminist cultural studies critiques.
(via fuckyeahjoshlin)
Let Brandon Tumble! Male-Identified Cheerleader... →
Fourteen-year-old Brandon Urbas feels supported by his family and the entire Lakeview High School football team as the only male-identified cheerleader on his high school squad. “It’s my life,” he says in the video below. “I love it. I live, laugh, cheer.”
One teacher's approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
“Dieu vous parle mais il a une pharyngite”
– Plonk & Replonk
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“You are not your bra-size, nor are you the width of your waist, nor are you the...”
– Boyghost: This again.(via nancylicious)(via sexisbeautiful)
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Sur arte.tv, le Summer of girls a laissé carte...
http://www.arte.tv/embed/?cat=9
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Heidi - Live @ Razzmatazz - The Loft (Barcelona,Spain) - 10-12-2011 by Technolivesets on Mixcloud
Drum rolllll! - Our new Girl Power Toolkit http://t.co/6f04Q8KS
empowering-girls:
“Remove those “I want you to like me” stickers from your forehead and, instead,...”
– Susan Jeffers
White Privilege and the Snow-White Santa ... →
Santa, of course, is a fictional figure whose appearance is invented. Theoretically anyone could be Santa. Yet, while we may see the occasional non-white Santa at the mall or in novelty holiday stories, he is unbearably and overwhelmingly white in our (google-able) imagination: The first three pages of a google image search for “Santa”:
Herts police poster is offensive to women →
Vers une ville plus émancipatrice pour les femmes... →
Il faut allouer des budgets conséquents à leurs besoins, leur laisser dire leur mot dans la planification urbaine et évaluer explicitement les retombées sur la vie des habitantes et des habitants… La prise en compte du genre reste un défi central pour toutes les parties prenantes de la ville, y compris les partenaires de la solidarité internationale et la coopération décentralisée.
Most Gender-Friendly Bathrooms I've Ever Seen
Strange Matter, Richmond, Virginia
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