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It doesn’t get much cooler than Kathleen Cleaver.
^^
Agreed
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THE RAPE OF THE SAMBURU WOMEN
For more than fifty years, England has maintained military training facilities in the Samburu region of its former colony, Kenya.During this period, women in the area have faced an epidemic of rape. Women from the Samburu, Massai, Rendile and Turkana indigenous communities have filed more than 600 official rape claims against British soldiers.
Yet, despite documentation of their claims, a three-year internal investigation by the Royal Military Police (RMP) cleared all soldiers of wrongdoing.Meanwhile, the victims have been shamed and outcast in their communities, many to the point of exile.
In the mid-1990s, Beatrice Chili responded to this situation by establishing the village of Senchen, a self-sufficient community run entirely by women. There, women build homes, weave textiles, gather and grow food, and raise children. This short film visits the brave women of Senchen, who speak candidly about their suffering and talk passionately about their demands for justice.
Watch the film to hear their stories and to find out how you can offer your support.
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What is the quintessential embodiment of male desire? I’ll give you a hint. It has been overly commodified and has it’s own month. Ok, you got me, it’s breast cancer.
I wanted to list the different ways sex is selling this serious issue…
1. Breast cancer is pink, thus labeling it a women’s issue
2. Slogans emphasize the breast, not the women.
3. “save the ta-tas”
4. “I love boobies”
5. The sexy facebook campaign
6. above photo
Not all campaigns for this cause are wrought with the commoditization of women. And I certainly don’t want funding to cease in the least. It’s just that we must be aware of hor breast cancer is being sexualized for the sake of consumerism. It only reinforces the patriarchal stereotypes of gender. It then works to subvert women.If i had a nickel for every mainstream campaign in pop culture that’s problematic… well… i’d probably be as wealthy as a CEO of any of the 6 (or so) companies that own all media
I’ve been trying to explain this to people, and they just don’t get it. Also, that it makes it just a women’s problem, when men get breast cancer, too. People don’t do a lot of their own research and by making it just women’s thing (especially via that stupid Facebook status update for “girls only”), it actually LOWERS awareness.
(Source: feminist-blackboard)
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It is on the sweat and backs of our Brown Sisters (Cooking, Cleaning, Child Care)!! That the American Woman works Beside her Male Counterparts.
and black sisters!
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Thank you lightning—struck for your submission!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I know there is no checklist for being a feminist.
However I am under the opinion that if you consider yourself a feminist, you have to be pro-choice. To me that means allowing women the option, the choice, to decide over their own bodies.
A pro-life feminist is someone who thinks that a woman shouldn’t have that right.
Which makes no fucking sense.
That article is just…it was just weird. “…women have been forced into adapting themselves into a wombless, male world”? wat?
Anyway, basically what I have to say about this topic is this; I believe that you can be pro-choice and personally dislike abortion, and say that you’d never want to have one yourself, but you must support the right of other people to be able to make their own decision about it and have free, safe access to abortion if they decide that that’s what’s right for them. If you don’t think that people should be free to make their own decisions about their own bodies and reproductive health then I really don’t know how you can say that you’re fighting to give women full and equal rights and treatment.
And as a side note, being pro-choice isn’t (or shouldn’t be) just about abortions. We’re fighting for easily accessible and safe contraception, effective sex education, and support for children and parents so that people won’t have to be in a situation where they’ll need an abortion.
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Camila Vallejo, a member of the Communist Youth of Chile (JJCC), is the second woman to head the Students Federation of the University of Chile (FECH).
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Josie continued in a deep voice. ‘You know Haiti was peopled by Indians before the Spanish came. There were several zones, with a king for each zone. Anacaona was the wife of one of those kings. Near Leogane, close to here. Now what was the name of that king? I can never remember his name [my note: his name was Caonabo]. Anyway, when the Spanish disembarked in Haiti, the Indians received them with open arms. But the Spanish wanted gold. They made the Indians do hard labor for that gold. Oh, it was brutal.”
The women sitting on rocks in the small circle were still. ‘The Indians began to revolt. Anacaona’s husband was one of the kings struggling against the Spanish. Anacaona herself was a poetess and singer. But still she was supporting her husband shoulder-to-shoulder. When the Spanish killed him, Anacaona carried on the fight. She was courageous. I tell you: courageous! She rallied others to challenge the Spanish; she organized and plotted to save their land. But the Spanish had sophisticated weapons; Anacaona had none. They captured her and killed her too.
‘From Anacaona we were born. When you take our history—the struggle against invaders, the war of independence, and everything that came after—there were women there standing strong, right next to the men. But they’re rarely told about in history. Only their husbands—unless a woman does the telling.’”
from Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance by Beverly Bell
I got so excited when I stumbled upon this book at the library today. It was lying on a shelf in the wrong section of the stacks, almost like it was waiting for me to find it. :)
I’ve just started reading it, but this story really resonated with me, and I had to share.
#prochoice #Jesus (Taken with instagram)
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If you don’t subscribe to Bitch Magazine, consider doing so. They may have to quit printing, and it really is a wonderful, feminist magazine.
I just discovered it last fall and finally got my subscription a little while ago. Bitch Mag really is great; if you have the means and are looking for some awesome feminist media you really should consider subscribing!
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gahhh am I the only person who gets so annoyed by “nice guys” complaining about how women don’t like them or whatever? It’s like seriously? It doesn’t matter how “nice” you think you are, if I don’t want to date you, then I don’t want to friggin date you. And I don’t have to give you a reason or justify it (although I personally would just cause I think it’s nice to, and I’d want a guy to do the same for me)There’s nothing wrong with that, and there’s probably nothing wrong with you either. I just wasn’t attracted to you, oh well. It happens, it stings a little, but you know what, if you’re as nice as you constantly say you are, then you should have no problem finding a girl who is attracted to you and who does want to date you!
Sorry if this sounded mean, but I see boys post stuff like that all over facebook and I’ve had a couple of guys say this to me in real life and it always gives me these “what-right-does-that-bitch-have-to-not-want-to-date-me” vibes, and it’s really unsettling.
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