February 2012
“Your job is not to educate others, (…) it is, first, to survive.”
– Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, a Professor of Sociology at Duke University
“Gay issues are also women’s issues because homophobia is a form of misogyny”
– Jennifer Beals
All oppression is connected!
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“Love is the answer. The question is irrelevant.”
– A wise mentor
“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to...”
– James Baldwin
“I was born of heterosexual parents, taught by heterosexual teachers, in a...”
– Harvey Milk
Women’s PAC formed following abortion legislation →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
A group of women has formed a new political action committee to recruit and support candidates to defeat elected officials who back the ultrasound and so-called personhood bills.
Women’s Strike Force, which boasts several former elected officials, formed after Virginia spent last week in national headlines for its attempt to require women to undergo mandatory...
“If we had 51% women in Congress, do you think we’d be debating access to...”
– Sen. Kristen Gillibrand
“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones
“When you talk about a revolution most people think ‘violence’ without realizing...”
– Angela Davis, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
'Pepper Spray Cop' Suit Filed - NPR →
brooklynmutt:
Some of those Occupy protesters who famously got face fulls of pepper spray last November on the campus of University of California Davis have now filed suit in federal court.
They allege “the university used excessive force to break up the demonstration,” The Sacramento Bee writes. “The Occupy UC Davis students were sprayed as they sat on the ground.”
The American Civil...
Anonymous asked: i don't get that biden post
“Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester, if...”
– JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane, inhuman and shameful “personhood” law that requires women wanting to get an abortion to, in essence, be subject to rape, on The Daily Show
“[TRIGGER WARNING: Rape culture] He (Rick Santorum) is a staunch opponent of...”
– John Oliver
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“I remember being five years old
Watching a feather fall from the sky
And...”
– Andrea Gibson, Rush Hour
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“It is not the anger of other women that will destroy us, but our refusals to...”
– Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger
Victory
barefootwarriorqueen:
And to you, injustice:
Although you try to beat me
with the hammers of inequality,
Burden me with your ignorance and your fear
And point the gun of oppression towards my temples,
You and I both know
That you will never take me alive—
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“Meanwhile, those somebodies who claim they’re ‘pro-life’...”
– We Remember: African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom (source)
WTF? ESPN.com's "Contact Us" Gives Option To Hate...
fuckyeahfeminists:
[via Complex.com]