White genderqueer with male privilege working through the contradictions of white supremacist capitalist Patriarchy on a neocolonial landscape.
Palestinian women confront Israeli soldiers during the first intifada (1987-93)
(via somethingagainstyou)
I’ve always understood the word ‘slut’ to mean a woman who freely enjoys her own sexuality in any way she wants to; undisturbed by other people’s wishes for her behaviour. Sexual desire originates in her and is directed by her. In that sense it is a word well worth retaining.
— Alice Walker (via subconciousevolution)
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I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.
— Emma Goldman, 1897 (via absurdumbecca)
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My name is Kelly Schomburg, I’m the girl with the red hair in these pictures. I was protesting at the Occupy Wall Street march yesterday when I and several other women were sprayed with mace and subsequently arrested. Many have already seen the video, which has been spreading like wildfire over twitter, Facebook, tumblr, and other video feeds, along with hundreds of other photos and videos. This is my recount of what happened.
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Women are not dying because of diseases we cannot treat. They are dying because societies have yet to make the decision that their lives are worth saving.
— Prof. Mahmoud Fathalla,MD, PhD, 1997 Former President of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Assiut University, Egypt. (via the-madame-hatter)
The last time a Republican fought for my rights, I was a fetus
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