August 2011
chromaticdebutante replied to your photo: We haven’t had a fetal produce update in awhile,…
Would it be wrong of me to say that I want to make sweet potato pie now? *runs away*
Haha, it’s okay. When I saw Chicken Run in college, I spent the last 2/3 of the movie craving chicken pot pie.
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(*G.)oddamazon: I want to understand the LGBT... →
karnythia:
goddamazon:
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dopegirlfresh:
crissle:
wordstrappedinmythroat:
goddamazon:
But I think most of you have been so hated on that those of us trying to understand the community can’t get anything but bitter-sounding backlash from some of you. Like, I really am scared to ask people about their LGBT life (if I’m aware they are LGBT) because I don’t want to sound like...
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Hurricane Irene will most likely prove to be one... →
maritsa:
But it was totes just media overreaction, ok??
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troubledsigh:
torayot:
strawberry-bubbles:
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REBLOG IF YOU ARE A QUEER FEMME OR A FEMME ALLY
fuckyeahqueerfemme:
femmesandfamily:
I want to follow you!
QUEER FEMME AND FEMME ALLY ROLL CALL / check the notes
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Twitter: Enhancing Civil Discourse at Conferences? →
I think the best thing that happened to me at the American Sociology Association conference last week was talking to the people who run the Cyborgology blog. Now I have a guest post!
Side note: I think it’s pretty funny that my cartoon avatar gets me a near-100% face-to-face recognition rate. It’s a hell of a lot better than a lot of people’s tiny actual headshots.
Flooding conditions 'awful' in Vermont due to... →
rhymeswithnothing:
I know y’all were having a lot of fun mocking New York’s alleged lack of hurricane action, but several places actually got hit by terrible flooding & heavy rains and power outages (including I think parts of Delaware Virginia & Maryland) sooo. Just saying
Yeah, we’re going to a wedding in Vermont on Saturday and I’m kind of concerned, although at least...
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Having the the "Talk"
karnythia:
strugglingtobeheard:
lemuffinmistress:
droppingthefbomb:
I am not talking about the birds and the bees. I am talking about the talk that Black mums have to have with their sons. My brother turned 13 last month and my mum had to have the talk with him
When the police are trying to stop you
Don’t make any sudden movements.
Don’t reach into your bag
Don’t reach into your...
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Why I am Much More Bothered by Racism and White...
strugglingtobeheard:
lemuffinmistress:
I get a lot more upset when I see racism and unchecked privilege in white people who actively identify as feminist than I am when I see just general unchecked privilege. The reason for that is that, as an active feminist, you are aware of the social justice theories: You are aware of the concept of privilege. You are (or at least, should be)...
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Convincing my five-year-old daughter that boys can... →
maishaparadox:
by explaining stereotypes and stereotype-breakers! Parenting win!
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They have chosen their own end: Yet another bi... →
kheradactyl:
I think what bothers me most are members of the LGTBQ community who don’t believe bisexuality exists. This, of course, is in reference to the lesbian who claimed so. I reblogged the post angrily yesterday, but I hadn’t really addressed any of her points or fallacies directly, so I’m going to…
Church. I spent about a year in junior high/high school wondering if I was...
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“It doesn’t make sense to consider street harassment ‘real’ harassment, or pretty...”
– My dad. As someone who is harassed almost daily and has had bad experiences with street harassers, I got visibly upset and he told me to stop being so sensitive. Made me feel alone. (via microaggressions)
In a Twitter discussion about the sociology conference I just attended, a prof in my...
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New York City will not under any circumstances... →
metapianycist:
I suppose prisoners are not considered persons in New York City. This is horrific and inhumane.
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Strawberries. Just Strawberries.: soydulcedeleche:... →
kyssthis16:
soydulcedeleche:
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robot-heart-politics:
how-to-kiss-distinctly-american:golden-notebook:
This is such a fucking strawman. Show me a feminist who thinks women can’t be SAHMs and also be feminists. Granted, I tend to side-eye SAHMs when their kids have grown up beyond kindergarten age. But who cares what I think? I certainly don’t think it makes such a woman...
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7 year old transgender boy isn't being allowed to...
faeryonwheels:
http://www.change.org/petitions/allow-transgender-students-to-use-the-bathroom-at-school-too If you can sign this that’d be lovely.
He’s been withdrawn from school because they were forcing him to use the wrong bathroom. All his classmates know him as a boy…and yet the school’s superintendent is insisting he use the girls’ room and also threatened to call Child Protective...
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karnythia:
So Jim Carrey says his video message was a joke. And you know, I believe that he thinks that it was harmless & funny or whatever. I’m sure Emma Stone will laugh it off in public too, but I’m not at all sold tat she won’t be the least bit creeped out by it. In fact I’d lay heavy odds on her finding it disturbing & making a mental note not to be alone with him. Because let’s be...
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Dear middle-aged man with the anti-Walker sign that included the word “FOOLISH” circumnavigating the Capitol at about 2pm on Thursday, August 25th:
When I saw you with your sign as I headed across the Capitol Square, I thought we had something in common. I spent almost every day at the Capitol for a month and a half, after all.
When as you passed me, you turned to me and gleefully...
Just got back.
So I was at ASA, the major sociology conference in North America, from Friday through yesterday. I am guessing I will not make it through the Tumblr backlog.
Also, my husband went grocery shopping while I was gone but apparently under the assumption that I was never coming home, because there are no me-friendly foods anywhere to be found.
I want Taco Bell but I do not feel capable of making it...
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Smart Bitches, Trashy Books | Johanna Lindsey:... →
consequencefree:
Nostalgia alert!! I spent my high school years addicted to Johanna Lindsey novels. My friend Lisa and I found Warrior’s Woman abandoned by the side of the path at Girl Scout camp (apparently, it was a good way for some Girl Scout leader to unwind after a day of dealing with 12-year-olds?), and I was hooked. I could never go back and read it now, mostly likely, because the...
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Why my friend's pregnancy doesn't bother me.
robot-heart:
in-fucking-fertility:
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Smug preggos, guys. I was telling a work friend the other day that I find the belly rubbing habit of pregnant women irrationally furious-making, and when she asked why, I couldn’t put my finger on it. This is so it. It’s such a smug, “look at my belly” move! Even if it’s just really sort of an absent-minded, holy-shit-my-belly-is-a-beach-ball thing,...
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Surprise court hearing for "West Memphis 3" spurs...
alierakieron:
A judge has called a surprise hearing for Friday concerning three men - known as the West Memphis Three - convicted of “satanic” killings in 1993 of three 8-year-old Cub Scouts in Arkansas.
The announcement on Thursday fueled speculation among supporters that the hearing could mean good news - including a new trial and possible release from prison - for those who believe the...
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“When a story becomes a hit, it’s because it’s struck a particular chord. And one...”
– Why “The Help’s” critics are all wrong - The Help - Salon.com
Except that the best-selling success of the book was largely built on the fact that its whitewashed story line was acceptable to and embraced by white women, and because the story isn’t so much about black women (whom white audiences...
aboyscoutandabrownie:
Me: “Oh, huh. UW has a graduate program in linguistics.” Janna: “…Biscuits?” Me: “Yes. I’m gonna be a doctor of biscuits.”
This UW?
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“One reason we struggle with insecurity: we’re comparing our behind the scenes to...”
– Steven Furtick (via eatingelephants)
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How to Be a Friend to Trans Folks Without Putting...
kiriamaya:
This goes out to all the cis people who, it’s quite obvious, want to help and befriend trans people, but who keep alienating and angering us instead. I’ve seen the befuddled looks on your faces when this happens, and I thought I’d try to clear a few things up for you. Let’s look at some common scenarios in which well-meaning cis people screw up with the whole pro-trans thing, and look...
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Born This Way, and Reborn That Way: why are we, in...
maishaparadox:
In the LGB and sometimes T and Q world, there is a rhetoric of identity stasis: I’ve always been this way. I was born gay and I will always be gay. It’s an understandable reaction to the dismissive phrase so often lobbed at us from the normative world: it’s just a phase.
It’s just a phase and its companions you’ll grow out of it and I felt the same way when I was your age are...
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Plan on circumcising your child-with-penis? →
lyssamae:
iwillnotshavemyvagina:
elliebuzz:
blackenedbutterfly:
iwillnotshavemyvagina:
Here are some facts regarding circumcision that most parents are unaware of, and some websites and many physicians fail to mention. We thought you should know them.
About 117 infants-with-penis die each year in the United States as a result of their circumcision, most from infections or blood...
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“In the absence of doctors’ records, it can never be known how many babies died...”
– Wednesday Geek Woman: Frances Oldham Kelsey, FDA reviewer of thalidomide | Geek Feminism Blog (via mooserrific)
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http://jadelyn.tumblr.com/post/9020533767 →
thefremen:
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bogarts:
I just gotta say, there is nothing scarier than being threatened with an alternate timeline.
idk, if you said this to moffat he would probably base an entire pointless season around it and your unborn/born fairy…
My mother IS pro-choice, and had exercised her options fully in the past. The fact that she kept me, despite me being an...
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“We must make it clear that a platform of ‘I hate gay men and women’ is not a way...”
– Jimmy Carter, relevant now more than ever. (via gaywrites)
Jimmy Carter is so BAMFY, it hurts. There’s also this. (from 2009):
Former President Jimmy Carter issued a statement Sunday announcing he is severing all ties with the Southern Baptist Church due to their treatment of women. A devout... 