When we played on the dandelion hill

10th Apr 2012 | 537 notes

lipstick-feminists:

[image description: still with white text; still shows a young Hermione Granger in Hogwarts uniform, eagerly raising her hand; text reads ”Hermione was one of the only major characters to take Muggle Studies at Hogwarts & broden her intersectional analysis. She thought it’s be ‘fascinating to study them from a wizarding point of view.’”]

[image description: still with white text; still shows a young Hermione Granger in Hogwarts uniform, eagerly raising her hand; text reads ”Hermione was one of the only major characters to take Muggle Studies at Hogwarts & broden her intersectional analysis. She thought it’s be ‘fascinating to study them from a wizarding point of view.’”]

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29th Mar 2012 | 2,593 notes

What do you think street harassment is about? Sex? Benign flattery? Attraction? Women who can’t just suck it up and deal?

It’s power. Catcalls, sexist comments, public masturbation, groping, stalking and assault: gender-based street harassment makes public places unfriendly, frightening and dangerous for many girls, women, and LGBQT people.

It’s power to control public spaces. Power to alter paths. Power to shame, scare and intimidate. Power to define what is safe and what is not. It’s the power to say: “I’m entitled to touch you, comment on your body, coerce you to smile, control your movement.” Even when women perceive catcalls as flattering, they are nonetheless aware that it’s an unpredictable degree away from possible harm.

—International Anti-Street Harassment Week: 10 Things You Can Do To Stop Street Harassment (via bitterbuffalo)

(Source: tooyoungforthelivingdead, via luminosiity)

28th Mar 2012 | 27,403 notes

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28th Mar 2012 | 630 notes

hungergamestweets:

proofyouth:

Hey Racists: You guys need to learn to read. Thresh, Cinna and Rue were described as being black. Please stop being huge d-bags all over my internets. Thank you.

To Kill a Mockingbird meets To Kill a Mockingjay

27th Mar 2012 | 8,025 notes

lipstick-feminists:

“There are the occasions that men—intellectual men, clever men, engaged men—insist on playing devil’s advocate, desirous of a debate on some aspect of feminist theory or reproductive rights or some other subject generally filed under the heading: Women’s Issues. These intellectual, clever, engaged men want to endlessly probe my argument for weaknesses, want to wrestle over details, want to argue just for fun—and they wonder, these intellectual, clever, engaged men, why my voice keeps raising and why my face is flushed and why, after an hour of fighting my corner, hot tears burn the corners of my eyes. Why do you have to take this stuff so personally? ask the intellectual, clever, and engaged men, who have never considered that the content of the abstract exercise that’s so much fun for them is the stuff of my life.”

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Melissa McEwan, of course, on the terrible bargain. My life as a woman, as a queer person, as a fat person, is not your thought experiment. (via sanitywatchers)

This really struck a chord. Even my boyfriend, feminist that he is, can have this reaction when I’m in tears after an NPR story. This is my fucking life. Excuse me if I can’t remove the personal.

(via curiousgeorgiana)

I reblogged this before, but I like it a lot so I’m reblogging it again.

This whole thing is the reason why confrontations with people that I consider friends always leaves me crying. Like, I get so angry and so flustered because it’s not just some stupid game to me, like it is to them. It’s something that’s real and personal.

(via liquidiousfleshbag)

I will always reblog this.

(via loveintheshadowsistheonlykind)