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Queer representation in children's media

Fri, 04 May 2012 12:57:05 -0400

Queer representation in children's media:

[TW: rape (mentioned in missveryvery’s commentary)]

missveryvery:

zumie-monster:

There’s something really screwed up about the way we talk about queer representation in children’s media.

In the U.S. culture at least, there’s this instantaneous association of queer people with sex….

"Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining..."

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:40:14 -0400

“Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy. In the way my body stretches to music and opens into response, hearkening to its deepest rhythms, so every level upon which I sense also opens to the erotically satisfying experience, whether it is dancing, building a bookcase, writing a poem, examining an idea.”

- Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power (via fuckmedapperqueer)

fuckmedapperqueer: vintagesevensisters: “Mount Holyoke -...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:37:19 -0400

fuckmedapperqueer:

vintagesevensisters:

“Mount Holyoke - students dancing in circles on Pageant Green, 1921”

(submitted by ani)

Obvs this is what we do all day everyday.

Hypersexualization in the Media

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:30:30 -0400

Hypersexualization in the Media

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out..."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:28:04 -0400

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

- Émile Zola (via libraryland)

whoneedsfeminism: My daughters should not have a truck grabbed...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:24:24 -0400

whoneedsfeminism:

My daughters should not have a truck grabbed out of their hands by an adult and handed to a male cousin because, “This is a boy toy anyway.”

My son shouldn’t be ridiculed because his favorite color is pink.

"Why should women be paid equal to men? Men have been in the working world a lot longer and deserve..."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:23:41 -0400

“Why should women be paid equal to men? Men have been in the working world a lot longer and deserve to be paid at a higher rate. Heck, I’m a working mom and I’m not paid a dime. I depend on my husband to provide for me and my family, as should most women… and if a woman does work, she should be happy just to be out there in the working world and quit complaining that she’s not making as much as her male counterparts. I mean really, all this wanting to be equal nonsense is going to be detrimental to the future of women everywhere. Who’s going to want to hire a woman, or for that matter, even marry a woman who thinks she is the same, if not better than a man at any job. It’s almost laughable. C’mon now ladies, are you with me on this?”

- Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney

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no, ann. we aren’t with you on this.

(via montagues)

I had to google this quote to make sure it was legitimate because it seems so far fetched that I thought that it was made up.

(via knals)

Did someone invent a time machine, go back in time, take Ann Romney out from the 1700’s and bring her to 2012?

(via farfromthepacific)

I never really gave Ann too much thought, but now my mind is all made up. GTFO

(via awoller)

is this real life? seriously?

*this isn’t real. here’s the correction post from the vancouver sun.*

(via thingsineverneeded)

kaiakush: A very inspiring video about how graffiti is a new...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:21:48 -0400

kaiakush:

A very inspiring video about how graffiti is a new concept to Afghanistan and how art can be used as an instrument to implement change on society and to empower women. Shes amazing, lovely soul.

“Womens issues are always on my mind, so i try to reflect their problems. Even if i can change 1% of peoples thoughts its something.”

"You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers,..."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:14:26 -0400

“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.”

- http://www.dressaday.com/2006/10/you-dont-have-to-be-pretty.html (via fuckyeahfeminists)

symmetrism: Art’s great nudes have gone skinny Italian artist...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:28:12 -0400

Botticelli's The Birth of Venus

Cabanel's The Birth of Venus

Velazquez's Rokeby Venus

Ingres's Venus Anadyomene

Bronzino's Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time

Titian's The Venus of Urbino

Gentileschi's The Sleeping Venus

symmetrism:

Art’s great nudes have gone skinny

Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has created a visual re-imagination of historic nude paintings, had the subjects conformed their bodies to what the 21st century considers an ideal of beauty. The results are revealing—and quite shocking in what they say about the modern attitude toward women’s bodies.

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Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:27:43 -0400

Girls going wild in red light district

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:21:08 -0400

Girls going wild in red light district

polish artist erwina ziomkowska has taken used shoes and given...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:34:37 -0400

polish artist erwina ziomkowska has taken used shoes and given them a new purpose. two kilograms (four and a half pounds) of pins are hammered into high heels, visually communicating the pain women sometimes put themselves through to fit the societal definition of beauty. the heads of the pins give the surface a reflective quality and texture, however, on the inside, the repetition of sharp points render the shoes unwearable.

"As you almost definitely know by now, Rush Limbaugh made waves last week with his ridiculously..."

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:49:21 -0400

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As you almost definitely know by now, Rush Limbaugh made waves last week with his ridiculously absurd characterization of women who want their insurance to cover their birth control as sluts and prostitutes who should be obligated to film pornos for him. This prompted a lot of people to demonstrate the incorrectness of this statement; the #iamnotaslut tweets, for example. This is all well and good, but third wave feminist that I am, I wondered: what about the people who are whores or sluts? Where does that leave them?

Allow me to tell you a story that illustrates my point. A friend of mine once made the mistake of getting into a cab that had a crazy racist for a driver, who proceeded to berate him and call him a “fucking kike.” My friend is not Jewish. Was the appropriate response, then, “oh no, ha ha, I believe this is a simple misunderstanding, sir. I am not a fucking kike, you see, but merely a gentile with a Roman nose”? No, no it was not. The appropriate response was to say “fuck you, asshole!” and get out of the cab, which is what he did. Do you see where I’m going with this?

By responding to the charge of whoredom with “no we’re not!” we degrade our fellow humans by implying that being a sex worker is bad, dirty, undesirable…all of the nasty words that have been used to keep women down for centuries. Sex workers are people too, with feelings, dreams, hobbies, etc. You might not even know it, but someone in your life could be doing sex work right now. Do you really want to risk hurting that person by arguing with Rush Limbaugh on his own horrible terms?

”

- Let’s Stop Insulting People By Comparing Them To Sex Workers (via thenewwomensmovement)

"Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on..."

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:47:02 -0400

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”

- Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (via grrrlstudies)

5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:43:35 -0400

5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women

Journalist Shocked--Shocked!--to Learn that Newspaper's Society Writer is an Active Stripper

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:25:09 -0400

Journalist Shocked--Shocked!--to Learn that Newspaper's Society Writer is an Active Stripper

"I don’t agree that sex work should be treated “like any other job” because “any other job” that is..."

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:03:14 -0500

“I don’t agree that sex work should be treated “like any other job” because “any other job” that is available to women facing multiple oppressions tend to be horrible. Sex work needs to be treated like how any job should be treated, which is with respect, dignity, and self-determination. Nobody should be forced (either by force or by economic necessity) to work in jobs that she feels is deeply dehumanizing–which for many women, though not all, include prostitution, and may include many other forms of labor.”

- Emi Koyama (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow

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Anti-Beauty: Destabilize your Femininity and Do Harm to Capitalism

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:19:35 -0500

Anti-Beauty: Destabilize your Femininity and Do Harm to Capitalism

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Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:53:38 -0500