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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:01:16 -0500

shlabam: Never hang out with anyone who says “feminist” the same way Draco Malfoy says “mudblood”.

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:57:08 -0500

shlabam:

Never hang out with anyone who says “feminist” the same way Draco Malfoy says “mudblood”.

social-darwin-awards: blonde-swanson: bebinn: How To Identify...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:29:39 -0500

social-darwin-awards:

blonde-swanson:

bebinn:

How To Identify Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Crisis pregnancy centers, or pregnancy resource centers, disguise themselves as medical facilities, but usually have no licensed doctors, nurses or counselors. They often appear under “Abortion Alternatives,” and may have names similar to abortion clinics nearby in order to confuse patients into entering their buildings instead of the real clinics.

Once you enter a CPC, their mission is to prevent you from getting an abortion at any cost. They will use misleading language, delay tactics, emotional manipulation, intimidation, and outright lies to either persuade you against abortion or to make you miss your appointment. The worst part? It’s all completely legal and funded by federal dollars.

CPCs do their best to appear as legitimate abortion clinics, so how can you tell which is which? Here is a list of red flags for CPCs:

The words “crisis” or “resource” appear in the center’s name

Their ads use language like “Pregnant & Scared?”

They offer free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds

When asked if they provide abortions or contraception, they will not give a direct answer

The waiting room has biased pamphlets, sometimes with graphic pictures labeled as abortions

They attempt to make you feel guilty about considering abortion

They offer baby items, such as diapers and formula

They downplay the effectiveness of contraception and emphasize abstinence

They emphasize the dangers of abortion (Fact: fewer than 0.3% of patients experience complications requiring hospitalization)

They discuss the false connections between abortion and breast cancer, infertility, or mental illness, often referred to as post-abortion stress syndrome

Regardless of how you talk about the pregnancy, they refer to “your baby,” the “preborn child,” “post-abortive women,” and say that you are “already a mother.”

More on CPCs

How to Identify CPCs

Beware of Fake Clinics

Crisis Pregnancy Centers: An Affront to Choice

CPC Warning Stickers

A list of licensed abortion clinics in the United States can be found on the Abortion Assistance Blog.

These places make me fucking sick. I had the joy of going to one because of a pregnancy scare once and literally burst out of the fucking office as soon as I saw half the pamphlets before anyone could talk to me. People who run these are the bottom of the fucking barrel of humanity.

I can’t believe I’ve never heard of these until now.

thisgingerisback: panserbj0rne: thisgingerisback: One of two...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:18:05 -0500

thisgingerisback:

panserbj0rne:

thisgingerisback:

One of two fake abortion clinics on the same street as the REAL center, the EMW’s Women Center here in downtown Louisville. This one is right next door to the actual clinic and this place is seriously a nightmarish hell-hole for any unsuspecting women tricked by the anti’s. They assure you this this the abortion clinic, they get you inside, and then offer you food and drink—which of course, means that once you realize your mistake, you can’t run next door and catch your actual appointment, since you need to fast.

Women have come out of this building crying, and on a few rare occasions, without their pants. They take you to a back room for an ultrasound, have you remove your pants, and then begin lecturing you on the sins of aborting. They do not give you back your pants until you have listened, and a few women tricked this far refused to listen and stormed out furious, ashamed, and in their underwear.

This is the anti-choice agenda—lying, tricking, shaming, and embarrassing women to the brink of hysterics in hopes that she carry the pregnancy to term. Forcing her, through lies and manipulation, to do with her body what THEY want, not what is best for her.

There is no “choice” at the Louisville “Women’s Choice” clinics. Just abuse, shame, and bigots who would rather undress a woman to make her feel vulnerable and then explain how awful of a person she is than let her make HER. CHOICE.

I reblogged this at first without checking if it was legit but it turns out it is legit and people need to be warned. A simple google search is all the evidence you need.

Thank you!

cavetocanvas: Susan Hiller, Ceramic Works, 2001-2002. A series...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:01:03 -0500

cavetocanvas:

Susan Hiller, Ceramic Works, 2001-2002. A series of related works, consisting of vases marked”made in GDR” or “Made in West Germany”, placed on a variety of custom supports, with texts using bronze letters recycled from Berlin tombstones.

beautifulbrwn: rosas—sylvestres: astrojhon: thinkmexican: LA...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:54:06 -0500

beautifulbrwn:

rosas—sylvestres:

astrojhon:

thinkmexican:

LA Indigenous School May Lose Its Charter Due to Arizona-Style Politics

Years ago, an elder told me that the Indigenous cultures of Abya Yala, CemAnahuac or Pachamama – the ancient cultures of this continent – do not need to be revived, because they never died. Instead, the elder said, it is we who have been severed or disconnected from those cultures.

The culture, the languages, the songs and the stories are all there – rather than revive them, we just need to access them. And equally important, we also need to create and contribute to our own cultures.

I think about that now because of two monumental educational struggles taking place in Arizona and California, both of which have been instrumental in reconnecting our communities to ancestral and living Indigenous knowledges. In both cases, the schools and programs in question continue to be under daily siege. In Tucson, the highly successful Raza Studies program has been dismantled whereas in Los Angeles, the charter for Anahuacalmecac is on the verge of being revoked.

Read more at Truthout

For more information on Anahuacalmecac, visit their website: Dignidad.org

Sign Petition

Sign the petition! It is truly a wonderful place. Even though some people may have their issues with charters, the group of kids who do have the opportunity to attend this school are learning about their stories and knowledges that come from different indigenous peoples (of course along side the general education that all schools teach).

My mom got a shitty education, and even though my schooling was much better than hers, I was still forced to make construction paper feather headbands in the first grade, in addition to having no idea that those people we were mocking were people we, the class of mostly brown kids, were related to. This school is a huge stepping stone in my opinion to giving “access” (as the above quote says) to a better education and to those cultures and traditions that have existed within our pasts (and presents).

when I return to elay, this is where my future chicano children will go to school.

but they can’t if the school is closed first.

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION!!!!

loganocchio: nymeses: evilfeminist: treachherous: mylovelybri...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:00:48 -0500

loganocchio:

nymeses:

evilfeminist:

treachherous:

mylovelybrighteyes:

Good job south campus. If only these were all over the place at school #rape #sexualassault #help #911

Completely true. The hospital didn’t make me do anything that I wasn’t comfortable doing.

Rainn.org is a great way to get help after trauma

I didn’t know any of this information. :( But I’m glad I know now!!!

Signal Boost!!

mermeanie: sagethenate: apihtawikosisan: atimo-taguy: this...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 02:03:27 -0500

mermeanie:

sagethenate:

apihtawikosisan:

atimo-taguy:

this is canada, the caring and loving country, the country whose flag is accepted throughout the world, little does the world know its a shithole infested with racist trash

Meanwhile, Canadian politics are rife with corruption at such an excessive, ludicrous level that it seems like satire, but this is all just business as usual.

I mean, who wants to talk about billions of ‘lost’ money and crack-smoking mayors and an entire city (Montreal) in bed with organised crime…when it’s WHITE people?

guys this is irl

there are genuinely evil little fucks like this who know 2 thing maybe less about natives

white people this is why nobody trusts you

and now in breaking news, they may have found Amelia Earharts plane using sonar, they have been searching for this 1 white woman for decades and yet they can't be bothered to even open their note books to write down the names of the 600+ Native women that have gone missing and some are very recent

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:38:51 -0500

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"What makes the non-South Asian person’s use of the bindi problematic is the fact that a pop star..."

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:11:23 -0500

““What makes the non-South Asian person’s use of the bindi problematic is the fact that a pop star like Selena Gomez wearing one is guaranteed to be better received than I would if I were to step out of the house rocking a dot on my forehead. On her, it’s a bold new look; on me, it’s a symbol of my failure to assimilate. On her, it’s unquestionably cool; on me, it’s yet another marker of my Otherness, another thing that makes me different from other American girls. If the use of the bindi by mainstream pop stars made it easier for South Asian women to wear it, I’d be all for its proliferation — but it doesn’t. They lend the bindi an aura of cool that a desi woman simply can’t compete with, often with the privilege of automatic acceptance in a society when many non-white women must fight for it.””

- Jaya Bedi quoted by Racialicious in “Friday Foolishness: Selena Gomez Is Wearing A Bindi?”

via End Colonial Mentality

(via decolonizebellydance)

fartgallery: How to make an unrebloggable read more: Send yourself an ask In the typing box thingy,...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:55:27 -0500

fartgallery:

How to make an unrebloggable read more:

Send yourself an ask

In the typing box thingy, type [[.MORE]] (without the period)

This makes anything underneath that text part of a read more, so write anything you want! People can like and comment on it but they won’t be able to reblog it

Congratulate yourself for beating the system

julipinup: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARILYN MONROE | june 1, 1926 -...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:29:19 -0500

julipinup:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARILYN MONROE | june 1, 1926 - august 5, 1962

“I’m 36 years old. I don’t mind the age. I like the view from here. The future is here for me, and I have to make the most of it - as every woman must. So when you hear all this talk of how tardy I am, of how often it seems that I make people wait, remember - I’m waiting too, I’ve been waiting all my life.” - Marilyn Monroe

“She worked so hard. She wanted to do everything right. She never hurt anybody. When I was with her, she was the kindest, sweetest person to everyone on the set.” - George Barris

“She listens, wants, cares. I catch her laughing across a room and I bust up. Every pore of that lovely translucent skin is alive, open every moment - even though this world could make her vulnerable to being hurt. I would rather work with her than any other actress. I adore her.” - Montgomery Clift

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Poarch Creek Student Fined for Wearing Eagle Feather at Graduation

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:13:40 -0500

Poarch Creek Student Fined for Wearing Eagle Feather at Graduation:

red3blog:

jhameia:

Native American student is fined and denied her diploma after wearing an eagle feather on her cap at graduation from a school in Alabama.

via IAmNotAMascot

For all the white hipsters who get huffy about how they don’t get to wear headdresses when really they are just whining about not getting to wear headdresses without getting shit for it… THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE IS WHY. Because it is all kinds of fucked up to appropriate someone’s culture while people FROM that culture have not just been historically punished for expressing their culture, but often face active and contemporary harassment. Your penalty for wearing an Eagle feather is getting called out and being seen as an insensitive asshole. This young woman’s penalty is having her high school diploma ransomed for $1,000.

my-little-underground: John Waters and his burning cop car...

Fri, 31 May 2013 12:00:59 -0500

my-little-underground:

John Waters and his burning cop car pillow. Made for him by his mother.

Listen/purchase: prohomo by FUCKING DYKE BITCHES till we can...

Thu, 30 May 2013 12:01:14 -0500

Listen/purchase: prohomo by FUCKING DYKE BITCHES

till we can exist beyond
your stupid fucking binary
till we stop the governments ability
to regulate our body identities
till my family can say
that i’m gay and that’s okay

It Ain’t Over x4

till we are respected for changing
pronouns and or gender
till schools take responsibility
for queers who are bullied
till i don’t have to answer questions
“so like you only sleep with women”

It Ain’t Over x4

gotta resist gotta
support each other

It took thousands of years to create
a society that perpetuates phobias & hate
But it won’t take so long to destroy
it’s structures, standards, and traditions.
So we gotta resist gotta support each other

It Ain’t Over x4

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Wed, 29 May 2013 12:01:17 -0500

pozliving: So true.

Tue, 28 May 2013 12:01:03 -0500

pozliving:

So true.