January 2012
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“Gender essentialism is the assumption that women are naturally like this, while...”
– Jennifer Kesler, Why there will be no more gender essentialist comments allowed on this site (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
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“A recent Boise State University study of 484 heterosexual women showed that “50%...”
– Rachel Kramer Bussel (Our fantasies say less about us than we think | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk)
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I find it truly fascinating how many people assume...
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“People don’t necessarily know what they want. That’s okay. Sometimes you don’t...”
– On Good Consent, Part One | No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? (via sexisnottheenemy)
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“It’s highly flawed to talk about the impact of “pornography” on young people as...”
– Pandora Blake (porn, like sex work, defies easy generalisations | Spanked, Not Silenced)
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“Patriarchy for it’s effective exercise depends not so much on raw power or legal...”
– Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800
I’ve been researching the gender roles prevalent at the time of Milton and Aphra Behn (my dissertation topic) and this quote came up. I think it’s really fantastic.
(via feminismitmakessense)
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“Nobody in history has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense...”
– Assata Shakur (via thegoddamazon)
ALWAYS REBLOG.
(via ndnsurgency)
*not even Martin Luther King Jr.* if you really think the progress of the Civil Rights Movement was achieved solely by the moral strength of their argument, you were miseducated. you really were.
(via so-treu)
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MegaUpload is back, but without a domain name →
Not entirely certain this is for real…
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Occupy Congress on Capitol Hill is Happening Now! →
Watch the Livestream!
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“As a white person, I always saw the terms honky or cracker as proof of how much...”
– Tim Wise on reverse racism and white privilege (via fattiesoslim)
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Why Now? What's Next? Naomi Klein and Yotam Marom...
Naomi Klein is a journalist, activist and author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo. She writes a syndicated column for The Nation and The Guardian. Yotam Marom is a political organizer, educator, and writer based in New York. He has been active in the Occupy Wall Street Movement, and is a member of the Organization for a Free Society. This conversation was recorded...
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Libcom.org: Anarchism and Sex
The Anarchist Federation outline anarchist views and debates on sex and sexuality.
Anarchist views on sex can range from the idea that ‘anything goes’ between consenting adults, to the more traditional approaches of what constitutes free love between individuals. One thing these diverse opinions do have in common, however, is the idea of sexual freedom and the opposition to sexual...
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“We have this entire culture that’s telling people that there’s One Right Thing...”
– On Good Consent, Part One | No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? (via sexisnottheenemy)
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Watchhomoinmotion:
Roulette: Berlin Director: Courtney Trouble Cast: Judy Minx, Killer, Walter, Nikolaj, Blond Stud, Anja, Ju, GG, Ena USA | 2009 | 75 min Roulette: Berlin is an overseas stop in Courtney Trouble’s ongoing series of films that can only be described as “queer” — keeping in mind Trouble’s motto that “queer sex is as hard to define as it is to ignore.” Gender boundaries are fluid...
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“Fundamentally, consumerism is about being averse to power and desirous of...”
– Naked Capitalism, “A Home for All Sorts of Bircher Nonsense” (via cultureofresistance)
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“I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the...”
– Rosika Schiwner (via cultureofresistance)