It has to be something we create and purchase for. Art by women, design by women, architecture by women, books by women, comics by women, magazines by women, and writing and art that does not support bad old stereotypes. And not just women of your own color. Trans women, LBQ women, WoallCs. Experiment. Venture. Try.
Don’t trash talk other women; talk them up. Support women who have been victimized. Don’t be part of the problem. Disagree, yes, but with respect. If other women behave badly, walk away.
/rant
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I often hear that if I really care about human equality, I shouldn’t be a feminist but rather an equalist or egalitarian, or maybe humanist.
I’d like to know more about what issues this equalist movement is working on. Can anyone name a victory for equality/justice achieved by the equalist movement please? Any cultural, political, legislative changes they’ve brought about? Any at all? Even one will do.
Thanks.
BOOM
Game of Thrones and “not all men” bullshit collide!
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And calling a black woman a terrorist when nothing could be farther from the truth is an act of discursive violence.
It is not mere hyperbole. It is not metaphor. It is an act of violence. And what we can’t have going down in Black feminism is Black women being violent with other Black women in the name of being radical.
Brittney Cooper, On bell, Beyonce’ and Bullshit, The Crunk Feminist Collective
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I think a lot of people don’t understand that when we talk about these issues—blackface, rape jokes, the appropriation of marginalized cultures, and so on—we are having an ethical conversation, not a legal one. There is no thought police. No one’s coming to your house and carting you off to Insensitivity Prison. But you, as a person living on this planet, get to make a choice whether you want to hurt people or help people. Whether you want to listen or shut people out. I can’t imagine why you’d choose “defensive shithead” over “nice lady capable of empathy,” but okey dokey.
Oklahoma Governor’s Daughter Enrages Native American Protestors (via nerdymouse)
Okey dokey.
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Women of color have never had the privilege to solely focus on women’s issues.