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Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists - NYTimes.com (via techladymafia)

The category “Person” is looking a little crowded…

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“Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org

And then people urge me everything is fine, of course it is, when you’re ignoring statistics that is.

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i-manface:

Circle of Health International in Austin will be distributing dignity kits (menstrual hygiene products, bras, underwear, and flashlights) tomorrow to women displaced by the storm in Moore yesterday, as well as longer term trauma care to those affected. For more information, contact Michelle Jones, COHI’s Director of Programs, at 214-676-0902 or by email at mjones@cohintl.org.

katelynnknick:

Hey guys! I am donating all proceeds from any sale on my Etsy shop to help out the Moore Tornado Relief! 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/katelynnknick

This cool chick makes cool stuff! You should check her out!

WASHINGTON — As frantic rescue missions continued Monday in Oklahoma following the catastrophic tornadoes that ripped through the state, it appeared increasingly likely that residents who lost homes and businesses would turn to the federal government for emergency disaster aid. That could put the state’s two Republican senators in an awkward position.

I’ll say. They have “repeatedly voted against funding disaster aid for other parts of the country” and have voted against increased funding for FEMA.

And need I even mention Hurricane Sandy?

But of course, when it comes to Oklahoma, which “ranks third in the nation after Texas and California in terms of total federal disaster and fire declarations”, they generally quickly appeal for more money and fast money, as long as it is “offset by cuts to federal spending elsewhere in the budget.” Because this is the perfect time to play politics with the federal budget.

I’m just repeatedly irritated and disappointed by the senators in my home state.

thedorseyshawexperience:

The Cola Road (2013)

“What if we put basic medicines in Coca-Cola crates?”

truckerwhore:

isaywesay:

1. Does the image show only part(s) of a sexualized person’s body?

BMW

2. Does the image present a sexualized person as a stand-in for an object?

Four Loko

3. Does the image show sexualized persons as interchangeable? 

Mercedes Benz

4. Does the image affirm the idea of violating the bodily integrity of a sexualized person who can’t consent?

Duncan Quinn

5. Does the image suggest that sexual availability is the defining characteristic of the person? 

American Apparel

6. Does the image show a sexualized person as a commodity that can be bought and sold?

Red Tape Shoes

I know I have posted this before, but it’s so necessary to reblog.

— Rachel Wiley (via odetothemodernman)

ftmark:

Feel free to spread widely.

Created by Living Trans Pride at Sherbourne Health Centre.

thebestworstidea:

softgore:

“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her.  She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted. 

Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly.  “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.”

This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”

this is why performance art is important

So every single person who told me ‘ignore them they’ll go away’ and ‘you can’t let them know they bothered you’ and ‘They’ll stop if they don’t see you react’ and all that bull shit, my entire school career, I want you to look good and hard at this.

I want you to think about what you said.

What you keep saying.

What you are telling your children.

You are making them powerless.