May 2011
When someone wakes me up:
rape and domestic violence are hate crimes against...
Prader scale for genital variation →
iwillnotshavemyvagina:
The Prader scale is often used to describe what a baby’s external genitals look like. At one end of the scale, the genitals look like a typical girl’s. At the other end, they look like a typical boy’s. In between, there are variations on these patterns. If a baby has a uterus and vagina, the place where the vagina opens may vary.
SEX AS A SPECTRUM! SEX AS A SPECTRUM! I...
April 2011
the prader scale is cool, but...
iwillnotshavemyvagina:
if they (the team of doctors who assign gender in ever hospital) deem you “too small” to be a boy, but “too big” to be a girl, they cut off part of the phallus to make you a “real girl” which is basically genital mutilation. they cut off lots of nerve endings and these girls can never achieve an orgasm in some cases. Some of these babies are just plain intersexed and...
Ending Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and... →
President Obama believes that advancing the human rights of minorities and the marginalized is a fundamental American value. The President was pleased to announce during his trip to Brazil that he and President Rousseff agreed to promote respect for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals through the establishment of a special rapporteur on LGBT issues at the...
Women and sports don't mix
notsexistbut:
I know! They should be talking about makeup or clothes or something.
Oh don’t worry, you don’t sound a little sexist.
Women are such a drag.
Status 1: I’m not sexist … but hearing girls talk about football is just plain weird. Status 2: I’m sorry to sound a little sexist, but unless they were very very very very very scripted, women should not cut promos in wrestling …...
“They should have fired them all - and then one lil old woman gets up and has to...”
– My mother, while we’re chatting about the transgender woman who was beaten at McDonalds. (via peecharrific)
Today in Women's History: Carol Burnett, an... →
todayinwomenshistory:
Carol Burnett’s parents were alcoholics, and her earliest memories are of their screaming, drunken fights. Her father abandoned the family when she was eight, and she and her mother moved in with Burnett’s loving but eccentric maternal grandmother, a hypochondriac subject to “hissy fits.” Burnett’s mother soon faded from the family into the bottle, leaving Burnett to...
“I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I...”
– Bruce Lee (via oceanofmind)
Artists: Ella Amitay Sadovsky.
wetbehindthears:
via.
“Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go...”
– (via starrlitlove)
“My views are that people do not “lose their virginity”. Sex is not a dryer and...”
– sexisbeautiful (via harrypitts)
i feel like i should quote myself more often. but chloe did it for me so that’s cool too :)
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor...”
– Frederick Douglass (via brandibates) 