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suicidewatch: Bikini Kill, 1992

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:57:23 -0400

Bikini Kill, 1992

eccellentipittori: Ho appuntamento con Verlato qui a Parma e,...

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:48:31 -0400

Ho appuntamento con Verlato qui a Parma e, come benvenuto, pubblico una delle sue Cadute più eccitanti. Nicola Verlato, Car crash 12. Olio su tela, 91x62 cm, 2013.

eirecrescent: bubblejam: The incredibly intricate and...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:41:59 -0400

eirecrescent:

bubblejam:

The incredibly intricate and captivating custom animal sculptures by Creatures From El, Ellen June.

One of my fav. artists!!! ^^

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Thu, 23 May 2013 10:41:49 -0400

"I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday."

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:39:59 -0400

““I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.””

- ― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via lavandula)

moonbrains: Friendship album, Margaret Williams, 1839, Album...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:28:44 -0400

moonbrains:

Friendship album, Margaret Williams, 1839, Album with locks of hair sewn onto the pages in loops of stylized flowers with colored drawings of flower

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Wed, 22 May 2013 20:25:48 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 20:17:57 -0400

"Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat."

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:16:56 -0400

“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat.”

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When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.

It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

(via plasticbags)

blua: Anatomical Ceramic Sculptures by Mexican artist Maria...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:12:41 -0400

blua:

Anatomical Ceramic Sculptures by Mexican artist Maria Garcia-Ibanez.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 09:41:19 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 09:41:08 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 09:20:51 -0400

yagazieemezi: This little company from Kenya makes toys from...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:20:39 -0400

yagazieemezi:

This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis

"The hardest part about rape, my friend has said, has been the silence. The rape is part of her, it..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:12:55 -0400

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The hardest part about rape, my friend has said, has been the silence. The rape is part of her, it is something she’d like to refer to casually—‘Oh yes, I learned that law term after I was raped,’ or ‘I’ve become more alert after I was raped,’ and she can’t. She has to stop herself and gauge the audience. Do they know she’s been raped? If yes, will they be able to handle the reference? If no, does she want to tell them? She is the most socially graceful person I know, but she practices in her head before she tells people. How to introduce it? How to strike the right note of seriousness without verging into the melodramatic? She doesn’t want to be seen as ‘the girl who was raped,’ but she does want people to know because it’s part of her personal experience, because there’s far too much silence already.

She doesn’t want pity. She just wants to talk about it. It is surprisingly difficult to procure this combination.

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- I’m crying because this is how I’ve felt for so long now, and I really thought that I was the only one. (via belle-de-nuit)

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Sat, 11 May 2013 20:52:52 -0400

The Rose Girl by Émile Vernon (1872-1919) - Detail

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:01:42 -0400

The Rose Girl by Émile Vernon (1872-1919) - Detail

"If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:46:40 -0400

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If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.

If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.

If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.

If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.

If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.

Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.

When people scoff at the message that we need to teach people not to rape they make the assumption that the lesson goes: “Rape is bad. Don’t do it.” That is not what the lesson looks like. The lesson, once it is adopted, will be that every single person out there, regardless of any defining personal characteristics, is a human being of value, and with a right to make their own decisions about what bodily contact to have with others. There is nothing a person can do that makes them less deserving of that right. Violating any person’s right to control the when, what and who with of their sexual interactions is wrong. Do it and you will be punished, and you will deserve it.

N.B. While not all those who are raped are women, and not all rapists are men, much less rape apologists; rape prevention myths are always targeted at women, and this post reflects this. My language in the final paragraph is very consciously gender-neutral.

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- A Short Post on Rape Prevention (via stfuconservatives)

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:21:30 -0400

"For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives an R to a movie in..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:20:43 -0400

““For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives an R to a movie in which a women is carved up by a chainsaw and an NC-17 to one that shows a woman sexually pleasured. From such ratings one might conclude that sexual violence against women is OK for American teenagers to see, but that they must be 18 to see consensual sex. What message does this send to the kids the MPAA presumably means to protect?””

- Carrie Rickey

(via fireworkselectricbright)