lacigreen:

a simple concept that a surprising number of people don’t understand.

Source:erinadavidsonserious

European Member of Parliament Takes Her Baby To Work……
Licia Ronzulli, an MEP from Italy, took her seven-week old daughter Victoria to work at the European parliament this week at Strasbourg.She kept her baby carefully cradled against her in a sling and occasionally leant to kiss her on the forehead. Photographs of Ronzulli cradling her daughter in a sling as she voted on proposals to improve women’s employment rights were broadcast around the world and published in newspapers from the US to Vietnam.

A very powerful image. Women’s employment rights are pretty dismal, especially here in the states, especially when it comes to family and maternity leave.

Source:cresscross


“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”.”
— (via buildingmosaicsoutoflife)

stfusexists:

I, and many mothers of my generation, thought that when our daughters came of age, they would enter a world of unprecedented equality, with autonomy over their own bodies and life choices, and the guarantee they would be paid according to their value in the workplace, not by virtue of their genitalia. So how does reality stack up to that twenty-year-old belief?

To borrow from a movie title from those early 90s, reality bites. Not only haven’t rights and opportunities for women in this country improved, they are on the decline. The world our daughters are inheriting looks like the one in which our mothers or even our grandmothers came of age. In 2011, the year my daughter graduated from college, state legislatures enacted 83 laws to restrict or even eliminate access to abortions. In the first three months of 2012, 944 bills were introduced in state legislatures related to reproductive health and rights, targeting access to birth control as well as abortions.

Not content to limiting their attacks on women to the female body, several states have moved onto the workplace, with Wisconsin Republicans leading the charge to eviscerate federal statutes, including the 2009 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, that require equal pay for equal work.

—Thoughts For Our Daughters (and Sons) On Mother’s Day


“Men have called me a man-hater, a feminazi, frigid, a bitch… but in my mind it always translates to, “you don’t need me to validate your existence, and that scares me.”
—

Heartless Bitches International 

Always Reblog.

(via thenewwomensmovement)

always, always reblog


“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.”
— http://www.dressaday.com/2006/10/you-dont-have-to-be-pretty.html (via fuckyeahfeminists)

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Kolkata, India: Supporters of the All India Mahila Sanskritik Sanghathan (AIMSS) protest violence and political attacks against women and girls. April 16, 2012

Photos by  Ajanta Sinha Ghosh

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“So how is it that a girl like you is single?”

stfuhypocrisy:shakethecobwebs:hot-stickysweet:

Translation: “I subscribe to the patriarchal notion that a woman’s primary goal in life is to secure a man, and that her time is occupied with little other than trying to do so. You possess at least minimally adequate physical characteristics to please most shallow males like myself, and thus I feel compelled to inquire as to what must naturally be wrong with you. Please smile and act as if you are charmed by my back-handed compliment.”

See also:

  • “How has a guy not snagged you already?”

Maybe because I am an active participant in who I choose to love or sleep with and it’s not as simple as some guy claiming me as his own. Yuck.

Anytime anyone asks me that, I always say, “because everyone pisses me off”.

barackobama:

Old sign, still-relevant message.

Be a part of President Obama’s work for more progress.

Source:barackobama

“Fuck these patriarchal beauty standards”. I hear you loud and clear, but women wearing pink and glitter and heels are not the enemy. And believe it or not, a whole bunch of women LIKE wearing that shit. We are not dumb, less feminist or watered down because of it. A long time ago when I was in undergrad I walked up to my feminist friends sitting in the grass and they started talking about my pink backless shirt and how their own clothes weren’t so “cutesy,” then it got awkward so I left and one of them said “see you later Blossom”. Do you remember that show? I loved it. But that’s not the point. The point is that my “friend” snuck a little snide comment in front of our all of our other friends simply because I like dressing up. And that was at least 8 years ago and I still remember everything about that day. Feminism is not about laughing at other girls and making them feel insecure. Especially over something as trivial as clothes. Remember you are pro-choice. Respect my choice to wear booty shorts.”
—

Lamesha, Grrrl Perspective (via tulletulle)

i’m terrified of booty shorts but this resonates anyway

(via methodistcoloringbook)


3dela:

Feminist Photo Shoot, Part II

Source:3dela

“One of the most important lessons white feminists learned from the work of feminists of color in the 1980s was that oppression — women’s oppression — always exists along multiple axes simultaneously. Feminists must therefore take racism and classism as central features of women’s oppression — not as add-ons that can be considered after the “real” challenges of “women’s” oppression have been met.”
— Lisa Heldke, “Let’s Cook Thai: Recipes for Colonialism” (via yesalltheposts)

Feminist snark, 1915 style

Source:anarchistsoup