Someone left this on the table I went to go eat at so I took it and true
Every time I see this go around, the first two paragraphs are cut. Fixing that.
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This is a piece I did for the Native show at Emily Carr.
The names written on my body are actual names for “sexy indian” costumes that can be bought online.
This piece is a visual response to when Halloween comes around again, and people feel it right to dress up as my culture in horrible old stereotypes and pass it as honouring our culture. But it doesn’t. It only adds to more to poorly represented image of Native Americans, and objectifies Native women.
I am a real Native Women and this my body and my culture. And I have a voice
Source:http://fothefox.tumblr.com/post/45737414526/this-is-a-piece-i-did-for-the-native-show-at-emily
Aminta
This is beautiful and is amazingly powerful art. Women owning their bodies of every race is so incredibly important.
[TW: Sexual Assault]
His lips crushed mine, stopping my protest. He kissed me angrily, roughly, his other hand gripping tight around the back of my neck, making escape impossible. I shoved against his chest with all my strength, but he didn’t even seem to notice. His mouth was soft, despite the anger, his lips molding to mine in a warm, unfamiliar way.
I grabbed at his face, trying to push it away, failing again. He seemed to notice this time, though, and it aggravated him. His lips forced mine open, and I could feel his hot breath in my mouth.
Acting on instinct, I let my hands drop to my side, and shut down. I opened my eyes and didn’t fight, didn’t feel… just waited for him to stop.
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Twilight: Eclipse p. 331 (Bella and Jacob’s first kiss)
This is rape culture.
Young women are taught to think of this passage - which describes sexual assault - as erotic. Young men are taught to force their will on young women, regardless of any (non)verbal cues, because sex is conquest and women are objects - not something to be done between two consenting individuals because it’s pleasurable for both people.
The most frightening thing about this excerpt is that many survivors of sexual assault who have disclosed to me describe stories that sound exactly like this one.
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The lines before that:
He still had my chin—his fingers holding too tight, till it hurt—and I saw the resolve form abruptly in his eyes.
“N—-” I started to object, but it was too late.
And after he assaulted her she punched him in the face but due to his “super human strength” she broke her hand, said “Don’t touch me!” and then:
“Just let me drive you home,” Jacob insisted. Unbelievably, he had the nerve to wrap his arm around my waist.
I jerked away from him.
And then:
When he got in the driver’s side, he was whistling.
AND THEN while he was driving:
“…There is so much I can give you that he can’t. I’ll bet he couldn’t even kiss you like that—-because he would hurt you. I would never, never hurt you, Bella.”
I held up my injured hand.
He sighed. “That wasn’t my fault. You should have known better.”
And then:
He grinned over at me. “You kissed me back.”
I gasped, unthinkingly balling my hands up into fists again, hissing when my broken hand reacted.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
“I did not.”
“I think I can tell the difference.”
“Obviously you can’t——that was not kissing back, that was trying to get you the hell off me, you idiot.”
He laughed a low, throaty laugh. “Touchy. Almost overly defensive, I would say.
I took a deep breath. There was no point in arguing with him; he would twist anything I said.
Then when she gets home, to where her father, Charlie, the police officer, is:
“Why did she hit you?”
“Because I kissed her,” Jacob said, unashamed.
“Good for you, kid,” Charlie congratulated him.
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Ok, what? I thought I was reading non-con fan fiction. That shit shows up in the published best seller?
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This is what everyone should say to combat the abuse of the term “gay”.
Now I want some of your fucking goddam delicious cookies.
(Source: raddlesnakes, via readreadrose)
The Invisible War (Kirby Dick, 2012)
Watch this, it’s on Netflix.
This was a great film. Some professors had a Q&A on it and sat on a panel and my advisor was on the panel and called the army barracks a rape camp and all the military kids in the room shit their pants.
God I love my department.
Pregnancy Coercion?
How is this something in our society? A woman, even in a loving and personal relationship is still seen as an individual who cannot make her own decisions about her body. How can that exist within a home and intimacy? Are men simply taught so much that they are the center of all things that other bodies don’t matter? WOMEN carry babies, not men. Once men go through pregnancy and child birth then I will listen to their opinions on contraception and pregnancy.
Please make sure to be aware that your body is your own and you are the one to ultimately decide what to do with it. Talk to friends and family and make sure this coercion is not happening to them.
laughingstation:
One of the BEST ad campaigns about representation I have seen.
Everyone has a backbone. Use yours.

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Language is so important. People say they are only joking or they don’t mean it but even if that’s true, your actions are still saying that these derogatory terms are OK to use in society. So stop saying them and start protecting the people.
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From Favianna Rodriguez:
Today is the 40th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision that secured a woman’s right to have an abortion. I created this image with NLIRH to say to women and Latin@s everywhere: Yo Te Apoyo. I Support You.
Please SHARE
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This Coming Election
In the United States there are many things to be concerned about in this upcoming election. There are people who believe that the economy is doomed if we support democrats. There are people who believe that getting jobs back for the people is never going to happen if we support democrats.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the only thing I have to say is that in this election, there are more important things to worry about than money and jobs. Things like human rights.
If we don’t vote correctly, women may lose rights that we have been struggling to obtain for the past 150 years or more. If we vote for the economy, we will lose the right to say what type of sex we want to have, the right to say if a rape is legitimate or not, the right to have an abortion if we chose to.
Not only women stand to lose, but minorities across the country.
How can people look to Mitt Romney and see a leader when he is supporting the very foundation that this country was built on? The idea of freedom and human rights. Human rights should not be something to be voted on because they are RIGHTS. So why don’t people see that everyone who isn’t a white man with money stands to lose way more than a job or the small fortune that they have saved. They stand to lose the ability to call themselves free.
So all you women who want to keep the few rights that you have? VOTE. Vote for the love of God and all you love.
