Art by Red

why do you live in your body like you will be given another? as if it were temporary. you starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. tell it that should be completely different. you tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. you fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?

— warsan shire  (via warsanshire)

(Source: chubby-angel)

Reblogged 2 months ago from occupiedmuslim (Originally from daddys--little--angel) 17,389 notes
A racist woman is not a feminist; she doesn’t care about helping women, just the women who look like her and can buy the same things she can. A transphobic woman is not a feminist; she is overly concerned with policing the bodies and expressions of others. A woman against reproductive rights — to use bell hook’s own example, and an issue close to your heart — is not a feminist; she prioritizes her dogma or her disgust over the bodies of others. An ableist woman is not a feminist; she holds some Platonic ideal of what a physically or mentally “whole” person should be and tries to force the world to fit inside it.

— An Open Letter to Caitlin Moran by Nyux (via redefiningbodyimage)

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Petticoat Ruler: manhating-babyeater: Hi. I’m a disabled woman and I’m trying to get... →

manhating-babyeater:

Hi. I’m a disabled woman and I’m trying to get health insurance so I can get the care that I need and hopefully be able to work again so I can support myself.

I found out I can get health insurance through the University I attend for like $950 per term. Would anyone be willing to donate and/or reblog this so I can raise money? I need $950 by April 1st.

I have endometriosis which makes me bed ridden most of the day due to back and stomach problems. The gynecologist I talked to wanted me to get an IUD but I can’t do that right now because of my PTSD that was worsened when I was sexually assaulted a year ago. And also I’m afraid anyways because I’ve gone completely crazy when I’ve been on birth control in the past. I’m considering going in for a laparoscopy which is a type of mild surgery and would be a way for me to get treatment without having to take hormones. 

but basically, I need insurance so I can talk to professionals and figure out what my options are and how to get better.

anyways, a big thanks to anyone who can donate and/or reblog <3

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moniquill: This is how racism starts. This is how stereotypes are formed in the minds of children. This is the start of the path that ends with hipsters in war bonnets frolicking in fields half-naked, carrying bottles of booze and getting self-righteously angry (And refusing to learn. And continuing to be angry) when they’re confronted. When you only speak about Native American people in the past tense, in certain contexts. When you only mention them as pertains to White history. When you depict them in stereotypical ways. This is how it starts. Depictions like this are hurtful.  Teaching your child that this is what they should think of when they hear ‘Native American’ HURTS REAL NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE. It creates, in the mind of your child, a stereotype, a caricature, of what Native people do/should look like that erases us in reality and removes us from their perception of the modern world. It turns ‘Native American’ into someone wearing beads and headbands and feathers and face paint. It turns an ethnic, racial identity into a costume. Here’s a quick checklist for whether it’s ok to wear a war bonnet: Was it placed onto your head by an elder/legitimate authority figure from a select number of plains nations because you personally achieved something so great that it is worthy of that kind of honor? (corrolary: If yes to the above, are you currently wearing it in an appropriate ceremonial fashion/setting? Like are you at a powwow or speaking with the president?) If you answered ‘no’ then IT IS NOT OK. Any more than it would be ok to buy a decorated veteran’s purple heart that he had to pawn and put -that- on for a sexy/edgy/hip photo shoot. It’s that kind of disrespect, on top of the slap in the face that is cultural appropriation in general. This is a fucking terrible thing to be doing to your child. There are so many cute, beautiful, non-hurtful ways you could have inducted this child into Modern American Tattoo culture. Maybe try a fucking mermaid or something next time.

moniquill:

This is how racism starts.

This is how stereotypes are formed in the minds of children.

This is the start of the path that ends with hipsters in war bonnets frolicking in fields half-naked, carrying bottles of booze and getting self-righteously angry (And refusing to learn. And continuing to be angry) when they’re confronted.

When you only speak about Native American people in the past tense, in certain contexts. When you only mention them as pertains to White history. When you depict them in stereotypical ways. This is how it starts.

Depictions like this are hurtful.  Teaching your child that this is what they should think of when they hear ‘Native American’ HURTS REAL NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE. It creates, in the mind of your child, a stereotype, a caricature, of what Native people do/should look like that erases us in reality and removes us from their perception of the modern world. It turns ‘Native American’ into someone wearing beads and headbands and feathers and face paint. It turns an ethnic, racial identity into a costume.

Here’s a quick checklist for whether it’s ok to wear a war bonnet:

Was it placed onto your head by an elder/legitimate authority figure from a select number of plains nations because you personally achieved something so great that it is worthy of that kind of honor? (corrolary: If yes to the above, are you currently wearing it in an appropriate ceremonial fashion/setting? Like are you at a powwow or speaking with the president?)

If you answered ‘no’ then IT IS NOT OK.

Any more than it would be ok to buy a decorated veteran’s purple heart that he had to pawn and put -that- on for a sexy/edgy/hip photo shoot. It’s that kind of disrespect, on top of the slap in the face that is cultural appropriation in general.

This is a fucking terrible thing to be doing to your child.

There are so many cute, beautiful, non-hurtful ways you could have inducted this child into Modern American Tattoo culture. Maybe try a fucking mermaid or something next time.

(Source: shessovain)

Reblogged 2 months ago from creepingfeminism (Originally from shessovain) 1,636 notes