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My name is: Michelle, but most people call me Dark online.
My gender-pronouns are: They/them/their.
I am: 26 years old, a feminist, liberal, an atheist, an omnivore, and an ISFJ.
The Feminist: Intersectional, body positive, pro-choice, and sex positive.
My privileged identities include: Female assigned at birth (trans* privilege), white, able-bodied, allistic (?), dyadic, monogamous.
My non-privileged/oppressed identities include: Gender-fluid, fat, gray-a, neuroatypical, and gay.
I have: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder.
I like: Pets & animals, animal welfare, pet care & pet care education, ~*SCIENCE!*~, anatomy & physiology, roleplaying, anime/manga, computer & video games, rock & metal music.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The freedom to kill, maim, commit wanton acts of violence, and to be anti-social (as well as pathological) without having your actions reflect on your own racial group, is one of the ultimate, if not in fact most potent, examples of White Privilege in post civil rights era America. Instead of a national conversation where we reflect on what has gone wrong with young white men in our society—a group which apparently possesses a high propensity for committing acts of mass violence—James Holmes will be framed as an outlier. That is a mighty comfort to have—all of one’s deficiencies are ignored as those of an individual; all of one’s abilities and gifts are taken as positive attributes and credits to one’s race.
What is more troubling than this oddly timed debate about birth control is the vehemence with which I have seen women needing to justify or explain why they take birth control—health reasons, to regulate periods, you know, as if there’s anything wrong with taking birth control simply because you want to have sex without that sex resulting in pregnancy. In certain circles, birth control is being framed as whore medicine so we are now dealing with a bizarre new morality where a woman cannot simply say, in one way or another, “I’m on the pill because I like dick.
- Roxane Gay The Alienable Rights Of Women - The Rumpus.net (via rachelfershleiser)
Chicago Abortion Fund to host 4th Annual Bowl-A-Thon
The Chicago Abortion Fund will be hosting its 4th Annual Bowl-A-Thon fundraising event on Saturday, April 21st. The National Network of Abortion Funds and other abortion funds nationwide will be sponsoring this event.
Chicago Abortion Fund’s 4th Annual Bowl-A-Thon
Saturday, April 21stTimber Lanes Bowling Alley1851 W. Irving Park Road2:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Continue reading on Examiner.com Chicago Abortion Fund to host 4th Annual Bowl-A-Thon - Chicago Feminism
The Big Business moneytrail behind fat shaming and anti-obesity
This is a very good article. An excerpt:
But weight loss products and schemes have an added bonus. When faced with the obvious indications that the products and services DO NOT WORK, the consumer blames him or her self. Yep the consumer, not the product, is blamed.
This is why weight loss schemes are a capitalism wet dream. Theshame and stigma sells. Allergan just succeeded in expanding its market 173.33% because the fear of fat is so pervasive and the blame of fat people for their fatness is just as pervasive.
The money shows us that weight loss is big business and that when money is involved, media and government tread lightly in attacking or restricting that big business.
Allergan uses the stigma, shame and fear of being fat and/or relies upon the unrealistic expectations of “normality” to promote the surgery that uses their device. The money also shows us that stigma pays. The more the message that fat is bad gets out, the more likely people will continue to seek remedy through the surgery.
But the surgery doesn’t solve either the health problems or the stigma and there is no financial incentive to do so. The system profits from the fact that the system doesn’t work and the consumer is blamed for the defects. Again stigma pays.
Finally, the financial, governmental or media support for scientific research that doesn’t fit the stigma or the system is withheld.
Only a savvy consumer who breaks free of the stigmatized understanding of the data can hear what the money is saying. It is time to tell the truth and not just let moneyed interest set the agenda.
(Source: metermouse)
Men, in return, thrived. The ego candy they feasted on by virtue of automatically outranking half the world’s population was only the start of it. They got full economic and social control over our bodies, our labor, our affections, and our futures. They got to make the rules, name the gods we would worship, and dictate the terms we would live under. In most cultures, they had the right to sex on demand within the marriage, and also to break their marriage vows with impunity — a luxury that would get women banished or killed. As long as pregnancy remained the defining fact of our lives, they got to run the whole show. The world was their party, and they had a fabulous time.
Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now (via janedoe225)
An absolutely fantastic article. Amazing. Please go read it.
(via missworded)
This article was incredible. Read it now, or save it for later- just make sure you read it!
(via becauseiamawoman)
