March 2011
80 posts
“Eve, who asked that we not reveal her real name or age, spent two years in...”
– Federal Civil Rights Suit Challenges Louisiana’s Felony Sex Work Law - COLORLINES (via audaciaray)
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Just changed my name at the bank
The banker was super nice! I don’t think she picked up on the fact that the name change is due to gender transition, LOL. I updated my signature, beneficiaries, got my picture taken for my new card, and applied for a credit card. It was a fun experience!
Social Security Administration name change done!
Just US State Department passport left! And about 5 million other little things… Off to the bank to change my accounts!
Intent! It's Fucking Magic! →
numol:
technicolortimecoat:
Love this.
Also, from the comments:
An acquaintance of mine, just after going off on a tangent about how curing autism was bad and having me give input, said, after I walked just a few paces away, that he thought autism was caused by “flawed genes.” In that remark, the point is missed entirely. Ever since genes were discovered, several members of minority groups...
Obama Files More Anti-Leaker Cases in 2 Years than... →
thedailycaveat:
Continuing their…complicated relationship with whistleblowers.
Since taking office, President Barack Obama’s Department of Justice has filed criminal charges in five separate cases involving unauthorized distribution of classified national security information to the media. Before Obama, the government prosecuted a total of three cases during the previous 40 years.
“Additionally, white activism, especially white anti-racism, is predicated on an...”
– Kil Ja Kim, White Anti-Racist Is An Oxymoron: An Open Letter to “White Anti-Racists”.
Fascinating read.
(via thesadnessofpencils)
I highly, highly recommend this to, well, just about anyone. It is a very true, powerful, and highly relevant piece of writing. And it’s very relevant to so many of...
“Many abolitionists insist that the sex industry perpetuates the idea that women...”
– Selling Sex: How Abolitionist Feminists Hurt Sex Workers | Conducive Chronicle (via workingsex)
The basic assumption behind the sentiment that the buying and selling of sex is the same as the buying and selling of sex workers is itself deeply dehumanizing and misogynist (when applied to...
ladyofleisuredc asked: That is not bananas. They're plantains.
Re: feminismisforlovers/trigger warnings
humorlessfeminist:
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
I hadn’t seen their response so just went to look. Wow. I’m fucking appalled.
(for those who don’t know, [TRIGGER WARNING, obviously] they posted a really fucking graphic image of a woman whose body was covered in burns with a captioned link to a petition about corrective rape; I called them out on it and this was their response:
It’s a fact in our...
**Possible trigger - rape apology**Your whole... →
thefuror:
stfufauxminists:
fucknorapeculture:
The study asked students:
Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn’t want to because a man gave you alcohol or drugs?
An affirmative answer was counted as rape. In other words, a women who regretted a one night stand after a night of drinking was considered as having been sexually…
What the actual fuck. Concern trolling for the...
A chat between Jon Stewart and the Republican...
STEWART: I assume you're pro-life, right?
RAYGUN: Affirmative.
STEWART: All right. Obama's parents were married in Hawaii on February 2, 1961.
RAYGUN: Fine. They were married in Hawaii. But that doesn't mean he was born in the United States.
STEWART: No, but he was born August 4, 1961, to be exact -- meaning his mother was three months pregnant when she got married in Hawaii.
RAYGUN: So?
STEWART: Obama was in the United States as a fetus.
RAYGUN: Irrelevant!
STEWART: Don't you see? Either Barack Obama's an American citizen or fetuses don't count as people. Are you saying that a fetus is not a human life?
RAYGUN: No! Life begins at conception!
STEWART: So Obama's an American citizen?
RAYGUN: No!
STEWART: I'm afraid logically, you've gotta choose one.
RAYGUN: No! No! Illogical! Does not compute!!!
(RAYGUN self-destructs)
Bahahahaha!
Seriously though, the 14th amendment says "born", so it doesn't matter when life began...
The House of Representatives today voted... →
tehsunshine:
approximatelyinfinity:
gloria-in-excelsis:
HEAVEN YEAH!!
FUCK YEAH Planned Parenthood won’t be able to prevent those 291,000 abortions per year!!!
This is such a pro-life victory!!!
Why doesn’t the Constitution mean anything to these fuckers? I can’t wait for the court challenge.
Tennessee Cops Posed as a Defense Attorney To Get... →
thefuror:
evilteabagger:
It seems that in 2008, Monroe County Sheriff’s Detectives Doug Brannon and Pat Henry actually posed as a federal defense attorney in an attempt to get incriminating information out of suspect John Edward Dawson, who was in jail on a host of charges, including theft and drug distribution. Not only that, but in doing so, they also talked Dawson into refusing to...
Tina Fey, hater of sex workers, part one of... →
Y’all catch that joke on 30 Rock a couple of weeks (S05E13) ago? Jack Donaghy is in his office, mourning the change in GE ownership. “This is where we used to hold retirement parties. The balcony below is probably still littered with stripper bones.” HAR.
One of the reasons sex workers become politicized is to make ourselves visible as real people to decrease our chances of being easy...
Clarification in New York Marriage Rules for... →
Just a reminder that repealing DOMA still doesn’t clear things up… Since marriage is a state issue, we need to work on getting states to have clear guidelines on due process for marriage licenses.
Court interprets FOIA Exemption 2 narrowly →
Another strike against executive privilege. Alito, why did you have to be such a douche in your concurrence?
“If your best response to someone leaving feminism is ‘but that’s not what...”
– meloukhia (via tinyfist)
this ain't livin': Why I'm Leaving Feminism →
humorlessfeminist:
readnfight:
I’ve been accused of being a pawn to a number of conservative movements for disagreeing with some aspects of the feminist movement, but the only pawn I’ve been is a feminist one. Today, that ends.
I’m happy to work in solidarity with some of you, because I firmly believe that there are some feminists who are doing very good, important work, who are fighting to...
The editor of my film, an Arab American filmmaker,...
deafmuslimpunk:
This is so fucking horrible and disgusting: Usama Alshaibi, renowned filmmaker and artist, was ganged on by 4 white men and beaten in a hate crime.
I'm now a moderator on Ask the Lesbians!
Check it out!
http://askthelesbians.tumblr.com/
You Know You're Trans* When: #352 Looking at nude...
Plenty of cis lesbians do this too…
Ginsburg, you are awesome... →
“We’ve got a generation now who were born with semi-equality. They don’t know how...”
– Erma Bombeck (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
Umm, a few things:
This reeks of race-erasing, ableism, classism, and a whole bunch of other -isms. All women are working and have the privilege of three piece suits? Why didn’t I get the memo?
The idea that we’re just sitting here ignores...
"Hey mister mister, get your hands off my sister" →
fuckyeahfemmes:
Fuckyeahfemmes is gross and boarders on being transphobic. They posted another quote today that says “Femme is about finding a way to be a girl that doesn’t hurt”.
Makes me SO angry!! And apparently that came from a keynote address at Femme Con 2008….
I am really saddened to come online to my favourite blog and have to witness the kind of bullying and misogyny that is...
Texas Legislators Fight Back With Pointed... →
I have to tip my hat to the pro-choice members of the Texas legislature, who decided to fight absurdity with absurdity last Thursday during the debate over a law that will require any woman who wants an abortion to get an ultrasound, go home to “think” about it, and only then come back for her abortion. It’s unclear yet if she’ll be required to sit in her room and write, “I will not be a...
Circumventing DADT Repeal →
I used to be in this command. I don’t think I ever served under this douchebag. WTF?
Go, Scalia, go! Wait, WTF did I just say? →
ourcatastrophe:
disjointed thoughts around femme, partly following on from mewmewfoucault’s post on non-women’s relationship to femme, partly from other recent comments from clownyprincess and terror-incognita and ardhra on femme subcultural aesthetics, partly from other conversations years ago - femme is not a subcategory within the class “woman”, it’s another category overlapping with “woman”,...
“One of my goals in thinking about redefining the way we view relationships is to...”
– Dean Spade, http://makezine.enoughenough.org/newpoly2.html
Very hard to pick out just one quote to share. I chose this one because of recent conversations with good friends about how we are trying to create communities in which ‘romantic love’ is not considered the most important or worthy type of...
Finally! →
Party in Boston, MA, USA celebrating MA governor Deval Patrick signing executive order granting employment non-discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression to state employees and state contractors. Come on down!
look if you think that somehow your kid's going to...
blackenedbutterfly:
hey guess what you could put me in that situation that that person created in their ‘rebuttal’ and I wouldn’t feel any safer to come out to my parents
Such bullshit. Unless you’ve had to come out about something, you don’t know the sheer terror that accompanies telling something socially unacceptable to people you hold dear to you. The idea that anyone should...
dr-grumbles:
hahannahha said: You certainly left an impression on me. You inspired me to pull someone up on their genderist bullshit today. I guess some extroverted people think that introverts don’t want friends, and leaving them alone is being polite. IDK
Thank you!
I guess...
After thinking about it, maybe that person on...
thehumorlessfeminist:
-rosasparks-:
mattgorman:
Maybe the vast majority of racism I’ve seen has been against whites. Maybe that’s why a white quarterback convicted of involvement in a dogfighting ring is vilified even years after he has served his time and a black quarterback who raped a woman and has had a history of doing similar things in the past is quickly regarded as redeeming himself...
