LRCH Feminist Alliance

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January 21 2017, 05:19 PM

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npr:

As the Women’s March on Washington has swelled in support, attracting attention and supporters in the lead-up to Saturday’s demonstrations, its name has become something of a misnomer.

Sister marches have been organized in all 50 states, and in countries around the world. They have been organized to express solidarity with the aims of the original march: opposition to President Trump’s agenda, and support of women’s rights and human rights in general.

Given the quirks of time zones, many of those marches kicked off before the event that inspired them. In Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Bangkok, Delhi, Cape Town, and other cities, protesters have already broken out their signs and pink hats in solidarity.

Women’s Marches Go Global: Postcards From Protests Around The World

Photos: Getty Images

January 14 2017, 02:24 PM

savedbythe-bellhooks:
“ savedbythe-bellhooks:
“ LOL HAPPY 2016, EVERYBODY.
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
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UGHHHH HAPPY 2017, EVERYBODY
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savedbythe-bellhooks:

savedbythe-bellhooks:

LOL HAPPY 2016, EVERYBODY. 

Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks

UGHHHH HAPPY 2017, EVERYBODY 

January 10 2017, 04:48 AM

femaleidols:

Q: How is it to be a trans person in South Korea? Have you ever suffered from prejudice? How did you deal with it?

Hanbit: When I worked as a model I lost a lot of chances of participating on auditions because I’m transexual. However, I never gave up. I believe in myself and love myself, that’s why I got this far.

Q: What message would you leave for LGBT K-pop fans?

Hanbit: Don’t hide. Love yourself and have a dream. You’ll be happy, I’m sure.

(source ; translated to english by @sunjis)

January 09 2017, 07:14 PM

January 09 2017, 02:24 PM

Female Trailblazers Who Took A Stand In 2016

npr:

nprglobalhealth:

Halima Aden, the beauty pageant contestant who wore a burkini

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Neetu, child bride turned prize-winning wrestler

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Sitawa Wafula, founder of Kenya’s first mental health hotline

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More here: http://n.pr/2i8HlPF

These women have incredible stories! -Emily 

January 08 2017, 04:48 AM

samimiro:
“Pump it up (at Clift Hotel)
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samimiro:

Pump it up (at Clift Hotel)

January 07 2017, 07:12 PM

alexisandstuff:

fuerte-como-un-molcajete:

dynastylnoire:

cosmic-noir:

Okay so I’m really excited about this!

The dream of finding a nude underwear that isn’t terrible may finally be at my very fingertips!

They’re adorable and pretty affordable, selling at $18-$22.

Check them out at www.naja.co

(Shout out to Catalina Girald & Gina Rodriguez!)

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

YES

Will never not add this commentary when I see folks post about Naja.

Support them!! They are one of the few fashion brands with a commitment not to use sweatshop labor.

In fact, the people who make their bras and panties are women! They are often single moms or heads of their household. Naja offers free assistance for education and day care for the children of the women working for them. Conversely, Victoria’s Secret used prison labor for many years. Now, they likely contract with a sweatshop or other unsafe factory facilities.

Support Naja! So they can continue to support WOC in more ways than one!

January 07 2017, 02:24 PM

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jackthebard:

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl.
There are only fake geek boys.
Science fiction was invented by a woman.

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Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

Isaac Asimov.

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

Got that?

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Originally posted by newyorkbellco

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

I CAN NEVER NOT REBLOG THIS WHEN I SEE IT

January 04 2017, 09:36 AM

glass-gun:

not your fetish