November 2009
“Everyone has heard a story of a birth where the perineum was “tight” and just...”
– Radical Midwife (via guerrillamamamedicine)
“Is this the best we can do? Forcing people to buy private health insurance,...”
– Dennis Kucinich (via azspot) (via bmckinney) (via amberlrhea)
“When men focus on their urge to punish the rapist with their bare hands, instead...”
– Kate Harding, Not That You Asked: Some Advice For An Advice Columnist - cary tennis - Jezebel (via igather)
Reblogged for motherfucking TRUTH. And my bolding/emphasis added.
(via amberlrhea)
“There can be a kind of chauvinism in feminism. It shows up in a silence on the...”
– Oppression is a Trauma: Beyond Rape « Reconcile (via guerrillamamamedicine)
October 2009
“When people say universal they mean white people get it.”
– Sherman Alexie
“Lately I feel like somebody made a big mess and I’ve got my mop and I’m mopping...”
– President Obama via Reuters (via amazingamanda) (via sunnynsassy) (via fishy) (via quote-book) (via pabloneruda) (via boulevardiers) (via ma-salaama) (via somerset)
A socialist mop!
(via amberlrhea)
“Umpteen discussions of humorless feminazis have led me to believe that the...”
– Anna N. @ Jezebel (via procrastinatrix) (via historicupstart) (via somerset)
Ha!
(via amberlrhea)
“too many people in the u.s. support death and destruction without being aware of...”
– assata shakur, ‘assata:an autobiography’ (via gypsyriot) (via y0cupcake) (via parisdenise) (via drinkyourlavendersoda) (via guerrillamamamedicine)
Even many who are aware choose to ignore it. The fights that I have had with my mother in law over just these things is epic. I have lost friends over...
champagnecandy:
mollycrabapple:
I love love love projects like these. When I was a wee punkling, DIY guides were my obsession, and I credit them with the rather unconventional way my life turned out. This NEEDS to be funded.
awesome.
“5:30 p.m.: Sit next to the most attractive guy I can find on the train. No...”
– The Software Analyst Who Prefers Men Who Don’t Inform Her of Their Asian Fetishes. Dr. Sidd is no fan of anyone who uses the word “ugh”. (via siddman)
i am not a fan of people who discriminate against comic book readers! omg single, hot, and dorky??? be still my beating heart!
(via isabelthespy)
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“So–what does a boy/man do when he sees/hears something like this happening? How...”
– flip flopping joy » opting out of masculinity through rape
Post on the gang rape of the 15 year old girl in Richmond, CA.
“The thing is, these people who committed this crime are not “animals”,...”
– Comment here on the high-school gang rape in California. (via katoleary) (via krankmills) (via robot-heart-politics) (via bmckinney) (via amberlrhea)
Yes, and this is exactly why I didn’t even bother to post the story to the Current Events board I frequent, because all I would read over and...
Social workers remove new-born baby from obese... →
guerrillamamamedicine:
mamitamala:
Esta mujer has had multiple children taken away after she sought help. This is why many mothers do not seek help, cuz the system seems to think that help means legally kidnapping children.
