At least “high class” escorts get SOME representation in the media. It’s worse for low-income sex workers.
SW12
I’ve created these flyers for a school activist project where I bring more attention to the women in history that have been forgotten or ignored. This blog will be an extension of those flyers where I post longer biographies of these women and other bad-ass women like them. Too often women’s achievements have been pushed aside, either by others in their lives, or else by the historians who choose to ignore them. This tumblr is dedicated to celebrating them and bringing their achievements to light!
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As long as women’s natural body hair is called disgusting and inappropriate while men’s isn’t, I am a feminist.
As long as I can’t watch an episode of a popular sitcom without having to sit through multiple sexist comments or “jokes”, I am a feminist.
As long as women have to face the rational fear of being sexually assaulted every time they walk home past dark while men don’t, I am a feminist.
As long as misogyny exists in any country in this world, I am a feminist.
As long as women are being raped, then stoned to death or forced to marry their rapist, I am a feminist.
As long as companies promote men to manager when there are women who are equally as or better qualified, because they find that men look more authoritative, I am a feminist.
As long as women (her choice of clothes, her friendly nature, her weakness, her choice to drink alcohol) get blamed when men rape them, I am a feminist.
As long women’s opinions on online social networks are dismissed with phrases like “tits or gtfo”, “get back to the kitchen”, “are you pms’ing?”, I am a feminist.
As long as dressing like a women is degrading for men and as long as men are insulted with phrases like “you throw like a woman”, clearly implying that being like a woman is shameful, I am a feminist.
As long as both men are women are expected to work, but taking care of children and the household are still largely considered a woman’s job, I am a feminist.
As long as boys and girls are treated differently, expected to act differently, and surrounded by different toys and colours from the day they are born, I am a feminist.
As long as topless women aren’t allowed in public unless they’re on the cover of a men’s magazine, I am a feminist.
As long as women who have sex frequently are generally told they are “sluts”, “lacking self-respect” and “lacking morals” by both men and women, while men who frequently have sex are “just being men” and it’s “natural for them”, I am a feminist.
As long as there are places where women have to pay more for health insurance than men, I am a feminist.
As long as men experience situations with equal gender representation as female-dominated, and don’t consider a group discussion equal unless there are significantly more men then women participants (as has been proven), I am a feminist.
As long as there are men who think it’s their wife or girlfriend’s duty to have sex with him whenever he wants, I am a feminist.
As long as the word feminism (“the movement aimed at equal rights for women”) has a negative connotation, I am a feminist.
As long as misogynist people exist, I am a feminist.
LE CHRYSANTHÉME: I am a feminist. (via psychedelicpaisleyprincess)
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I Don't Like to Kiss on the Mouth - From The PinCushion
I always respect a client’s boundaries, because I expect him to respect mine. On the other hand, I do question the reasoning behind those boundaries. Especially when there is a no kissing rule. Every time a client tells me he doesn’t want to kiss on the mouth it’s because of so-called “intimacy” reasons. “I only do this when I’m traveling for business! I have a girl at home and it’s serious.” He did something that, to me, feels more intimate. What is it you ask? Well, he spends a lot of time paying attention to my belly.Read More at The PinCushion
3 weeks ago - 
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When a Muslim fraternity from the University of Texas at Dallas took to the streets to protest against domestic violence, these striking pictures made waves around the world.
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“Sylvia Rivera kicking ass on stage after some radfems & transphobes tried to refuse her the right to speak at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day rally. Said radfems then had their own march in part protesting trans participation in Pride. A precursor to today’s Dyke March.”
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It is women like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson who started the Stonewall riots and queer liberation. 43 years later, trans women of color, the people who started the movement, are the people maligned and left behind by it.
In Sylvia’s words, “What the FUCK is wrong with you all?”
[[Trigger warning: suicide]]
Sylvia went home that night and attempted suicide.
Marsha Johnson came home and found her in time to save her life.
Sylvia left the movement after that day and didn’t come back for twenty years.
this is incredible, she is incredible, I highly recommend watching it
but I think the addendum re: the effect of this day on sylvia is really important
so often we valorise decontextualised moments of tough, articulate resistance and rage
and the suffering of the people who embodied them is not acknowledged, it’s uncomfortable, it’s not inspiring, we want them to stay tough and cool and stylish forever
which is particularly terrible when I think about how sylvia felt like that because of women like me — women who are now watching this video and feeling inspired and impressed and maybe a bit pleased with ourselves for finally having watched a speech by the famous and really cool to name-drop sylvia rivera
Always reblog.
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All relationships are with yourself - and sometimes they involve other people. The most important relationship in your life - the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die - is with yourself.
Peter McWilliams (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
sex is complicated and people are weird: if you write fanfiction you should know this:
- the prostate gland is only two inches inside of the anal cavity. you do not need to ‘thrust deep’ to find it
- Vaseline, aka petroleum jelly, was invented in the 1800s in Pennsylvania so if you are writing a very late regency au or turn of the century AU you can have…
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3 weeks ago - 247
247 Be You: A Trans Man on Love and Marriage
“Would you rather get a same-sex marriage or a straight one? Or what about a ceremony with no legal strings attached?” My partner Jocelyn and I silently pondered my question as we strolled hand-in-hand down the street. Despite our penchant for a good game of 20 Questions, my stumper wasn’t…
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3 weeks ago - 76
76 Roseanne and Dan: Kicking parenthood and society in the ass since 1988.
This show is still more relevant than every family comedy on television today.
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Single Woman’s Title = Miss
Married Woman’s Title = Mrs.
Unknown Woman’s Title = Ms.Married Man’s Title = Mr.
Single Man’s Title = Mr.
Unknown Man’s Title = Mr.Because a woman only has status if she is married
think about it.
add an apostrophe to Mrs = Mr’s.
think about it.and then go throw up.
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Obama on gay adoption
You the man
fucking beautiful
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