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I got an email on FB from a girlfriend of mine, about the new meme going around – women post what they drink and it’s code for their relationship status! And it’s supposed to help support breast cancer! Or something! I’m irritated over it for a number of reasons. First, I don’t define myself by [...]
Sign outside a Christian* church in my neighbourhood: Gay, lesbian, bi or transgendered – God loves you and you are welcome I’m atheist but I am all about understanding and acceptance and I thought that this should be highlighted. *I don’t know the denomination – I’ve never paid attention
“Let me put it to you this way. Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are asked to laugh about it because other people think it’s funny.”—Shaker everstar, on Shakesville Can’t get more concise than that.
The only way that rape stops is if we start educating about enthusiastic consent, that it is important to ensure you have consent before undertaking sexual contact with another person, and that anyone has the right to withdraw consent at any time, for any reason. I want a world with no more victim blaming in [...]
There was a gang rape of a 16 year old girl in Pitt Meadows this week. Not only was she drugged and raped, pictures were taken and uploaded to Facebook and elsewhere on the internet. The RCMP went to talk to the high school students in Maple Meadows today about child pornography and the dangers [...]
My body is mine. All mine. It is my domain into which none may enter without my explicit and enthusiastic consent. … My sexuality is mine, and the things that attract and excite me. My desire is mine—who I want to fuck and how often, whether I want to fuck in the first place, and [...]
There’s a snark forum I belong to, which had something posted a few days ago that had to do with a 31 year old trans* man sleeping with a 16 year old cis girl. (This actually happened in the states somewhere – there was an article or something.) Anyway, there was a comparison made by [...]
I just registered for an information session at Douglas College for their Animal Health Technology program, and on the registration form it has the following: I request the following disability accomodations (ie Sign Language Interpreter, Braille, E-Text, Large Print, etc). I think that’s all kinds of awesome.
An old lady is walking along a beach and millions of starfish have washed up on the shore. The old lady is walking slowly down the beach and picking up starfish one by one and throwing them back into the ocean. A little boy sees her and says, “Why are you doing that?” The lady [...]
There have been some amazing posts recently on my favourite feminist blogs. Rape Culture 101 at Shakesville: Rape culture is 1 in 6 women being sexually assaulted in their lifetimes. Rape culture is not even talking about the reality that many women are sexually assaulted multiple times in their lives. Rape culture is the way [...]