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auntada: The barbed-wire enclosed camp for migratory workers at...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:00:38 +0100

The barbed-wire enclosed camp for migratory workers at the Cannon Canning Company of Bridgeville, Delaware

July 1940

Jack Delano, photographer

"Men often react to women’s words - speaking and writing - as if they were acts of violence;..."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 07:00:11 +0100

“Men often react to women’s words - speaking and writing - as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper, Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men - control, violence, insult, contempt - that no threat seems empty”

- Andrea Dworkin - Intercourse (via echo-chamber)

"It [prostitution] is justified by tradition as in the frequently uttered nostrum that it is the..."

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:00:27 +0100

“It [prostitution] is justified by tradition as in the frequently uttered nostrum that it is the ‘oldest profession’. Slavery is old too but seldom justified by its longevity. The feminist historian Gerda Lerner writes most usefully about the way in which brothel prostitution in the ancient Middle East originated in the enslavement of captives in warfare, as a way of tidily dealing with surplus women slaves (Lerner,1987).”

- Sheila Jeffreys, the Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade, Introduction, p. 11 (via femalestruggle)

holdthisphoto: Meret Oppenheim, 1930 by Man Ray

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:00:17 +0100

holdthisphoto:

Meret Oppenheim, 1930

by Man Ray

medusasseveredhead: “1950s Tomboys Rockabilly Girls”

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:00:21 +0100

medusasseveredhead:

“1950s Tomboys Rockabilly Girls”

Photo

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:00:20 +0100

Jordan. Near Amman. 1969. Palestinian woman and children in...

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:00:20 +0100

Jordan. Near Amman. 1969. Palestinian woman and children in refugee camp of Baka.

zolotoivek: Russian women at the village well, 1926.

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:00:12 +0100

zolotoivek:

Russian women at the village well, 1926.

"Hating feminine performativity isn’t internalized misogyny. Misogyny is the hatred of females and..."

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:00:23 +0100

“Hating feminine performativity isn’t internalized misogyny. Misogyny is the hatred of females and femaleness. Femininity is a gender construct – it’s a collection of characteristics and traits that our society attaches certain stigmas too, specifically gendered stigmas that associates said attributes with being inherently for one sex. Hating the fact that patriarchy has always affiliated the least valued gendered characteristics with the least valued sex doesn’t mean that I hate actual females. By saying that hating femininity (a gender construct, a state of gender performativity) is the same as hating females (actual individuals, people of a particular sex) is to continue the patriarchal arrangement that those two things are synonymous with each other and interchangeable. That feminine equals female and female equals feminine.”

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(via angrywomanistcritic)

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Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:00:27 +0100

zhenotdel: Untitled by Vivian Maier

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:00:30 +0100

zhenotdel:

Untitled by Vivian Maier

"Abortion is a false debate: the problem is male insemination. I am all for getting to the root of..."

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:00:21 +0100

“Abortion is a false debate: the problem is male insemination. I am all for getting to the root of things: the sexual act. Abortion, parity…those are lesser evils.”

- Michèle Causse (via gaynotqueer)

A Soviet girl-child looks on as an american photographer takes...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:00:40 +0100

A Soviet girl-child looks on as an american photographer takes her picture for Life magazine, November 1960.

auntada: Young woman holding hawk Winterville, North Carolina...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:00:30 +0100

auntada:

Young woman holding hawk

Winterville, North Carolina (Pitt County)

July 6, 1963

The Daily Reflector Image Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina University

"We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent - see,..."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:00:29 +0100

““We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent - see, he’s jealous, he cares - a woman shows how much she cares by how much she’s willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure.””

- Andrea Dworkin (via utopia-now)