Fuck boys in the 1800s be like “if you cast in a different mold to the majority” “You’re not like the other girls” From Jane Eyre, I can’t believe men used to call the women they were flirting with “young women” or “I’m your father’s age” so why are hitting on me? Ewww

I am super geeking out over these new Artemis photos. The “Earthrise” is crazy. Flat earthers are in shambles.

This pull quote is so true. Another thing that's been rampant has been SO much reporting/content that fails to consult experts on the topic (legal, medical, etc), & sensationalizes &/ pushes misinformation/disinformation around things, leading to panic &/ ill-informed choices/perspectives.

Text I want to send: you’re my safe space 💜 Prediction text: you’re in my safe space 😑

Shame can grow a conscience if you let it 😳 👌🏾

Be a Karen Horney in a world dominated by Sigmund Freuds. Karen: you think I think have “penis envy”? Actually, it’s men who have womb envy. Take that Freud! 😎

Outing cross dressers against their consent on trans visibility day is not the progress you think it is. It’s sexual violation btw to publicize someone’s private photos. How you all framing it as good for trans folks is beyond me.

couldn't come up with better PR for transgenders than "underground transgender mafia successfully heisted 12 tonnes of Kitkats"

Happy 40th birthday to pop’s alienated and complicated dark princess and the "gangster Nancy Sinatra", the glorious Lana Del Rey (née Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, 21 June 1985). Pic: Del Rey’s 2015 photoshoot with Steven Klein (shot on Polaroid, styled by Mel Ottenberg) for V magazine. #lanadelrey

Idk if we’ll ever be able to re-create the Born-to-Die aesthetic but those were the days Where are the OG Lana fans?

There isn’t much that reminds you of your disposability as a woman in any family, group, institution or social system, than speaking up about sexual violence. Watch how quickly you’re discarded when you refuse to go along the social scripts prescribed for survivors.

Ursula K Le Guin - On writing

Brute force vs finesse in interpersonal relationships Anything that sustains itself through violence is bound to implode, it’s the nature of violence. Finesse is long term plan, in order to build solidarity we meet people where they are at. Patience and humility go a long way.

Most writing and “ DISCOURSE” feels hollow and fucking stupid because we are talking obliquely about what’s happening We’re in the horrors It’s based on race and gender and how everyone started dealing each other like Pokémon cards ….

This is horseshit and the problem of “millennial feminism” a bunch of white women got together and decided what we were to never ever have to get a direct job or real incite into how their cohort was managing the reality of life And latched on to their beefs to avoid big girl life

We’re not alone. And neither is ANYONE in this struggle. Alt text for image: amid a crowd of No Kings protesters in Arlington Massachusetts, one holds a sign that says “we are all Minneapolis.”

reminders: ▪️people are still being harmed, disabled & killed by COVID-19 ▪️large outdoor gatherings such as #NoKings increase the risk of transmission ▪️masking with a (K)N95 or KF94 is an easy way to help resist the fascists' war on disabled people bsky.app/profile/rest...

I can’t believe that we really think a couple writers are all of “millennial feminism” when millennial women are dealing with death of parents, growing children, being older first time mothers, protests, shifting friend circles, leading / fighting genocidal policies, late diagnosed conditions

Just spent the last two hours of my life reading a 100 pages account of abuse assuming it was survivor testimony. The introduction definitely had my sympathies but as I went through the screenshots and the charged one sided language, by page 50 I was questioning the narrator’s intentions

They want to police our genitalia and run tests on our bodies to “prove” we are women, at which point they will still deny it. This is why the only feminism is trans-inclusive and why transphobia and anti-trans discrimination should be a top political priority.

Liar, liar, pants on fire Of your bullshit, don't you tire? Sick of dealing with your lies Repugnant man we all despise Truth would make you immolate Instead you burn with greed and hate I loathe the chaos that you bring The day you die I'll dance and sing (Ugh.)

Sneak peek of PZR’s Petit Mort. Aton takes Angie on a romantic getaway to the upper peninsula of Michigan. (Of course he’s up to some kinda science.) I’ll read this aloud on live tonight 10c to make sure the new edit flows right before they go to print on Monday. *Too much for alt text, apologies.*

Therapist - you can’t reason with someone who has abused you Me- no but you don’t get it, if I could just make her see the impact of her violence then she’d stop because everybody operates from the same level of empathy as I do

I think there’s another possible explanation here that white masculinity is based in domination, which leaves little room for true intimacy and consensual relationships. They trade away their fulfilling relationships in their pursuits of power.

Right! Power is not happiness. A lot of things in society made more sense to me once I realized that the people with the most power are miserable—and they primarily believe they will access happiness through making us more miserable than them.

Sara Ahmed- To complain about abuse would be to complain to your abuser or to the colleagues or friends of your abuser, some of whom participated in the abuse, or to the institution that gave your abuser the power they abused, for whom your abuser is likely an investment, a person to be protected.

www.972mag.com/israeli-emig... - this quote is wild, and this moral tension at the heart of a society is ultimately unsustainable.

Biochemist Florence Seibert developed the Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) in the 1930s. Before her work, TB skin tests were inconsistent & unreliable. Her PPD formula was adopted as the internat'l standard (1952) & remains the gold standard for TB testing today. #WorldTuberculosisDay #WomenInSTEM

It literally says that they racially profiled people and the article still asks if they’re abusing their power

Trans and queer folks have joined, and often actually led, American's efforts to safeguard our immigrant neighbors, but nobody is talking about it. @evanurquhart.bsky.social traveled to meet some of these heroes in the wake of the Maine ICE surge. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

It is little known, but the first book burnings in Nazi Germany didn’t target Jewish writers. It was the burning of the library of the Institute of Sexual Research, which was a safe home for trans people. It is no accident that fascists today walk that same dark path by targeting trans people. /5

Worse still, those who should have stood by us when we became easy scapegoats fled or grew silent. And that led to an environment where the government could put us into camps. It was the abandonment by our friends that stung the most. And we can’t let that happen again. Not on our watch. /3

We all know this is part of their plan to use Jews as scapegoats when the regime inevitably comes tumbling down, yeah?

I’ve stoped engaging with some people because I’m not fighting with someone who makes 100-250k To be condescending and wrong While lamenting that they can’t get people to care As people tell them flat out their lack of engagement and context is why they don’t care

One thing I appreciate so much about women and gender studies courses is that they also teach you how to approach education. Education is supposed to enrich your inner world and to have that eye of not viewing all education from a male dominated lens is one of my most valuable takeaways

TSA: working, not getting paid and expected to keep showing up ICE: notably overfunded, to the tune of ~$200k agent salaries. assignment is to stand around, menace, or kidnap. We've recreated the plantation at the airport. How very America. Happy 250!

What if it’s not that feminism is actually evil because bad people have been feminists? What if it’s that having good ideas, or good politics, does not make you a good person?

I support women’s rights but I DEFINITELY support women’s wrongs!!! This was gripping, entertaining, surprising. Family, loyalty and moral dilemmas, this one will stay with me for a while.

Mask anyway, we all still share the covid air

I’ll go ahead and say if you haven’t learned force free training, don’t get a dog

To embrace new ideas, learning and growth, you’ve to let go of your old ideas. When you entangle identity with morals, accountability feels like an attack on the self instead of recognizing a responsibility to change.

“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info. This is the job, folks! bookriot.com/librarian-lu...

I just want to call somebody Good Boy and have him deserve it

Abusers like Chavez be like: These women are dangerous to liberation movements with their sexual abuse allegations. They are targeting us because we do good work. They are the real abusers trying to bring the movement down by harassing poor little rapists.

really really funny that the american commentators still believe that negotiations to end the war are even possible atm. what part of "american diplomacy is now considered untrustworthy because they keep killing the people theyre supposed to negotiate with" is hard to get

the way some influencers have rebranded community accountability is great for anyone trying to DARVO a survivor, and it's no surprise that it's exactly the communities where violence festers in polite silence that have adopted it.

Someone’s happy to be out and about today. 🐶

Really holding space for survivors whose rapists are “community leaders”. Mine is an anarchist feminist.

just remembering the time the Washington Post leadership hung my friend Felicia, a sexual assault victim, out to dry because she tweeted *a link to a news story* about the rape when he died.

Punishing student protestors only to get mad at them for not protesting anymore reminds me of how survivors are sued and harassed for coming forward only to then be blamed for not wanting to name and report their perpetrators anymore