occupythesocial:

Look at this picture and think about what you see:

Do you just see gender or do you also see gendered oppression? Look closely at where the cops have placed their hands.

In a recent article, Graeber writes about the police using sexual assault as a tactic to humiliate female protesters…

split-the-coast:

When you discuss the wage gap, here are a few things to keep in mind:

• Only white women make $0.77 to a man’s dollar.
• Black women make about $0.68 to a man’s dollar.
• Latina women make about $0.58 to a man’s dollar.

Intersectionality matters.

meeca:

(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).

• Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
• Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “hoe”, “slut.”
• Recognize when you “zone out” when women are speaking, when you value a man’s opinion more than a…

onegirlrhumba:

as a public service, i’m taking it upon myself to formulate what amounts to a basic, introductory “course” on feminist theory. as anyone who has studied it knows, feminist theory encompasses a wide range of subject matters and approaches, and it can be very difficult to locate a useful starting…

A talk by Chioke I’Anson of the Tampa Free Skool. Really really good!

yoisthisracist:

davidabanks asked: Yo, I dare anyone to find something more fucked up and racist than this. Fuck you Sweden.

All right, word up to everyone who sent this in.

I guess this is some performance art in Sweden commenting on the practice of cutting of clitorises in some cultures and holy fucking shit is it racist as shit. The video is genuinely revolting, with a bunch of leering, laughing White people standing around cutting up a blackface depiction of a lady. Great job, assholes.

WHAT IN THE FUCKING FUCK IS THIS FUCKING SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK THIS BULLSHIT FUCK

TRIGGER WARNING FOR FUCKED UP BULLSHIT

I love whomever made this.