Women Organized Now

hi, I just wanted to say that I love this blog and that there should be more things like this on tumblr. And that you are doing this so very right.

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:21:10 -0500

Awww thank you! This totally made our day. We mostly get snarky anonymous messages.

Just food for thought, I'm not meaning to start a fight or anything, but do you think that the "Let’s stop policing ourselves and each other" quote and the "i mean don’t you think it’s interesting that white feminists are PISSING THEMSELVES over the (barely noticeable) merida redesign" quote cancel each other out? Just thinking.

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:32:16 -0500

First of all, the quote about not policing each other was a specific and very pointed quote about gender and being inclusive. The quote about Merida talks about the racism inherent in a lot of feminism, when we aren’t being inclusive. So no we don’t think they cancel each other out. They are both about intersectionality in feminism.

Second, we didn’t say them. Our goal is to give a voice to all woman, whether you or we agree with them. (For the record, we agree with both of these particular quotes) We want their to be true inclusion here, so we don’t censor anyone whether we like it or not. Quotes from Andrea Dworkin aren’t always going to mesh with a quote from, say, Barbara Jordan. But we are going to include them all.

Third, we are happy to answer any questions and glad you didn’t mean it in a mean spirit, anon. Glad you’re thinking!

mamamantis: i mean don’t you think it’s interesting that white feminists are PISSING THEMSELVES...

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:33:30 -0500

mamamantis:

i mean don’t you think it’s interesting that white feminists are PISSING THEMSELVES over the (barely noticeable) merida redesign and starting petitions and emailing disney and kicking up this huge fucking fuss

but when it came to pocahontas’ outfit becoming even MORE inaccurate and racist and mulan getting the shit whitewashed out of her and turned into a ~*~delicate oriental pearl~*~ instead of a warrior it was like “yeah that’s bad, also the glitter is tacky. gee whiz”

Today is the day Anne Boleyn was executed for treason, adultery and incest. Her punishment for not...

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:10:11 -0500

Today is the day Anne Boleyn was executed for treason, adultery and incest. Her punishment for not giving the king a male heir. Don’t lose your head over it though. We got jokes.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 10:47:14 -0500

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Sun, 19 May 2013 10:23:41 -0500

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fuckyeahfeminists: We all can shine together <3

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:16:26 -0500

fuckyeahfeminists:

We all can shine together <3

"Let’s stop policing ourselves and each other. Gender is one game that you don’t have to play by..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:52:49 -0500

“Let’s stop policing ourselves and each other. Gender is one game that you don’t have to play by anyone else’s rules. The real danger in this ‘gender is a social construct’, ‘abolish gender’ crap is that in gendertopic spaces, anyone who is not subversive enough, or is seen as ‘gender normative’ already fails. We (and I’m guilty of this too) assume that they are being ‘duped’ or buying into gender norms. What the fuck? Are we fighting for gender liberation so that we can tell people how to express themselves? You have no idea where someone else is coming from, or what gender journey has led them where they are today.”

- Gender Fuck is My Boyfriend (Polyamory is My Girlfriend)

Lovin’ this zine.

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YES THANK YOU YES

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(Posted as a reminder to myself and others cause I’vee pulled this shit before myself and it’s not cute)

~empathy~ hello

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Basically why I don’t get behind most movements in which if you are not subversive enough for the group then you’re automatically cast as the enemy.

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"Say you’re walking down the sidewalk on a beautiful day. Someone who has internalized an outsider’s..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:29:33 -0500

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Say you’re walking down the sidewalk on a beautiful day. Someone who has internalized an outsider’s perspective of herself will often spend more time adjusting her clothing or hair, wondering what other people are thinking of her, judging the shape of her shadow or reflection in a window, etc. She will picture herself walking – she literally turns herself into an object of vision – instead of enjoying the sunny weather….

… Women are constantly being looked at. Even when we’re not, we’re so hyperaware of the possibility of being looked at that it can rule even our most private lives. Including in front of our mirrors, alone.

”

- Excerpt via Beauty Redefined ”To BE or to be LOOKED at?” (via fitvillains)

Good Gawd, THIS.

I’m working to re-define my thinking about myself and walk in the glorious space of not being an object for other people’s visual consumption and the freedom it brings.

And reminding people of that fact when they feel compelled to comment.

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Fuck.

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"On the other hand, a lot of anti-makeup sentiment– particularly anything that starts talking about..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:06:19 -0500

“On the other hand, a lot of anti-makeup sentiment– particularly anything that starts talking about how “frivolous” and “shallow” makeup is– is also misogynistic and femmephobic. Makeup is a form of visual art. If making your face beautiful is shallow, so is making a canvas beautiful or a block of marble or a hunk of plastic. If you understand why someone would feel satisfied and happy when they make a gorgeous print, you understand why someone would feel satisfied and happy when their makeup looks perfect. I do not think it is accidental that the form of visual art almost entirely practiced by women is the one that gets accused of frivolity and where the talent exhibited by many of the artists is ignored or denigrated.”

- Other People’s Makeup Use: None Of Your Business – Ozy Frantz’s Blog (via brute-reason)

This is the same with fashion.

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"I loved you head over handles like my first bicycle accident— before the mouthful of gravel and..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:43:11 -0500

“I loved you head over handles
like my first bicycle accident—
before the mouthful of gravel and blood,
I swore we were flying.”

- Sierra DeMulder (via petrichour)

PSA: some words you might not know are rude

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:19:52 -0500

buttart:

here are some words that are impolite to use that you may not know are impolite:

midget/dwarf

gypsy

“gypped” (derived from gypsy)

crippled

retarded

“ghetto” in reference to things that are shoddy/bad/unseemly

it’s okay if you didn’t know these words are rude but if you are reminded, or if someone tells you, all you have to do is try not to use these words in the future

that’s all

your effort in being polite and respectful to those around you will be appreciated!

"The love expressed between women is particular and powerful, because we have had to love in order to..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:56:33 -0500

“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful, because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.”

- Audre Lorde (via reclaimingthelesbiantag)

"Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:33:21 -0500

“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must take up as little space as possible. The very contours of a woman’s body takes on as she matures - the fuller breasts and rounded hips - have become distateful. The body by which a woman feels herself judged and which by rigorous discipline she must try to assume is the body of early adolescence, slight and unformed, a body lacking flesh or substance, a body in whose very contours the image of immaturity has been inscribed. The requirement that a woman maintain a smooth and hairless skin carries further the theme of inexperience, for an infantilized face must accompany her infantilized body, a face that never ages or furrows its brow in thought. The face of the ideally feminine woman must never display the marks of character, wisdom, and experience that we so admire in men.”

- Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via sociophilia)

Photo

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:10:05 -0500

Photo

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:47:18 -0500

Betty Grable, 1942

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:23:36 -0500

Betty Grable, 1942

"Why is what is easy so difficult?"

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:37:17 -0500

“Why is what is easy so difficult?”

- Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 15 August 19231 (via violentwavesofemotion)

theniftyfifties: Ella Fitzgerald backstage in France, 1957

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:14:04 -0500

theniftyfifties:

Ella Fitzgerald backstage in France, 1957

visual-poetry: by miranda july pedestal for a little girl,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:51:14 -0500

visual-poetry:

by miranda july

pedestal for a little girl, 2011
from the eleven heavy things series

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