I’m so here for this. When you are marginalized, your existence IS resistance. I’m Black, female, and bisexual, and just living my life feels like a protest when so much of society doesn’t want any of those parts of me to exist publicly.
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Come sit with me, in the grey dark.
How about no, Pamela. How about, no?
When you think of the all-American-girl type of woman, you probably think of a sun-kissed, blond-haired woman,…
“I’m proud of you, you know... that you have the confidence to wear those two different patterns together.”- my father
We need this spin off like yesterday.
Did you even read? Offer your damn seat.
This kind of bullshit in-fighting is precisely why the conservatives — who, despite all their faults, are ace at holding their noses in the interest of presenting a solid front to their opponents and attaining their goals— manage to get so much fuckery done while the liberals argue about everything under the sun.
A Day Without Women, the general strike organized to coincide with International Women’s Day, appeared to be a…
Related, I reaaaaaally loved Haywire because it involved Gina Carano stomping after people and all the men going OH SHIT A LION GET IN THE CAR
I spent the Day Without a Woman at a mini-conference for aspiring activists. It neatly solved the problem of what to…
The comments on a few articles about the strike on this very site were making me raaaage. “I can’t afford to strike unlike all those wealthy white women!” No one is forcing you but if think strikes have ever been about wealthy people taking off work I think you need a history refresher. They also totally ignored the…
One factor is that there’s been a decades-long anti-union campaign by the corporate right to convince the american populace that unions are bad. It’s worked because, even at their height, unions were consolidated in only the most industrialized areas and so large swaths of the populace have never encountered the…
I don’t think Shether was bad I think for me it was overhyped and I’m a little bored with making fun of Nicki’s fake ass and making fun of women for having sex in the hip hop industry. There were parts of it that were solid though.
One of the victories of these early protesters was the forming of unions, which in turn benefitted all workers, not just the unionized ones.
On Wednesday, thousands women across the country either went on strike from work, wore red, or abstained from buying…
I’m like - this man is an Ivy-educated professor and Root and MSNBC contributor, and he was going to “Yes, but ...” his friend - his friend (ProTi: friends don’t drag friends to trash like that) - all the way through all her incredibly cogent deconstructions of that Hotep claptrap after he self-admittedly dragged her…
“I dragged a good friend of mine (she’s a Ph.D. in political science) along to serve as a healthy skeptic to my ridiculous enthusiasm.”