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i Baba Roga, jebiga.

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Why aren’t more people freaking out about the new Venezuelan labor law?

bluandorange:

monetizeyourcat:

dancepunksnotdead:

You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?

It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.

http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift

holy shit!

fucking COOL

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danceswithfaeriesunderthemooon: fyeahnorthafricanwomen: According to legend, Tin Hinan was the first leader and matriarch to unite the Tuareg world. She is believed to have travelled from the Tafilalt oasis located in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, settling in the Ahaggar mountains of Algeria where she established her kingdom, becoming the first Queen (Tamenokalt) of the Tuaregs. Her remains were discovered in the Ahaggar region of Algeria when her tomb was excavated by archaeologists in 1925 - 1926. She was found lying on a finely carved wooden bed and was covered in jewels. She had seven silver bracelets on her right forearm and seven gold ones on her left. To this day she is still referred to by the Tuareg as “Mother of Us All”. reblogging again because national women’s day

danceswithfaeriesunderthemooon:

fyeahnorthafricanwomen:

According to legend, Tin Hinan was the first leader and matriarch to unite the Tuareg world. She is believed to have travelled from the Tafilalt oasis located in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, settling in the Ahaggar mountains of Algeria where she established her kingdom, becoming the first Queen (Tamenokalt) of the Tuaregs.

Her remains were discovered in the Ahaggar region of Algeria when her tomb was excavated by archaeologists in 1925 - 1926. She was found lying on a finely carved wooden bed and was covered in jewels. She had seven silver bracelets on her right forearm and seven gold ones on her left.

To this day she is still referred to by the Tuareg as “Mother of Us All”.

reblogging again because national women’s day

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101st-analborne: fallbeil: mugenstyle: eccecorinna: wrathofprawn: for those not in the know, night witches were russian lady bombers who bombed the shit out of german lines in WW2. Thing is though, they had the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world. The engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid flight to restart the props. the planes were also so noisy that to stop germans from hearing them combing and starting up their anti aircraft guns, they’d climb up to a certain height, coast down to german positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair, and get the fuck out of dodge. their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured. how the fuck is this not taught in every single history class ever pilots (◡‿◡✿)  girl pilots (◕‿◕✿) girl pilots killing nazis ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* \(◕ヮ◕✿)/ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ But, remember, women never did anything in history.

101st-analborne:

fallbeil:

mugenstyle:

eccecorinna:

wrathofprawn:

for those not in the know, night witches were russian lady bombers who bombed the shit out of german lines in WW2. Thing is though, they had the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world. The engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid flight to restart the props. the planes were also so noisy that to stop germans from hearing them combing and starting up their anti aircraft guns, they’d climb up to a certain height, coast down to german positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair, and get the fuck out of dodge.

their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured.

how the fuck is this not taught in every single history class ever

pilots (◡‿◡✿) 

girl pilots (◕‿◕✿)

girl pilots killing nazis ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* \(◕ヮ◕✿)/ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

But, remember, women never did anything in history.

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what you said was:
"i don't respect women who don't respect themselves"
what you meant was:
"i and society as a whole hold women up to ridiculous respectability standards directly relating to the "purity" of said women while hypersexualizing them at the same time and if you are a woman and don't fit my awkward monolith of criteria then i refuse to acknowledge your humanity"
what i heard was:
"hi i'm a misogynist piece of shit, please punch me in my face"

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thestolencaryatid:

A virtual testament to the woes of procrastination: thestolencaryatid: i can’t believe it’s not widely known that Greeks…

thestolencaryatid:

i can’t believe it’s not widely known that Greeks Armenians and Assyrians were sold into the slave trade by the Ottomans up until the 19th century. why do you think we’re all so bitter about Turkey not acknowledging even the slightest transgressions of the 20th…

The eastern Mediterranean wasn’t considered European until the middle of the 20th century. Western European imperial powers colonized Greece after the rise of the young Turks and the dissolution of the ottoman empire. So no it’s not correct to say Europeans were enslaved when Greeks and Armenians were historically considered “oriental” - hence the disjunction in historical discourse about Greece and the othering of post 300 AD Greeks

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thalamtnafsee: lol oh Audrey and in the next minute, after she refuses him again, he shows his real face and starts some passive aggressive verbal abuse shit to break her confidence. After which she is left alone in the car, crying, no sense of self worth left, and runs out after him so he can fix her.  The movie is lauded as super romantic etc. 

thalamtnafsee:

lol oh Audrey

and in the next minute, after she refuses him again, he shows his real face and starts some passive aggressive verbal abuse shit to break her confidence. After which she is left alone in the car, crying, no sense of self worth left, and runs out after him so he can fix her. 

The movie is lauded as super romantic etc. 

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thestolencaryatid:

I mean, the fact that ottomans were emptying entire villages and selling the women into slavery up until the late 19th century is enough reason to maybe not talk about Greek islamophobia on the same terms as European and U.S.ian islamophobia and if you find that too controversial of an opinion just remember that four hundred years of not being allowed to practice your cultural and religious customs ingrains itself into the social imagination. So does ethnic cleansing. The formation of the Greek nationstate was a largely western based intervention in an attempt to form a national body based on the religious identity of its subjects, since the turkish republic was hellbent on annihilating religious minorities. This meant that muslim Greeks were excluded from the national formation, regardless if their conversion to Islam was compulsory. Pogroms in Istanbul were instituted up until the 50s in order to expel the remaining Greeks.

I understand this information isn’t widely relayed but that doesn’t mean you get to conflate Greece with Europe and pretend Europe is a monolithic entity.

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the-nonbinary-bisexual:

Bisexual Books: Bisexual theory sources

bidyke:

It appears that not enough people are aware of the existence of academic bisexual theory. As a Facebook friend of mine reported today:

I went to a queer theory website, looking for bisexual queer theory, and this is what I got when I started clicking on links:

“Not Found

Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”

In fact, bisexual theory is a broad and rich academic field, with a large amount of writing in various disciplines. The reality of bisexual erasure makes it much harder for people to know that these sources exist, and all the harder to be aware of just how much there is to know.

For the benefit of everyone who always wondered whether bisexual theory existed, or how to find it - and for those who never considered it all all - I decided to compile a (very partial) list of bisexual theory (and other) sources. Note that many of them can be found online. Google is your friend. Recommended items are bolded!

Note that these are only the ones that I cited in my book! There are many, many more (for example, BiUK has a broad reference list, under the “REF LISTS” button). If you’re interested in further exploring this amazing field, don’t hesitate to contact me and ask for directions. Good luck!

Bi books

Books, zines and reports

  • Alexander, Jason and Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio. Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges. Routledge, 2011. (Also available as Journal of Bisexuality, Issue 9:3-4)
  • Alexander, Jonathan and Karen Yescavage, eds. Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others. Routledge, 2004.
  • Baumgardner, Jennifer. Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
  • Bi Academic Intervention, eds. The Bisexual Imaginary. Continuum, 1997.
  • Bryant, Wayne M. Bisexual Characters in Film: From Anais to Zee. Routledge, 1997.
  • Burleson, William E. Bi America: Myths, Truths, and Struggles of an Invisible Community. Routledge, 2005.
  • Chamberlain, Brent. Bisexual People in the Workplace: Practical advice for employers. Stonewall Workplace Guides.
  • Forging a Bi-Trans Alliance. Spec. issue of Anything That Moves 17 (1998). Retrieved Tue 9 Oct 2012. http://web.archive.org/web/20021020035411/anythingthatmoves.com/ish17/index17.html.
  • Garber, Marjorie. Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
  • Hemmings, Clare. Bisexual Spaces. Routledge, 2002. THIS IS THE BIBLE! READ THIS!
  • Hutchins, Loraine and Lani Ka’ahumanu, eds. Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out. Alyson Books, 1991.
  • Kinsey, et al. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Indiana University Press, 1948/1998.
  • Ochs, Robyn and Sarah Rowley, eds. Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. 1S ed. Boston: Bisexual Resource Center, 2005.
  • Ochs, Robyn and Sarah Rowley, eds. Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. 2Nd ed. Boston: Bisexual Resource Center, 2009.
  • Pramaggiore, Maria and Donald E. Hall, eds. RePresenting Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire. NYU Press, 1996.
  • Reba-Weise, Elizabeth, ed. Closer to Home: Women and Bisexuality. Seal Press: 1992.
  • San Francisco Human Rights Commission LGBT Advisory Committee. (2011). Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations. San Francisco, California.
  • Storr, Merl, ed. Bisexuality: A Critical Reader. Routledge, 1999. Download a free copy here.
  • Suresha, Ron Jackson and Pete Chvany. Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way. Routledge, 2005.
  • The Open University Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance and Faculty of Health and Social Care. (2012). The Bisexuality Report: Bisexual inclusion in LGBT equality and diversity. London, U.K.: Meg Barker, Christina Richards, Rebecca Jones, Helen Bowes-Catton & Tracey Plowman with Jen Yockney and Marcus Morgan.
  • Tucker, Naomi, ed. Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries and Visions. Routledge, 1995.

Articles and book chapters

  • Ault, Amber. “Ambiguous Identity in an Unambiguous Sex/Gender Structure: The Case of Bisexual Women.” The Sociological Quarterly, 37:3 (1996): 449-463.
  • Ault, Amber. “Hegemonic Discourse in an Oppositional Community: Lesbian Feminists and Bisexuality”. Critical Sociology, 20 (1994): 107-122.
  • Cixous, Hélène. “The Laugh of the Medusa.” Trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen. Signs, 1:4 (1976): 875-893.
  • Diamond, Lisa. “Female Bisexuality From Adolescence to Adulthood: Results From a 10-Year Longitudinal Study”. Developmental Psychology 44.1 (2008): 5-14.
  • Eadie, Joe. “Activating Bisexuality: Towards a Bi/Sexual Politics.” Activating Theory: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Politics. Joseph Bristow and Anglia R. Wilson, eds. Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1994. 139-165.
  • Eisner, Shiri. “Love, Rage and the Occupation: Bisexual Politics in Israel/Palestine.” Journal of Bisexuality 12:1 (2012): 80-137.
  • Farrimond, Katherine. “‘Stay Still So We Can See Who You Are’: Anxiety and Bisexual Activity in the Contemporary Femme Fatale Film.” Journal of Bisexuality 12:1 (2012): 138-154.
  • Fox, Ron C. “Bisexual Identities”. Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Experiences. 2Nd ed. Garnets, Linda and Douglas Kimmel, eds. Columbia University Press, 2002.
  • Hemmings, Clare, “A Feminist Methodology of the Personal: Bisexual Experience and Feminist Post-Structuralist Epistemology.” Feminist Methodology: Gender Theory, Feminist Epistemology, Sex and Gender, Cross-Cultural Feminist Ethics, Politics of Gender, Ethnography of Gender. Channa Subhadra, ed. Cosmo, 2006.
  • Hemmings, Clare. “Resituating the Bisexual Body: From Identity to Difference.” Activating Theory: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Politics. Joseph Bristow and Anglia R. Wilson, eds. Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1994. 118-138.
  • Hemmings, Clare. “What’s in a Name? Bisexuality, Transnational Sexuality Studies and Western Colonial Legacies.” The International Journal of Human Rights 11:1-2 (2007): 13-32.
  • Herek, Gregory M. “Heterosexuals’ Attitudes toward Bisexual Men and Women in the United States.” The Journal of Sex Research 39:4 (2002), 264-274.
  • Jeffreys, Shiela. “Bisexual politics: A superior form of feminism?”. Women’s Studies International Forum 22:3 (1999): 273–285. [Trigger warning: highly biphobic]
  • Ku, Chung-Hao. “The Kid Is All the Rage: (Bi) Sexuality, Temporality and Triangular Desire in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead”. Journal of Bisexuality 10:3 (2010), 309-349.
  • MacDowall, Lachlan. “Historicising Contemporary Bisexuality.” Journal of Bisexuality, 9:1 (2009), 3-15.
  • Obradors-Campos, Miguel. “Deconstructing Biphobia.” Journal of Bisexuality, 11:2-3 (2010): 207-226.
  • Ochs, Robyn. “Biphobia: It Goes More Than Two Ways.” Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority. Ed. Beth A. Firestein. Sage, 1996. 217-239.
  • Ochs, Robyn. “What’s in a Name? Why Women Embrace or Resist Bisexual Identity.” Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan. Beth A. Firestein (Ed.) Columbia University Press, 2007.
  • Prosser, Jay and Merl Storr. “Transsexuality and Bisexuality.” Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science. Lucy Bland and Laura Doan, eds. University Of Chicago Press, 1999. 75-77.
  • Rieger, Gerulf, Meredith L. Chivers and J. Michael Bailey. “Sexual Arousal Patterns of Bisexual Men.” Psychological Science 16:8 (2005): 579-584. [Trigger warning: biphobia, denial of bisexuality]
  • Rosenthal, A.M., D. Sylva, A. Safron, and J.M. Bailey. “Sexual arousal patterns of bisexual men revisited.” Biological Psychology 88 (2011): 112-115. [Trigger warning: biphobia]
  • Rust, Paula C. “Two Many and Not Enough.” Journal of Bisexuality 1:1 (2000): 31-68.
  • Steinman, Erich. “Interpreting the Invisibility of Male Bisexuality.” Journal of Bisexuality 1:2-3 (2000): 15-45.
  • Sweeney, Syreeta J. Normative Monosexism, Biphobia, and the Experience of Bisexual Women: A Content Analysis of an Online Community. MA thesis. University of Texas, 2011. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. Web. 15 Oct 2012.
  • Yoshino, Kenji. “The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure”. Standford Law Review 52.2 (2000): 353-461. Download a free copy here.

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