I’m sick of the biphobia that is surrounding me, and almost all of it is coming from my gay and lesbian friends. It really hurts when someone who knows the oppression is telling me that they don’t want to date someone who is bisexual because they never know if it’s “just a fling” and there are…
“I see we have an audience filled with procrasturbaters.” - Jon Stewart http://on.cc.com/157lLTK
Young girls in Senegal find a little joy in bed nets that help prevent malaria.
(via peacecorps)
“I don’t really know what kind of girl I am.”
This year on Valentine’s Day, a group of Peace Corps Volunteers and community members in Tirana organized a One Billion Rising event aimed at raising awareness about gender-based violence in Albania, where the number of women who are violated or killed continues to increase. It started with a small group of dancers, but the numbers grew as the event continued, with young women and men joining dancing in support of such an important issue. Read more about One Billion Rising here http://onebillionrising.org/
About the Author: Ambassador Luis CdeBaca serves as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and directs the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
Today all over the world people — men and women — will rise in solidarity and call for an end to…
Dear Person Contemplating Joining Peace Corps,
I imagine that you’re at a transition point in your life. Perhaps you’ve just graduated, perhaps you’re going through a career change, perhaps you have an itch for something more that can’t be scratched. Whatever…
I’m considering joining the peace corps.. Some things to think about.
(via fuckyeahlesbianism)
“Imagine if 61 out of 62 mass killings were done by women? Would that be seen as merely incidental and relegated to the margins of discourse?” Katz asks, “No. It would be the first thing people talked about.”
Are these shooters psychopaths or sociopaths? Maybe. But what’s a sociopath? It’s a person who lacks empathy. “Well,” says Katz, “we socialize empathy out of boys all the time.” If we aren’t allowing boys to experience and express vulnerability, pain, and fear because that’s somehow connected to weakness (a feminine quality), then how are they going to be able to relate to the experiences of others? “Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society,” he says.
The question of not only: “What about men?” But “What about white masculinity?
I expect mixed reactions to this article, as my own response is mixed. It is interesting to consider the fact that we have left such an obvious common denominator out of our conversations about these tragedys.
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by Meghan Murphy
(via habanerita)
For a long time my attitude was “if I can do, it, any woman can do it” but the fact of the matter is that’s not true. The world my daughter grows up in will be tougher for girls than the world I grew up in. We are going backwards. And that is what makes me livid.
So I learned to stop worrying and love feminists. Because you know what? Apparently, people need angry women shouting in their ears. Being nice hasn’t worked.
![Women participate in an event to support the One Billion Rising global campaign in Hyderabad, India, Feb. 14, 2013. [AP Photo]](http://blogs.state.gov/images/Dipnote/behind_the_scenes/2013_0214_billion_rising_m.jpg)