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How Miss Representation (2011) impacts people and changes behavior (via React to Film)
#media
#feminism ftw
#fuck yeah
#let's change the world starting with now
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(Source: underthevastblueseas, via upworthy)
#Environment
#animals
#climate change
#let's change the world starting with now
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"I want to be a strong, female role model for my kids, but I fear staying home won’t provide that. At times, I don’t feel fulfilled by this work either. The separate me gets lost in the rigmarole of everything that has to be done, and that distinctly separate part of me isn’t nourished. I fear that they will see that. I adore mothering and being their mother. I treasure the time I’m able to spend with them, but there’s more to me than that. I want them to know that women are more than vessels for lust and procreation. I fear that, in my role, I’m inadvertently undermining the very values and beliefs I want to instill in my boys."
i admit it, i’m tired as fuck of these goddamn “raising feminist sons” narratives.
i have a massive critique of the whole “let me tell you how i’m raising my kids” narrative anyway, and the “letter to my son/daughter” thing is equally obnoxious to me. so so so many of these narratives put their child out into the public sphere in a way that is uncomfortable to witness and just…putting the kid into a box just as firmly as gender restrictions/norms do (see: the cute stories with pictures and legal names of sons who wear pink ballerina cloths to school or insist on being a girl for halloween etc).
but in this particular essay—what makes me mad is how it’s all “I.” I do this, I do that, I think this, I don’t want that, I I I I I I I IIIIIIIIIIIII. I.
granted, parenting is one of the most fucking isolating jobs a person has on many levels. but…isn’t that the POINT. that parenting is isolating? and that the ONLY thing that has EVER effected viable social changes towards justice is a MOVEMENT.
in other words, shouldn’t the question be less about what amazing things *I* do as a parent to raise my child into a feminist—but what WE are doing as a community to create a MOVEMENT whereby our sons do not become rapists, murderers, or abuse their partners?
what are WE doing to end violence against women of color and their communities in all its manifestations???
is the point to raise a “feminist” son who knows women can be “more” than a stay at home mom?
or is the point to create community systems and structures whereby a new justice based world emerges and and this unjust world that harms and violates on a mass scale is just no longer necessary?
do we need individual “feminist sons” to create a more just world? or do we need human love, compassion, relationships, and community?
does that make sense? I know all about that constant worry of what will become of your child. I KNOW. but to me the point has never been to show either of my children that girls are just as good as boys or that everybody is “equal”—to me the point has always been to affirm what they naturally as observing human beings notice—there is INJUSTICE in the world. there is MASSIVE levels of injustice. but they are not without power—THIS is how you build a movement. THIS is a loving community that sees all that injustice and is sickened by it and want to change it, just like you do. THIS is how you keep going, even when your’e hopeless, THIS is how you love love love love love.
i will not make a feminist son. I will create skills and share survival tools that maybe even work to change things—and i will make sure my kids, no matter WHO they become or what journey they travel, can use them. i will trust the wisdom of my elders and community. that only together can we make change. that only together and with the support of our community can we become the best individual we were meant to become.
if my child never sees a black person the entire time they grow up (ahem all you white mothers living in suburbs who write these “feminist son” narratives) who *cares* if they know (white) women can be more than stay at home moms?
(via iinventedeverything)
(via randomactsofchaos)
#feminism ftw
#how to
#culture
#let's change the world starting with now
#necessary
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(Source: griever0823)
#Patrick Stewart
#violence
#women
#men
#let's change the world starting with now
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Which culture do you want to live in?
Source: http://upsettingrapeculture.com/
(via thenewwomensmovement)
#rape culture
#victim blaming
#not cool
#ever
#let's change the world starting with now
#feminism ftw
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![thefrogman:
To help orphaned baby sloths like this one grow up and climb trees in the wild, please donate to scientist Rebecca Cliffe’s rehabilitation project:
Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica [indiegogo]
[h/t: slothville]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/26a57ec48041456e17be551d21a5527a/tumblr_mmjmzcuKgw1qi28muo1_500.jpg)
To help orphaned baby sloths like this one grow up and climb trees in the wild, please donate to scientist Rebecca Cliffe’s rehabilitation project:
Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica [indiegogo]
[h/t: slothville]
(Source: slothville, via thisfeliciaday)
#Environment
#animals
#charity
#let's change the world starting with now
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SINGLE FILE LINE. SINGLE FILE LINE, PLEASE.
GOOD MORNING, AND WELCOME TO POLAR BOB’S POLAR PLAYPLACE. WE’VE GOT ALL KINDS OF EXCITING FLOES AND SNOW PILES FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT, AS WELL AS OUR RENOWNED COLLECTION OF ICICLE COVERED CAVES. RECENT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS HAVE REDUCED THE OVERALL LEVELS OF PERMAFROST REVEALING SOME EXCITING HIDDEN LANDSCAPES WHILE CAUSING PREVIOUS ATTRACTIONS TO BREAK OFF AND SINK INTO THE UNFORGIVING SEA, SO THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW FOR YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES TO ENJOY. AS ALWAYS, POLAR BOB’S POLAR ARCADE WILL ONLY COST YOU FIVE FISH, WHICH IN THESE TRYING ECONOMIC TIMES IS SURELY ONE OF THE BETTER BARGAINS TO BE FOUND IN THIS HEMISPHERE, SO STEP RIGHT UP AND WE’LL GET YOU FROLICKING IN NO TIME.
AGAIN, COULD I GET A SINGLE FILE LINE PLEASE? THANKS SO MUCH.
#animals talking in all caps
#Environment
#let's change the world starting with now
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Source: NLark Art
#arty
#how to
#let's change the world starting with now
#do good in every instance you can
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This beautiful animal is Red-bellied short-necked turtle. It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea, and in Australia it is highly endangered. These stunning colours are highly pronounced as infants and juveniles, but fade as they age. They reach about ten inches (25cm) in length.
#australia
#animals
#Environment
#let's change the world starting with now
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![awelltraveledwoman:
We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and give our order. While we’re aproaching our table two people come in and they go to the counter: ‘Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended’ They pay for their order, take the two and leave. I ask my friend: “What are those ‘suspended’ coffees?” My friend: “Wait for it and you will see.” Some more people enter. Two girls ask for one coffee each, pay and go. The next order was for seven coffees and it was made by three lawyers - three for them and four ‘suspended’. While I still wonder what’s the deal with those ‘suspended’ coffees I enjoy the sunny weather and the beautiful view towards the square infront of the café. Suddenly a man dressed in shabby clothes who looks like a beggar comes in throught the door and kindly asks ‘Do you have a suspended coffee ?’ It’s simple - people pay in advance for a coffee meant for someone who can not afford a warm bevarage. The tradition with the suspended coffees started in Naples, but it has spread all over the world and in some places you can order not only a suspended coffee, but also a sandwitch or a whole meal. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have such cafés or even grocery stores in every town where the less fortunate will find hope and support ? If you own a business why don’t you offer it to your clients… I am sure many of them will like it.
Source : [x]
Oh my. This is so good.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/400b276df72eda0cde6c7cc1d71bde98/tumblr_mkbiq2u4y91qmvz7to1_500.jpg)
We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and give our order. While we’re aproaching our table two people come in and they go to the counter:
‘Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended’ They pay for their order, take the two and leave.
I ask my friend: “What are those ‘suspended’ coffees?”
My friend: “Wait for it and you will see.”
Some more people enter. Two girls ask for one coffee each, pay and go. The next order was for seven coffees and it was made by three lawyers - three for them and four ‘suspended’. While I still wonder what’s the deal with those ‘suspended’ coffees I enjoy the sunny weather and the beautiful view towards the square infront of the café. Suddenly a man dressed in shabby clothes who looks like a beggar comes in throught the door and kindly asks
‘Do you have a suspended coffee ?’
It’s simple - people pay in advance for a coffee meant for someone who can not afford a warm bevarage. The tradition with the suspended coffees started in Naples, but it has spread all over the world and in some places you can order not only a suspended coffee, but also a sandwitch or a whole meal.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have such cafés or even grocery stores in every town where the less fortunate will find hope and support ? If you own a business why don’t you offer it to your clients… I am sure many of them will like it.Source : [x]
Oh my. This is so good.
(Source: wenchymcwench, via papercranewish)
#let's change the world starting with now
