list of ppl who can define ur gender/sexuality
- you
- literally nobody else
Good job south campus. If only these were all over the place at school #rape #sexualassault #help #911
Completely true. The hospital didn’t make me do anything that I wasn’t comfortable doing.
Rainn.org is a great way to get help after trauma
I didn’t know any of this information. :( But I’m glad I know now!!!
Signal Boost!!
casual reminder that just because your idea of a good time is curling up with a book and hers is doing tequila shots does not make you a better person than her (◡‿◡✿)
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Strong Families is a home for the 4 out of 5 people living in the US who do not live behind the picket fence—whose lives fall outside outdated notions of family, with a mom at home and a dad at work. While that life has never been the reality for most of our families, too many of the policies that affect us are based on this fantasy. From a lack of affordable childcare and afterschool programs, to immigration policy and marriage equality, the way we make policy and allocate resources needs to catch up to the way we live.
We see the trend of families defining themselves beyond the picket fence—across generation, race, gender, immigration status, and sexuality—as a powerful and promising development for the US, and we want to help policy makers catch up.
Our vision is that every family have the rights, recognition and resources it needs to thrive. We are engaging hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals in our work to get there.
People hate her, they really do. Did you know that to Yoko someone is a verb in America? It is something that boys say if they’re hanging out with you too much and they’re going to school or they have a band. It’s almost a myth that’s used to suppress women. Y’know, ‘You’re gonna Yoko me. You’re gonna destroy me.’ And this woman put up with racial inequality from Fleet Street, she put up with being accused of breaking up the best band in the world, she put up with people’s idea that she castrated this man and then, worst of all, she had her best friend, her husband, the person she lived for, die in her arms in front of a fortress that she’d hidden herself in for 20 years. And I just feel that the world media should apologize to her because she handled it with so much dignity.
—Courtney Love about Yoko Ono, 1993. (via somedayshewilldiealone)
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I may be a mother but I am not a woman. I’m also not female. Intersex people can be capable of pregnancy.
intersex people are much more common than a lot of people think. in fact, for different types of intersex gender(s), we’re talking 1 in 100 people, and for others, about 1 in 66.
one more reason why framing the reproductive rights discussion with the term “woman” is not correct and is exclusive.
Yay censorship! If there are some images I dont like instead of not looking I set out to destroy them. Muahahaha
You’re missing the entire point of why we’re reporting this, you asshat.
We’re not doing it because, “zomg! I dont like pictures of butts!”
We’re reporting it because the entire premise of creepshots is to take pics of people’s body parts without the knowledge or consent of the individual. It’s not about censorship, asshole, it’s about consent.
I see all these people talking about creepshots as if it’s a legitimate issue of censorship but we have free speech k? Still, child pornography is illegal. Stalking is illegal. If you take pictures of unconsenting and probably underage people and store them for your personal use only, you know that’s illegal and if caught you would face consequences. So why do you think you can SHARE those same pictures in a PUBLIC FORUM with impunity? No one is challenging your right to free speech, you don’t have to defend that cause no one wants to take that away from you. When someone responds to criticism of creepshots with the free speech argument, what they are saying is “my right to stalk, exploit, and harass is more important than anyone else’s right to safety and privacy, and if I have to make some child porn to exercise my free speech, so be it”. There are people who are imprisoned, tortured and killed as free speech advocates. People on this website, and people they know. Please do not compare someone going to jail for their political beliefs to people asking you not to post pictures of the women and girls you stalk on a website. That is all.
“I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, “She must have provoked him,” or, “Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.” They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”
-Patrick Stewart
I always reblog this. Always.
Says Bisexual Author and Activist Yemisi Ilesanmi —
I am a passionate human rights activist, trade unionist, poet, and advocate for equal rights, social justice and poverty alleviation. I hold a Master of Law degree in Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights. I write and speak on a range of issues including workers rights, gender and sexuality issues.
I coordinate the group ‘Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora Against Anti Same-Sex Laws’. The group was formed in 2011 when Nigerian Senate resuscitated interest in the homophobic bill entitled ‘Same Sex Marriage Prohibition’ bill, which seeks to criminalize not just same-sex marriage as the name implies, but also same sex relationship and activities including advocacy on LGBT rights or aiding and abetting anyone suspected of engaging in Same-Sex relationships. It stipulates 14 years jail term for anyone who engages in same sex relationship and a 10 year jail term for anyone who aids, abets same sex persons, it also criminalizes any advocacy on LGBT rights, (sign petition against this here).
The ‘Jail the Gays’ bill personally affects me because I identify as a Bisexual.In my book “Freedom to love all: Homosexuality is not Un-African”, I take a critical look at Nigeria’s ‘Jail the Gays’ bill. I dissect the many homophobic public statements attributed to lawmakers, religious leaders and politicians. And I make a case for LGBT Rights as Human Rights and debunk the myths surrounding homosexuality in Africa.
Sexuality rights remain a controversial issue in many parts of Africa. It is not just a controversial issue but also a taboo subject. African societies do not provide enabling environments to discuss sexual orientation issues. Homosexuality is condemned by many African leaders as Immoral, Un-African and a ‘White man’s disease’. Many countries in Africa still criminalize homosexuality. Sodomy laws remain part of the criminal laws thereby making it legally possible to persecute sexual minorities. For example Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania and Ghana all have laws under which homosexuality can be prosecuted. In South Africa, where the constitution recognizes same-sex relationships, gays and lesbians are often attacked, molested and persecuted for their sexual orientation.
My book protests the criminalization of LGBTS, and challenges human right activists to defend human rights of everyone irrespective of gender, religion or sexual orientation.^^this is what a bisexual activist looks like
