The Friendly Feminist Giant

You can totally be a feminist who has insecurities. Feminism isn’t about pretending we all feel like Wonder Woman, it’s about being honest when we don’t, and having the conversation on why that is.

- Tavi Gevinson (via virginite)

I don’t expect gay people to prove to me, a straight person, that there’s actually homophobia. I don’t expect poor people to prove to me, a Harvard grad, that hunger and poverty are widespread problems. And if someone asked me, as an Asian person, to “prove” to them that racism exists, I would laugh all the way back to Chinatown. Marginalized groups are not responsible for explaining their marginalization to you. If you are actually concerned, you would take the initiative to do some research yourself instead of showing up at some oppressed group’s door step demanding a list of citations for things (racism, sexism, etc.) that are proven time and time again in the real world.

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WORD (via notevenbovvered)

oh hell yeah.

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Amen!

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This. I owe no one an explanation of my oppression, nor do I have the responsibility to educate you. You feel me?

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A consent-based educational model isn’t just about responding to rape culture—it’s a proactive, comprehensive system where consent is integrated into the curriculum from day one. In the same way that rape culture ingrains certain messages about sexuality, responsibility and control that take on new meanings as we grow older, consent culture works by prioritizing consent and bodily autonomy long before they’re understood in the context of sex.

- Teaching Consent: A Better Sex-Ed (via inseptica)

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Shortly thereafter, in the 1920s, fashion-designer Coco Chanel accidentally got sunburnt while visiting the French Riviera. When she arrived home, she arrived with a suntan and her fans apparently liked the look and started to adopt darker skin tones themselves. Tanned skin became a trend partly because of Coco’s status and the longing for her lifestyle by other members of society. In addition, Parisians fell in love with Josephine Baker, a “caramel-skinned” singer in Paris, and idolised her dark skin

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I wanted to look up where the origins of tanning for beauty come from

and, surprise, it’s stems from idolizing a Nazi sympathizer and fetishsizing a black woman.

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So let’s be clear: Tanning is a WEALTH STATUS SYMBOL for white women.

While skin bleaching is done specifically to lighten the dark skin, which in turn is a SURE FIRE SOCIAL MOBILITY APPARATUS since LIGHT SKINNED POC GET TREATED BETTER INTERNATIONALLY.

White feminists can kiss my brown ass if they think that these two things are the same on ANY level. 

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