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Recommended Books on Prostitution

For more recommendations and resources, check out our r/antisexwork subreddit wikipage: https://www.reddit.com/r/antisexwork/wiki/resources/

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Actually something nobody talks about is how the Vancouver Rape Relief Shelter WON the lawsuit brought by a transwoman. The Supreme Court of British Columbia agreed with their defense that females are a historically oppressed group with a right to distinct protected spaces. Everything since, the vandalism, persecution, Vancouver’s city council defunding them - that followed after the Canadian court system upheld their right to exist as a female only shelter. The documents are all on VRR’s website, and along with the Court’s full decision, provide a fantastic analysis on the importance of female spaces.

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Ms. Juneteenth Denver, 1984

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19th centuries ladies holding the rifle the proper way:

Annie Oakley - a sharpshooter.

Calamity Jane - a frontierswoman.

Mary Fields - a star route postwoman.

Pearl Hart - a stagecoach robber.

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why are teen girls this hysterically funny for no reason

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Patricia Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist, inventor, and humanitarian, known for her groundbreaking contributions to eye surgery and medicine. She became the first African American woman doctor to receive a medical patent, which was for her invention of the Laserphaco Probe in 1986. This device revolutionized cataract surgery by using laser technology to remove cataracts with greater precision and less risk.

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What is ballroom hair and why is she taking it out—

Ohh my goD stop STOP JFC—

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“iT’s A cOmpLimENt”

To YOU.

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when swimming’s so easy you start doing bonus quests now

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The breakneck speed at which this chat pivoted from “shoutout to aces overshadowed by the focus on sex” to “aces enjoy sex stuff too!!!” is. something.

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Pour one out gyns

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Caring about women and women's necessities

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This music video essay with a cool topic just had to throw in the c word….

*TakingHeadphonesOff.jpg*

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LMAO the pushback against the OP’s last bit

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One small feminist change in language I use is the usage of ‘birth’ as a verb, rather than our default phrase ‘give birth’. I find it telling that the most powerful thing a woman can do is reframed as incidental to the process - like ‘birth’ is something that just happens, and women ‘give’ it, i.e. were mere conduits for it.

In fact, in more feminist contexts such as on here I will use the phrase ‘build and birth’ to re-emphasise which party is the one primarily responsible for ‘making babies’. Also it’s alliterative, which I like. I also think the word ‘build’ has better connotations than the word ‘make’ - ironically, it has male connotations. But I like that, I like reclaiming the idea of women’s role in gritty reality. Babies aren’t made like a fucking recipe that then sits passively in an oven (the phrase ‘bun in the oven’ comes to mind) the woman’s body takes and active and incredibly visceral role in building from scratch an entire person. Yanno, I find it interesting that babies are ‘made’ whereas houses are ‘built’ - men want to think of themselves as the true builders. Brings to mind that Solanas quote about women providing milk so men call themselves ‘breadwinners’. Men are constantly twisting and claiming female connotations for themselves. So yeah, women build and birth babies.

I find this exercise of examining and deconstructing normalised language to be incredibly gratifying and would wholeheartedly recommend it.