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"The clitoris exists, as for God, I don't know..."

Seen in Ivanjica, Serbia

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the problem with having a decade old tumblr blog is that there are posts on it from a decade ago

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Wisława Szymborska, “Children of Our Age”, View with a Grain of Sand (trans. Stanisław Barańczak & Clare Cavanagh)  

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Just read “Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World” by Kumari Jayawardena and I’d highly reccommend it. It offers a symmary, exploration and analysis of the ways that feminism developed in Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and the Phillipines taking into consideration the political, socioeconomic and cultural factors of each country. These are perspectives that are sorely lacking in western dominated feminism. It also challenges the idea that westernisation and capitalism leads to true emancipation of women or that all feminisms in the global south are merely imitations of western feminist movements. It’s readable, each chapter is relatively short but packed with a lot of really interesting and provocative info. And essential if you want to learn about feminisms around the world outside of the western framework of Suffragette -> Betty Friedan. I also like it because it doesn’t just suggest a blind acceptance of other country’s feminist movements built on their cultural traditions either. But it shows that when feminist movements keep away from true grassroots political action and instead focus on bourgeois, imperialist interests, the movement withers. It also shows just how important understanding different cultural contexts is for understanding feminism, that all female emancipation movements have been influenced by other factors. She also challenges the idea that women are emancipated by entering into education or the work force alone without changing the patriarchal structure. Give it a read!

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poly people make having multiple partners sound so unsexy. like how sexy to have multiple partners you can just imagine and then a poly person will be like "pls read this essay on collective non-monogamy negotiation practices for effective bargaining deescalation when computing non-sexual time allotted management polices between your primary amorous provider and your outsourced emotional stabilizing partner" like nvm nvm nvm that sound hellacious when does someone eat me out is it never sounds like never

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

🎬 Peter Jackson

+ IMDb trivia

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Delayed gratification leads to a life worth living [mini vlog]

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yall do realize just because something has been a target of misogynistic criticism, that doesn't make stanning it completely uncritically in response some kind of revolutionary feminist praxis. right.

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“Exceptions alone do not, however, disprove the validity of generalizations. If I make a generalization that people stop at red lights while driving, certainly it is true that occasionally, some people do not; however it is an accurate and useful statement that people stop at red lights. It describes, with reasonable accuracy, a social phenomenon. To say that the generalization is not true simply because a few people do not fit it, is ludicrous and leaves us unable to describe or name even the most obvious social norms. The overall effect of this turn away from “meta-narratives” is to stop people from being able to describe their social conditions, from being able to generalize about personal experiences in their lives, from being able to see the commonalities of experience that can mobilize them to see problems as political rather than personal. The net effect is a lot of women’s studies students saying, “You can’t really say that,” about even the most basic truths.”

— Let them eat text: The real politics of postmodernism by Karla Mantilla (via philo-sophi-a)

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Ending violence cycles in your family? Prepare to feel alone and powerful in the most confusing way imaginable

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