#and that was the 70s right?

[capybara739]

As much as I love ambiguity.. my little monkey brain wants to know so much more about dimple.. why is he a spirit, who was he when alive and how and why has he stuck around for so long - how long??! (I mean he's even stopped counting his age) he's also a very interesting exploration of loneliness and unfullfilment ....................explodes cutely

[liberaljane]

Women's Not So Distant History

This #WomensHistoryMonth, let's not forget how many of our rights were only won in recent decades, and weren’t acquired by asking nicely and waiting. We need to fight for our rights. Here's are a few examples:

📍 Before 1974's Fair Credit Opportunity Act made it illegal for financial institutions to discriminate against applicants' gender, banks could refuse women a credit card. Women won the right to open a bank account in the 1960s, but many banks still refused without a husband’s signature. This allowed men to continue to have control over women’s bank accounts. Unmarried women were often refused service by financial institutions entirely.

📍 Before 1977, sexual harassment was not considered a legal offense. That changed when a woman brought her boss to court after she refused his sexual advances and was fired. The court stated that her termination violated the 1974 Civil Rights Act, which made employment discrimination illegal.⚖️

📍 In 1969, California became the first state to pass legislation to allow no-fault divorce. Before then, divorce could only be obtained if a woman could prove that her husband had committed serious faults such as adultery. 💍By 1977, nine states had adopted no-fault divorce laws, and by late 1983, every state had but two. The last, New York, adopted a law in 2010.

📍In 1967, Kathrine Switzer, entered the Boston Marathon under the name "K.V. Switzer." At the time, the Amateur Athletics Union didn't allow women. Once discovered, staff tried to remove Switzer from the race, but she finished. AAU did not formally accept women until fall 1971.

📍 In 1972, Lillian Garland, a receptionist at a California bank, went on unpaid leave to have a baby and when she returned, her position was filled. Her lawsuit led to 1978's Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which found that discriminating against pregnant people is unlawful

📍 It wasn’t until 2016 that gay marriage was legal in all 50 states. Previously, laws varied by state, and while many states allowed for civil unions for same-sex couples, it created a separate but equal standard. In 2008, California was the first state to achieve marriage equality, only to reverse that right following a ballot initiative later that year. 

📍In 2018, Utah and Idaho were the last two states that lacked clear legislation protecting chest or breast feeding parents from obscenity laws. At the time, an Idaho congressman complained women would, "whip it out and do it anywhere,"

📍 In 1973, the Supreme Court affirmed the right to safe legal abortion in Roe v. Wade. At the time of the decision, nearly all states outlawed abortion with few exceptions. In 1965, illegal abortions made up one-sixth of all pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths. Unfortunately after years of abortion restrictions and bans, the Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022. Since then, 14 states have fully banned care, and another 7 severely restrict it – leaving most of the south and midwest without access. 

📍 Before 1973, women were not able to serve on a jury in all 50 states. However, this varied by state: Utah was the first state to allow women to serve jury duty in 1898. Though, by 1927, only 19 states allowed women to serve jury duty. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 gave women the right to serve on federal juries, though it wasn't until 1973 that all 50 states passed similar legislation

📍 Before 1988, women were unable to get a business loan on their own. The Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988 allowed women to get loans without a male co-signer and removed other barriers to women in business. The number of women-owned businesses increased by 31 times in the last four decades. 

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📍 Before 1965, married women had no right to birth control. In Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court ruled that banning the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy.

📍 Before 1967, interracial couples didn’t have the right to marry. In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court found that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional. In 2000, Alabama was the last State to remove its anti-miscegenation laws from the books.

📍 Before 1972, unmarried women didn’t have the right to birth control. While married couples gained the right in 1967, it wasn’t until Eisenstadt v. Baird seven years later, that the Supreme Court affirmed the right to contraception for unmarried people.

📍 In 1974, the last “Ugly Laws” were repealed in Chicago. “Ugly Laws” allowed the police to arrest and jail people with visible disabilities for being seen in public. People charged with ugly laws were either charged a fine or held in jail. ‘Ugly Laws’ were a part of the late 19th century Victorian Era poor laws. 

📍 In 1976, Hawaii was the last state to lift requirements that a woman take her husband’s last name.  If a woman didn’t take her husband’s last name, employers could refuse to issue her payroll and she could be barred from voting. 

📍 It wasn’t until 1993 that marital assault became a crime in all 50 states. Historically, intercourse within marriage was regarded as a “right” of spouses. Before 1974, in all fifty U.S. states, men had legal immunity for assaults their wives. Oklahoma and North Carolina were the last to change the law in 1993.

📍  In 1990, the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) – most comprehensive disability rights legislation in U.S. history – was passed. The ADA protected disabled people from employment discrimination. Previously, an employer could refuse to hire someone just because of their disability.

📍 Before 1993, women weren’t allowed to wear pants on the Senate floor. That changed when Sen. Moseley Braun (D-IL), & Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) wore trousers - shocking the male-dominated Senate. Their fashion statement ultimately led to the dress code being clarified to allow women to wear pants. 

📍 Emergency contraception (Plan B) wasn't approved by the FDA until 1998. While many can get emergency contraception at their local drugstore, back then it required a prescription. In 2013, the FDA removed age limits & allowed retailers to stock it directly on the shelf (although many don’t).

📍  In Lawrence v. Texas (2003), the Supreme Court ruled that anti-cohabitation laws were unconstitutional. Sometimes referred to as the ‘'Living in Sin' statute, anti-cohabitation laws criminalize living with a partner if the couple is unmarried. Today, Mississippi still has laws on its books against cohabitation. 

[starlittragedies]

REGULUS IS CLINGY

i don’t care what anybody says, he is clingy !!!

especially when he was a baby, he could be compared to a duckling with how often he tailed sirius when they were younger. not to mention how often his room was left unattended on most nights after his mother sent them off to bed as he would sneak into sirius’ and then go back to his room in the wee hours of the morning.

as he grew older though he kind off rejected any physical contact, but he was still very much clingy. the only difference was he showed it through proximity not through touch.

you would catch him sitting by the black lake, under a tree with pandora just a few inches beside him, not close enough to be touching but enough to feel each others’ warmth.

you would catch him in the slytherin common room, curled up on a couch, the very same couch where evan was sitting at.

you would catch him during feasts in the great hall, sitting so closely to barty (but still have a bit of space between them) at the end of the table that he could almost fall.

you would catch him in his advanced classes with dorcas where he sits a bit closer than you would normally expect a student to do so.

his friends all know this but they never bring it up, regulus is too much of a prideful git to admit it. if they do bring it up, regulus pulls an odd explanation then gets frustrated because he doesn’t even believe it leading him to avoid any sort of proximity to the group (as the sulky boy that he is).

[faerycross]

sirius: i hate it when an artist covers a song and changes the pronouns like can't you just be gay for three minutes

remus: just the other day you were changing the pronouns to an hozier song...

sirius: and that's the same thing how?

remus: can't you just be straight for three minutes?

sirius: ew, what the fuck is wrong with you?

[choccy-milky]

herbology class 🌹🌿 (from chap 2 of my fic!)

[womenshistory]

Pro-choice activist in Boston, 1972.

Photographed by Nick DeWolf.

[tygerland]

Angela Davis December 1971, by Sal Veder.

[julesart04]

WOLFSTAR! ✨🌙 I LOVE THEM AND I WANT WHAT THEY HAVE!

[konvoluted]

[littleliterarylesbian]

it is 4am and all I can think about is dark obsessive jegulus rn.

just hear me out, the cloak and the map? perfect stalking material. Maybe it starts off innocent, James just wanting to check up on Regulus for some reason or James wanting to know more about his best friend's little brother but it spirals out of control quickly. One moment he's watching Regulus' name move on the map, the next he's under the cloak and trying his hardest not to be detected. He's sneaking into the Slytherin dorms, he's trying to figure out how close Regulus' friends actually are to him.

and I feel like I don't have to explain at all for Regulus, I feel his family name and legacy speaks up plenty. Regulus is smart, Regulus is cunning. He caught on quite quickly that he was getting trailed around. Maybe not knowing who at first, but he at least can tell when footsteps not matching his own sound off around him. He mentions wanting one thing, within the week it's his, he mentions doing something but just being too busy, suddenly at least half of his plans are cancelled. He mentions wanting someone gone and suddenly they're just simply buried six feet under. He eats up the power he's given. Then he finds out it's James Potter behind it all and suddenly it just got 10x better.

blah blah blah they're sick freaks and they fall in love and are crazy about each other. Carved their names into each other's skin and EVERYTHING. I just want freak4freak jegulus.

[ultravioletbrit]

“loud” - Jegulus microfic - @into-the-jeggyverse - 442 words

 

Regulus is sitting in the library with his friends who have been teasing him for about half an hour about his supposed crush on James. Regulus is, in fact, in love with James, but they don’t have to know that, and they certainly don’t have to tease him about it. So Regulus is a bit fed up at this point.

“I do not have a crush on him.” Regulus tells them firmly.

“Regulus…” Pandora tries to interrupt.

“He’s a loud, obnoxious, arrogant prat.” But Regulus ignores her.  

“Regulus…” This time Dorcas tries to cut him off.  

“He’s always doing too many stupid, random things for me. He won’t leave me alone and it’s annoying.” Regulus just keeps going.

“Regulus.” Barty says more adamantly than the girls.  

“No, I’m sick of everyone telling me I have a crush on him.” Regulus finishes.   

“Regulus?” Regulus hears a smaller voice from behind him. He doesn’t turn, he just stares wide eyed at his friends until James walks up beside them.  

“I um… I saw you leave dinner before dessert, so I went to the kitchens and got you some truffles… Sorry.” James says with a sad smile and glassy eyes. He places the truffles on the table and walks quickly out of the library. 

“James, wait!” Regulus tries, but he’s already gone so Regulus turns back to his friends.

“You guys could have said something!” He scolds his friends, grabs the truffles and leaves the library.

“Yeah, we…” He hears Barty start but Regulus is already gone.

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Regulus eventually finds James sitting down by the Black Lake throwing rocks into the water. He walks over and sits down beside him.

“Want to share some truffles?” Regulus asks him after a moment of silence.

“You don’t have to do this.” James says sadly.  

“I’m so sorry James.” Regulus tells him as sincerely as he can.

“It’s okay. I know I can be too much.” He throws another rock into the lake.   

“I never said you were too much. I said you do too many things for me.” Regulus corrects him.  

“Same thing.” James shrugs.  

“It’s not. You are not too much, James. You do too many things, because… because you don’t have to do anything at all, and… and I’d still like you.” Regulus works up the courage to tell him.  

“You just told your friends repeatedly that you don’t like me.” James huffs.

“Have you ever heard the phrase ‘thou doth protest too much’?” Regulus asks him with the tiniest smile.

“Yeah, but I never really knew what it meant.” James admits to him.  

“Maybe I’ll explain it to you someday.” Regulus tells him and passes him a truffle.

[tarnussy]

looks like I ran into a celebrity way too early

look at the proportions of this lanky goober, I love him

[ovaryacted]

God he looked too good in this movie bro. Top 2 Logan looks truly. And then when he gets teleported back to the past…

I can’t do this lord…I CANT. The belt??? He’s fucking SICK!

[theprongspotter]

Regulus: Don't miss me too much when I'm gone.

James: Why would you be gone?

Regulus:

James: Why would you be gone?

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c: @akwardsilince

[charbroiledchicken]

what was more culturally significant - the renaissance or 'he never did fall in love again."

[http-wolfstar]

hi! your art is beautiful:) maybe you could do Remus kissing Sirius’ forehead or sth :3

Awh thank you!!

Only the softest kisses for these sillies teehee