"The buzz word in popular feminism today is empowerment. When I became a feminist many years ago, the word we used was liberation. Unlike empowerment, liberation is a collective concept which means that even if my life is all rosy and “empowered,” it doesn’t mean shit for those women who are doing low paid jobs while trying to raise families. In fact, there is a very good chance that elite women’s empowerment is built on the backs of other women whose exploited labor provides the goods and services that enable a good career and a comfortable lifestyle. The low pay of nannies, cooks, cleaners, sweat shop workers, and day care providers means that wealthier women are freed up to make a salary that no doubt does feel empowering."
Gail Dines
Goddamn so many shots fired. Truth of truths.
(via bad-dominicana)
This is a hella important commentary on the “empowerment” vs. “liberation” argument. I know that I choose not to use the term “liberation” because I don’t want any ties to the Women’s Liberation/Second Wave movement because it was so exclusive of everyone who wasn’t a white cis woman. The people who talked about women’s lib are the same people who didn’t collectively give enough of a shit about the women who didn’t look like them or come from similar economic backgrounds to include them in their “liberation”.
(via lesbianese)
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"I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole."
“Your body is not the best thing about you. Your body is not the worst thing about you.”
Done! One of my favorite things I’ve done.
(via hershotsonher)
(via tlhoechlin)
I love this image so much.
I’ve seen some women who are offended by this and say it’s ridiculous that her cleavage is showing and things of that sort.
Personally, I think it’s great.
Why should we have an image of a women with her hair tied up and flexing her muscles like she’s a man? (not that that isn’t great too!) In a way it suggests that when our hair is down, our breasts are visible and we wear (GASP) lipstick, we’re somehow lesser than men? We can do it! We can be feminine and successful.
You see what I’m saying here, ladies?
You don’t have to lose your femininity. Being feminine is great. Being masculine is great. Strength is not limited to one way of being.
(via hershotsonher)
Sometimes I have the time and patience to get from an idea to a fully fleshed-out, penciled, inked and coloured comic.
Sometimes I don’t.
(via professorspork)
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