“You Choose Your Toppings That Fit You. “

its so weird how ur gender supposedly dictates which shapes and textures of fuckening cloth u are permitted to drape over ur flesh prison

It has literally taken me 5 hours to find 1 pair of dress pants that even sort of fit.

9 Problems with Women’s Clothing And the worst part is that clothing companies do it because they know we’ll still buy their products.  But do we have much other choice?

@allyfallsdownstairs @themoriarkitty

Amandla Stenberg Opens Up About Her Gender Identity

The 17-year-old, Hunger Games actor Amandla Stenberg has come out as non-binary. Stenberg - who plays Rue in the adventure film franchise – says she feels like she’s not a ‘woman’ all the time, and non-binary is a term that she feels comfortable using to describe herself. (She is using female pronouns).

“The 17-year-old, Hunger Games actor Amandla Stenberg has come out as non-binary.

Stenberg – who plays Rue in the adventure film franchise – says she feels like she’s not a ‘woman’ all the time, and non-binary is a term that she feels comfortable using to describe herself. (She is using female pronouns).

Writing on Tumblr, she said she is organizing a workshop on feminism, specifically how ‘mainstream feminist movements have continuously excluded women who are not white, thin, cisgender, able-bodied and neurotypical’.

Something we are struggling with is understanding the intersection of feminism and gender identity…

We’re both people who don’t feel like “women” all the time – but we claim feminism as our movement.

Basically, we’re trying to understand the duality of being a non-binary person and a feminist. How do you claim a movement for women when you don’t always feel like one?”

Read the full piece here: 

#1: THANK YOU AMANDLA FOR YOUR CONSISTENT AWESOMENESS AS AN INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST AND ROLE MODEL FOR YOUTH & EVERYONE ELSE!

#2: YOU DON’T NEED TO BE A WOMEN OR CIS TO BE FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS. Just like white people can and should advocate for racial equality, everyone can and should advocate for gender equality. 

I give Amandla a TON of credit for having to not only grow up in public, but grow up as a non-binary POC in a white / sexist / cisnormative society! She is young and figuring herself and society out.  I’m Team Stenberg and am not looking to call her out, I just wanted to make this crucial clarification. As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says, We Should All Be Feminists

After all the evenings I spent as a kid at the library or on the internet trying to find stories with a character that would be like me, I can’t find any good enough reason to work on non-trans characters.

By the way, many people don’t know this, but you can ask your librarian to order books by trans authors! Metonymy Press, Arsenal Pulp, Topside Press, Flamingo Rampant… you should definitely talk to them about it, everytime someone I know did it, they were successful in getting trans author’s books in their local library. They can also get mine on http://assignedmale.etsy.com !

Sophie Labelle

Doing a test

Reblog this if you would buy a book with an LGBTQ main character, whose sexuality was not the primary focus of the novel

If you would not, reblog this.

Usually by inquiring why, as this does, based on the definition of feminism, seem a little bit strange.

You mean by saying that sex should be consensual? Because that’s basically all that feminists are saying.

I've never seen anyone try to control women like a group of feminists

@slatestarscratchpad

My possibly-incorrect understanding of the tax bill is that it doesn’t implement all the deductions at once, which suggests that it wouldn’t add the same amount to the debt this year as it would in, say, 2024. This means that the “x dollars per year” formulation is problematic because it will vary radically depending on which year we look at.

(This seems like it could be solved by “x dollars per year starting in 20whenever, but there might be some reason why that doesn’t work.)

The news I read about the tax plan says it will add $1 trillion to the national debt. Occasionally it ends with “…over the next decade”.

Is there a reason this phrasing is preferable to “will add $100 billion per year to the national debt” or “will add $10 trillion to the national debt over the next century” or “will add $2.50 to the national debt over the next microsecond”?

If not, are headlines like “NEW TAX PLAN WILL ADD $1 TRILLION TO DEBT” completely arbitrary, since they could have made it any number by changing the (unspoken) time course?

satire is “I’m going to take this concept to an extreme or absurd level in order to demonstrate how bizarre/nonsensical/illogical it is” and not “I said something bigoted but just kidding I didn’t really mean it hahaha”

Feminism (n.)  The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feminism).

People saying that men can’t be raped are by definition not feminists, therefore it is nonsensical to use them as an example of why you aren’t a feminist.

Yes, men can get raped. But that’s not an argument against feminism

Basically why I’m not a feminist

Spotted on campus today.

[Image description: A sign, affixed to an emergency exist door, reading “My friends. I know that sometimes a door will say it has an alarm when it does not really have an alarm, and instead just serves a rebellious and convenient shortcut. [In bold and all caps:] THIS DOOR 100% ACTUALLY HAS AN ALARM. [End bold and caps.] Don’t open it! It’s extremely annoying! [Bold and caps again:] THE ALARM IS REAL AND WILL MAKE A LOUD SOUND. [End bold and caps.] Thanks. [End image description.]]