November 2010
23 posts
badassmuslimahs:
I love this woman, and this...
On menstruation and loaded metaphors.
[a small excerpt from this fat red zine-book from my housemate Sarah, ‘Threads,’ p. 122-3.]
Menstruation
‘The biomedical explanation of the menstrual cycle uses particular language and metaphors to describe many of the processes of menstruation…. Emily Martin writes “By extolling the female cycle as a productive enterprise, menstruation must necessarily be...
“one of the most important things about learning self defence is believing that...”
– [From a workshop at Loophole yesterday run by Nissa]
urrr, what?
I’ve deliberately never chosen a gender/pronouns on facebook but now suddenly its decided that I must be a woman, and made my default to ‘her’ pronouns.
Say what?
I don’t think I can fix it. But some facebook hack must’ve gone into my profile, looked at my photos (my photo is of a book not a person) and clicked the big ol’ ‘SHE’ button. how BIZARRE...
there's our catastrophe: To Write Scam On Her... →
invisibilities:sugaredvenom:
So who exactly is surprised that it turns out that To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA) are disgusting sexist, homophobic douches who only really exist to scam emo kids into going to church?
I’ve been suspect of these assholes for ages, so I did some research,…
I knew I had seen this somewhere, important to keep hold of, thanks L and yr tumblr. ps. yr post of...
