June 2012
“Americans like to boast that we’re the freest country on Earth, yet half the...”
– Jackson Katz (via winmeroundwithprose)
Anonymous asked: It's still sexual assault even if it's not sexual for the person doing the assaulting but involves forcible stuff involving genitals and such, right?
THE WAY YOU HAVE SEX IS NOT A REVOLUTIONARY ACT
tranqualizer:
feral-femme:
psychotropicpolitics:
riotpurl:
psychotropicpolitics:
THE WAY YOU HAVE SEX IS NOT A REVOLUTIONARY ACT THE WAY YOU HAVE SEX IS NOT A REVOLUTIONARY ACT THE WAY YOU HAVE SEX IS NOT A REVOLUTIONARY ACT THE WAY YOU HAVE SEX IS NOT A REVOLUTIONARY ACT
and if it is, then you’re doing revolution wrong
actually I’m going to reblog this because i hella disagree and...
“Being feminine is being desired and hated at the same time. A feminine body or...”
– Womanist Musings: Processes of Feminization: Becoming Myself (via feminishblog)
“You don’t get raped because you are drunk - you vomit because you are drunk. You...”
– Read this comment on an article the other day, and I thought it was kind of brilliant. (via mrsweasley)
“I think we can all recognize that the “it’s a joke excuse” is the most...”
– Loose Talk (via lavenderlabia)
“Survivors are not “broken,” but sexual violence can be injurious, and to pretend...”
– Melissa McEwan · The “Rape Turns Ladies into Superheroes!” Trope (via somethingggreat)
what's a survivor to do?
filipinafemme:
for me, in my healing, there were only two options that felt right —
fuck up the system, or
big time self-care
i organized forums, met with professors, spread awareness… initially, i was so fucking livid that the world would let this happen to me and countless beautiful humans that it was all i could do. i was bursting with rage, and self-care just wasn’t enough to put out that...
spartanbitch:
hiphopcheerleader:
On the Difficulty of Saying No
communityandresistance:
more on “fighting back.”
“Date rape is even worse, the change in context from normal conversation to violence.
You can end up a “deer in headlights” while your mind tries to process and catch up to what is going on. Going to a high school dance is not like entering a war zone. You don’t expect to be...
fuckyeahsexeducation:
I’ve covered these...
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“Rape is not sex.
Sexual assault isn’t sex, either. And neither is sexual...”
– Day 3. Calling it what it is: the language of rape | 16 Impacts of Sexual Assault (via sacet)
“Before Depo was approved in 1992, it was routinely used on Native women by IHS,...”
– Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
The intersection of racism and ableism …
(via thecurvature)
And of course overriding people’s bodily autonomy and honestly believing that their consent is irrelevant is rape culture as fuck. within the Medical Industrial...
rabbleprochoice:
jtravisrolko:
To all the women of the world,
If you’ve rejected me, I hate you. If we’re just friends, our friendship is over. If we don’t know each other, I will never offer you mere friendship. The friendship I’ve offered to your sex has been abused too much and for too long. I now spit at the concept. So I offer you two options and two options only: take this dick, or fuck...
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“Don’t underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many...”
– Nora Ephron’s commencement speech at Wellesley College in 1996 (via rachelfershleiser)
RIP Nora Ephron.
(via motherjones)
Posting here because not only is much of rape culture rooted in both misogyny (hating women and hating femininity) and androcentrism (valuing “masculine” over...
[TW: rape, sexual violence, abuse] →
so-treu:
STUDY - More Than Half Of Black Girls Are Sexually Assaulted:
Sixty percent of black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of black men before reaching the age of 18, according to an ongoing study conducted by Black Women’s Blueprint.
More than 300 black women nationwide participated in the study and 700 more are being sought to take in the survey by March 2012.
Farah...
“Rapists look for the spots where boundaries cannot or will not be enforced. They...”
– The Boiling Frog Principle Of Boundary Violation « (via sacet)
“[TW: Rape]
The people intent upon raping us know that “no means no” as much as...”
– Dear Second and Third Wave Feminists With Publically Recognizable Names by Harriet J on fugitivus.net
(via friendlyangryfeminist)
“Women are socialized to make men feel good. We’re socialized to “let you down...”
– The art of “no.” « CaptainAwkward.com (via delascielo)
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you...”
– Alan Cohen (via saras-vati)
“Women owning their sexual pleasure veers dangerously close to women wanting to...”
– On Slut Shaming (via fuckititsfriday)
wittbao asked: I don't know where else to put this or who to tell it to because everyone gives me the same response. My ex-boyfriend had sex with me while I was unconscious at least twice. Everyone I tell this to seems to have the mind set of "Well, you would have had sex with him anyway if you were conscious right? So it's not that big of a deal." My current boyfriend keeps bringing up my...
Anonymous asked: So basically, you're like a submission blog? You take things that float by, tag up or are submitted? I just ask because a few posts seem contradictory to others, a couple had very dubious statements/stats, etc. It's a good blog, I just wondered.
“The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you...”
– The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps)
A Statement
TW - rape, rape culture, racism, trans*misogyny, general anti-Trans* hate
communityandresistance:
for a while i hadn’t been wanting to talk about rape discourse within mainstream feminism. one might say i was afraid.
rape is such a sensitive topic. & i felt i would be trivializing it if i talked about what had been on my mind since i came out with the fact that i myself was raped.
which...
“Society has allowed rapists to define what resistance is: screaming, crying,...”
–
A section of the article “How I became a rape victim”
(via sociolab)
BOOM, rape culture at work… Can I also add, when you are in a situation that involves rape or you think might involve rape or looks like it might involve rape in a few minutes, its usually pretty scary to scream and kick…...
“Slavery and child labor didn’t become unacceptable by magic. It took hard,...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
This right here is why I will NEVER shut up about rape culture!
I don't own my child's body →
transgenderp:
thecsph:
(CNN) — My daughter occasionally goes on a hugging and kissing strike.
She’s 4. Her parents could get a hug or a kiss, but many people who know her cannot, at least right now. And I won’t make her.
“I would like you to hug Grandma, but I won’t make you do it,” I told her recently.
“I don’t have to?” she asked, cuddling up to me at bedtime, confirming the facts to be...
How Title IX gave me hope after rape
fuckyeahfeminists:
The past week or so, I’ve seen a high number of posts and talk about Title IX and its 40th anniversary. Considering its significant role in my path to feminism and activism, I wanted to at least share a few thoughts about the law and how its intended protection of rape survivors has helped me on a path to recovery after rape.
What does Title IX have to do about rape? Well, in...
How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD (link -->) →
maiavel:
rapeculturerealities:
TW - rape, sexual assault, violent (consensual) sex, graphic details about the violent sex, graphic details about PTSD symptoms and trauma, also some minor discussion of victim blaming/rape culture stuff.
Basically this piece is really hardcore and I think it has a serious potential to be triggering for people who’ve experienced trauma and/or who are currently...
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“Why do some folks feel that transgender people need to disclose their history...”
– Law Center (via mermaid-vision)
Anonymous asked: That post... are you one of those saying BDSM can ~heal~ a traumatized person? (including re-enacting a rape, which is becoming a favorite prescription of the overwhelmingly non-professional)sex-positive crowd which includes tons of PUA and pimps. This isn't someone who doesn't know what they're saying either. That simple version of something complex being presented to survivors is...
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How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD →
TW - rape, sexual assault, violent (consensual) sex, graphic details about the violent sex, graphic details about PTSD symptoms and trauma, also some minor discussion of victim blaming/rape culture stuff.
Basically this piece is really hardcore and I think it has a serious potential to be triggering for people who’ve experienced trauma and/or who are currently living with PTSD. Please be...
tw: sexual assault, abuse
blue-jayne:
Everything scares the hell out of me. Trying to get close to someone, trying to date someone, the more I try, the colder I feel. I haven’t gotten over the abuse. I haven’t gotten over the assault. She barely knows me. She is nice, she has a beautiful smile, she listens to me, when she talks I want to listen, but she kissed me on the mouth and I wanted to throw up. I wanted to tell...
