Latest Posts by skylightsandy - Page 3
31.08.2020 soft light, iced coffee, new beginnings
woman: here is a lengthy and nuanced explanation of my beliefs and ideals with facts to justify them
everyone: okay but like are you a terf or not
how cute are these chocolate-scented cat stickers that I found in a local stationery shop??
“I’d never given it any thought. But when my boss’s husband got a kidney from a newscaster in town, it sorta became a local story. And I began to learn more about it. I found out that a kidney from a living donor can give someone more than twenty years of life. And there were 2500 people in Ohio on the waiting list. So after confirming that I’d still be able to drink, I signed up for the registry. Two months later I got an email saying that they’d found a match. They’d only say that it was a local man. But I was excited. I think I needed a little purpose in my life. I didn’t have any children. I didn’t have anyone to carry on my whatever. And I loved thinking that I could help someone in such a major way. Not everyone meets their donor. But since both of us agreed, a meeting was arranged for after the surgery. They sat me in a conference room at the hospital. I had no idea who was going to walk in the door. And when Tom walked in, I could only think one thing: ‘Oh my God. I’ve given my kidney to Wesley Snipes.’ He was really quiet, so I did most of the talking. But at the end he said: ‘I only have one question. Why would you do this for someone you didn’t know?’ And I said: ‘Why not?’ After that it was like a light switched on. We were going to be friends forever. That’s just how it was going to be. Tom became like a brother to me. He makes fun of me a lot, but he’s also extremely protective. Not that I’d ever need someone killed, but if I did, I’d know who to call. Three years after the transplant I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a nasty kind. And I didn’t have any family around. But Tom called my sister in Florida and said: ‘Don’t worry. I’ve got this. It’s my turn to take care of her.’ He took me to every single one of my chemo appointments. He kept me company the entire time. A few weeks after my treatment ended, I threw myself a 50th birthday party. At the end I gave a little speech. I was looking out at all the people I loved. All the people who’d helped me. And I couldn’t even speak. I turned into a big sobbing mess. Tom got up from his chair and walked to the side of the stage, and grabbed my hand. And he held it until I could speak again.”
Women in Bradley County Jail are being kept in horrible, unsanitary, and unsafe conditions. Literally signs for help in the window.
The best way to help is to bail them out!!
Please if you have a couple of dollars to spare we are doing our best to get as many women out. Women who can’t, will get money in their commissary for sanitary products.
https://gf.me/u/ycwbzw
Saving Face (2012), acid attacks on women in Pakistan
This info comes from the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence. Here’s a link to the page with most of the statistics (all cited further at the bottom of the page).
Team StarKid is actually the author behind the HP series.
Fuck Rowling.
I can't believe all these incredible strides women have made over the years and now all of a sudden were debating whether female people are even a coherent class of people... i wouldn't even call it back to square one it's like.. negative square one
rowling: sex is real
the gender fandom:
Me, walking alone in the woods: gee I hope I don’t run into a MAGICAL ARCHWAY leading me to a NEW LAND full of fairies and mushrooms and magic where I can ACTUALLY BE HAPPY!! I sure hope no MAGICAL CREATURE welcomes me into their NICE LITTLE COTTAGE and gives me tea and TAKES ME IN AS THEIR OWN
Hey, Dark Academia community: if you’re interested in academic talks and intellectual discussion, I’d really recommend you subscribe to the channel virtual BRLSI on Youtube. BRLSI stands for the ‘Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution”: a respected organization set up 200 years ago as a centre for Enlightenment ideas and intellectual discussion in Bath, England (where Jane Austen lived!)
They organize lectures and interviews every month with leading academics and prominent authors, which are then posted online. My father is very active in BRLSI and would love for the channel to get some exposure - a lot of work goes into it. BRLSI is a respected historical organization and the channel is genuinely filled with lots fascinating stuff, real A+ Dark Academia material. Please do give it a look if you’re interested!
I’ve got no respect for people that refer to men as women, people that use female pronouns when describing a man, people that unironically use “cis” to describe non-dysphoric women. I’ve got no respect for you who clearly has no respect for me and the generations upon generations of females that were forced to inherit and experience the trauma that comes with being born female in a patriarchal society.
Womanhood isn’t a costume for you clowns to treat it like a piece of cloth one can put on and take off whenever they want. It’s a lived experience that you can not have unless you were born female.
When dealing with T.ERFS in an online environment it’s essential to block them and no platform them. Do not engage.
Is it possible to de-radicalize a T.ERF? Yes, there are people who’s lives are dedicated to de-radicalizing members of hate groups. However, you’re not going to manage it talking to them on Tumblr anymore than you’d succeed in converting a Proud Boy.
If you try to “debate” with them, or share their content in any capacity, you’re exposing it to more people - and some of those people might be disenfranchised, ripe for the picking of radicalization.
Block them. Do not share their posts. Do not share screen caps of their posts. Do not respond to their replies on yours posts. Do not answer their asks. Delete their Anon asks.
Donate to organization like The Sylvia Rivera Law Project, TransWomen of Color Collective, and El/La Para Trans Latinas.
Several staff members noted that many of the women who come to the Total Mankind Ministry warming center have survived domestic violence or sexual assault. Conyers explained that some of the guests who have been “traumatized by men” have expressed that they feel less safe in mixed-gender shelters or warming shelters.
Dalal noted that when Total Mankind Ministry shuts down in early March, the women can go to a warming center run by Omega Seventh Day Adventist Church or one run by the Grace and St. Peters Church in Hamden. Both of the alternative warming centers are mixed-gender spaces.
the moon asks a question by dirgewithoutmusic
illustrated by purutsukid
PRIDE WAS BUILT BY THE TRANSWOMEN WHO HAD ENOUGH! FUCK THE TERFS AND GET THE FUCK OFF MY BLOG
how come you're so against trans women? if they identify as women doesn't that make them women? shouldn't us feminists defend all woman no matter age, race, ethnicity, etc.? I just genuinely want to understand the logic behind your way of thinking.
Okay, since you so genuinely want to understand… Sit down. Let’s talk.
Why do you think “woman” is something that one can “identify” into? Do you understand what the word “woman” means? Do you understand what it means to be a woman?
I’m gonna guess you haven’t been living under a rock for the last few years so… Have you heard about the statistics for female infanticide? (x) What about female genital mutilation? (x) Have you heard of child brides? (x)(x) And breast ironing? (x) This list could go on and on. These are all acts of violence which harm females exclusively.
These girls are hurt not because they “identify” as women… Some of them are fucking unborn… But because they are women, or they will grow into women… Either way they are female.
This isn’t a coincidence, it’s not like “oh five of them…uh… kinda??? maybe??? could??? be women??? I guess????” NO. These are 100% female individuals. They are killed, violated, mutilated, raped… Because they are female.
That is not an identity to be had. That is a biological reality. They are born with XX chromosomes, and they have uteruses, and they have vaginas, vulvas.. They are undoubtedly, biologically female.
The examples I’ve cited are all about children/underage individuals, because I wanted to point out: let’s pretend for a hot second that “woman” or “girl” is an identity. Then how come these children are being oppressed and marginalized? Are they “genderless”, since they’re not old enough to even have an identity? Do we have some sort of “genderless” genocide going on? No. We do not. These girls are in third world countries, countries where “gender theory” is but a whisper which only the privileged have even heard about.
Since we see all this violence against females, what about males? What does that make them?
It makes them oppressors. It makes them privileged. Males are either oppressing women/females or they are benefiting from their oppression. Either way, males come out winning, women come out losing, losing very badly.
From birth to death, females live in fear. Even in “pretty chill”, developed societies, women are scared of walking around at night, scared of going places alone, scared. Only females can understand the fear of a rape which might get you pregnant. The fear of being obliged to live with your rapist’s baby inside you, otherwise you’ll be cast aside, even arrested. Rape is just one of the things, though, then there’s acid throwing (x), forced pregnancy (x)…
So what happens? How do women react? How can they protect themselves? Well, women create shelters. They start women-only spaces, female-only spaces, where women can be free from their oppressors. Spaces where only we can be in, where there’s no threat hanging in the air…
And what do men do? Well they change their names to “Suzie-Lou”, and force their way in. At first, sure. A lot of transwomen were homosexual males, so they had no interest in scaring and intimidating women. But then the tables turned. The heteros caught on, they realized homosexual transwomen were being welcomed, so they decided they should be welcomed too.
And before your can cry “oh but the poor transwomen! they don’t wanna get into your dirty terf pants! they don’t wanna have anything to do with lesbians they just wanna be happy!!! terfs started this, they spread hate for no reason” I strongly recommend you check out [t][h][e][s][e].
Okay, so now you understand female oppression, and you understand where these transwomen males are coming from… So where do they overlap, why do I care so much? Why can’t I “admit” they’re women, leave them alone?
A woman is an adult human female. A girl is a female child. We need to make these definitions clear as feminists, because as feminists the oppression of female children and adult human females is what we fight against.
Bear with me for a second, and pretend you’re a dentist. Someone taught you that “a cavity is the decayed part of a tooth. It’s a little hole.” But then when you ask them “Okay, what’s a tooth, then? How do I find and fix the cavities?” they just answer: “a tooth is anything that identifies as a tooth”.
And you wanna seem smart, a good dentist, so you go in, see your first patient. But you still don’t really know what is a tooth. But then you look inside a human mouth, you see these white things, they’re all have similar characteristics. And they have dark spots, little holes.
Are you gonna drill into your patients gums, because that might be a tooth? Are you gonna pinch their tongue? None of those have holes, what would you fix? But those white things, which you know have cavities… Why would you keep calling them “white things”? Why not define them as something? Why not give them a name, and call them teeth? It would be pretty dumb, right? Pretty useless?
So let’s change things up, you’re not a dentist, you’re a feminist. You know that there is such a thing as misogyny, sexism. You know that non-vagina-humans oppress vagina-humans. In order to fix the problem, solve that issue, you need to have a clear line between who oppresses and who is oppressed. And you know you’re gonna be talking about humans a lot, so wouldn’t it be easier if you had a proper word for those humans?
Why not call the men and women? Now you know, misogyny is a thing that affects women. Okay, then we need a clear definition of what misogyny is. Misogyny is ingrained prejudice against women. Okay, then what are women? Anything that identifies as such? But then can a cat be a woman? Can a dog be a woman? Can a five year old boy be a woman? Because he identifies as such? No. In order for the definition of misogyny to have any value, then the definition of woman must have value. It must mean a fixed thing. You cannot define a word with itself. You cannot say “a woman is anyone who says they’re a woman”. That makes for blurred lines, confused statements.
This is why people came together and made language a thing that exists. This is why we have dictionaries. We can’t ignore the meaning of important words just “because”. We only change the meaning of words when a significant part of society uses it in a certain way for a significant amount of time. But woman has meant adult human female for a very very very long time. So why would we change it? What would that achieve?
The one thing that comes from the denial of sex, the denial of male and female as absolute biological realities, is that feminism’s fight becomes useless. If we don’t know what a woman is, and what a man is, then there is no one being oppressed, and there is no one oppressing them, because nothing has meaning.
But that’s not the world we live in. Women are oppressed, they are marginalized, killed, abused. Why would us, the feminists, the ones who have vouched from the start that we would fight for female liberation, turn our back on that? Why would we deny reality? For males??? But aren’t males the ones to blame? Aren’t they the fucking oppressors? (hint: they are).
So yes, feminism is for all ages, ethnicity, classes… Of females. Feminism is for females. Feminism is for women. Women born women, the only true women to ever exist. We must fight for female liberation, because our oppression has not gone anywhere, and it will not go anywhere, unless we address it, loud and clear, with the right goddamn words!!!!
To deny that women are females is to deny our oppression. We are oppressed because of our bodies, because society despises our very biology, not because we identify as women. To say so would mean every woman to have ever lived has chosen her own oppression.
And I will not have that.
So, TL;DR: “if they identify as women, doesn’t that make them women?” No. It doesn’t. XX chromosomes are the only thing that makes anyone a woman; I will not say otherwise, because to deny this is to deny female oppression, and therefore to render feminism completely useless.
If you are a feminist it is your job to dismantle the stigma around the movement by calling out bad feminists, like TERFs, TWERFs, misinformation, and blatant lies used to invoke fear into women, men, or just plain people.
Focus not only on women, but on men and non binary people as well. Feminism is an equality movement, which means we need to uplift EVERYONE. Not just women.
Feminism isn’t about female superiority. Don’t act like it is and call it out when people act as if women are better than men.
Octavia Saint Laurent, Paris is Burning
slope point, the southernmost tip on new zealand’s south island, is hit with such persistently violent southern antarctic winds that trees grow in the leeward direction. (click pic or link for credit x, x, x, x, x, x)
Red Doc>, Anne Carson
[ID: To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.]
ALRIGHT. LISTEN UP.
So recently, I got calls from the phone number, (937) 353-8319. They claim to be a job service, and one of their “employees”, Carrigan, is friends with whoever the call recipient is, and that Carrigan has recommended you for this $15.00/h “job”. I also got a text message from (937) 607-1493, claiming to be Carrigan, and that they need stuff to “win a scholarship”. I do not know anyone by the name of Carrigan and I know very well that this is a very dangerous scam. If you receive a call from a number, and they ask you if you would like a job for $15.00/h, HANG UP IMMEDIATELY. If you accept the “job” offer, and you go in for an interview, they will give you a drugged bottle of water and you will wake up somewhere you don’t want to be. These phone calls & texts are from a human trafficking service, and if you oblige to them, you will be sold to people and you will be raped, no doubt about it. So PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER THESE CALLS OR TEXTS. I have listened to the voicemails, and allowed my dad to do the same, and he learned that anyone offering a $15.00/h “job” is a human trafficker. PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS ALL OVER TUMBLR
Jennifer Diehl, Everything and the Kitchen Sink, 2019, Oil
Literally sometimes as a woman you just have to put your hair up and move heavy furniture around in an unconventional manner
The Untameable Shrews
The Untameable Shrews are an international radical feminist street art collective, taking over the world one act of civil disobedience at a time.
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I love my daughter already whoever she is