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Women in Nepal: sharing a bidi, Ram Puti and her family

ph. Eric Valli and Debra Kellner

National Geographic September 2000

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i used to be a kind of 'i think we need spaces with no men but in a trans-inclusive woman-positive way' person but the more i grow i think that whole idea is pretty flawed from the core? because like, 'no men' is reactionary thing by nature, but it also, like people much more learnt than me have said, suggests that the only way to create meaningful feminist spaces is by excluding men entirely? and 1. thats not true and 2. that bodes badly for a feminist future! as badly as some people might want it we are not becoming lesbian geckos any time soon.

the ways in which its flawed definitely interface w transmisogyny - and i think some antifeminists describe ideology like this as 'segregating the genders!!' in a way thats Wrong, but like, it's important that if we want a feminist future, people who might be percieved as men are accepted and allowed to learn and treated as people with equal potential to create a more just world and some of them become women and thats awesome and some of them dont, yaknow? fundamentally it comes back to the radfem idea that 'the people i think are Men have a sort of Evil Particle in them' being so unconducive to a meaningful feminist movement cos it prevents people from sharing their own experiences under the patriarchy and forming solidarity. it also positions the ultimate conflict of society as Men vs Women which very handily erases a lot of other lines of oppression in a way that benefits the white women who perpetrate it.

thats my feminist thinkpiece for the day

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The Epic of Gilgamesh illustrated by Wael Tarabieh (½)

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"i wonder how the state of feminism on the tumblr is"

white feminists: *throwing a fit at feminists of color quoting bell hooks and acknowledging the perils of gender essentialism in intersectional feminist spaces, because it's feminist to be a gender essentialist*

"same as it ever was"

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spring has arrived 🌼

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I really can’t believe we all grew up together on this goddamn bitch of a website

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PATRICK TABERNA

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Lisbon, june 2021.

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Amenaide, The Operatic Heroine Sculpture by Vittorio Caradossi white marble

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I am sad that I've stopped doing image descriptions, but the fact of the matter is I don't have the spoons for them anymore. Where I once would consider making an image description a worthy challenge, I now simply feel challenged. I don't even know where to start most of the time.

It would be nice if more (or all!) abled people added ALT text to their posts because many of the people who need them – or those of us who care about improving accessibility for (other) disabled folk – aren't able to make them consistently. The option is there, so why not try?

Accessibility is allyship. How is your allyship coming along?

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"amab or afab" im alab experiment that went wrong

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got high and forgot to jerk off cause i was busy thinking about my theories

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Up on melancholy hill sits a crow just looking out on the day...

Aaskrähe (carrion crow) im Unteren Schlossgarten, Stuttgart-Ost.

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1 - donate to waleed

2 - donate to mahmoud

3 - donate to ahmed

4 - donate to sahar

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7 - donate to esraa

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9 - donate to khaled

10 - donate to ghada

all of these fundraisers are less than 10% of the way to their goal. they need our help. please share. 🇵🇸

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Astronomical photographs, Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, 1890-1920

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who wants to buy this couch

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by Hélène Delmaire