#Support women

[calibrationneeded]

What a horrible way to wake up, Jesus Christ

[saydesole]

You fixed your mouth to express your love for me but didn't vote to protect my rights as a woman a BLACK WOMAN.

A message to Fathers, Uncles, Cousins, Brothers, Husbands, Sons and Friends

I will no longer fight for those who didn't care enough to fight for us Women‼️ -SaydeSole

[crazycatsiren]

Happy International Women's Day to disabled women, neurodivergent women, poor women, fat women, queer women, women of color, Jewish women, Muslim women, women who are sex workers, women who are addicts, women who are homeless, women who are single mothers. ♀️

[abe-ma]

This campaign has raised an incredible $12,892 of their $15,000 goal! This was their most recent update on Oct 26th: "A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated, shared our story, or kept us in their thoughts and prayers. Thanks to your incredible support, we’ve reached our first milestone and covered our 1st semester fees. We’ve also secured our accommodation and living expenses as we head to Alalamin! We’re currently at 23% of the 2nd semester fees and are getting closer to our goal of $15,000. Let’s continue this journey together, and I hope we can make you all proud in the near future."

Braah Alrashid and Hibatallah Suleiman are fifth-year medical students at Ahfad University for Women in Sudan. They have been best friends since 2017.

They began their journey at Ahfad Medical School in September 2017. Despite the unstable situation in Sudan — from the Revolution in 2019 through the COVID-19 lockdown and now the ongoing war — they remain dedicated students with two years left to graduate!

On April 15, 2023, when war broke out in Sudan, their lives were shattered and fell apart. They lost everything —  homes, land, loved ones, and most sorrowfully,  dreams. They have been forcibly displaced from state to state, exhausting all family savings, and have now ended up in Egypt.

They once dreamed of becoming a cardiothoracic surgeon and a psychiatrist. Ahfad University has decided to collaborate with the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Egypt, El-Alamein. Unfortunately, the tuition fees are $4,960 per student, which they cannot afford due to the ongoing financial hardships their families are facing because of the worsening war. They humbly ask for your generous support to help collect the fees before the deadline on September 1.

The goal is extremely attainable! Every little bit helps.

Detailed Budget:

Study fees: $4,960 each

Accommodation and life expenses: $1,200 each

Medical books and scrubs: $1,000 each

GoFundMe transaction fees: $600

TOTAL: $14,920

[misskelley]

Support women.

[morallyrainyday]

happy mother's day to palestinian mothers. happy mother's day to palestinian mothers who have lost children. happy mother's day to palestinians who have lost their mothers. happy mother's day to palestinian mothers older than israel itself. happy mother's day to palestinian mothers who have escaped the gaza strip. happy mother's day to palestinian mothers still living in the gaza strip.

happy mother's day to all palestinian mothers. 🇵🇸✊❤

[dumplingprincessextraordinaire]

I support people doing whatever they want with fiction, including fujoshi here, y’all are loved and safe on my blog however there’s a certain type of fujoshi that makes me uncomfortable

It’s those kind of people who let their internalized misogyny bleed into their fandom hobbies and shit on female characters for “getting in the way” of their ship or just generally being a “not like other girls” because understand this, I’m very pro women as much as I am proship

[auntymurda]

[villainousshakespeare]

In Praise of Tom Hiddleston and Female Directors

As a female director (albeit of Theater and not Film) I have been feeling a little frustrated once again as awards season brings no nominations for women. This led me (as many things do, lol) to thinking about my favorite Muse, Tom Hiddleston.

One of the things that I love about TH is willingness and enthusiasm to work with female directors, and on thinking about it I realized that this allyship has also benefited him as well. Case in point:

1. His first movie, Unrelated, was directed by Joanna Hogg. Now, of course all of us see Hiddles as the perfect Beautiful Boy but imagine if this movie had been directed by a man. In that case, Oakley, the handsome younger man who charms and tempts the 40 something woman, would almost certainly be cast with some young beef cake actor, or at very least had them bulk up in order to play the role. This is who male directors seem to think we desire. Instead, Hogg casts TH and boy does she sell him. Oakley is a little shit, but the way he is lit, framed, directed makes him all but irresistible. The female gaze sees all of his ethereal beauty and shares it with us.

2. Next we have my personal favorite, Henry V in The Hollow Crown. In his big leading episode, Tom is once again directed by a woman, Thea Sharrock. Again, look at how his is shot. The female gaze follows him riding in like a hero from our collective imagination in his opening shot. He is strong and dangerous, savage even at times, without ever loosing that thread of empathy that Henry struggles to clamp down. And do I even have to mention the proposal scene? Watch that and tell me it isn’t pure wish fulfillment for the majority of people who fancy men. I liked him when I watched Loki, but Hollow Crown made me fall so deep down the rabbit hole that I may never climb out again (and honestly, I’m okay with this).

3. Lastly, we come to the role that pushed him over the edge into superstardom, The Night Manager. Can there be any doubt that this miniseries was directed by a woman? The entire show was an advertisement for how gorgeous he is. Yes, there are some lovely shots of Elizabeth Debicki in various states of undress, but Pine is the major eye candy here. See him in finely tailored suits, see him astride a motorcycle, see him bathing, both in a waterfall and in a shower covered in mud, see his much lauded English countryside looking all round and pert... it just goes on and on. It is not just the visual that Susana Biers gets either. Unlike other spies of film and television, Jonathan is emotional, chivalrous, and above all intelligent. Tom nails the role and the world loved him for it.

I am not saying that male directors do not make Tom look good (hello Conrad’s arms) or play to his strengths (see the psychological beauty of Adam). I just believe there is something to be said for the qualities that female directors can bring out. 

In short (ha, sorry, this ran on looooong, lol) Tom trusts women directors more than many of his fellow actors, and I think the results are that he shows a vulnerability in his work that helps make him more than just another action star. Women have helped make him the actor he is today, and I don’t believe the fact that his last two directors were women is an accident. He said in his interview for Leading Lady Parts that he needed to work with more directors (he had worked with five at that point I believe) and he has been as good as his word. Another reason to love this man.

* I also want to make a special shout out to stage director Josey Rourke, who has the career that I want and gave us this amazing contribution:

[meowmeow1meow]

i love scrolling through wormblr cus there’ll be a really silly post then the most gut wrenching analysis post

[askhomestuckeveryone]

I would like to offer best boy Tavros a flower crown. Because he deserves nice things!

(⬅️. ➡️)

[maralaai]

Happy International Women’s Day!!

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[fellow-hooman]

YES SUPPORT WOMEN

[crazycatsiren]

It's a wonderful day for another reminder that trans women are women. Forever and ever, amen. ❤️

[misskelley]

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