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This Is My Body from Jason Stefaniak on Vimeo.

Originally posted by twbasketcase at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media ( Read more... )

Today is the 100th annual International Women's Day. While I agree with this post about how women are unique and for the most part don't have one universal experience, I do like the idea of having a day set aside to celebrate anything and everything that being a woman could possibly mean. We are all strong, and loving, and beautiful, each in her ( Read more... )

( Me and my big mouth. )

Had a delightful day out with flight_wo_wings today, which included catching a showing of Black Swan. You know me: psychological thriller, ballet... what's not to love? ( These are my thoughts. )

Thanks to elandrialore, I have to point everyone towards leupagus' amazing Promptfest '11: Mary Sue Edition.

Mary Sues are the bogeyman of fanfic; any time a female character is present, the spectre rears its ugly head, even if it's only in the writer's imagination -- and even if the character is in canon. Uhura knows seventy-five languages and makes out with a hot ( Read more... )

When a sexual predator pressed his condom-covered penis against a woman on the subway, he had no idea what he was in for.

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I LOVE that she just calls him out, right there, no holds barred. He turned out to be a registered sex offender, who served is serving four months in prison before being deported. If she hadn't had the courage to stand up ( Read more... )

Copied almost directly from Twitter, for I am le tired. I may elaborate more if I feel suddenly inspired outside the 140-character limit ( Read more... )

Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University

There are no words for how horrified and disgusted I am.

I've always thought that Criminal Minds was one of shows on network TV to treat their women better. It fulfills the qualifications for The Rule quite regularly. But now CBS is firing AJ Cook and cutting the number of episodes for Paget Brewster. I'm horrified and saddened that we could lose two strong, intelligent female characters when TPTB are ( Read more... )