You are now 18, standing on the precipice,
trembling before your own greatness.
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen for yourself.
They don’t see the part of you that smolders.
Don’t let their doubting drown out the sound
of your own heartbeat.
Your bravery builds beyond you. You are needed
by all the little girls still living in secret,
writing oceans made of monsters and
throwing like lightening.
You are stronger than the world has ever believed you to be.
The world laid out before you to set on fire.
All you have to do
is burn.
This is your call to leap.
There will always being those
You are the first drop of a hurricane.
You don’t need to grow up to find greatness.
― Clementine Von Radics
“Women are socialized to make men feel good. We’re socialized to ‘let you down easy.’ We’re not socialized to say a clear and direct ‘no.’ We’re socialized to speak in hints and boost egos and let people save face. People who don’t respect the social contract (rapists, predators, assholes, pickup artists) are good at taking advantage of this. ‘No’ is something we have to learn. ‘No’ is something we have to earn. In fact, I’d argue that the ability to just say ‘no’ to something, without further comment, apology, explanation, guilt, or thinking about it is one of the great rites of passage in growing up, and when you start saying it and saying it regularly the world often pushes back. And calls you names.”
The art of “no.” « CaptainAwkward.com (via champagnefather)
If you are in the UK you are being taxed for having Periods.
Tampons and Sanitary Towels are taxed at 5% as ‘non-essential, luxury items’. Men’s razors are not.
There is a petition appealing to the Government to change this here.
“When you’re at the pool lounging on a beach chair and some little kids are running and the lifeguard screams out “no running” do you respond “excuse me, not all of us are running”? No, you don’t. The lifeguard didn’t have to specifically state who they were talking to because you’re intelligent enough to comprehend that the comment wasn’t being directed at you.”
Found a quote that shuts down that “not all men” argument pretty well. (via mykicks)
(via thefeministbookclub)
This is so relevant it’s not even funny.
Worst part is these biases are so ingrained and socialized into society at large that people rarely notice they’re doing it. That’s why speaking to both men and women about this is so important.
“Acknowledging that men and women bring different qualities and different skills to public life is critical. For too long, women were expected to think like men and act like men if they wanted to succeed.”
BBC News - Viewpoint: What if women ruled the world? (via femininefreak)
“Let us be clear: There is no place in the feminist movement for transphobia, racism, classism — or any form of prejudice. Feminism does not believe difference equals discrimination. Feminism is about the celebration of diversity and the advocacy of the legal equality for all people.”
Marcie Bianco
(via micdotcom)
» feminist [the word] includes the idea that believing men and women to be equal, believing all people to be people is not a natural state — that we don’t emerge, assuming that everybody in the human race is a human, that the idea of equality is just an idea that’s imposed on us, that we are indoctrinated with, that it’s an agenda. [READ CAREFULLY/WATCH THE VIDEO BEFORE MISJUDGING]