Today is International Women’s Day! Make sure your activism, education, and awareness is intersectional.
Check out the official website to find information and events happening near you!
HIV cases decline for black women, increase for gay men: CDC
“Fewer black women in the United States are being infected with HIV, but the number of young gay and bisexual men infected is rising, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.”
(via gladpoz)
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Gifted, Young, and Black interviews tiona.m
Our second interview with tiona.m (Multi-media artist, Executive Producer/Director of Harriet’s Gun Media™) is up on the site! Click through for beauty and wisdom!
our second interview is up y’all!
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When women of color, sex workers, rural women, young women, undocumented workers, transgender people or the otherwise marginalized lose their rights because they are implicitly assumed to be sluts, will we stand up for them too?
Sarah Seltzer on Sandra Fluke and privilege
On Sandra Fluke & privilege
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OUTmedia has been proud to support women in the arts during this all important month and strives to give voice and empowerment to female artists, not just in March, but throughout the year. OUTmedia continuously works to break though marginalization of cultures through its diverse talent “one act at a time,” promoting diversity awareness and honoring our multple rich histories and identities.
In the last half century alone, more women and girls have died as a result of gender discrimination than all the men who died in all the battles of the 20th century, and more girls were killed in any one decade than all of those who died in the genocides of last century - girls are the most marginalised and discriminated group around the world.
Deepali Sood (via msandrogynous)
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
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queer.: The GOP is declaring war on women. We have to fight back.
Not many of us here on Tumblr remember when abortion was illegal here in the USA. We have been lucky enough to grow up after Roe V. Wade. We have been lucky enough to have the option of abortion available to us.
But, I know someone who does remember - My mother.
My mother told me stories. Stories about friends and girls she knew that had no safe and legal option to ending an unwanted pregnancy. Some of them died trying to get the help they needed. They would be found dead in their homes, in back-alley abortion houses, dumped at emergency rooms like bags of trash. Then there the others. The ones who survived, but couldn’t have any children in the future. Still, there were others. The ones who were unable to hide their pregnancy any longer and would be thrown out of their parents’ homes or they would just disappear until after they gave birth. Many times they came back without their babies. They were drugged during labor and the children taken from them. These women ended up outcasts in their own communities. They were turned down for jobs, not allowed back in school, harassed on the streets. And there were still others! These women were forced into marriages in the name of propriety and family values. These women were forced to live with men that abused them and their children. These women were forced to give up their dreams, careers, and friends. AND THERE WERE STILL OTHERS. These women died during childbirth due to health complications. The list goes on, people.
This is what the GOP wants for women. Not only that, but they want it to be legal for someone to kill another person if they feel an “unborn child” is in danger. They want it to be legal to murder women who provide or seek out abortions.
This is a declaration of war. Make no mistake. The GOP views us nothing more than mere breeding mares. We’re incubators with legs. We’re walking wombs to them and nothing more. Our lives mean nothing to them. They value the idea of a potential child more than the lives of living, breathing, women who already have families, dreams, jobs, children.
We have to fight back. We have to stop the GOP from taking away our rights and sentencing us to living out our lives based on their outdated and sexist world view.
Fight back by voting.
Fight back by protesting.
Fight back by calling, e-mailing, and writing your representatives.
Tell them we will never go back.
Tell them we won’t allow this war on women to continue.
Source: lagertha-lodbrok
Women, LGBTQI, and Gender-nonconforming Individuals: Call for a Ride tonight
The Service: RightRides offers women, LGBTQ and gender nonconforming individuals a free, late-night ride home to ensure their safe commute to or through high-risk areas on Fridays and Saturdays from 11:59 PM- 3 AM.
DISPATCH NUMBER for RightRides: (718) 964-7781 OR(888)215-SAFE
The Analysis: Free; queersafe; RightRides is a founding member, and the managing partner, of New Yorkers for Safe Transit, the only coalition in NYC dedicated to raising awareness of gender-based violence in mass and was founded in August 2004 in direct response to assaults on women walking home by themselves late at night in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, two North Brooklyn neighborhoods
This “Girls, Girls, Girls” series by Girl Skateboard is noteworthy because it’s a tribute to women in rock. Six skateboarders, of whom I have no idea who they are, go ask my skate buddies.. each chose one icon to feature on his board. From left to right: Joan Jett, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, Grace Slick and Stevie Nicks.
CHECK OUT!! Lesbian.org Resources for Lesbian and Bisexual Women!!
Lesbian.org first began in the mid-1990′s and was one of the first major web sites for lesbians. For many years the site provided a comprehensive list of web links and also hosted discussion lists and web sites for lesbian-oriented non-profits. The site also sponsored a lesbian literary journal called Sapphic Ink.
Now that the web has grown and changed, the site is undergoing a redesign in the hopes of serving the needs of lesbians who have not yet found their home on the web. I’m open to input from visitors but also have a few ideas about what the site might do.
I’m thinking of reviving Sapphic Ink and would also like to showcase lesbian authors. I’ve posted some book reviews I wrote several years ago and will continue to add more book and film reviews. I’d like to create a space for lesbian academics, perhaps specifically those interested in the field of lesbian studies.
I may also offer select users the opportunity to have their own columns or blogs on lesbian.org, particularly non-profits or scholars.
Contact me for more info.
Source: hyphynation
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