June 2012
Live Action Edited Key Information Out of... →
thepoliticalfreakshow:
Thursday Live Action released a much-touted “gendercide” video that tried to paint Planned Parenthood as an organization that encourages women to “kill girls.” The video was released on the same day the House of Representatives voted on a bill that would ban sex-selective abortion. Democrats defeated the Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act in the House of Representatives on...
Here's how one reader discovered that a publisher... →
14kgoldnyc:
cactustreemotel:
shortformblog:
As I was reading, I came across this sentence: “It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern….” Thinking this was simply a glitch in the software, I ignored the intrusive word and continued reading. Some pages later I encountered the rogue word again. With my third encounter I decided to retrieve my hard cover book and find...
Here's how one reader discovered that a publisher... →
shortformblog:
As I was reading, I came across this sentence: “It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern….” Thinking this was simply a glitch in the software, I ignored the intrusive word and continued reading. Some pages later I encountered the rogue word again. With my third encounter I decided to retrieve my hard cover book and find the original (well, the...
Tumble DC 25: PLEASE REPOST: New Kink.com policy... →
maxineholloway:
This past month a severe pay cut was given to the women who work at KinkLive.com. They needed to save money and they did it by taking it from the models. Instead of staying quiet and taking what they were willing to give us for our work - we united, stood up for…
relevant.
May 2012
Why not, she said.: Internship Opportunity for... →
butchnorfemme:
2012-2013 Internship Opportunity to work in the LGBT Movement!
Opportunity for LGBT People of Color
Stipend offered - $2400 per semester will be offered to each student accepted into the program. Fall Internship Application Deadline: May 31, 2012 (early…
“Physicians, both as individuals and as a profession, should stand with their...”
– - Where are the doctors? (via iamdrtiller)
It’s appalling to me that politicians believe they know how a patient should be treated for this ONE medical procedure. You don’t have a politician telling cardiologists that before a doctor does open heart surgery they have to do X, Y, and Z. Politicians...
STFU Penguins: An Idea →
someauthorgirl:
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:
Get rid of 16 Items Or Less or Cash Only checkouts and just have a I Have My Shit Together lane. If upon reaching the register, you show any evidence of not having your shit together to quickly purchase your items and move things along for…
I would join this movement.
curiousgeorgiana:
mschieff:
apriki:
requesting a GoT spin-off for Arya and Tywin
he teaches her in the ways of war
she is a conflicted preteen who simultaneously seeks his approval and tries in vain to kill him off when he’s not looking
#special guest appearances by jaqen ‘a man can get it’ h’ghar and gendry ‘daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn’ waters
^^^ Official names.
I didn’t miss HBO...
“To live in New York is, of course, to remain a curiosity to many of the people...”
– Ginia Bellafante / NYT (via meredithbklyn)
Whatever. The city is not about its industries, its opportunities, its amenities or lack thereof… it’s about the people. There is NO OTHER PLACE in the U.S., at the very least, where you can find such a marvelous cross-section of humanity. THAT is why...
whynotshesaid:
vanboobsenstein:
whynotshesaid:
vanboobsenstein:
thisismymonkey replied to your post: okay so then
My friends and I pretty much talk about EVERYTHING and that’s a place we’ve never gone. I don’t see it coming up any time soon either.
Haha - see, I love talking about weird sex stuff, and weird body stuff, and yet there are certain things that cross a certain line for me. One...
fuckyeahfeminists:
Mail Order Bride Company President Lobbying To Weaken Protections For Abused Immigrants
This is really fucking sick.
A top official at an anti-domestic violence advocacy group that has been encouraging the House GOP to roll back protections for immigrant victims in the Violence Against Women Act (or VAWA) is the founder of a controversial international matchmaking company,...
FACT CHECK: 'Non-Citizen' Voter In James O'Keefe's... →
Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe released a new video today supposedly exposing voter fraud in North Carolina by highlighting non-citizens like Zbigniew Gorzkowski who have voted in recent elections.
The problem: Gorzkowski is an American citizen.
you know, if you’re right you don’t have to lie.
hoshaway:
have you ever just looked at hands and been like
what the fuck
I hate my hands.
Ms. Blaspheming Bitch: For those who blamed the... →
ladyatheist:
SCIENCE SAYS YOU ARE WRONG. http://freethoughtblogs.com/crommunist/2012/05/10/race-and-gay-marriage-the-story-of-a-proposition/
The study shows that race was not a significant factor in determining how a person would vote on Prop 8. Instead, political affiliation, religion, and age…
important.
“There are no saints in this world, and I am glad for it. It takes a certain kind...”
– Everything In The Medicine Cabinet Has Expired: Activist, Know Thyself (via greaterthanlapsed)
Hell yes.
“Following a reported bomb threat, the Human Rights Campaign and other LGBT...”
– -Metroweekly (D.C.)
This is fucking terrorism. Threatening the wellbeing of people who are at their job working? That is fucking terrorism. And if/when the person responsible is caught, I will update this with names.
What are the odds that this was done by a “good, upstanding Christian”?
(via...
Kinsey Hope Can't Focus For Shit: I need feminism →
peppermintnipples:
genderbitch:
…like a fish needs a fucking bicycle.
Lemme know “when” they fix their transmisogynist, ableist, cissexist, white supremacist, psychobigoted, allistic privileged, class privileged, sizeist, monosexist, prescriptive, life decision policing,…
raise an issue and it’s “well if you don’t like it just leave.”
leave and it’s...
5 tags
shortformblog:
BREAKING: Obama supports same-sex marriage!!!!!!!!
WASHINGTON — In a nod to a dramatic shift in public opinion, Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first sitting president to announce his support for same-sex marriage.
In a sit-down interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts, Obama completed what has been a markedly long and oft-mocked evolution on the matter.
The...
I got nothing.: I wonder how many people who are... →
bostongrits:
jasencomstock:
or Maine
I’m Southern. To the bone. When prop 8 passed I absolutely was loud about it. Now that this is close to home, I get the anger and the mixed feelings. But let’s be serious for a minute. As much as I want to be proud of my Southern heritage,…
I’d be willing to bet most of us did. And not bloody mindlessly either, thanks.
I got nothing.: rouxfully: I keep getting Groupons... →
rouxfully:
I keep getting Groupons for Brazilian waxes. I don’t know. I just have a little concern about cut-rate slathering-hot-wax-on-my-pussy. Most of the places that do Groupon here do it ‘cause they’re not doing great business-wise, and maybe there’s a reason for that, you know? Last…
And now I want to write a novella about a fisherman who wants to become an aesthetician.
Why Full Busted Women Are Buying Their Bras in... →
vanboobsenstein:
thelingerieaddict:
Most full busted women can easily figure out the pounds to US dollars currency conversion, but it may surprise you that many of them can also estimate prices in Polish Zlotys without a calculator. It turns out there is a magical land where bra manufacturers are making bras in all shapes, sizes, and colors of the rainbow. Oh, and they come in 28 backs and in...
