February 2012
2 posts
REBLOG FOR TRUTH
wilwheaton:
Just so I’m clear: Misogyny in advertising on TV is totally okay. Violence on TV is totally okay. Encouraging people to self-diagnose mental illness on TV is totally okay.
Flipping the bird on TV, though, is totally not okay.
Is that pretty much it?
Okay, that’s what I thought. So, allow me to just say something real quick here, okay?
For fuck’s sake, America, it’s not the 1950s...
January 2012
6 posts
I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one
In an epic display of male privilege, Jay-Z has decided to stop using the word “bitch” in his songs now that he has a daughter:
Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich I didn’t think hard about using the word bitch I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it Now with my daughter in this world I curse those that give it.
How righteously noble of you, Mr Z. Before...
“But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night...”
– NPR’s Linda Holmes reviews Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 (via diandrabird)
Profoundly irresponsible.
(via librarysciences)
DING DING DING DING DING DING.
(via littlesassafrass)
REBLOG FOREVER.
#BoycottLibra: Libra DOESN'T Get Girls
So today, I came across this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lReX1dAUAE
It’s Libra’s new ad for their tampons, and it features a cisgendered woman and a transgendered woman in a public bathroom. They compete over mascara, lipgloss and an adjustment of their bras, before the cis woman opens her bag, removes a box of Libra tampons, and triumphantly takes one out and displays it to the...
December 2011
16 posts
2011 - Year In Review
1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before? Got robbed. Technically I didn’t do that, it got done to me, but it was something I’d never done before. I also studied nursing. That was pretty new too. 2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Yes. I resolved to not get pregnant and to love my boyfriends fiercely, and I did...
South Carolina man threw a 12-pound bowling ball... →
Rape culture is when men feel so entitled to have access to women that they throw bowling balls at us when they are denied.
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On Sexual Violence, Institutionalised Misogyny and...
The following is a longer form version of my mic check to Bourke St Mall from Saturday. It was distributed amongst Occupiers of Melbourne and members of the general public. It belongs to me, and was written by me, and is reproduced here with my permission.
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People of Melbourne,
On Tuesday December 6th, a terrible act of sexual violence...
“Mic check! Mic check!
My name is Erin.
I’m from First Aid and Care.
I...”
– Today, I mic check-ed Bourke Street Mall. This is what I said.
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Rush of Sun: Occupy Sydney - The simple fact →
onmyshore:
Its hard, and its long, and yr volunteering, and it can be frustrating, but rewarding, cold, hot, dirty, fun, boring, and it doesn’t always work. I have however, really challenged my perceptions about certain types of people, and spoken to many people i never would have. I have learnt so much…
This is EXACTLY how I feel about Occupy Melbourne. Beautifully said!
Institutionalised sexual assault and the chipping...
Today, December 6th, 2011, members of the Victoria Police and the Melbourne City Council used a knife to strip a young woman down to her underwear in the Flagstaff Gardens.
This is Sarah. She was wearing a tent:
(photo taken Monday December 5, originally from https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1689852063485&set=o.267743436592740&type=3)
The City of Melbourne apparently decided...
November 2011
20 posts
SECRET MISSION: Do you want a fat necklace?
definatalie:
Follow @fancyladyind on twitter and await my announcements tomorrow.
This message will self destruct if no one reblogs it.
Woman given 3-year prison term for food stamp... →
wilwheaton:
A Rankin County mother will serve more time in federal prison for lying on her food stamp application than a group of people recently sentenced in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme.
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[Judge] Wingate bypassed sentencing McLemore under federal guidelines that suggested she receive two to eight months in prison and would have made her eligible for probation. He instead...
OccupyDownUnder: Robert Doyle can't see the trees... →
occupydownunder:
On my walk back to the train station the other night after being at Treasury Gardens camping out with #occupymelbourne I went past City Square, the site of the original eviction of Occupy Melbourne. Instead of people using the square it is being setup for…trees.
The protest had stopped…
You know how sometimes you can just feel your brain? Like, you can feel all your...
I just wrote this letter to the Chancellor of UC...
Dear Chancellor Katehi,
My name is Erin White and I live in Melbourne, Australia.
There is a short sentence at the top of the website I am writing this letter to you on. It reads “Please share your thoughts with UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi”. Ms Katehi, I don’t write to you today to share my thoughts with you, even though I have many of them.
I write to you today to...
ALERT from Occupy Portland →
ALERT! A man named Justin James Bridges, musician & ASL translator for Occupy Portland General Assembly, was assaulted by @PortlandPolice today during camp clean out.
He was beaten repeatedly in the back and has now lost use of his right arm. Though Justin was lying on the ground in compliance, Portland Police continuously beat him in the back with clubs until his eyes rolled back in his...
I just prettied myself up for a boyfriend who probably doesn’t even like me anymore.
as i sit here with a teapot full of buddha's tears...
erin: hahaha hoooooly shit. Live at Abbey Rd just came on ABC and it's Green Day. hahah.
me: hahahaha
erin: random
me: thats just too much at 11pm
on a thursday
shit
how old am i
nine years ago we'd be at goo
erin: yeah. we are way too old.
me: and i would have had a bottle of tequila by now
and you would be sitting there lurking simon
erin: and I'd be burning through drink cards and eyeballing Simon
hahaha
me: zinggg
Yep. This JUST happened : D
Occupy Sydney - Riot Cops mock and taunt and revel...
onmyshore:
Three weeks ago I had every faith in the police. I respected them and the jobs they do. They had helped me out on occasions where I was vulnerable. I would defend them to anyone who said “cops are bullies”.
The last three weeks have slowly changed my perspective. I have never been arrested, and not come close to that in Occupy. In the last three weeks, the most apparent ‘crimes’ I...
Watchrboiats:
The Eviction: #OccupyMelbourne 21.10.11 | Looking at the bravery & the beauty for a moment!
October 2011
24 posts
Domestic Violence Isn't A Joke (Trigger Warning)
On Friday evening, Mark and I went to the supermarket. We did all our shopping, and after we got everything loaded up onto the conveyer belt at the checkout, I sat down on a seat near where Mark was being checked out.
I fractured my rib a week ago, so I while I was sitting down, I was also sort of holding my side, and probably had a slightly pained look on my face. Another supermarket employee...
