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One of the best things about going to a single sex girls school was that they gave us a series of classes on female specific self defence incase we were attacked by a male.
I remembered some tips I thought would be useful for women to know
I don’t remember everything but here are some tips I do remember
- often times male perpetrators will cover their groins so don’t focus on the crotch, instead focus on places like the eyes and knees.
- if you’re really in a dire situation where a man is straddling you then try and snap his legs apart very quickly with yours, because this can disable them very quickly.
- you can also impact on the under side of the nose to kill a man if you really need to. Useful to know.
- they’ll try and disable your hands, and if this happens use your feet or your head. Women have biologically less upper body strength so these are also effective at making impact.
- avoid men doing a stupid walk with baggy trousers on. A lot of the time this means they have a knife, and if it doesn’t then they’re stupid and you should avoid them anyway.
-if you’re stabbed avoid taking the knife out, because it acts as a plug to stop you from bleeding out.
- In terms of prevention, it’s helpful to basically always keep friends around you, but also to go to establishments you know will care if you’re being hurt. I personally have been spiked before in a club that didn’t care at all, and it was horrible - do your research before you go out.
These are obviously limited tips but I enjoy this channel as a means of learning self defence - https://youtube.com/@empowered8083?si=lU2YEI89phKXgEJi
Stay safe <3
First of all, prostitution is not the oldest profession- it's the oldest form of slavery. The oldest profession is midwifery. So jot that down.
hate how women being gnc is just her being normal and natural and human like not shaving hair, no makeup etc. but when a man is “gnc” he actually chooses to conform to another societal standard (wearing makeup, painting nails, etc)
a list of (some of) the things we owe to lesbians
the stonewall uprising (x)
pride marches (x)
homosexuality being removed from the dsm (x)
paving the way for the legalization of cross dressing/influencing gnc women’s fashion (x) (x) (x)
aids organizing and care (x) (x) (x)
fighting to include black women and lesbians into feminism/women’s rights movements (x) (x) (x)
black history month in the uk (x)
legalization of gay marriage in the usa (x) (x)
physically protecting the community (from storme delarverie who patrolled gay neighbourhoods to the butches protecting drag story time)
hey so it’s march now aka the beginning of endometriosis awareness month and i feel obligated to remind you that debilitatingly painful periods are not normal. if you or someone you know is ending up sick or bedridden every month, you are not crazy and deserve medical attention from someone who will take you seriously
today I learned that a Chinese woman named Chien-Shiung Wu proved quantum entanglement before anyone else. have I ever read about her in the pop physics books I read? no. this makes me so mad but also that's fucking awesome
A Historical Deep Dive into the Founders of Black Womanism & Modern Feminism
Six African American Suffragettes Mainstream History Tried to Forget
These amazing Black American women each advanced the principles of modern feminism and Black womanism by insisting on an intersectional approach to activism. They understood that the struggles of race and gender were intertwined, and that the liberation of Black women was essential. Their writings, speeches, and actions have continued to inspire movements addressing systemic inequities, while affirming the voices of marginalized women who have shaped society. Through their amazing work, they have expanded the scope of womanism and intersectional feminism to include racial justice, making it more inclusive and transformative.
Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964)
Quote: “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”
Contribution: Anna Julia Cooper was an educator, scholar, and advocate for Black women’s empowerment. Her book A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892) is one of the earliest articulations of Black feminist thought. She emphasized the intellectual and cultural contributions of Black women and argued that their liberation was essential to societal progress. Cooper believed education was the key to uplifting African Americans and worked tirelessly to improve opportunities for women and girls, including founding organizations for Black women’s higher education. Her work challenged both racism and sexism, laying the intellectual foundation for modern Black womanism.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)
Quote: “We are all bound together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.”
Contribution: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a poet, author, and orator whose work intertwined abolitionism, suffrage, and temperance advocacy. A prominent member of the American Equal Rights Association, she fought for universal suffrage, arguing that Black women’s voices were crucial in shaping a just society. Her 1866 speech at the National Woman’s Rights Convention emphasized the need for solidarity among marginalized groups, highlighting the racial disparities within the feminist movement. Harper’s writings, including her novel Iola Leroy, offered early depictions of Black womanhood and resilience, paving the way for Black feminist literature and thought.
Ida B. Wells (1862–1931)
Quote: “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
Contribution: Ida B. Wells was a fearless journalist, educator, and anti-lynching activist who co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Her investigative reporting exposed the widespread violence and racism faced by African Americans, particularly lynchings. As a suffragette, Wells insisted on addressing the intersection of race and gender in the fight for women’s voting rights. At the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C., she famously defied instructions to march in a segregated section and joined the Illinois delegation at the front, demanding recognition for Black women in the feminist movement. Her activism laid the groundwork for modern feminisms inclusion of intersectionality, emphasizing the dual oppressions faced by Black women.
Sojourner Truth (1797–1883)
Quote: “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Contribution: Born into slavery, Sojourner Truth became a powerful voice for abolition, women's rights, and racial justice after gaining her freedom. Her famous 1851 speech, "Ain’t I a Woman?" delivered at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio, directly challenged the exclusion of Black women from the feminist narrative. She highlighted the unique struggles of Black women, who faced both racism and sexism, calling out the hypocrisy of a movement that often-centered white women’s experiences. Truth’s legacy lies in her insistence on equality for all, inspiring future generations to confront the intersecting oppressions of race and gender in their advocacy.
Nanny Helen Burroughs (1879–1961)
Quote: “We specialize in the wholly impossible.”
Contribution: Nanny Helen Burroughs was an educator, activist, and founder of the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington, D.C., which emphasized self-sufficiency and vocational training for African American women. She championed the "Three B's" of her educational philosophy: Bible, bath, and broom, advocating for spiritual, personal, and professional discipline. Burroughs was also a leader in the Women's Convention Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention, where she pushed for the inclusion of women's voices in church leadership. Her dedication to empowering Black women as agents of social change influenced both the feminist and civil rights movements, promoting a vision of racial and gender equality.
Elizabeth Piper Ensley (1847–1919)
Quote: “The ballot in the hands of a woman means power added to influence.”
Contribution: Elizabeth Piper Ensley was a suffragist and civil rights activist who played a pivotal role in securing women’s suffrage in Colorado in 1893, making it one of the first states to grant women the vote. As a Black woman operating in the predominantly white suffrage movement, Ensley worked to bridge racial and class divides, emphasizing the importance of political power for marginalized groups. She was an active member of the Colorado Non-Partisan Equal Suffrage Association and focused on voter education to ensure that women, especially women of color, could fully participate in the democratic process. Ensley’s legacy highlights the importance of coalition-building in achieving systemic change.
To honor these pioneers, we must continue to amplify Black women's voices, prioritizing intersectionality, and combat systemic inequalities in race, gender, and class.
Modern black womanism and feminist activism can expand upon these little-known founders of woman's rights by continuously working on an addressing the disparities in education, healthcare, and economic opportunities for marginalized communities. Supporting Black Woman-led organizations, fostering inclusive black femme leadership, and embracing allyship will always be vital.
Additionally, when we continuously elevate their contributions in social media or multi-media art through various platforms, and academic curriculum we ensure their legacies continuously inspire future generations. By integrating their principles into feminism and advocating for collective liberation, women and feminine allies can continue their fight for justice, equity, and feminine empowerment, hand forging a society, by blood, sweat, bones and tears where all women can thrive, free from oppression.
“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”
a hero emerges
i hate the way makeup and beauty ads pitch their products. there’s this angle that’s like: ‘the frustration you feel with an insane beauty practice that only women are expected to engage with is solely because you’re using the wrong product.’
hate wearing foundation? you’re using the wrong one. try this. try that. try our new skin-healthy paste that comes in seven million colors, just like women do! watch them twirl and smile in this tiktok ad, now with 75% more body diversity! tired of breakable ineffective razors and ingrown hairs? try hair removal cream. try our luxury waterproof trimmer. try our special diverse queer razor that makes you feminist and empowered! look at this real life cool girl removing her real life body hair — that could be you, if you buy our subscription box! aren’t we so progressive? you too can be progressive and individual while staying smooth and sexy and inhuman and consumable!
like no you know what? if you hate wearing foundation, stop wearing it. if you’re tired of razors and razor burn, stop fucking shaving. if you want to get the fuck out of this capitalist patriarchal hellhole, stop buying product after product to make yourself acceptable to men. it’s really not that hard.
the word cunty set feminism back 200 years
body neutrality will always be more important than body positivity. you don't need to expand your definition of beauty to include yourself. you have a nose for breathing, legs for walking, and eyes for seeing. you don't owe "beauty" to anyone. learn to be comfortable in your body without having to be seen as 'attractive". confidence does not mean attractiveness
With us living in a time where men are literally yelling “your body, my choice”, I’d like to share a few links to things I highly suggest looking into getting especially if you rave and travel alone.
1: https://a.co/d/7nSSYM5
This is the NightCap scrunchie, which provides cover for your beverages. You can find cheaper, disposable ones here if you want to bring some to share: https://a.co/d/grcCLTD
2: https://a.co/d/ekSbMRG
These are roofie check wristbands. Each wristband has the ability to test 8 times, and they come in packs of 2, 12, 24 or 100. You can find similar tests in a portable strip or even wallet card form if the bracelet cramps your style, the wallet cards can be found here: https://a.co/d/ekHTSzi
3: https://a.co/d/2fyapai
These are discrete emergency whistles. They come in 2 or 4 packs, and in silver or gold.
4: https://a.co/d/an1k7qF
This is a small personal alarm created by women, for women. It does not have a button, but rather has a pin mechanism. The alarm’s battery lasts up to 40 minutes, and because it is not considered a “w3@p0n” like pepper spray, you can take it anywhere, including on planes.
5: https://a.co/d/0yVnTTv
This one is a mini, rechargeable stun gun.
Not everyone has time and money to take self defense classes - but if you were to purchase all of these items, your total would be less than $100. Your life is priceless. Please take care of yourselves, and please feel free to share this with your friends and copy/paste to your pages. Stay weird yall!
“Oh yeah, we mixed with lesbians. We always got along back then. All that division between the lesbian women and queens came after 1974 when Jane O'Leary and the radical lesbians came up. The radicals did not accept us or masculine-looking women who looked like men. And those lesbian women might not even have been trans. But we did get along famously in the early 60’s. I’ve been to many a dyke party… The lesbian community today has a lot to learn from the old ways of the lesbian community.”
— Sylvia Rivera (via millesbianfalcon)
biological differences between men and women are inherently neutral. they do not indicate male superiority over female people. to suggest so is inherently sexist. to complain when female sports cater to female anatomy - such as the smaller balls in the wnba because women tend to have smaller hands - is what sexists do. they want women to be forced to prove ourselves according to standards designed for men because they want to see us fail. it is sexist to argue that women who wish to compete on their own terms are pronouncing themselves as inferior. nobody said that but you. because you’re a sexist that hates women
![Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.❞ — Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate) OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE • Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge. • Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard. • Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.” • Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne — after telling her not to publish). • Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work. • Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science. • Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her. (OP: Matthew Gardner)](https://64.media.tumblr.com/62252d2e0b47b6782fbd6ef350407812/5bd09b4ca294947e-d3/s500x750/58ae690a544239d5a7cdf38d6193c1e114d908a1.jpg)
Unpopular opinion(s) concerning Rogue under the cut for spoilers:
(Feel free to ask if you want clarification on any of my opinions or have your own point of view, I’m always open to hearing multiple perspectives!)
1) It should have been a two parter.
It just felt to me like the relationship between the Doctor and Rogue was rushed? Maybe I just don’t like the Doctor being allo after years of being heavily Aroace + romance/sex repulsed coded, but they met for like a few hours tops and the Doctor is looking a wedding-adjacent ring and sighing?
Also, the bird monsters needed more time onscreen. They were cool and needed more background on their motivations/world/personalities. They don’t even have names! It should have been like the Slitheen, where they all have their own distinct identities despite having the same motivations. What we got was…bratty whiny bird woman 1, bratty whiny bird woman 2, bad boy bird man, the other bird man, and Emily. Though to be fair I liked the Emily twist.
2) I don’t understand Doctor/Rogue
Rogue is a bounty hunter. He kills people for a living. The Doctor despises unnecessary violence, and is even shown in the episode to disagree with Rogue’s methods, so why would they have him fall for Rogue? Why did he fall for Rogue anyways? Because they treat it like a serious emotional commitment for the Doctor rather than physical attraction (which is what it came across as for me.)
The Doctor doesn’t even approve of River’s overly violent behavior (Doctor/River is a whole other dislike of mine but that’s a different tangent) and she’s his wife. Maybe this is just me being salty about rushed romances that are treated as far more important than friendships (*cough* The Doctor wasting time flirting with Rogue when he knows full well that he’s just left Ruby in a space with murderous aliens *cough*)
Overall:
It was a meh episode to me. None of the episodes have really stood out to me other than the Devil’s Chord. Villains had no individual identities, weren’t super memorable. Bridgerton name drops got really annoying (Like hello?? The Doctor is canonically a Jane Austen fan and not one P&P reference??). Rogue was kind of interesting, but the rushed romance and the sudden heel face turn of him becoming self sacrificing and selfless really came out of nowhere ngl.
5/10 imo
Important
on the 7th of june a twitter user by the name of logan smith tweeted that the queen would die on the 8th of september and on september 7th whilst the sans vs reigen tumblr sexyman poll was undergoing the queen voted for reigen and upon sans’ 0.1% vote lead she was obliterated the following day whilst simultaneously across the globe trisha paytas goes into labour giving birth to a baby girl which is actually the reincarnated soul of queen elizabeth II thus continuing the circle of life
