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Full frontal feminism: a young women’s guide to why feminism matters
By Jessica Valenti
(via stfuconservatives)
(via missgingerlee)
I need to read this daily!
Speaking your truth isn’t easy.
It means being vulnerable and raw.
And it means opening ourselves up to possible judgement and criticism.
It means having to face tension, awkwardness, and discomfort.
And it puts us at risk of being unaccepted and invalidated.
But it also sets us free.
Holding in what we feel doesn’t make the feelings go away—it exacerbates them.
Keeping silent may be easier and more comfortable, but it certainly doesn’t feel any better.
It doesn’t solve the conflict and it doesn’t help us move forward.
The only way to liberate yourself, is to speak.
You aren’t responsible for the way other people feel.
You may not want to speak your truth in fear of hurting others, but when you stay silent, you hurt yourself far more.
Every human being has the need to be speak and be heard.
You are no exception.
It doesn’t matter what you say or if you falter.
It doesn’t matter if your voice shakes.
It doesn’t matter if people disagree or disapprove.
What matters is that you speak because it’s your right.
Your voice matters.
What you feel matters.
And because you feel it and it’s real to you, it’s valid and it’s true.
And that deserves to be spoken.
Yeah….I’m workin’ on it. Very, very, very slowly.
Taken from the Honest Girl Scouts campaign. For a campaign trying to get people /not/ to buy cookies and /not/ support the GSUSA, this is doing an awful lot to suddenly make me want /to/ support the GSUSA. (and I’m saying this a a former Girl Scout of about 6 years who hasn’t bought cookies in years because they’re too expensive).
I see so much acceptance here, and especially in a time in children’s lives where acceptance is so important, taking that away from them is just cruel.
If you don’t have a niece or young neighbor, plug in your ZIP code here to find a pro-abortion feminist-minded little girl to sell you some sweet, sweet progressive cookies.
^Do this shit. I buy them in troves from the Scouts that sell at the supermarket.
reblogging for the link to the cookie finding goodness!
Promoting lesbians as role models? Really? Well shit, if I wasn’t going to buy those little boxes of cookie happiness (which I was going to do regardless), this would change my mind.
Oh hell yeah! Gotta get me some of those liberal lesbian abortion cookies!!
As an amazing validation of the grassroots response to SOPA, led by groups like Fight for the Future, EFF, Public Knowledge, and Demand Progress, they write, “Since the mark-up, we have increasingly heard from a large number of constituents and other stakeholders with vocal concerns about possible unintended consequences of the proposed legislation, including breaches in cybersecurity, damaging the integrity of the Internet, costly and burdensome litigation, and dilution of First Amendment rights.”
Yes, you read that correctly: six Republican senators have formally asked Harry Reid to push back* the date of the PIPA** vote, in part because of feedback they’ve heard from their constituents. Contact your representative! Tweet them! Call them! Sometimes they actually listen. Shocking, I know.
*The headline says “cancel,” but they don’t say they want to NEVER vote on the bill, just that January 24th is too early and they’d like to have time to do more research.
**The Senate’s version of SOPA.
-Jess
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about…
Awesome story! We need more big brothers like this.
PTSD: Support
Support for someone you know with PTSD starts with understanding (sorry it’s kind of a lengthy post)
It really helps to know that someone understands what is going on and that you’re not loosing your mind. Sharing your experiences and your support is important. — Thanks to all of those who “get it.”
I’ve been mulling this whole Shit Girls Say thing over for a while now and I think I’ve finally figured out what it is that bothers me about it: Everything. And that includes you, other people who hate it.
If you’ve been living under a rock for the past week or so, Toronto dudes Graydon Sheppard…