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We’re not public property
A quote from Rachele’s amazing rant about the scummy, scamming diet company “Venus Factor.”
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Why I don’t suffocate my skin for the sake of acceptable femininity (ie, why I don’t wear antiperspirant)
I don’t wear antiperspirant. I haven’t for years — not since I was young and impressionable and believed capitalist patriarchy when they said so long as I sweat at ALL I was gross and unfeminine and boys would never want to kiss me.
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A little foreknowledge can save you a lot of heartache…
I’d rather know as early as possible someone’s political or religious beliefs — because they could negatively affect my life.
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Dreams Made Flesh
When I got home there was a box outside my door — it must be my Christmas gift from my best friend/sister!
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I’ll “Fat Talk” as Much as I Gorram Please
What I take issue with in this video is the labeling of self-hatred as “fat talk”.
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In which I yell into a microphone and shake like a leaf.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3VNWpTBj8k&w=560&h=315] This is me at the VanSlam on Monday night. I haven’t watched the video and probably won’t. I have issues with watching myself on video and am not in the right headspace to do so today or maybe ever. But, you know, if you wanted to see me perform “Blood Candle”…there you go. Now,…
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I didn’t use to think I was pretty; or, In defense of the selfie
If you spend any time on the internet you know that the word selfie often takes on connotations that are disparaging. Only self-centred hipsters do that, people might say, or Selfies are for women/girls who are attention-whores. (And yes, women are always “attention-whores”; they are never simply self-centred. Hooray sexist gendered language!) And perhaps the…
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Independence! …from harassment. Hopefully. Someday.
(x-posted here.) If you’re involved in the SF-o-sphere you may have seen the internet go boom in the past week. Elise Matthesen was sexually harassed while she was at WisCon, and formally reported it. This is actually news, because reporting is so rare – mainly because society in general makes it incredibly difficult for people to report this sort of…
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Texas GOP, STAHP. You are not Time Lords. You don’t even have ONE heart.
That joke may be lost on you if you don’t follow Doctor Who, or what happened in Texas on Tuesday the 25th (yesterday/today). I can help you with the second bit! What follows is my Storify compilation of tweets (some by me; most by others) telling the story of Wendy Davis’ heroism and her 13+…