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“The 17-year-old, Hunger Games actor Amandla Stenberg has come out as non-binary.
Stenberg – who plays Rue in the adventure film franchise – says she feels like she’s not a ‘woman’ all the time, and non-binary is a term that she feels comfortable using to describe herself. (She is using female pronouns).
Writing on Tumblr, she said she is organizing a workshop on feminism, specifically how ‘mainstream feminist movements have continuously excluded women who are not white, thin, cisgender, able-bodied and neurotypical’.
Something we are struggling with is understanding the intersection of feminism and gender identity…
We’re both people who don’t feel like “women” all the time – but we claim feminism as our movement.
Basically, we’re trying to understand the duality of being a non-binary person and a feminist. How do you claim a movement for women when you don’t always feel like one?”
Read the full piece here:
#1: THANK YOU AMANDLA FOR YOUR CONSISTENT AWESOMENESS AS AN INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST AND ROLE MODEL FOR YOUTH & EVERYONE ELSE!
#2: YOU DON’T NEED TO BE A WOMEN OR CIS TO BE FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS. Just like white people can and should advocate for racial equality, everyone can and should advocate for gender equality.
I give Amandla a TON of credit for having to not only grow up in public, but grow up as a non-binary POC in a white / sexist / cisnormative society! She is young and figuring herself and society out. I’m Team Stenberg and am not looking to call her out, I just wanted to make this crucial clarification. As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says, We Should All Be Feminists
Previously, I’d only seen the first two panels and assumed it was the complete comic.
This version is much better.
when BI PRIDE DAY!
ron: god, professor dumbledore's speeches are so boring. more like dumblesnore amirite?
dumbledore: I HEARD THAT, WEASLEY
dumbledore: TEN POINTS FROM SLYTHERIN
malfoy: hey now what the shit?
dumbledore: FUCK YOU MALFOY
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all Bucky wanted to do was get some more tea and now this. Thanks a lot, Sam. You had to fuckin’ tell him, you ass.
Romania
name a country for every letter
…
Angola
It depends, if you do it at home and don’t use expensive dye, I’ve heard it’s actually pretty cheap. I'm not really an expert, though, thanks to the aforementioned uniform code.
How should I get my hair cut? send me suggestions!
Ted Cruz just suspended his campaign. This means that Trump will almost certainly be the Republican nominee.
This is going to be an interesting six months, in the most Minnesotan sense of that word possible.
I would totally attend a Utopian service.
HUMANISTS:
Expectation- Grow! Strive! Excel!
Reality- Government of, by, and for the most insufferable shitheads you knew in high school
BRILLISTS:
Expectation- Unlock the mysteries of the human psyche!
Reality- Your president is a smug sack of shit who’s also computer-racist
EUROPEANS:
Expectation- Unbreakable bonds of cultural tradition
Reality- “You seized my borderlands, you executed my hero, you conquered me a thousand years ago, and I remember.”
COUSINS:
Expectation- Altruism, community, common good
Reality- Some rando’s crashing on your couch six out of seven nights and it’d be too awkward to say anything at this point
UTOPIANS:
Expectation- Join our constellations and build the future! Also, Fursona-Pokémon are real and you can have one!
Reality- I Fucking Love Science + ENDLESS SCRUPULOSITY HELL
MASONS:
Expectation- Power. Order. Eternal tradition.
Reality- Facebook feed is endless unironic “when did THIS [modern architecture] become hotter than THIS [Byzantine spires]”
MITSUBISHI:
Expectation- Noble stewards of our terrestrial inheritance
Reality- Everyone’s least-favorite rent-seeker, and you don’t even have close to enough property to have a say in anything
WHITELAWS:
Expectation: Morally upright, clean living, stable communities
Reality: Mormonism but without the pretense of spiritual development
GRAYLAWS:
Expectation- Join the one group that isn’t directly run by lunatics
Reality- Somehow even more milquetoast than just becoming a Cousin because your ba'pas are
BLACKLAWS:
Expectation- Proud, honorable libertines, shining example of voluntary self-governance
Reality- The worst possible overlap in the Venn diagram of ancaps and LARPers
1. Giving examples of oppression is not trying to control someone unless you’re using a very strange definition of “control.”
2. Could you either explain how “giving examples of oppression” is “controlling women” at all, or give an example of feminists actually trying to control women?
3. Using the term “vagina vessels” as a synonym for women is cissexist.
4. In my experience, which is admittedly very much anecdotal evidence, feminists have never tried to control my actions. Sexist people, on the other hand, have.