Feeling Empowered And Actually Having Power Are Two Very Different Things. Women Are Usually Offered

Women’s Voices Now streams hundreds of films about women’s issues from women directors all over the world, for free!

You can really just click on any film and watch the entire thing online, for free! There’s documentaries and narrative films, short films and feature length! I STRONGLY encourage you to check it out.

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here and here .

If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

You can't be a feminist without also being <activist for unrelated cause>.

You can't fight for women's rights without also fighting for <group that is not just women>'s rights.

Actually the only thing required to being a feminist is fighting for women's rights. And that is enough. You can be a feminist and a feminist only because women's rights matter by themselves.

Oblivion wunk

in which BBC Business Editor Robert Peston explains revolutionary socialism to a six-year-old

Hmmm I know octopuses are generally sweet and gentle and are just curious sea puppies (and I love them!), that being said, the thoughts of being dragged by my feet by one of them into the deep and dark ocean is… safe to say new fear has been unlocked

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