Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

iammattflyzik:

to my younger followers: if u ever have questions u want answering but arent sure who to talk to you can ask me. i am ur honorary big sister now ok

(Source: firewxtch, via yea-lets-do-this-shit)

blowmiakisscolin:

atx-mom:

mommywearsacus:

mindicarriesbaby5:

I dont think I ever wrote about this.  

When I took Chloe in for her physical the doctor had her get down to her underwear and the doctor checked her out and then said “I am just going to take a quick peek in your underwear to make sure everything is okay down there” and Chloe said “momma you said no one can look at my privates unless I tell them its okay and I dont ant her to look at them because I dont know her very well.”  I told her that it was her choice to have the doctor look or not but that I was right here and I would be sure the doctor did not do anything that was not okay, but if Chloe did not want her to look she didnt have to let her.  She looked at the doctor and said very matter of factly “I dont want you looking in my underwear, there is nothing wrong with my private parts, and I dont know you very well”  The doctor looked at Chloe and told her that she had the right to say no and that she wouldn’t force her to let her look.  She asked her questions about it, like does it itch, does it hurt when you pee and Chloe answered them and then started getting dressed.  The doctor pulled me aside and told me that she was a sexual assualt survivor and that she is so proud of my daughter for telling her no, even though she was a person of authority.  

I have always and will always teach my children they control their body, even and especially when it comes to people of authority.  

I love this.

A+

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Anonymous asked: bucky has a disability??

dubiousculturalartifact:

mjwatson:

he doesn’t have an arm.

#a lot of comments are missing the point. yeah his prosthetic arm is really powerful and totally badass.#why does he need a prosthetic arm in the first place though? because *he has a disability*!#accommodations don’t erase disabilities – they help people with disabilities do stuff that would otherwise be difficult or impossible.#if someone trades their wheelchair for robotic exoskeleton legs then the legs are an accommodation just like the wheelchair was.#if they their wheelchair for a jetpack then the jetpack is an accommodation for their disability too.#even if the robotic exo-legs make them just as able as folks without a disability. even if the jetpack makes them even *more* able in many w#even if the robotic exo-legs make them just as able as folks without a disability.#even if the jetpack makes them even *more* able in many ways.#that doesn’t erase *why they use these accommodations in the first place*!#the idea that we able-bodied folks have the right to declare that a character is not ‘really’ disabled anymore#cause their accommodations are *too* good (i.e. they break the gross ‘disabled = helpless object of pity and/or 'inspiration’’) stereotype#is really fucked up ableist bullshit.#so instead of erasing disability representation (especially when there’s already so little of it at all)#let’s use it as an opportunity to re-examine and correct the patronizing ableist assumptions society has instilled in us. (via destielhiseyesopened)

A Rapist and Child Molester is Literally About to Become President of A Major Public University

fatfemmefluid:

anarchamarxistdrowfeminism:

writeswrongs:

I have been writing about this all week and have gone through extensive background here, but Tony Funchess is literally involved in every major civil rights organization in Portland and is days away from becoming the default president of Portland State University. 

This man raped two little black girls and STILL thinks there is nothing wrong with that. There might be a place in the world for ex-convicts to rehabilitate or whatever but DEFINITELY not unrepentant repeat offenders who predate on black girls!

PLEASE SIGN NOW and SIGNAL BOOST he is literally about to take control of the entire 30K person School and no one is doing shit about it PLEASE.

It’s possible his opponent might not be able to serve in office so Tony is likely to win by default so you really need to sign this! Please. As someone doing direct action organizing around this - having this petition have a HUGE set of numbers will really help the efforts of students who aren’t being silent!!

so this is my school? and what? and like i’m in shock? and like i don’t know what to do?

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

cleverlytitled:

what makes guardians of the galaxy so good is that they’re mostly assholes and fully acknowledge that

everytime there’s supposed to be a sweet or dramatic moment

they ruin it

because they’re assholes

(Source: man-hawk, via thepainofthesass)

enkiduofvideogames:

zennistrad:

Not legitimate problems with GMOs:

• They’re “frankenfood” or “dangerous” or “playing God.”

Legitimate problems with GMOs:

• Artificially sterile seeds which force farmers to buy new seeds from with every crop from corporations which have a monopoly on said seeds. Especially harmful for smallholdings farms.
  
• Like pesticides, pest-resistant GMOs become less effective at deterring pests over time due to natural selection.
  

licensing seeds which are then given away as a trial, then requiring farmers to either purchase the license again or destroy their entire crops. This is what at least one GMO corporation did in the wake of Haiti’s natural disaster.

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)