born in flames<3 Director Lizzie Borden, who also did Working Girls- the sex worker exposé not the glass ceiling Rom Com with "head for business and bod for sin" Melanie Griffith. *Caution* mild trigger warning but worth the bicycle gang scene:
Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts
Friday, November 4, 2011
Girl Gangs: Born in Flames
from a l'allure garconniere:
(source leraje)
Monday, May 16, 2011
For All My Bitches
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| Ceci n'est pas une salope (c) magicienne végétalienne |
Street Harassment Haiku:
No chance in a bar.
Nor on the bus. Who are you??
Respect me, Fuck off!
If you are a witness, be an ally. If you are a victim, be brave. If you are safe, speak up. This war on women has got to end.
CLITFest DC is sponsoring a Self Defense Workshop this Saturday, check out the Defend Yourself website for more info on that and other upcoming classes!
UPDATE:
Eve Ensler (Vagina Monologues) on Huffington Post today: She's OVER it.
Insightful and cathartic sites on Street Harassment, violence against women, and smashing patriarchy:
(And feel free to suggest more in Comments!)
Bitch Media
Bust MagazineDC Abortion Fund
Consent is Sexy Campaign
DC Trans Coalition
Feministe
Feministing
Feminist Teacher
For the Birds Collective
Fully Engaged Feminism
Gender Across Borders
Guerrilla Girls
Gulabi Gang
HIPS
Hollaback DC!
Hollaback! International
Jezebel
Men Can Stop Rape
My Strength
Philly's Pissed
Right Rides
SlutWalk Toronto
Stop Street Harassment
The Consensual Project
The Curvature
The F Word
Tiger Beatdown
WEAVE
Visions In Feminism Collective
Yes Means Yes!
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
DC: Give a Hand to Girls Rock! DC
Girls Rock! is an international movement to empower young girls with self-confidence and new skills in an inclusive, creative space. I only wish I had a Girls Rock camp near me growing up!!
The DC chapter is starting to organize for their fourth camp this summer! Do you have any instruments to donate? What's a skill you can share? Can you sponsor camp scholarships or help fundraise? Want to be roadie? Who doesn't want to be a counselor and guide the girls through their week at camp and the camper band showcase??? You don't necessarily have to be a musician or female-bodied to volunteer, they need a multitude of resources and assistance. Get involved with Girls Rock! DC here.
They are also moving equipment storage spaces, come lend a hand THIS Saturday! More info on that and future events on the GR!DC Events Calendar.
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| Girls Rock! DC Band Camp Showcase |
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
DC: Tuesday To Do's
Go eat at Everlasting Life Cafe! Tuesday is Shepherd's Pie and Eggplant Parm, and as always, the best Mac in town! One of those I Can't Believe It's Vegan kinda meals.
While you're doing that, listen to these lovelies! There's a show from 7-10pm:
Everlasting Life Cafe
2829 Georgia Ave. NW
Washington, DC
A little taste of the hometown heroines Hot Mess:
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Why I'm Vegan: Mercy for Animals Calf Farm Exposé
This is serious. This is an issue most people turn a blind eye to. This is not funny and should not be trivialized because there are other important issues out there or because of people's biases against certain species. This is common. Anything goes when money is to be made, regardless of the autonomy or independent will of another being. This will not stop if people keep paying other people to beat calves in the head with pick axes and hammers. For what? Milk, cheese, veal, and other products from the dairy and meat industry. Read more at watch the undercover video from Mercy for Animals.
Additionally, here is Farm Sanctuary's Report on the Dairy Industry.
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| Calf being beaten by employee of E6 Cattle Co. Hart, Texas. March 2011 |
Personally, I'd rather drink plant milk and not eat cheese than contribute to needless suffering of animals that never even had a chance to live (let alone what it's done for my health.) Plants have evolved to grow fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains for animals to eat and spread their seed. Animals have evolved legs to run away from carnivores.
To boot, we have not biologically evolved to eat dairy for the most part, our bodies react in varying degrees of revolt against it. We are the only species that suckles from other animals, and into adulthood. There are numerous studies demonstrating as such, linking dairy intake to type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, chronic sinusitis, allergies, asthma, Asperger disorder, breast, prostate, colorectal and other cancers, cardiovascular disease, and other illnesses that have created a modern pandemic of diseases of affluence in developed and now developing countries.
More info on lactose intolerance, and dairy's correlation to disease:
Finally, what strikes me at the heart of this particular issue, is the basic fact that humans have co-opted and exploited purely for financial gain the autonomy of billions of female mammals' reproductive cycles (and animals' repro cycles with eggs), in the most horrific and brutal ways imaginable (if you can think it, it's been done to female animals and babies in the Ag Industry.) We make commodities of cows' babies and the milk these mothers make for them. If you cannot see the intersection between feminism and speciesism, look harder. There is also a positive correlation between animal abuse (companion and farmed animals) and bestiality and sexual and domestic abuse. More on that here:
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| Mother and her calf |
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