#257 | Feminist Sunday

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Each moment that we choose to be kind to others by approaching them with unconditional positive regard, whatever their size or shape, we are activists. Doing this kicks back at a culture of fear and shame surrounding our bodies.

Fat acceptance: when kindness is activism on Feministe.

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Welcome to Rape Culture: Sex with Drunk Girls is Funny + "Rulers of Science" and Male as Default on Sociological Images.

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Lady Gaga is no stranger to making political statements. In August, while performing in Phoenix, AZ she denounced the states’ SB 1070 law. When some fans began to “boo” her she fired back, yelling “don’t fucking boo me” and then went on to say that “without immigrants, this country wouldn’t be shit.”

Lady Gaga is not Britney Spears. She's just fucking not.

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Pour finir : Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot, de Carol Leigh (2004). Un livre autobiographique de Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot, prostituée, féministe et activiste américaine. Avec des articles, des photos, des poèmes. Une femme très intelligente, exceptionnelle à beaucoup d'égards, qui gagne à être connue.