"The journalist wanted to know if perhaps menstruation was kept hidden just because it’s private, rather than shameful. I asked her to think about the ways our society structures work that compel us to keep it private and secret. For instance, how easily can you find menstrual products in your school or workplace when you need them? (There’s a tampon dispenser in the women’s room in my campus building, but the sign has read EMTY for the all the years I’ve worked there.) I also spoke with her about a terrific study by Tomi-Ann Roberts and her colleagues about attitudes toward menstruation, in which a research confederate dropped a hair clip in one scenario and a tampon in another. Dropping the tampon led the research participants to offer lower evaluations of the confederate’s competence and decreased liking for her; they even displayed a mild tendency to avoid sitting close to her. This suggests that women conceal menstruation for good reason – to avoid appearing disabled."
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Is Menstruation a Disability? | Society for Menstrual Cycle Research (via notemily) (via gauntlet)

To avoid appearing disabled or to avoid having people (i.e. men) cringe at you because they know you’re on the rag? Which is, you know, waaaay mega-ewww.

(via robot-heart-politics)

I make a point of not refraining from mentioning that I’m on my period, if I am. If I have cramps, I complain about them the same way I might complain about sore legs after a workout. If I’m heading down to the bathroom I don’t tuck my tampon up my sleeve, I just carry it like I might carry my toothbrush. At first guys are all mega-eww but they get over it. I think that’s important.

marthaq: “One of the most poignant, effective and striking of the Vietnam-era protest posters, relating to the horrific massacre at My Lai, on March 16, 1968. The photograph was taken by Ronald Haeberle, who had been assigned to Charlie Company. When his photographs came to public attention the following year (they were published in LifeGuernica magazine), the outcry was worldwide. This protest poster was designed by members of the Art Workers’ Coalition, a New York based art group. The text was taken from an interview on CBS television between Mike Wallace and a soldier who had been present in the Vietnamese village. Originally, the Museum of Modern Art was supposed to help publish the poster, but the Museum’s president withdrew support at the last moment, no doubt worried that political backlash might follow the distribution of such an inflammatory subject. The Art Workers’ Coalition was able to raise enough money to print 50,000 posters on their own. These posters were distributed around the world and were carried in anti-war protest marches. The few copies that have survived have become quite rare. In a further protest, copies of this poster were carried by members of the AWC into the Museum of Modern Art and unfurled in front of Picasso’s which was on loan to the museum at that time. An extraordinary document from an extraordinary time in American history documenting an extraordinary event.” I first saw this at the Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam about six years ago.  I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.

marthaq:

“One of the most poignant, effective and striking of the Vietnam-era protest posters, relating to the horrific massacre at My Lai, on March 16, 1968. The photograph was taken by Ronald Haeberle, who had been assigned to Charlie Company. When his photographs came to public attention the following year (they were published in LifeGuernica magazine), the outcry was worldwide. This protest poster was designed by members of the Art Workers’ Coalition, a New York based art group. The text was taken from an interview on CBS television between Mike Wallace and a soldier who had been present in the Vietnamese village. Originally, the Museum of Modern Art was supposed to help publish the poster, but the Museum’s president withdrew support at the last moment, no doubt worried that political backlash might follow the distribution of such an inflammatory subject. The Art Workers’ Coalition was able to raise enough money to print 50,000 posters on their own. These posters were distributed around the world and were carried in anti-war protest marches. The few copies that have survived have become quite rare. In a further protest, copies of this poster were carried by members of the AWC into the Museum of Modern Art and unfurled in front of Picasso’s which was on loan to the museum at that time. An extraordinary document from an extraordinary time in American history documenting an extraordinary event.”

I first saw this at the Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam about six years ago.  I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.

marthaq: Student occupation of the Fresno University Library via Indybay.org Ugh. I love this. I want to occupy something someday. It’s on my bucket list.

marthaq:

Student occupation of the Fresno University Library

via Indybay.org

Ugh. I love this. I want to occupy something someday. It’s on my bucket list.

lesslikescars: njkrut: lyndseydyan: feminision: (via sixtyforty)

lesslikescars:

njkrut:

lyndseydyan:

feminision:

(via sixtyforty)

Self-Portrait on 15 February 2008

Self-Portrait on 15 February 2008

a sex anecdote AND a literary anecdote

ragbag:

from hemingway’s a moveable feast where hemingway dispenses advice to f. scott fitzgerald who is worried that his penis is too small (they go into a closet and examine it together).

“You’re perfectly fine,” I said. “You are O.K. There’s nothing wrong with you. You look at yourself from above and you look foreshortened. Go over to the Louvre and look at the people in the statues and then go home and look at yourself in the mirror in profile… It is not basically a question of the size in repose,” I said. “It is the size that it becomes. It is also a question of angle.”

I may or may not have a new favorite tumblr.

(via malfoyy)

(via malfoyy)

lyriquediscorde: insomniaajena: livinginchaos: <3 milo

lyriquediscorde:

insomniaajena:

livinginchaos:

<3

milo

"Unfortunately, we have an economic system and national philosophy based on the idea of every man getting rich. Impossible, unsustainable and bound for disaster from the start. Mankind’s entire idea of what constitutes an economy is about to come into question at some point soon. Not just in America, but all the other (over) developed nations too. We cannot manufacture our way out of it, or spend or invest pour way out of it, through a free market “green economy.” That’s what got us here in the first place. Superheated spending to pump up a malignant economic system that devoured the earth."
— Joe Bageant (via azspot) (via robot-heart-politics)
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bingoparaphernalia:

Lauryn Hill - Joyful, Joyful from Sister Act II.

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