Feminism, veganism and childfreedom

Vegan pro-choice feminism and cats.
standupfordownthere: Say No to PreNDA! This week, anti-choice zealots in Congress - led by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) (pictured above) - are exploiting the very important issues of sex discrimination and gender inequity to pass an extreme bill that attacks a woman’s right to choose. There is no question that it’s wrong for a woman to be pressured to have a child of a particular sex. But the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act does nothing to provide genuine solutions to the problem of sex-selection abortion. Instead, it threatens to imprison a doctor for five years for failing to determine if sex is a factor in a woman’s decision to choose abortion Help us stop this bill. Take action today!

standupfordownthere:

Say No to PreNDA!
 
This week, anti-choice zealots in Congress - led by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) (pictured above) - are exploiting the very important issues of sex discrimination and gender inequity to pass an extreme bill that attacks a woman’s right to choose.

There is no question that it’s wrong for a woman to be pressured to have a child of a particular sex. But the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act does nothing to provide genuine solutions to the problem of sex-selection abortion.

Instead, it threatens to imprison a doctor for five years for failing to determine if sex is a factor in a woman’s decision to choose abortion

Help us stop this bill. Take action today!

stfuhatemongers: garlandgrey: cemetery-like-a-stage: Which is why I’m pro-life  What about the right to food? The right to shelter? The right to not have your freedom restricted to pad the dividends of the Prison-Industrial Complex? The right to make informed choices about contraception, pregnancy, and birth without being subject to domestic terrorism? The right to opt out of parenthood if you know you are unprepared, unfit, dangerous, or simply not ready? The right to an education that nurtures your particular strengths and skills? The right to safe, clean, legal abortion? These people aren’t advocating for “life.” They are advocating a political strategy that stigmatizes a legal medical procedure in order to punish those they see as sexually transgressive with either death or the financial instability that follows from a lack of reproductive choice. This will never be about life and it will always be about a longing for despotic control of people’s lives by starving them of reproductive freedom. JUST SO WE’RE CLEAR. I couldn’t see a doctor for about 5 years because I had no insurance. I lost my insurance after a cervical cancer diagnosis. I spent 5 years thinking i’d be leaving my kids motherless. Health insurance is really something we should be fighting for. There are so many things worth fighting for. “Life” is crap without these things.

stfuhatemongers:

garlandgrey:

cemetery-like-a-stage:

Which is why I’m pro-life 

What about the right to food? The right to shelter? The right to not have your freedom restricted to pad the dividends of the Prison-Industrial Complex? The right to make informed choices about contraception, pregnancy, and birth without being subject to domestic terrorism? The right to opt out of parenthood if you know you are unprepared, unfit, dangerous, or simply not ready? The right to an education that nurtures your particular strengths and skills? The right to safe, clean, legal abortion?

These people aren’t advocating for “life.” They are advocating a political strategy that stigmatizes a legal medical procedure in order to punish those they see as sexually transgressive with either death or the financial instability that follows from a lack of reproductive choice. This will never be about life and it will always be about a longing for despotic control of people’s lives by starving them of reproductive freedom.

JUST SO WE’RE CLEAR.

I couldn’t see a doctor for about 5 years because I had no insurance. I lost my insurance after a cervical cancer diagnosis. I spent 5 years thinking i’d be leaving my kids motherless.
Health insurance is really something we should be fighting for.
There are so many things worth fighting for.
“Life” is crap without these things.

I had no idea how absolutely, 120% vested some young men (queer and not queer) are in patriarchy. Or that they actually believe that American institutions aren’t patriarchal anymore and that women have enough institutional power for some institutions to be called matriarchal. I suppose bigots of all classes, genders, races, sexes, and sexualities have a supreme interest in invisibilizing the oppression they participate in so that they can reverse the narrative and call the oppressed the oppressor.

—Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)

(via newwavefeminism)

Plenty of oppressive bullshit goes down under the guise of nice. Every day, nice, caring, friendly people try to take our bodily autonomy away from us (women, queers, trans people, nonbinaries, fat people, POC…you name it, they just don’t think we know what’s good for us!). These people would hold a door for us if they saw us coming. Our enemies are not only the people holding ‘Fags Die God Laughs’ signs, they are the nice people who just feel like marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense, it’s just how they feel! We once got a very nice comment on this site that we decided we could not publish because its content was ‘But how can I respect women when they dress like – sorry to say it, pardon my language – sluts?’. This is vile, disgusting misogyny and no amount of sugar coating and politeness can make it okay. Similarly, most of the people who run ex-gay therapy clinics are actually very nice and polite! They just want to save you! Nicely! Clearly, niceness means FUCK ALL.

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The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good (Social Justice League)

I’ve been thinking about niceness a lot lately. I’m not sure it’s as beneficial as I used to think it was. 

(via meganwest)

(Source: kiriamaya, via stfuconservatives)

Why do they think ‘fat dyke’ is an insult? To me, it means… I’m gonna eat fried chicken and pussy. That’s why I brought wet naps.

—Margaret Cho (via rufflebutts)

(Source: liquorinthefront, via stfuconservatives)

I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As a veteran let me just be very straightforward and honest with you. We didn’t “serve our country”; we don’t actually serve our brothers/sisters or our neighbors. We serve the interests of Capital. We never risked our lives or spent months on deployment away from our family and friends so they can have this abstract concept called “freedom”. We served big oil; big coal; Coca-Cola; Kellogg, Brown, and Root and all the other big Capital interests who don’t know a fucking thing about sacrifice. These people will never have to deal with the loss of a loved one or the physical and/or psychological scars that those who “serve”, and their families, have to deal with for the rest of their lives. The most patriotic thing someone can do is to tell truth to power and dedicate yourself to building power to overthrow these sociopathic assholes. I served with some of the most real and genuine people I’ve ever met. You’ll never see solidarity like the kind of solidarity you experience when your life depends on the person next to you. But most of us didn’t join for that; we joined because we were fucking poor and didn’t have many other options.

— An anti-capitalist veteran (via elitc)

(via historicalslut)