i got nothin.
One of the BEST ad campaigns about representation I have seen.
Everyone has a backbone. Use yours.
you know what i really like about this, is that it shuts the “it’s not offensive, it just means [alternate definition]” crowd right the fuck down. good.
language matters.
Language matters.
(via athenagcsuti)
If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.
If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.
If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.
If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.
Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists. — A Short Post on Rape Prevention (via brute-reason)
(via undazedandsuch)
Some boy pulled my hair in Kindergarden, so I turned around and punched him the nose… my dad was so proud.
The boy who chased me around in grade 5 wanting to “kiss me” and “marry me”, the one my mom said to brush off, is a twice convicted rapist.
Q
This is Annie Gale.
I didn’t know anything about her until I went on a free Feminist Walking Tour in Calgary this afternoon.
Turns out, in 1917 she became the first female city councillor not just in Calgary, or Alberta or even Canada, but in the entire British Empire. She served three terms as councillor and was even elected Acting Mayor before she retired in 1923.
I went to public school in Calgary for 7 years. We were taught about John Ware, the first black cowboy, and all about the male settlers. I remember something about the First Nations people, but only if the stories were about aboriginal helping the white settlers. I vaguely remember learning about the Famous Five before university, never the whole story. But why were we never told about Calgary’s own contribution to women’s progress in Canada?
It seems to me that this historical gloss obscures much of Albertan and Calgarian history. In a region of oil, corporatism and cowboys, the activists and the oppressed who break the status quo must be forgotten. I can only imagine what would change if people here realized that our history isn’t as staunchly conservative as our political narrative would have us believe. But you have to dig to find our real history. Under the cloud of that Tory Dynasty is an adventure story of diverse and courageous characters.
My point is, I’ve learned more more about my own heritage as a feminist in the last couple of years then I did all throughout grade school. And that’s really sad.
(via doublexbadassery)
Here’s a first try at binding Rereading The Riot Act by Anakana Schofield and Jeremy Isao Speier. This artists book, combining aspects of a scrapbook and a research diary, launches May 1st at Unit/Pitt in Vancouver.
(via ouno)
Reece Terris, Ought Apartment: Vancouver Art Gallery Installation, (2009)
