You Can’t Change Your Gender Because Gender Is The Social Expectations Placed On You By Virtue Of Your

With us living in a time where men are literally yelling “your body, my choice”, I’d like to share a few links to things I highly suggest looking into getting especially if you rave and travel alone.

1: https://a.co/d/7nSSYM5

This is the NightCap scrunchie, which provides cover for your beverages. You can find cheaper, disposable ones here if you want to bring some to share: https://a.co/d/grcCLTD

2: https://a.co/d/ekSbMRG

These are roofie check wristbands. Each wristband has the ability to test 8 times, and they come in packs of 2, 12, 24 or 100. You can find similar tests in a portable strip or even wallet card form if the bracelet cramps your style, the wallet cards can be found here: https://a.co/d/ekHTSzi

3: https://a.co/d/2fyapai

These are discrete emergency whistles. They come in 2 or 4 packs, and in silver or gold.

4: https://a.co/d/an1k7qF

This is a small personal alarm created by women, for women. It does not have a button, but rather has a pin mechanism. The alarm’s battery lasts up to 40 minutes, and because it is not considered a “w3@p0n” like pepper spray, you can take it anywhere, including on planes.

5: https://a.co/d/0yVnTTv

This one is a mini, rechargeable stun gun.

Not everyone has time and money to take self defense classes - but if you were to purchase all of these items, your total would be less than $100. Your life is priceless. Please take care of yourselves, and please feel free to share this with your friends and copy/paste to your pages. Stay weird yall!

Sometimes I feel like aggressively propagating naturalness.

Because what do you mean women go through vaginoplasty? 😭

What do you mean men convinced women that their vaginas can be too ‘big’ and therefore too ugly? The literal organ that helps to bring children into this world.

I want to cry when I think about this.

The desperation that those women must face, to go through such a surgery. All to be ‘normal’, ‘desirable’ to men and not picked on by them.

If I could I would hug them.

A reminder: There is nothing wrong with the body that you are born with, as long as it is not creating an existential threat to you. You are you. You don’t need to enhance yourself, because there is nothing wrong with you in the first place. Your nose is not to big. Your breasts are not too small. Your vagina is not ugly.

Your body is your temple. Please, love it. Accept it.

For yourself. Everyone else can go and get lost.

delete your account <3

…my account where I post about feminism? And honoring women’s history and accomplishments?

I fear this isn’t a good look for you, anon

i hate terfs. what the fuck is a “biological female” bitch ill kill you

“Female-assigned intersex kids’ vaginal canal size is also assessed by doctors, to ensure that it’s long enough to fit a penis inside of it. Doctors might surgically construct or re-construct vaginas, which can result in a host of health problems and necessitate multiple, multiple surgeries. This is especially the case since most intersex kids have these surgeries very young, and when their bodies grow into their adult forms, more surgeries are necessary to keep their vagina size in proportion. Non-surgical methods are also used to increase or maintain vaginal length by regularly using medical dildos to stretch the vagina over months and years. (It’s kind of like braces for your vagina, but much, much worse.) Just like there are no standards for how long a clitoris “can” be before it’s classified as a penis, there aren’t absolute standards as to how long a vagina is for it to be of “normal” length. I had a dilation procedure performed for almost every exam I had with intersex doctors from the time I was 8 until I was 16, so that they could check how long my vagina was as I grew. I absolutely hated these procedures. I mean, imagine a man as old as your father or your grandfather, who you don’t know, inserting a medical dildo into you each time you saw him, knowing that you can’t question the doctor’s orders and just accept that you have to undergo these uncomfortable procedures for your health. Imagine a decade or so later, realizing that these procedures did nothing to track your health, and had everything to do with grown men feeling good about the fact that you could fuck some dude someday like a “normal girl”. That all those traumatizing procedures weren’t actually medically relevant at all, and it actually was within my right to refuse those examinations. I didn’t know any of that at the time. I also had no idea that I wouldn’t want to ultimately have the kind of sex they assumed I’d be having, adding yet another layer of this-was-totally-unnecessary/messed-up to my history. Other kids shouldn’t have to go through this. Other adults shouldn’t have revelations some day far into the future that what was happening to them WASN’T okay, and their traumatic feelings ARE valid, and the whole system of how intersex people are conceptualized and “treated” IS entirely fucked. And it’s gotta change. We’ve gotta change it.”

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—-Claudia at Autostraddle

I just read this article and was reminded once again how invisible the intersex community often is… we need to signal boost this shit to let people know that this kind of “medical treatment” is NOT okay.

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Felt straight-up ill reading this. This is the institutionalized rape of children. It’s beyond unconscionable that procedures like this are normalized and considered “treatment”.

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jfc

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Revolting and repugnant.

See why intersex folk don’t like their medical issues being used as a rhetorical gotcha?

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🧵 THREAD: This #EqualPayDay, let’s not forget how many of our workplace rights were only secured in the last few decades.

💪✨ We need to fight for our rights.

Here’s are a few examples:

📍 In 1963, the Equal Pay Act required employers to provide equal pay for equal work regardless of gender. 

📍  In 1964, the Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination based on gender, race, religion, color, or national origin in public places, schools, and employment. Before, it was legal to refuse employment opportunities to women. 

📍  In 1978, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act made it illegal for employers to discriminate against pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.

📍  In 1988, the Women's Business Ownership Act created support for women business owners and eliminated the requirement for male co-signers on loans.

📍  In 1993, the Family and Medical Leave Act gave some workers paid family leave, and provided job protection and security for employees who took unpaid time off to care for a relative or family member. 

📍 In 2010, the PUMP Act expanded the Break Time law, which provides key workplace protections for nursing mothers, including reasonable break time to nurse and a private place to pump.

📍 In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an employer who fires or otherwise discriminates against an individual simply for being gay or transgender is in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

📍 In 2024, the Department of Labor introduced a Final Rule to end an employer's ability to pay individuals with disabilities subminimum wages. 

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non smoker lung cancer is underfunded, 2/3rds of people who get it are women, and the amount of women getting it is rapidly increasing. some of it may be environmental, like pollutant exposures, and some may be biological/genetic, but there's virtually no research despite lung cancer being the leading death causing cancer in women, more than breast or cervical.

The Conversation

Why is there an increase in lung cancer among women who have never smoked?

Rising air pollution, changes in hormone levels, immune system imbalances and longer life expectancy are increasing the risk of lung cancer

May 5th is National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Please remember to make a post standing with our indigenous sisters, none of us are free until we’re all free.

feminist silkscreen posters from See Red Women’s Workshop (1974-1990)