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"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

~

Benjamin Franklin

Or woman.

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fallschirmjager:

Pogonophila:1) Pogonophile, someone who is fond of or who loves beards.2) Pongophilia, fetish or lust of bearded males.

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Shooting4MyOwnHand: mswyrr replied to your post: feminist who don’t know a damn thing...

illbeshooting4myownhand:

mswyrr replied to your post: feminist who don’t know a damn thing about women’s…

“Herstory” strikes me as gimmicky, but it doesn’t bug me that much. Feminists who ignore the past, particularly those who are white & do it because they feel superior to white foremothers who had…

I can’t agree with that. As a feminist and a historian I believe that the term Herstory is not only necessary but self-explanatory. History is still a man’s subject that ignores and desdains women’s role in history.

Anyway in spanish or catalan that language trick doesn’t make sense.

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itsjohnsen:

A photographer portrays a group of soldiers during the Spanish Civil War. Madrid, 1937. Martin Santos Yubero

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"Schools have classes called “women’s studies,” and “African-American literature” because the standard for existence set by white men has yet to be rescinded in this age. “Normal” history is the history of a certain class of white people, from the perspective of men. All the other histories are precisely that: other."

~ Cunt: A Declaration of Independence. (via ratsandcandy666)

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When I'm at the bar, and my friend suggests that I go over and talk to my crush

whatshouldwecallme:

I’m just like,

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feministhistorian:

smallequals:

The Suffragist, Saturday, June 21, 1919, Bryn Mawr College Library

This is my favorite cover of the Suffragists. I’ve just gone through every single issue of the magazine over the past few weeks.

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yourhandwrittenletters:

Day 104 • A • Handwritten Letters

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"We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic."

~ bell hooks (via subconciousevolution)

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jfpll:

Prudencia Ayala (1885-1936)
*cue Beyonce’s “Who Run Da World (Girls)*
In 1930- at at time when women still weren’t allowed to vote- Prudencia Ayala, of indigenous heritage, ran for the presidency of El Salvador, making her the first woman in El Salvador and Latin America to do so. She ran on a platform of recognizing women’s rights, women’s suffrage, the recognition of illegitimate children, tackling corruption in public offices, support of labor unions, freedom of religion… really progressive ideas. Eventually the Supreme Court of El Salvador declared her campaign unconstitutional and denied her the right to run for president.
Women were not allowed to vote in El Salvador until 1950.

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Austrian women committed suicide out of fear of the advancing Red Army, April 1945

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