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This Thanksgiving, don’t forget to honor Native American Heritage Month

In making plans to celebrate Thanksgiving, don’t forget: November is also Native American Heritage Month. Observing it won’t undo the atrocities that occurred over the past few centuries — or the current threats to Native Americans and their lands, such as the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline — but recognizing and celebrating those who were here first and are now marginalized is an important step in moving things forward. Especially if you missed Native American Day.

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did-you-kno:

Mary Somerville is the reason for the word ‘scientist.’ A self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, she was a master of connecting the physical sciences. In 1834, she’d impressed a historian who found himself unable to publicly praise her because the only common description for that sort of scholar was ‘man of science.’ He then coined the term ‘scientist’- but it wasn’t intended to be a gender-neutral noun, it was specifically a reference to Mary Somerville’s expertise. Source Source 2 Source 3

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divinedorothy:

Hi! A Zine I edited/illustrated/contributed to just came out. It’s a spin off frm an online magazine of the same name my friend runs, featuring essays by women about film and visual culture, including topics like Gendering Cyborgs, reclaiming Millennial Pink, ordeal cinema and mental health in horror

YOU CAN BUY IT HERE! > https://thefemalegazemagazine.bigcartel.com/product/the-female-gaze-zine

Digital copies start at £1 (GBP) with options to donate more, if you’d like! 50% of profits will go to local housing charity Changing Lives, who work w homeless youth, DV survivors and they’ve have been heavily involved in working w survivors of sex trafficking rings – so it goes to a rlly good cause! And a good zine!

I did the first lot of donations from this the other week! Thanks to everyone who bought the zine, we were able to donate about £20!

£11 pays for a week’s worth of meals for service users, so that’s rlly great!!

the other 50% of the profits are basically My Pay for making this, so you also paid for like a week’s worth of meals for me. So thanks for helping to keep the lights on over here 🤗

rosieposiepie:

dontbeanassbutt:

staticonthesignal:

withgreatpowermustcomegreatcake:

staticonthesignal:

dontbeanassbutt:

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staticonthesignal:

dontbeanassbutt:

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You can’t turn flirting into a complicated “game” that makes no sense and then throw a hissy fit when some men get confused.

giving minimal attention isn’t complicated lol

As a guy who has no idea how that “game” works, yes it is. Especially when a lot of girls do the “play hard to get” crap. Men aren’t fucking mind readers. My solution though, is rather simple. I’ll take it all at face value. I don’t play that stupid game. You play hard to get? Sorry, I’m gonna play dumb. You can fuck off or just come clean.

I mean, thankfully it doesn’t matter for me because I met my awesome GF and she cared as little for the “game” as I did. But it still annoys me when people play this game and this bitch when a guy gets the wrong idea. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

guess what! emotional attention isn’t flirting!

Guess what! For some girls it is!

You must be real fun at parties

I’m not bad at parties. The way I deal with this kinda shit is I just assume I’m not being flirted with until they make it obvious. I’m not very interested in playing the game so I essentially ignore any attempts to play it. My bigger problem at parties is that I’m not very good at breaking into conversations.

Stop being mad at men for not understanding you’re stupid game. If you don’t want stupid prizes, stop playing stupid games. I think it’s dumb when men play along with games they are unable to know how to play because they can end up getting it wrong, but don’t blame them for trying to play. If they get pissy at you and insult you and shit when they figure out you weren’t flirting then fine (although if you intentionally lead a guy on for attention then fuck you but that’s a different issue), they were wrong. But don’t blame a guy for getting confused.

Basic emotional attention isn’t flirting. not that hard a concept.

What bothers me about this mindset is:

1. When multiple women say something about women and one man bravely decides He is right.

2. The insistence that women play games as a method of flirting and throw tantrums when men are confused. Because women are these darn, irrational, temperamental enigmas, right, boys?

3. Shaming women who “play hard to get” and saying they end up with stupid prizes. I can’t speak for everyone, but when I was accused of playing hard to get, I was not interested in trying to flirt at all. Maybe us trying to reject a man while still being nice to him is what’s so confusing? I honestly don’t know.

4. The purpose of this post was to show how men feel entitled to the point where they believe any basic emotional attention indicates mutual atttraction. Because the basic courtesy and kindness we are referring to should never be considered a determinant of romantic attraction. And I think women telling men – quite simply – when their behavior is being misinterpreted and men arguing that women are wrong or liars says a lot about the initial entitlement…

cyborgoctopus:

0operson:

[ tweet by Ruth H. Hopkins

As you celebrate thanksgiving, know that the Trump administration is taking away 321 acres of land from the Mashpee-Wampanoag, the tribe that helped the pilgrims survive and were present at the first thanksgiving. Tell legislators to support the Mashpee Reservation Reaffirmation Act. ]

For those who don’t live in Massachusetts, that is literally ALL THE LAND THEY HAVE! All of it. The state aims to make the entire ~3000 person tribe homeless.