There is hope until you give up...

Joy comes with the morning.

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iwillincendiotheheartoutofyou:

queenofthedreamers:

mypatronusisyou:

you know what I love? everyone’s mutual love and respect for harry potter

we might not all talk about Harry Potter that much but no matter what wars between or inside fandoms are happening, Harry Potter still trumps everything else and makes it irrelevant 

if someone makes a Harry Potter reference it’s immediately understood no matter what other fandoms you’re in

After all this time?

Always.

(via tongue-twister)

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I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they touched a woman’s body without her consent. After a moment of hesitation, all of the hands of the gay men in the room went up. I then asked the same gay men to raise their hand if in the past week they offered a woman unsolicited advice about how to “improve” her body or her fashion. Once again, after a moment of hesitation, all of the hands in the room went up.

These questions came after a brief exploration of gay men’s relationship to American fashion and women’s bodies. That dialogue included recognizing that gay men in the United States are often hailed as the experts of women’s fashion and by proxy women’s bodies. In addition to this there is a dominant logic that suggests that because gay men have no conscious desire to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping (physical assault) is benign.

Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies by Yolo Akili (via plightofthepretty)

Gay man ≠ exempt from misogyny

(via iridessence)

(via abolished-your-mythology)

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dissimilarto:

when a trans* person gets upset because you have misgendered/degendered them, it isn’t because you “offended” them. You harmed them.

Being degendered happens to many trans* and genderqueer people ALL THE TIME. It’s a (micro)aggression we face constantly.

You didn’t offend them, you harmed them. You created an injury. There’s a big difference.

(Source: zeroambit, via spenceraashton)

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susurrations:

[Image description: a series of photos depicting young people, mostly women, menstruating while going about their daily activities: changing their tampon, checking their cell phone, lying in a bath, kissing a partner, sitting and reading at a coffee shop, waiting at a bus stop, and running].

homoarigato:

maxatan:

qbutch:

missmatie:

peanuhbutta:

This is realllllllllly weird lmao

This is really NORMAL.
Except we never see it-so it is terrifying and uncomfortable when it happens.
(Mostly because people would laugh or be unkind)

I own a sex shop. Once a woman bled on our chair during an interview. She was horrified and felt ashamed because it was in some way unprofessional. We weren’t bothered. We said ‘what better place to work on being ok with your body than at a feminist sex shop?’
Bleeding is normal and dealing with it is one of the most pervasive ways women are complicit in their silence.

Some men bleed too. How would you react to that? For many men who are Trans the act of bleeding is a security threat.

Fuck off with your lolz.

Reblogging again for above commentary ^^^^^

very cool

commentary

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