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blvvdk3ep · 8 months

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I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

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crescent-moon-mollymauk · 3 months

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Happy to announce that the final research project of my college career is going to be about the indomitable queerness of Mollymauk Tealeaf

I’m not even kidding. It’s for my Feminist Methodologies class in my WGS major. We have to do a research project and paper on a topic of our choosing as long as it can be related back to relevant topics within WGS, which queer theory is very much a part of.

I talked to my professor (my fav professor and advisor) after class and told her I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to research, because I still don’t fully get the point of research papers half the time, but I have been looking for an excuse to talk about a favorite character of mine.

She told me to explain more and I gave her a very quick run down of Molly: proudly queer, died very early from his own blood magic, past lives, future lives, the whole deal. And she was so down for it. She loves D&D and would love to see what I’d do with it.

I just turned in the first piece of the project, just a short brainstorming assignment, but it has officially started and I'm looking forward to sharing updates with y'all!

#mollymauk tealeaf #just normal parts of being a college senior #critical role #critical role campaign 2 #the mighty nein #women and gender studies #a queer reading of critical role #critical role campaign 2 spoilers #it's been forever but i guess if y'all didn't know he was dead already

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transpossumboy · 7 months

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my women and gender studies professor casually referred to someone who is transgender as a “tranny” while trying to educate people about gender. her examples of different genders and sexualities were “some people are gay, lesbian, heterosexual, straight, tranny, or twinks.”

what.

#tried to be kind and tell her why that’s wrong in a discussion post but idk if she actually reads them #this is the second time she’s done something like this #lgbtqia #transgender #trans #lgbtq #transmasc #nonbinary #lgbt #women and gender studies #t slur #gender studies #bad prof #transpossumboy post

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strawberry-library · 7 months

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weekly dairy (10.1-10.7)

favorite coffee: iced white mocha with pumpkin cold foam

book progress: Twilight, 385/498 (77%)

completed goals

set up a meeting time for group project

read 2 chapters of Twilight

watch Gilmore Girls

watch Love is Blind: Japan

meet with English advisor to discuss masters program

visit home

academic progress

beginning French: studied Anki flashcards, finished weekly assignments, finished assigned readings

astronomy: completed weekly assignments, started assigned readings, started essay on atoms in the stars

creative writing: submitted flash fiction exercise, started prose workshop assignment

women & gender studies: took midterm exam, finished assigned readings, started group project

english studies: watched The Thing (1982), read “Super-toys Last All Summer Long,” watched “AI: Artificial Intelligence” (2001), watched “Demon Seed” (1977)

favorite meals

sunday: Panda Express’ orange chicken and chow mein

monday: cheese pizza with chocolate pudding

tuesday: hibachi-grilled chicken and assorted vegetables

wednesday: cheese pizza with ice cream

thursday: hibachi-grilled chicken and assorted vegetables

friday: general tso chicken with rice and broccoli

saturday: frosted donuts and iced coffee

#dear diary #studyblr #college #english major #autumn #coquette #academia #pink academia #light academia #coquette academia #french #astronomy #english #women and gender studies #the twilight series #book: twilight #stephenie meyer #show: gilmore girls #show: love is blind (japan)

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porcelaintoybox23 · 5 months

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One of my goals for 2024 is to read more nonfiction. Anyone have some recs for Queer history and feminist literature?

#if not clear #no radfem or terf stuff #books #nonfiction #queer #queer history #lgbt #lgbt history #feminism #women and gender studies #intersectional feminism

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darling-imobsessed · 2 years

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Hello, I'm in desperate need of help.

Okay, so, I'm going to graduate highschool this year and I want to study Women and Gender studies in university. I find the topics really interesting and important. But I need someone to be real with me. What can I do with this major afterwards? Will I be able to find a good job? Can you tell me about your experience with this major? Can you give me an advice or should I be warned about something?

If you study this major or you know someone who does, PLEASE contact me!

#lgbtq #university #study motivation #studying #feminism #women rights #women studies #women and gender #women and gender studies #please send help #gender #gender studies

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silly-cherries · 5 months

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every intro to gender and/or women's studies should watch Star Trek S1Ep7, "Mudd's Women" change my mind

#points being made in the sixties still hold up today frfr #women and gender studies #women's studies #star trek tos #mudd's women #feminism #star trek

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sk3let0rz · 5 months

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I wish Hollywood didn’t show women making an effort to be romantic to men who reject them and then they end up with that shitty man. It reinforces this idea that men are unaware of the emotional consequences of their actions and allows them to avoid responsibility for treating people as disposable.

Men are allowed to be flawed, struggle morally, cause harm, and then overcome that without ever doing the internal work to become a better person. Because men have inherent value and if a man has to consider that he acted in an unethical way, that means his value is less (this is specifically about America’s prison slavery system and it’s ’othering’ of groups like women, poc, lgbtq, disabled). Men have inherent value and they can struggle without that value coming into question.

Women can NOT make mistakes. Because they do NOT have inherent value. Women are valuable on a conditional basis. Can you (as a women) provide sex, companionship, validation, housework, children? If you stop providing these things or are unable to provide certain things a women’s value goes down.

This is why women have to answer for their actions while men only have to answer for their intentions.

Back to the Hollywood trope- women are shown as having romantic daydreams and wanting those dreams to materialize. They try to encourage or support the man in carrying out those dreams (do you remember what day it is, honey?). This doesn’t go well and we as the viewer are encouraged to side with the man.

Be clear in your message = the woman’s actions are judged as most important.

The man was tired or there were other external factors = the man’s intentions are judged as most important.

This is bad because it encourages men to act as if there are no consequences to their actions as long as they mean well. It’s bad because it teaches women that men should not be judged for their actions. It’s bad because it encourages certain people to treat others poorly and another people to accept poor treatment.

Women who do not receive reciprocity in their romantic efforts should cease all romantic efforts with that person. GIRL there are millions of people out there one of them will treat you right. Stop trying to teach a man how to treat you.

#feminist film theory #feminism #media studies #hollywood #women and gender studies #men need to do better and media that cops for them is bad #men shouldn’t get the girl #American centric cause I’m an American and that’s where my studies are from #ymmv if you are not American or from a patriarchal society #the audience is supposed to identify with the man because they have personhood #intersectionality ABSOLUTELY applies but i run off the assumption that we’ve already deconstructed whiteness

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kthulhu42 · 23 days

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TRAs stop comparing women of colour to men challenge: impossible

#radblr #radical feminism #terfblr #feminism #sexism #gender critical #“Womens bodies are finally being studied and this could mean that mens healthcare will get better” um #Medical misogyny #MENSTRUATION AND MENOPAUSE MAY HAVE THE WORD MEN IN THEM BUT MEN DO NOT SUFFER FROM THEM

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we-the-human · 8 months

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If you asked me if I had a pet and I said “yes, I have a stallion”, you know exactly what I am talking about.

I have a male horse. That is his definition. Just a word that describes him based on his sex and his species.

That doesn’t mean that’s ALL I see him as. He could be my best friend, my confidant, and we provide each other affection and happiness. I would groom and clean him, feed him, take him out riding everyday, bond with him. I would treat him when he’s sick - pay thousands of dollars to treat an injury or infection. He’s my best buddy and I love him. He is a Stallion, but his definition is not what he is to me.

Other people in the world purchase stallions for one reason and one reason only. To make money and breed. Someone could purchase a stallion, put it through gruelling paces to train it to its full potential, even at the cost of his health. He would be groomed and fed only because it increases the worth of his performance and thus his sperm. The only things he gets is to further his usefulness as either a horse whose actions directly make money, including his genetic material. He is not given affection or love outside of this. If he became injured, he would be put down. This is someone who only treats a stallion as his definition - a male horse capable of producing sperm that can be exchanged for money.

A man is a human male. He is in possession of a Y chromosome(s). His genetic instructions will attempt to create sperm. He may or may not succeed. He will NEVER produce ova.

A woman is a human female. She is only in possession of X chromosomes. Her genetic instructions will attempt to create ova. She may or may not succeed. She will NEVER produce sperm.

I do not see men and women as their definitions. We are people with feelings and dreams and lives.

Some people DO see others as simply a means of reproduction - mostly men in regards to women across the world. Our sex is what we are oppressed by. It is not all we are, it is just that some people want to own us simply for being women - like the stallion. CONTINUING to define man and woman on the basis of species and sex is important because sex is the basis on which women are oppressed and if we can’t define our oppression and make policies off that then we will devolve.

We have a definition for men. We have a definition for women. This is all that is, a definition.

No one can be both. No one can switch between the two.

#gender critical #gender studies #gender #trans #feminism #women’s rights

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wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart · 10 months

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Robin never really got boys talk.

When Sarah turned 14 she invited all the girls in band for a sleepover. It started out fun. After her parents went to bed they put on a creepy horror movie and watched it in a huge cuddle pile. They braided each other's hair and did each other's nails and squeezed each other during tense scenes and muffled their shrieks after a sudden jumpscare.

After that they watched another one. This time Sarah sneaked her mother's makeup kit down to the living room, and so lipstick and eyeshadow joined the mess of nail polish, hair clips and snacks already on the floor.

The second movie was different. In the first one, the blood was obviously fake and the acting wasn't the best (to say the least). But the second one was tense through and through. The cries of pain were so visceral that Robin shuddered, and in the end everyone was terrified. It was silently and unanimously agreed upon that everyone had had enough TV for the night. It was already 3 in the morning, but tomorrow was the weekend and right now Robin wouldn't be able to sleep even if she wanted to, and thus began Robin's first real boys talk.

It was funny at first. Sarah pretended to die of heartbreak when "the blond hot one" was unfortunately the second to die. Heather said the nerdy one with glasses and abs was cuter, which started a very heated discussion of whether blond or brown is the more attractive hair color. Robin had to defend her correct "redheads" opinion all by herself.

(When the others got into a stalemate Sarah turned to Robin. "C'mon", she pleaded, "you know that the blond one was hotter. Just tell us which one you found prettier! And don't forget that this is my birthday party."

Robin laughed at the ribbing, played a bit hard to get, until she finally admitted. "I actually found the first one who died the prettiest." Sarah was already halfway through her victory dance, when Robin corrected her. "No, I don't mean the dude. I mean the first one. The girl with the pink purse."

Everything was silent for a moment.

Then Emma laughed. "You don't have to be jealous Robin", she consoled, "you are also very pretty."

"Yeah, especially after our makeover!"

Robin laughed and agreed and continued on as if her world just hadn't been turned on its axis. Because she knew that the stirring in her gut and the beating of her heart had nothing to do with jealousy. She didn't find the blond one hot or the brunet one cute. That was the first time she really knew it. She liked the girl.)

It was a bit funny the first time, even though she couldn't really join. It got less funny the more it went on. Suddenly boys was the only thing everyone wanted to talk about. And worse: it wasn't just unreachable famous boys like singers or actors anymore. Suddenly it was all "oh, Steve Harrington is sooooo cute" or "oh my god, Tommy Hagan had suuuuuuch a glowup" and "I want to lick the sweat of his body after basketball practice" (this last one was applicable to multiple different people, including Steve and Tommy. It was not applicable for Chrissy when she exited cheerleading practice or Beth after football.)

She thought it would get better when Emma finally confessed to her crush and they actually got together, but no. It somehow got worse. Because "normal boy talk" turned into "experienced boy talk", and Robin wasn't allowed to admit that the only thing that got wet when she thought of Billy Hargrove was her mouth, because he made her want to throw up.

At first she'd say that she didn't have crushes. After a while of people refusing to believe her (even if she was telling the truth! Sometimes.) she started pretending to be into Steve Harrington. Every girl had a crush on Steve, so it made sense that she'd been embarrassed to admit that she was just like everybody else. He was way too far above her league for her friends to force her to "confess" and she could stare without fear when he passed by in the halls with the beautiful Tammy Thompson in his arms. Truly, it was a brilliant plan. It didn't stop the boys talk, though.

So she became a tomboy. She joined football and she hung out with boys and she cut her long hair into a bob. She lost a bit of touch with Emma and Sarah and the others, but she tried not to think about it too much. Instead she threw herself into sports and started hanging out more and more with Matt, the second trumpet in band.

And that was that. Sometimes she missed wearing dresses, but it was a relief not to have her mother insisting she "do something about that hair" anymore. She and Matt became best friends. She even considered telling him for a while. Until he sat her down and confessed his feelings.

She tried to let him down as gently as possible, and they never talked again. The cycle would repeat for multiple times.

Someone out there is laughing their ass off because who would have thought that the dude she pretended to have a crush on would turn out to be the missing half of her soul?

It started out like always. She teased him, he laughed. They suffered through customer service together. He was funny and surprisingly in touch with his emotions and apparently babysat a bunch of middle schoolers, which was equally hilarious and adorable to watch. They both enjoy sports and they both hate Billy Hargrove with a passion and Robin is heartbroken because she knows she can't get attached. She has already been through this too many times to allow it to happen again. She gets close with a guy, they become best friends, he confesses, she can't reciprocate, they never talk again.

This is what is going to happen. She should already be used to it, but it still hurts. It's better for her to keep her distance. To encourage him to flirt with other girls, even if she can see that he mostly does it to amuse her.

And then they uncover an actual real life Russian spy network right beneath their place of work like some fucking blockbuster. And then they are pumped up with drugs and the next thing she knows is that they are both throwing up in a cinema bathroom.

And then it happens. Of course it happens.

He starts his little speech and her heart is already breaking. She surprises herself when she realizes how much she started enjoying Steve's company. He is a dingus, but she is also a dingus and they just fit.

She is already preparing her apology in her head (oh fuck work is going to be so awkward), but what comes out instead is what she wishes she could've said every time this happened. What she wished she could have said every time she got close to another person, every time her parents questioned if she finally found a boyfriend. Something she really tried not to feel ashamed of, but it was so fucking hard when you had to keep it hidden all the time.

(She remembers when she used to train in front of the mirror. She would stare at herself and repeat again and again "I am Robin Buckley and I am a lesbian. I am a lesbian. I am-")

She doesn't breathe as she waits for what she knows what comes next. What has to come next. There is a reason she never told anyone, always kept it hidden and to herself even if she wanted to scream it into the world. He will mock her and he will out her and he will be disgusted and-

"Tammy Thompson?!"

Instead they have girls talk. And Robin finally gets it.

#heteronormativity being like: every strong emotion you feel towards the other gender is romance #+ patriarchy being like: men are entitled to women #= robin suffering #</3 #fun fact i actually never had to invent a crush #like they questioned that i never seemed to be into anybody sometimes #but i always said it so vehemently and also outside of 'boys talk' that they just believed me after a while lol #but i know of multiple ppl who had to #robin stranger things #stranger things #steve harrington #robin buckley #pen.#stranger things drabble #robin buckley drabble #stobin #platonic with a capital p #platonic stobin #does this count as a character study?

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noodleincident · 4 months

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errebody wrings their hands about english class and reading comprehension skills until taylor swift comes up 🙄

#‘corporate feminism’#harvard doesn’t offer a graduate degree in women and gender studies at all so feels like we shouldn’t start with a referendum on corporate #feminism???#~#taylor

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crescent-moon-mollymauk · 3 months

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Small Molly Project Update

Having to ask myself if saying “he was more than just queer as in gay, he was queer as in fuck you” would be too vulgar.

The answer is yes but I love that these are real things I have to ask myself.

#gonna try and decide on a tag for this project #Mollymauk's Tealeaf Project #hopefully that's a good title #critical role #critical role campaign 2 #mollymauk tealeaf #the mighty nein #queer theory #a queer reading of critical role is excellent #queer as in fuck you #women and gender studies

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myimaginationplain · 11 months

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It kind of fucks me up to see some people come out of watching RGU having absorbed absolutely nothing of what the show has to say about patriarchy, misogyny, & queerphobia, outside of "men bad, lesbian good." Which like.....sure, I guess? in the absolute barest sense, I suppose RGU is partially about that.

But if this show's thesis were really as simple as "lesbian good," then Juri & her role as an antagonist on the mini patriarchy that is the Student Council would simply not exist at all. Juri would've won all the duels, kicked Akio in the nuts, freed Anthy, & ridden away into the sunset with Shiori in her arms before Utena even showed up if that were the case. But she obviously didn't do any of that despite being a lesbian, so there must be something more complicated at work here.

A lot of RGU's narrative is dedicated to deconstructing binary social systems & the ways in which they harm those trying to and/or being forced to fit within one of two narrow boxes; man vs woman, adult vs child, princess vs witch, prince vs devil, special vs not special, romantic vs platonic, etc. So for someone to watch all of that beautiful complexity, only to filter it through yet another essentialist binary...sucks, to say the least.

#I know some of you are like 15 & are thinking about these sorts of things for the first time in your lives so I'll have grace #but at the same time...the average women's studies 101 class gets more complex than 'man bad woman good'.#in general that's an at best shallow + unhelpful & at worst actively destructive way of thinking #I'm gonna need some more critical thinking ok #btw this post wasn't spurred by anything in particular. it's just an attitude I've been thinking a lot about recently #rgu #revolutionary girl utena #feminism #gender essentialism #rant

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strawberry-library · 6 months

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weekly update (10.15-10.21)