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burningtheroots · 11 months

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mote-historie · 1 year

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1959 Jerry Schatzberg, Carmen Dell Orefice, New York

#1959 #fashion #fashion photo #carmen dell orefice #new york #jerry schatzberg #schatzberg #dell orefice #women first

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michellezagenda · 5 months

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i could never be an evil nasty person just because i care about women first ^_^

#radblr #‘terf’blr #radfem #women first

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vavandeveresfan · 6 months

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Women, our time is precious.

My former boss at a bookstore asked me if I'd be willing to come in 3 days a week for 5 weeks to cover one of his employees who'll be out due to foot surgery. He couldn't pay me -- if he did I'd lose my health insurance. He'd pay me in store credit for books, t-shirts, anything he sells. He wasn't willing to pay me cash under the table.

Background: I used to be a bit of a pushover. If someone needed help I rarely said no, even when it wasn't convenient. I did this for this same boss in 2022 when I helped him opening his new store; I didn't even accept pay, did it all for free. Until I realized I was being taken advantage of.

Well, a year later I was in the hospital, having an emergency blood transfusion because I was literally bleeding to death and I was about to have a stroke or heart attack due to blood loss. I then had emergency surgery to remove a cancerous tumor the size of a softball.

All the cancer was removed, it hadn't spread *knocking on wood like crazy* and I'm doing great. As it happens, a month after surgery my first children's short story was published.

This taught me my time is precious, and time's flying. I have a TON of things to write, and I have the luck to have time to write.

But when my ex-boss asked and made his situation sound desperate -- holidays season and he needs shelving done fast so people can see the books -- I said yes.

I put his needs ahead of mine. Which we women do too fucking often.

I woke up at 5 AM this morning thinking, WTF am I thinking? I don't want to do this.

Sure I feel sorry for my ex-boss, but his problems aren't mine. He owns and runs an independent bookstore. Finding someone to cover for an incapacitated employee is what he does, and he gets paid to do it. He asked me because he knew, consciously or subconsciously, that I'd feel sorry for him and help him.

I just emailed him and said that helping him would inconvenience me. I'd be paying $75 in bus fare to and from the store, and he wasn't going to pay me. I don't need store credit because I'm thinning out my books as it is, so he'd be getting my work for free.

I'd lose 18 hours of writing a week, not counting the time spent waiting for and riding on the bus to and from the store. And, I said, my writing takes precedent over everything.

So I said "No." And I was proud of myself for saying it.

Women, our time is precious. Too often we give it away because we feel empathy and sympathy, because we want to help others as we hope to be helped.

We put others, especially men, ahead of ourselves.

We women need to realize that at any time Life can suddenly throw us a curve. We may become injured. We may get sick. We may lose our job or have our partner/spouse/significant other suddenly walk out. We may not have as much time and health to do what we want to do as we think we will.

We need to

Do what you love! Write, draw, read, travel, whatever it is you love most in the world, devote yourself to enjoying it as much as you can. Even if it means you say No to what others want you to do instead.

BTW, here's a couple illustrations from my short story. THIS is what matters to me. :-)

#writers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #put yourself first #time is precious #do what you love #women #women first

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radykalny-feminizm · 2 years

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Behind every bitter, mean old woman there is at least one man who should be treated like a war criminal for what he did to her

#feminism #personal #mine #radfem #radfems do interact #radical feminism #radfem safe #women's liberation #believe women #women first #female #male violence #male abuse #domestic abuse #misogyny #patriarchy #men hate women #femicide #father

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palettesofrenaissance · 2 years

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As an adult, I remember hating my body when I was younger, whether because of self-hating due to my race, body type, bra size, or because I'm female. There were so many nights I went to sleep wishing I'd wake up White, or wake up with a thicker body or bigger bra size, or that I would wake up and miraculously be male. I still remember how deep that self-hatred ran

Now, I've come to accept and even love myself, and I'm more educated on the positives and grand benefits there is about being female. I've been fortunate enough to surrounded myself with wise women, girls who continue our foremothers' fight for our rights, Black women, and other feminists and womanists, and even participated in females-only sports

And because I know the brighter, positive, empowering better side of seeing yourself, it's so sad to see the increase of girls who consider being "not like other girls" a good thing, who desire cosmetic surgery, chasing the Instagram filters looks, or who try so desperately to disconnect themselves from their female bodies (as if that'll ever be possible) even at the risk of living a delusion, or who are still so convinced in gender roles (that a defining characteristic that someone is feminine then that person must be female, which obviously isn't true. There are masculine and androgynous women because this isn't a requirement/being feminine is a choice)

It's understanding where the regressive, sexist, and self-hating thinking originates since we live in the misogynistic world and the over-sexed way females are constantly broadcasted, but that doesn't make it reasonable. It shouldn't be this way. Nature constantly shows there's so many benefits of being female; it's the patriarchy society (that needs to be torn down, in my opinion) that sells the lie that being female is a negative and that same society is what's oppressing us worldwide. And, no, the best attribute of being female isn't that we're able to grow children; we're more complex than just that

#i had some thoughts 💭#female empowerment #feminism #female positivity #female body positivity #women empowerment #women positivity #love yourself #feminist #womanism #womanist #women first #female focused #female class solidarity #female class consciousness #popping online for a moment 👋🏾

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velinxi · 7 months

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Lord of the Rings fanart! I watched for the first time recently and loved it

#vel draws #lotr #lord of the rings #yeah this was kind of random but this series brought a surprising inspo for me #have some old men and powerful women #will also have the first piece as a print for my next store update this friday!

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 month

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The math just adds up!

#dungeon meshi #falin touden #marcille donato #farcille #I always loved how chapter 27 ends with them both so bloody and 28 starts with them in the bath.#not just because of how iconic the bathtub moment is but because you know they had to scrap off so much gore first.#I think everyone in the party took a very long and methodical bath but Falin was basically *all* blood*.#Being covered in blood is one of those 'just girly things' that women deserve to stop being shamed about.#I just don't think Chilchuck is progressive enough. He probably made them take a bath first B*/#Okay jestering aside I want to just highlight -#The magnitude of Marcille's joy at seeing her dearest friend again! Of holding her and sharing her presence in the same room!#Something about this reunion feels like a beautiful dream you are afraid of waking up from...

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stil-lindigo · 10 months

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bite of winter.

a comic about a princess who died in the snow.

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all my other comics

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littlepawz · 1 year

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“When she applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying: “Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.” Then exactly 50 years ago today, on the day of the marathon, Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the race to begin. When about half of the runners had gone past she jumped in. She wore her brother’s Bermuda shorts, a pair of boy’s sneakers, a bathing suit, and a sweatshirt. As she took off into the swarm of runners, Gibb started to feel overheated, but she didn’t remove her hoodie. “I knew if they saw me, they were going to try to stop me,” she said. “I even thought I might be arrested.” It didn’t take long for male runners in Gibb’s vicinity to realize that she was not another man. Gibb expected them to shoulder her off the road, or call out to the police. Instead, the other runners told her that if anyone tried to interfere with her race, they would put a stop to it. Finally feeling secure and assured, Gibb took off her sweatshirt. As soon as it became clear that there was a woman running in the marathon, the crowd erupted—not with anger or righteousness, but with pure joy, she recalled. Men cheered. Women cried. By the time she reached Wellesley College, the news of her run had spread, and the female students were waiting for her, jumping and screaming. The governor of Massachusetts met her at the finish line and shook her hand. The first woman to ever run the marathon had finished in the top third.”

#women #Bobbi Gibb #first woman Marathon runner #pass the torch #first of many #visionaries #paving the way #running #athletics #women athletes #Boston Marathon #earned accolades #running races #Where there is a will...#challenging prejudice #challenging the rules

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goodmiffy · 4 months

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“reclaiming femininity” SHUT UP SHUT UP you can’t reclaim something that is expected of you and that you are actively punished for not engaging in shut up shut up shut up pink capitalism has won im going to chew glass a

#first of all femininity and masculinity are not even real #2nd if you are female you are socialised into femininity. you therefore can’t ‘reclaim’ it because you are not oppressed for it #you’re rewarded for it. girls and women are punished for being ‘masculine’#being ‘mocked’ for being girly is NOT the same as the punishment for non-conformity (being ‘masculine’)

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mote-historie · 1 year

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1958 Jerry Schatzberg, Anne St. Marie and Bob Smith, Fulton Fish Market, New York

#1958 #fashion #fashion photo #jerry schatzberg #anne st. marie #bob smith #fulton fish market #new york #fish market #fish market new york #schatzberg #st. marie #women first

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sergle · 9 months

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I don’t know if there really is any science behind workout routines separated by sex, but even if there is benefit to doing exercise “for women” i don’t give a shit. and i will intentionally seek out guides made For Men. because by and large, this is how the different video thumbnails shake out