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“The average prison sentence of men who kill their women partners is 2 to 6 years. Women who kill their male partners are sentenced on average to 15 years. This is despite the fact that 86% of female offenders kill in self-defense, while males are most likely to kill out of possessiveness (82%), abuse (75%), and during arguments (63%). Women are eight times more likely than men to be killed by an intimate partner.”

- Fact Sheet on Battered Women in Prison (via radicaldames)

“Nothing to Prove” by the Doubleclicks.

P.S.: The album it is on is now for sale. In addition to that link, you can get it on iTunes and Amazon and all the other places.

Teacher: Write down 3 things you dislike about yourself
Me: *sits there*
Teacher: Ciara, why aren't you writing?
Me: I can't do this. I will take a zero, sorry.
Teacher: Why?
Me: Because I refuse to promote self-hate. Because some people in the world can fill out 20 of these front and back with no blank spaces and this can trigger someone.
Teacher: Ciara, you have to do it or I am sending you to the office.
Me: Okay. *gets up and walks to office*

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I tried to register to vote three times when I was in college. Each time I failed to pass the “literacy" test. Only after the passage of the Voting Rights Act was I registered, and thank God Almighty, my parents voted as well. They were not activists but ordinary folks who wanted the same rights as the white people. Today, I feel the scabs coming off the old wounds and they are bleeding again. I knew people who were asked how many bubbles are in a bar of soap, or how many grains of sand are in a quart jar as part of their literacy test. I remember that the names of those who attempted to register were run in the local newspapers so that, by law, any registered (read white) voter could challenge their moral fitness to become voters. The real reason was to publicize who they were so their employers and Ku Klux Klan neighbors could take actions against them for having the nerve to think they should have the rights reserved for whites.

So much of our focus is on what the law did to help to emancipate generations of African Americans. However, the deep scars are still there in the form of emotional trauma (some friends of mine suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome), loss of family to death, broken dreams, ruined lives, and consigned once again to second and third class citizenship.

This is why I mourn today because the conditions for so many have not changed that much. Moreover, the gains we won continue to erode as we see in the dismantling of the most important piece of legislation on racial equality of my lifetime.

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Civil Rights Heroes (Workers and Volunteers) on Face Book

#CivilRightsVeteran #SNCC Member Joyce Ladner addressed the #SupremeCourt’s #VotingRights decision.

(via corinnestark)

the grace cycle: floozys: a lot of beautiful baby feminists were born yesterday and...:

vaspider:

floozys:

a lot of beautiful baby feminists were born yesterday and today

but the trouble with baby feminists is that they’re not very well educated yet 

so please do not shout at the baby feminists because they are new and have just been born, only meanies shout at babies

welcome the beautiful new born babies

but also teach them 

here’s the first rule 

• good feminism is intersectional, that means when you’re a feminist you don’t only stand up for the rights of white straight cis women, you stand up for the rights of queer, trans*, and people of colour. 

there are many more you will learn as you grow and develop

happy smashing the patriarchy sweet feminist babies 

Welcome, baby feminists.

Welcome!