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lipsredasroses: I swear to god if I read one more post saying...

lipsredasroses — Sun, 12 May 2013 01:29:03 -0400

I swear to god if I read one more post saying “Merida didn’t care about fancy dresses and what not” I will scream. Neither did any of the other princesses. Sure, Cinderella wanted to go to the ball but she didn’t even make either dress she wore. Her mice friends made the first dress, which was an updated version of her mothers dress, and the second one her fairy godmother gave her. She spends seconds admiring the dress in the movie. I’d hardly count that as her only caring about her looks and fancy dresses. Then there was Aurora who admired her birthday present from the fairies. Lets be serious, none of the princesses gave 2 fucks about their looks. They had other things to worry about like finding out they were princesses, surviving abusive homes, figuring out how to save a loved one, and figuring out how to turn the idiot frog back into a prince.

The princess merchandise sold does NOT fit the personality of any of the princesses. None of the princesses were in their ball gowns for the majority of the movies. They are not marketed in the dresses they wore throughout the majority of their movies. I’m sorry but Belle is much happier/comfortable locked in a library with her books than dancing around a ball room. Ariel is much happier exploring than dancing in a gown not even found in her movie. Cinderella only wore the blue dress for maybe 5 minutes in the movie. Her work dress is what she wore for the majority of the movie. She is frankly more comfortable in “average” clothes. Aurora was happiest singing and dancing in the forest with Phillip, not dressed in her ball gown. Tiana is more comfortable cooking and running her restaurant not dressed in some ball gown. You know how big of a pain in the ass that dress would be in the kitchen? The only princesses whose outfits weren’t radically altered were Snow White and Rapunzel. If Pocahontas didn’t look like she went shopping at Forever 21, I’d add her to the list. The princess line up does nothing to market the characters from the movies. None of the princesses in that line up are how they are in the movies.

If you are going to focus on Mulan and Merida, you better focus on all the princesses. It is ridiculous that people don’t mention that none of the princesses would be comfortable in the roles Disney gives them in the princess line up. Disney strips all of the princesses of their personalities and makes them all the same. That is a fucking problem. That is not just a problem for 2 of the princesses, it is a problem for all 11 of them.

thelostsunprincess: thebrainscoop: fuckyeahforensics: The...

lipsredasroses — Fri, 03 May 2013 03:19:59 -0400

thelostsunprincess:

thebrainscoop:

fuckyeahforensics:

The winter of 1609 to 1610 was treacherous for early American settlers. Some 240 of the 300 colonists at Jamestown, in Virginia, died during this period, called the “Starving Time,” when they were under siege and had no way to get food.

Desperate times led to desperate measures. New evidence suggests that includes eating the flesh of fellow colonists who had already died.

Archaeologists revealed Wednesday their analysis of 17th century skeletal remains suggesting that settlers practiced cannibalism to survive.

Researchers unearthed an incomplete human skull and tibia (shin bone) in 2012 that contain several features suggesting that this particular person had been cannibalized. The remains come from a 14-year-old girl of English origin, whom historians are calling “Jane.”

There are about half a dozen accounts that mention cannibalistic behaviors at that time, although the record is limited, said Douglas Owsley, division head of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian National Museum of National History.

The newly analyzed remains support these accounts, providing the first forensic evidence of cannibalism in the American colonies.

What we know from the bones

Jane’s remains were found in a 17th-century trash deposit at the former site of James Fort. William Kelso, chief archaeologist at the Jamestown Rediscovery Project said at a briefing Wednesday that the fort was built in 1607, but has been washed away. Kelso and colleagues began digging in 1994 and have been excavating the site on Jamestown Island ever since.

Owsley and colleagues can tell quite a bit about what happened to Jane when at least one starving settler in the fort apparently tried to feed off of her.
If it’s any consolation, it appears that she was already dead at the time.

Researchers say it looks like someone had tried, but failed to open the skull with four shallow chops to the forehead.

The back of the skull contains markings that could have been made by a small hatchet or cleaver striking it. The cranium cracked open from the last hit. Forensic experts say it appears the person striking the skull was right-handed.

The skull’s mandible contains cuts all over it and inside, which experts say reflect an attempt to take tissue off of the face and throat with a tool such as a knife. The cheek area reflects a “sawing action” of a tool going back and forth, Owsley said. There are also sharp passages of a knife.

At some point in the process, the head was removed, Owsley said.

The damage done to these remains indicates that whoever inflicted it was not a skilled butcher, he said.

“Instead, what we see is hesitancy, trial, tentativeness and an absolute total lack of experience.”

The shin bone that archaeologists recovered also appeared to have been chopped, but in a way that more resembles classic butchering techniques, Owsley said.

“The person doing this was clearly interested in, based on what would have been accepted cuisine in the 17th century, in cheek meat, muscles of the face — that area — and tongue, and also in terms of 17th century traditional cuts, would also include the brain,” he said.

It is possible that more than one person was involved in this, given the disparity in butchering practices seen in the head compared to the shin bone.

What we know about the colonists

In the summer of 1609, the settlers experienced two significant setbacks, said James Horn, vice president of research and historical interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg.

The first was that a large fleet bringing supplies and settlers to Virginia was scattered. It had been carrying 500 settlers from Plymouth along with provisions.

“The fleet represented a new beginning for Jamestown, which had struggled over the previous two years,” Horn said.

A hurricane scattered the ships a week before they were supposed to arrive. The flagship with the leaders of this pack ended up in Bermuda. Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest” takes its inspiration from this event.

Six ships reached Jamestown in August 1609, with spoiled or depleted food, and many settlers in poor health. “On one of those ships was Jane,” Horn said.

At the same time, the relationship between the Jamestown colonists and the native Powhatan Indians had broken down. The existing settlers were already experiencing disease and a shortage of food, and the demands they made on the Powhatans strained their relations.

That was the environment into which 300 additional settlers arrived at the James Fort.

One of the leaders of the group, Captain John Smith — the same one who was famously friends with Pocahontas — returned to England in October 1609 because he was injured, Owsley said, leaving a leadership vacuum.

In the fall, the Powhatans waged war against these colonists, and launched a siege against the fort.

With no way to get food from the outside, the colonists resorted to eating horses, dogs, cats, rats, mice and snakes, Horn said, according to the accounts of George Percy, who was the president of Jamestown during this time. There are even accounts of people eating their shoes and any other leather that could be found. Anyone who left to try to scrounge for roots in the woods was killed by the Powhatans.

Percy wrote, according to the Smithsonian, “thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of graves and to eate them. And some have Licked upp the Bloode which hathe fallen from their weake fellowes.” In other words, cannibalism.

It’s not clear how many deceased colonists were cannibalized. Only 60 of 300 of the original colonists survived, described as “looking like skeletons,” Horn said.

In May of 1610, the settlers finally arrived who had been shipwrecked in Bermuda, effectively saving the colony. Lord Delaware brought even more colonists and enough provisions to last a year.

There are still more pits at the fort to be excavated, and only 10% of Jane’s body has been recovered, Owsley said.

“I think there’s going to be other examples,” Owsley said. “Whether that will be found — with archeology you never know what’s going to be under the next shovel.”

A special exhibition will begin at the Smithsonian about Jamestown and Jane’s story on Friday.

I know this isn’t directly zoology-related, but having practiced my fair share of faunal qualification and forensic analysis of osteological remains I feel like I can weigh in if just slightly on this topic.

We really, genuinely have no way of knowing whether or not the people of Jamestown were cannibalizing their dead. What we do have is a bit of tool evidence and a whole lot of conjecture. Like, 95% conjecture. It is easy to come to quick conclusions based off of this sort of thing, but where is the other evidence? Do they have reason to believe that these bones had been cooked? Are there written documents to support this theory? are there multiple instances where this has occurred, or was this an isolated incident? To say that you are able to “see hesitancy” in the butchering techniques is a stretch. The ‘disparity of butchering practices’ does not necessary indicate there was more than one person involved, it just means that the bones are shaped differently, need to be handled differently, and there could have been more than one tool.

I have not read the archaeological papers published about this dig so I do not know if there is more evidence to support the cannibalization theory, but I do know that the media loves to take this kind of story and run with it because it’s sensational and enticing. Maybe they were eating their dead but until additional physical materials verify this claim, I am skeptical.

Cannibalism in Colonial Jamestown is well documented. Historians have been writing about it since the 1970s. Edmund S. Morgan being one of the first to write about it in his book American Slavery, American Freedom. The article also lists written sources that back up the archeological evidence. Historians have known what this article is stating for decades. Archeology is just starting to back up the written records.

thelostsunprincess: I’m going to touch it up tomorrow but this...

lipsredasroses — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:18:41 -0400

thelostsunprincess:

I’m going to touch it up tomorrow but this is the sign. I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. I draw Meg all the time but this is the first time I drew Hercules.

FREE Feminist Literature downloads

lipsredasroses — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:01:48 -0400

FREE Feminist Literature downloads:

nymeses:

This link provides free PDF downloads of many feminist authors. I encourage you to read these books if you haven’t already or re-read some of your favorites! Includes Andrea Dworkin, Mary Daly, Janice Raymond, Sheila Jeffreys, and more!

thelostsunprincess: Mulan’s Legend and Legacy in China and the...

lipsredasroses — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 03:00:28 -0400

thelostsunprincess:

Mulan’s Legend and Legacy in China and the United States by Lan Dong.

About the Book:

Mulan, the warrior maiden who performed heroic deeds in battle while dressed as a male soldier, has had many incarnations from her first appearance as a heroine in an ancient Chinese folk ballad. Mulan’s story was retold for centuries, extolling the filial virtue of the young woman who placed her father’s honour and well-being above her own. With the publication of Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior in the late 1970s, Mulan first became familiar to American audiences who were fascinated with the extraordinary Asian American character. Mulan’s story was recast yet again in the popular 1998 animated Disney film and its sequel. In Mulan’s Legend and Legacy in China and the United States, Lan Dong traces the development of this popular icon and asks, “Who is the real Mulan?” and “What does authenticity mean for the critic looking at this story?” Dong charts this character’s literary voyage across historical and geographical borders, discussing the narratives and images of Mulan over a long time spanofrom pre-modern China to the contemporary United States to Mulan’s counter-migration back to her homeland. As Dong shows, Mulan has been reinvented repeatedly in both China and the United States so that her character represents different agendas in each retellingoespecially after she reached the western hemisphere. The dutiful and loyal daughter, the fierce, pregnant warrior, and the feisty teenaged heroineoeach is Mulan representing an idea about female virtue at a particular time and place.

Read some of it on google books.

thelostsunprincess: Each set is $40 including shipping. Set A...

lipsredasroses — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:57:17 -0400

thelostsunprincess:

Each set is $40 including shipping.

Set A includes Disney Auctions (P.I.N.S.) - Cinderella and Horse, Brave - Princess Merida, Cinderella - Rags to Riches (Spinner), 12 Months of Magic - Ariel, Stylized Disney Princess Designer Shoes Booster Set - Cinderella, and WDW - Mickey’s Circus - Mystery Collection - Sinister Sideshows - Ursula Only.

Set B includes- Disney Designs - Aladdin and Jasmine Hugging, Disney Auctions (P.I.N.S.) - Cinderella Name, Princess Icons (Belle) 3D/Dangle, Ariel - Jeweled Tail, Jeweled Princesses - Ariel (Version 2), and Brave - Booster Set - Merida and Triplet Cubs.

Set C includes Magical Musical Moments - Kiss The Girl, DLRP Jasmine - (from set), DLRP - Princesses - 3 Pin Set (Ariel Only), Tinker Bell Birthstone Collection 2011 - November, DLR - Ariel’s Undersea Adventure - Ursula & Ariel, and Disney Store Europe: Aladdin & Jasmine ‘Do You Trust Me?’.

Here is my information on Disney pins Forum. My email for dizpins is lisaoar@yahoo.com.

All the pins are authentic and usually sell for much more than this. I need the money now which is why I’m selling them at such a cheap price. These will be great for trading in the parks or trading online!

edit: Sorry for the crappy quality pictures.

I don’t know if any Disney pin fans are on here but I’m selling some pins to get my grail set!

I Am Not Your Wife, Sister or Daughter. I Am A Person.

lipsredasroses — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:33:40 -0400

I Am Not Your Wife, Sister or Daughter. I Am A Person.:

thelostsunprincess:

What I do want to tell you is that you need to stop using the “wives, sisters, daughters” argument when you are talking to people defending the Steubenville rapists. Or any rapists. Or anyone who commits any kind of crime, violent or otherwise, against a woman.

In case you’re unfamiliar with this line of rhetoric, it’s the one that goes like this:

You should stop defending the rapists and start caring about the victim. Imagine if she was your sister, or your daughter, or your wife. Imagine how badly you would feel if this happened to a woman that you cared about.

Framing the issue this way for rape apologists can seem useful. I totally get that. It feels like you’re humanizing the victim and making the event more relatable, more sympathetic to the person you’re arguing with.

You know what, though? Saying these things is not helpful; in fact, it’s not even helping to humanize the victim. What you are actually doing is perpetuating rape culture by advancing the idea that a woman is only valuable in so much as she is loved or valued by a man.

The Steubenville rape victim was certainly someone’s daughter. She may have been someone’s sister. Someday she might even be someone’s wife. But these are not the reasons why raping her was wrong. This rape, and any rape, was wrong because women are people. Women are people, rape is wrong, and no one should ever be raped. End of story.

The “wives, sisters, daughters” line of argument comes up all the fucking time. President Obama even used it in his State of the Union address this year, saying,

“We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence.”

This device, which Obama has used on more than one occasion, is reductive as hell. It defines women by their relationships to other people, rather than as people themselves. It says that women are only important when they are married to, have given birth to, or have been fathered by other people. It says that women are only important because of who they belong to.

Women are not possessions.

Women are people.

I seriously cannot believe that I have to say this in 2013.

I only posted a small piece of the article but its brilliant. Please go read the rest of it. The “lets protect women because they are our mothers, sisters, and wives” crap needs to go.

"One of the unfortunate results of the porn wars was the fixing of an antiporn camp versus a..."

lipsredasroses — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:30:56 -0500

“One of the unfortunate results of the porn wars was the fixing of an antiporn camp versus a sex-positive/ pro-porn camp. On one side, a capital P “Pornography” was a visual embodiment of the patriarchy and violence against women. On the other, Porn was defended as “speech,” or as a form that should not be foreclosed because it might some day be transformed into a vehicle for women’s erotic expression. The nuances and complexities of actual lowercase “pornographies” were lost in the middle. For example, sex-positive thinking does not always accommodate the ways in which women are constrained by sexuality. But the problem with antipornography’s assumption that sex is inherently oppressive to women— that women are debased when they have sex on camera— ignores and represses the sexuality of women. Hence, for us, sex-positive feminist porn does not mean that sex is always a ribbon-tied box of happiness and joy. Instead, feminist porn captures the struggle to define, understand, and locate one’s sexuality. It recognizes the importance of deferring judgment about the significance of sex in intimate and social relations, and of not presuming what sex means for specific people. Feminist porn explores sexual ideas and acts that may be fraught, confounding, and deeply disturbing to some, and liberating and empowering to others. What we see at work here are competing definitions of sexuality that expose the power of sexuality in all of its unruliness.”

- The Feminist Porn Book, “Introduction.”

I seriously recommend getting this book.

(via feministsnowwhite)

The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure

lipsredasroses — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:31:59 -0500

The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure:

feministsnowwhite:

Just bought this book! I am really excited to read it. I have read a lot of work by anti-porn feminist and took a whole class on porn in undergrad that really only catered to anti-porn feminism. So I am super excited to read this book!

Hey, Let's Not Slut-Shame Beyoncé for Her Super Bowl Outfit

lipsredasroses — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:06:02 -0500

Hey, Let's Not Slut-Shame Beyoncé for Her Super Bowl Outfit:

keepfeminismindisney:

Sports pundits are still be trying to make yesterday’s Super Bowl all about the actual game (and yes, that 108-yard touchdown was pretty impressive), but let’s be honest with ourselves—the real winner of the game was Beyoncé’s halftime performance. And not just because she didn’t lip sync or because of the holograms, but because of the fact that for the first time in recent memory, women of color were the main focus of the show. Women who could dance. Women who could sing. Women who could play instruments with sparks shooting out of them.

And yet, still, predictably and sadly, there are people (many of them women) who want to make the show about the fact that Queen Bey wasn’t wearing saggy denims and an ill-fitting University of Somewhere sweatshirt. Instead, she wore a dominatrix-esque boydsuit that got rapidly smaller as the performance progressed. In a thread on the Binders Full Of Women Facebook community, the slut-shaming began with a speed that could make Oreo’s head spin.

It was a strip-tease! Why do women always have to be taking off their clothes! This does nothing to advance the position of women because there was too much skin visible!

Really? Didn’t we just have this conversation like a week ago when she was on the cover of GQ?

Sure, there were some problems with the performance—like, as Slate points out, how very little airtime bandmates Kelly and Michelle got, during which they sang a song that wasn’t even by Destiny’s Child—but the outfits? The outfits weren’t one of the problems.

Just like the outfit that Beyoncé wore on the cover of GQ wasn’t a problem because, in the interview, she actually had some pretty great stuff to say that advanced the ideas that women can be powerful. To quote Feministing’s excellent piece on the Great Panties Debacle of 2013, “feminism is totally cool with Beyonce posing in her underwear.”

Because, dear readers, that is part of being a lady in America. We have the choice to show off our thighs or keep them covered. We have the option to be sexy or to not be. And I’m going to be honest: If I were Beyoncé, I would never wear pants, ever. Because have you seen how strong and muscular and amazing her legs are?

Instead of going immediately to extremely tired lamentations of leather and exposed skin, let’s try to focus on the fact that yesterday, the world witnessed a captivating all-female performance during what is typically a brief intermission during an all-male sporting event.

emphasis mine.

"It’s funny, because when women enjoy male-dominated things like video games or comics, we are called..."

lipsredasroses — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:36:04 -0500

“It’s funny, because when women enjoy male-dominated things like video games or comics, we are called “attention whores”, yet men who take over an entire fandom of a show aimed at little girls and create their own little movement based on it claim to be oppressed because people are creeped out by them. And then they’ve got the nerve to argue they are “challenging masculinity”? Puh-lease. Bronies are entitled males, they hate women, they even seem to hate the little girls the show was originally made for.”

- oma-schmidt (via never-obey)

THIS!

(via scooterpiebanana)

"I’d like to really show what I believe the men want to see: violence against women. I firmly believe..."

lipsredasroses — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:53:51 -0500

“I’d like to really show what I believe the men want to see: violence against women. I firmly believe that we serve a purpose by showing that. The most violent we can get is the cum shot in the face. Men get off behind that, because they get even with the women they can’t have. We try to inundate the world with orgasms in the face.”

- Bill Margold in Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. (via keepfeminismindisney)

"Porn is now so deeply embedded in our culture that it has become synonymous with sex to such a point..."

lipsredasroses — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:40:15 -0500

“Porn is now so deeply embedded in our culture that it has become synonymous with sex to such a point that to criticize porn is to get slapped with the label anti-sex.
…
But what if you are a feminist who is pro-sex in the real sense of the word, pro that wonderful, fun, and deliciously creative force that bathes the body in delight and pleasure, and what you actually against is porn sex? A kind of sex that is debased, dehumanized, formulaic, and generic, a kind of sex not based on individual fantasy, play, or imagination, but one that is the result of an industrial product created by those who get excited not by bodily contact but by market penetration and profits? Where, then, do you fit in the pro-sex, anti-sex dichotomy when pro-porn equals pro-sex?”

- Gail Dines, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (via keepfeminismindisney)

$5 books!

lipsredasroses — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:51:11 -0500

keepfeminismindisney:

So I posted a couple weeks ago about selling books for $5. Each book is $5, so if you order two it would be $10, if you got 3 it would be $15, etc. If you live outside of the US, each book will be $10 because shipping cost more. Payment is made through paypal.

Books for Sale:

Jesus Miriam’s Child, Sophia’s Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christologyby Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Liberalism & the Origins of European Social Theoryby Steven Seidman

Race & Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views of Prejudice, Discrimination, and Ethnoviolenceedited by Fred L. Pincus and Howard J. Ehrlich

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, & Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginiaby Kathleen M. Brown

In the Company of Educated Womenby Barbara Miller Solomon

Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacyby Elizabeth R. Varon

A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868by Anne Sarah Rubin

A History of Women: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saintsedited by Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot

Women as Candidates in American Politicsby Susan J. Carroll

The Women’s Westedited by Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson

A Hard Fight For We: Women’s Traditions from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolinaby Leslie A. Schwalm

Images of the Feminine in Gnosticismedited by Karen L. King

Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics & Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New Englandby Susan Juster

The Devils Lane: Sex and Race in the Early Southedited by Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie

Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Communityby Charles Joyner

The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac by Josephine F. Pacheco

As if an Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution by Richard Archer

So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier edited by Ruth B. Moynihan, Susan Atmitage, and Christiane Fischer Dichamp

The Elusive Ideal: equal Education Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools, 1950-1985 by Adam R. Nelson

Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman

Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720-1840 by Gary B. Nash

The Gospels of Mary: The Secret Traditions of Mary Magdalene the Companion of Jesus by Marvin Meyer

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the Civil Wat by Drew Gilpin Faust

Gendered (In)Justice: Theory and Practice of Feminist Criminology edited by Pamela J. Schram and Barbara Koons-Witt

Punishment and Crime: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Penality by Andrian Howe

The Gospel of Judas: Second Edition edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst

The House of Tudor by Allison Plowden

Rapture Ready: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture by Daniel Radosh

Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colinal American Religious World by Timothy D. Hall

Slavery and Crime in Missouri, 1773-1865 by Harriet C. Frazier

Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement edited by Barbara Laslett and Barrie Thorne

Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment by Nancy K. Loane

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes

The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century by Catherine Clinton and Christine Lunardini

Criminology at the Crossroads: Feminist Readings in Crime and Justice edited by Kathleen Daly and Lisa Maher

Glory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution by Melissa Lukeman Bohrer

Mary Magdalene: A Biography by Bruce Chilton

How Democratic is the American Constitution? By Robert A. Dahl

A History of Women: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes edited by Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge

The Hemmingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America by Benjamin L. Carp

Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England by Catherine Adams and Elizabeth H. Pleck

Abigail Adams: A Writing Life by Edith B. Gelles

I have more books on the Civil War I want to sell. I can type up that list if people are interested in them.

The Safe Motherhood Quilt Project

lipsredasroses — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:28:15 -0500

The Safe Motherhood Quilt Project:

keepfeminismindisney:

This is such an amazing project about bringing awareness to unimaginably high maternal mortality rates in the US.

Dear Disney fans,

lipsredasroses — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:02:32 -0500

shooting4ownhand:

Critiquing a Disney movie does not mean we hate Disney, think Walt Disney is the devil, or have some stick up our ass. Most people who critique Disney do enjoy the films and do actually like Disney. We are also about to think critically about the media we consume. Disney was no saint. He heavily relied on stereotypes in his films. Haven’t you notice all his female heroines, animals or people, are kind, caring, and compassionate? That is the stereotypical representation of what a woman should be in the early 20th century. Snow, Cinderella, and Aurora are also all seen cleaning in their films, i.e. they are domestic. Two of them were also being abused with was a fucking plot point in their movies. Disney heavily relied on the evil step mother trope in both Cinderella and Snow White. Disney relies on racist stereotypes in Dumbo (the crows), Lady and the Tramp (the cats and Chihuahua), and Peter Pan (the Native Americans) to name a few. Does that mean these movies are inherently bad and evil? No. However, people do start to believe the stereotypes in these movies because they are reenforced by our culture at large. Disney is a huge cultural force in the 20th and 21st centuries. There is no denying that. Disney movies, while entertainment, do shape how people view society. For that reason it is incredibly important to critique Disney. That doesn’t mean we want to kill your childhood or hate on Walt Disney for shits and giggles.

Love,

A very annoyed feminist and Disney fan.

"Whether we’re talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it’s..."

lipsredasroses — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:46:18 -0500

“Whether we’re talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it’s where the learning is.”

- bell hooks (via shooting4ownhand)

NBC and Law & Order:SVU: We request that you re-consider casting convicted rapist, Mike Tyson on Law & Order:SVU

lipsredasroses — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:58:43 -0500

NBC and Law & Order:SVU: We request that you re-consider casting convicted rapist, Mike Tyson on Law & Order:SVU :

shooting4ownhand:

shooting4ownhand:

Please sign this petition, even if you don’t watch the show. While there are many feminist debates about this show, one thing we can all agree on is a convicted rapist should NOT be on this show. This is a slap in the face of all survivors of sexual assault/rape and the survivors who are fans of the show. This is absolutely disgusting.

Seriously tumblr? You will get all the required signatures needed on pointless shit like getting a puppy a purple collar within minutes but not for something like this?!?

NBC and Law & Order:SVU: We request that you re-consider casting convicted rapist, Mike Tyson on Law & Order:SVU

lipsredasroses — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:40:56 -0500

NBC and Law & Order:SVU: We request that you re-consider casting convicted rapist, Mike Tyson on Law & Order:SVU :

shooting4ownhand:

Please sign this petition, even if you don’t watch the show. While there are many feminist debates about this show, one thing we can all agree on is a convicted rapist should NOT be on this show. This is a slap in the face of all survivors of sexual assault/rape and the survivors who are fans of the show. This is absolutely disgusting.

Feminism, Fiction, Historical Writings, and History books!

lipsredasroses — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:27:33 -0500

shooting4ownhand:

Trying to sell 3 books!!

All books are $10!

Shipping:
Shipping (for US):
1-2 books: $3
3-5 books: $5
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Feminism & History:

Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany M. Gill

Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations by David Fort Godshalk

Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois by Wanda A. Hendricks

Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South by Kristina DuRocher

Talk With You Like A Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935 by Cheryl D. Hicks

What Women Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow Era by Stephanie J Shaw

Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967 by Shannon Frystak

I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles M. Payne

Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movements edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin

How Long? How Long:: African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights by Belinda Robnett

Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Sisterhood by Amy Erdman Farrell

The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement by Winifred Breines

Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963-1975 by Patricia Bradley

Breadwinners: Working Women & Economic Independence, 1865-1920 by Lara Vapnek

Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle edited by Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard

Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers & Torchbearers, 1941-1965 edited by Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods

Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century by Mary Hollingsworth

The Mirror of the Artist: Northern Renaissance Art in its Historical Context by Craig Harbison

All Bound Up Together: The Women’s Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 by Martha S. Jones

Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War by Michael S. Foley

Gender & Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth GIlmore

A Separate Canann: The Making of an Afro-American World in North Carolina, 1763-1840 by Jon F. Sensbach

Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1867 by Joshua D. Rothman

Fiction and Historical Writings:

The Cross of Redemption: James Baldwin Uncollected Writings edited by Randall Kenan

The Selected Writings of Christine De Pizan edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

W.E.B. Dubois Writings Library of America College Edition

Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. DuBois

The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe

W.E.B. DuBois Speaks: Speeches and Adressess 1880-1919 edited by Philip S. Foner

W.E.B. DuBois Speaks: Speeches and Adressess 1920-1963 edited by Philip S. Foner

The Blazing World and Other Writings by Margaret Cavendish

The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre

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