Hey folks, I have some bad news.

My hard drive failed yesterday morning out of nowhere, and the only computer I have access to is not capable of handling tumblr at any reasonable pace, so it looks like I’m going to be having limited presence on my blog.

I still have queue set for about a week, which I should hopefully be sorted out by, so don’t despair about it… Like I am about losing my life (I’m sure you can probably relate). Also, it looks like $1000+ to retrieve the information, (yikes!) so I’m probably not going to be able to get the post material I was working on back (not to mention my novels, why oh why didn’t I back up?).

As always, thanks for your support and interest,

Kitty

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The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The Truth About Women’s Bodies

The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.

Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Blum sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones. The women photographed are all volunteers, and most of the pictures are taken in the subjects’ homes — where they feel most comfortable. The Nu Project’s website showcases six galleries of nudes, three shot in North America, three in South America. Although Blum told HuffPost that he feels that they have a “good variety of people involved,” he and Kessler acknowledge on The Nu Project website that they’d love for the subjects to be more diverse. “The hardest part for us is that the project is 100 percent volunteer, so I do not see the women until I show up at their door,” Blum writes on the website. “We’re doing our best to encourage all types of women, but we need volunteers of all backgrounds and walks of life to make the project more complete.” Blum said he ultimately hopes that these images inspire the women who see them to feel better about their own bodies. “It’s been really exciting to hear people react to the images,” he told HuffPost. “We get a lot of feedback from women (especially) who have struggled to see themselves as beautiful, and this project has helped them on that path.”

http://thenuproject.com/

this is gorgeous. 

perfect

Beautiful.

Genuine. I love this.

i like the laughing ones the best :D

The one of the girl drinking her tea is very pretty. Has a relaxed, start of the morning feel to it.

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TRIGGER WARNING: Medical student Hilary Gerber of Mom’s Tinfoil Hat was offered the chance to perform a pelvic exam on an unconscious female patient by an operating room nurse at the local hospital not affiliated with her school. Wrote Gerber:

I participated in a dilation and curettage on a woman who was experiencing an incomplete abortion. I was in the room before the procedure and the OR nurse offered to let me do a pelvic exam on her, since the patient was already anesthetized. 

via Unpacking the F Word

On average, women in Canada earn 32 percent less than men. That means that on average, a woman makes only 68 cents for every dollar a man makes. It varies by province. For instance, in Ontario it’s 28 per cent.

15 – Number of additional years that a Canadian woman will have to work to earn the same pay which a man earns by age 65, at the current rate of progress. It varies by province. In Ontario, that number is 13 extra years.

62 – Percentage of university undergraduate students in Canada who were women in 2008. Even though women are more likely than men to go to university or college, they don’t necessarily end up getting paid better once they’re in the work force.

$24,000 – The number of additional dollars men working full-time, year-round in Canada between the ages of 35 to 44 made, on average, compared to women in 2008.

7 out of 10 – Number of part-time workers in Canada who are women. Women are more likely to hold multiple part-time jobs.

60 – Percentage of minimum wage workers in Canada who are women. In many households today, it takes two income earners to make it.

12 – Percentage less that Canadian women with children earn than women without children.

67 – Percentage of women in Canada who work in traditional occupations such as teaching, nursing, clerical, admin or sales and service jobs in 2009.

47 cents – The average amount working racialized women in Ontario were short-changed for every dollar non-racialized men got paid for work in 2005.

20 – Percentage of Canadian women in low-wage jobs, compared to 10 per cent of men.

2x – Poverty follows women into their retirement: women 65 or over are twice as likely as men to be low income.

$125.8 billion – Women, families, communities, and the economy suffer when there is pay inequality. The estimated annual lost income potential of Canadian women as a result of unequal income and labour force participation rates, according to a 2005 Royal Bank of Canada report, was $125.8 billion.

By the Numbers: Canada’s Equity and Fairness Gap Between Men and Women

Um Mazed is a 28-year-old Syrian refugee from Homs who has started earning money by arranging marriages between Syrian girls and Arab men…

…”The men are usually between 50 and 80, and they ask for girls who have white skin and blue or green eyes. They want them very young, no older than 16.”

She says she has presented more than a hundred Syrian girls to these men, who pay her a fee of US $70 for an introduction, and about US $310 if it results in a marriage.

This is a violation of basic human rights! These women are people, just like you and I, and they deserve a choice in life in who they want to marry without fear of poverty or worse. We need to think about our lives and our countries and what we are contributing to situations like this, whether actively or passively, and how we can help bring about change!

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sazquatch:

I am so sick of the systematic sexualisation of violence against women. Walking into a DVD store, and seeing a terrified, half-naked woman crawling away from some masculine antagonist on the cover of every second horror movie. 

Seeing how men talk about sex with us as “pounding”, “breaking”, “beating up” our bodies. 

Seeing haute couture houses releasing billboard ads with frail-looking women with dead eyes in positions suggesting they have been murdered. 

The voyeuristic, detailed coverage of cases involving mutilation-murders of women. 

Perpetrating violence against our bodies is not ok. Packaging violence against us as sexy, for male consumption, is not ok.

I fuck how i like, thank you.

Find the part where I told you how you can and cannot have sex, you self-involved cock-bag. Go ahead, find it. Read it again.

When you can’t find it, look at how you derailed a post about how violence against women’s bodies, in non-consensual settings, is sexualised pervasively, and how that breeds a culture of violence.

Look at how you asserted your RIGHT AS A MAN to get off to the idea of women being horribly brutalised. I said nothing about kinks or w/e in this post, so you can’t pretend like you’re being oppressed. I made 4 explicit examples, and you decided ‘oh no, this nasty woman is telling me how I can and can’t have sex!’ Your reading comprehension is shit, and you are sickening.

Disgusting existence.

princesslilitu:

no actually it’s NOT fair representation if we have movies about women but they secretly center around men. it’s NOT fair representation if we have movies about poc but they’re forced into stereotypes like thugs or drug addicts. it’s NOT fair representation if we have movies with fat people but they’re always just the funny fat friend, or movies with gay people but they’re always just the sassy gay friend.
that’s not fair representation. that’s not equality. and if i hear one more person say it is i’m gonna fucking lose it.

WORD.

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kawomaeda:

this has been a PSA

Jesus fucking christ

This is exactly the kind of shit I was talking about. I had a rant some weeks ago about people ‘hiding’ comments in their tags, and the response was mainly two things: Either people did it just because they preferred it that way for whatever reason (which in the end is really their business), or this, which is something that until I made that post I had no idea about. I didn’t know this shit was a thing. I had no idea people actually posted shit like this, because it just seems so fucking unreal.

This is bullshit, and the person who posted this is bullshit by extension.
This is some fucked up elitist mentality that only some thoughts are “worthy” of being made. That if your response doesn’t live up to their standards then why the fuck are you posting it? Keep your mouth shut because what you have to say isn’t worth hearing! This of course is further ingrained by the use of excessive caps and emoticons in the original post suggesting that anyone who makes a response like that is a child or an idiot, because there’s no faster or lazier way to discredit the other side than to imitate them with fevered, emoticon-littered writing.

Well I say fuck that. I produce my own content (and I don’t mean compiling TV gifsets) and I want to see everything everyone has to say. Even if it’s just AAAA THIS SCARED ME or WOWOWOW THIS IS SUPER CUUUUTE WOW, seeing that kind of response means a lot to me. It means I evoked that kind of response. That’s very flattering! And for people to want to censor others because they think their thoughts aren’t important or worthwhile enough to be read, frankly, that’s disgusting. No one should be pressured into feeling like they have to shut up especially on a subject and medium like motherfucking Tumblr. It’s like telling someone “GET OFF MY POST”.

And I mean let’s think practically about this, too: It’s not like every time someone reblogs your post AND ADDS TEXT a man comes to your door and sits you down and reads it out loud off a telegram. What happens is that the little list that shows “so and so reblogged your post” has one additional line of text on it saying “AND ADDED: [COMMENT YOU DON’T THINK WAS WORTH YOUR TIME]”. I would say it takes one extra second to scroll past but the amount of time spent scrolling that additional line is so insignificant I couldn’t even measure it. Most people who address this spend way more time complaining about it than they ever would spend being inconvenienced by having to read what people thought of their post (god forbid)

So in summation this whole toxic, bullshit mentality of “Hey plebeians who have the privilege of looking at my stuff! Here’s how you are and are not allowed to respond to it!” is awful and so arrogant I almost didn’t believe it was real
If you want to sort of stash your thoughts away in tags, I can’t force you not to by any means
But you should never feel like you have to hide your thoughts because they’re not ‘good enough’.
Especially not here.

Thank you, tgweaver

Agreed.

INDEED THANK YOU I was waiting for that!

(this is what I meant to reblog kjhfgkdf)

Reblogging for that essay of a comment that I love very much up there^^

I am an artist and because people sometimes hide their comments in the tags, I go and check every single reblog to see if the person who reblogged it wrote anything in the tags. I do this because sometimes people make little zany comments in the tags which I love very much

BUT when your notes on a certain piece of art is in the hundreds (or worse thousands) it gets tougher to do, yet I still try.

The only thing I will get on your case about reblogging my stuff is if you erase my own message on the post. That’s silencing me and I hate that.

OH and if English isn’t your first language, I still want to hear what you have to say, Google Chrome has this awesome thing where it’ll translate a blog to the language the user speaks more fluently.

And there are also sites where it’ll translate something into another language.

This adequately sums up my opinion on adding comments, and I love hearing people’s reactions, so please, don’t hesitate to comment. And if my commenting bothers you, you can kindly calm down and realise it isn’t the end of the world.

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EVERYTHING

Jesus Christ! If I could get my best friend to understand this, he’d be better off

Look. LOOK at this gahtdamn truth! Show me your a nice guy. Don’t tell me. It will always sounds like you are trying to run game. Always.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS 

EXACTLY. 

In case anyone wants to know, this is from The Jane Austen Book Club.

I’m about the watch the shit out of this.

READ the shit out of it too. It’s a book, and the author is a feminist science fiction writer… who then went on to write a book about Jane Austen readers. 

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Junot Diaz, Speaking to students at Bergen Community College, (via aliceincrohnsland)

afrogeekgoddess:

#This is why. #This is why we need canon femslash and not just rule!63 characters.#This is why we need more stories—media fanfic whatever—about POC. #This is why fandom exists. #To build all of the fucking mirrors that the original authors never made or only half-silvered. #Because if the creators of the original work won’t make us visible we have to do this work ourselves. #And when fandom overwhelmingly shows me that I am invisible not just in the media but within my own fandom… #…I never feel like I existed at all. #fandom

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Forever reblog Junot Díaz. (via tequilaandtiramisu)

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It doesn’t even matter if she did actually “want it”. He is in a position of power and authority, and it is not okay.