Suzy X. isn't real: Archive

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Dec 31st

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Dec 31st

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Dec 31st

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Dec 31st

“One of the most odious features of homosociality is the way in which it employs...”

– Hugo Schwyzer (via amberlrhea) (via gauntlet) (via unburyingthelead) (via aminatou) (via sexismandthecity)

Dec 31st

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“A woman in the military is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than...”

– Representative Jane Harman, a Democrat from California, said at a Congressional hearing this year, repeating an assertion she has made a refrain in a campaign of hers to force the military to do more to address abuses. A Peril in War Zones: Sexual Abuse by Fellow G.I.’s from the NY Times (via...

Dec 30th

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Police: Woman Kills Man Who Harassed Her, Escapes... →

As written about in Holla Back NYC: “By now the story of Cyan Brown, the 16 year old who fatally stabbed a man on Thursday, has been heard around the city. Chased by “seven or eight” men who were trying to drag her off the train and sexually assault her, Cyan had two options: fight back or get hurt. Like all of us, Cyan had probably been harassed and maybe even assaulted...

Dec 28th

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Dec 27th

Watch

sexismandthecity: Women, you are NEVER safe! Sarah Haskins Target Women

Dec 26th

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night dances/lose themselves (winter 2009-cusp of... →

My personal New Year’s mix.

Dec 26th

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All I want for Christmas is a GUN.

I never thought I’d have to draw something like this. It seems a lot less creepy in cartoon form. My potential assailant— a creepy white man from the N train who followed me home last night from Bay Ridge. I’m sending in a police report, as well as a post to hollabacknyc.com.

Dec 25th

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Creepers

I hate that I need a security guard, or a policeman to feel safe from the creeper that followed me home from the N train tonight. He walked a foot behind me the whole time. And was breathing heavily, whispering things. And even said “Goodnight!” before I ran up the steps to my dorm and greet the security guard. I had 911 ready to be dialed on my phone. I was fucking scared out of my...

Dec 24th

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Dec 22nd

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Sarah Haskins Looks Back On The Ads Of 2009 And... →

“When you’re a woman… happiness is just one purchase away.”

Dec 22nd

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Appropriations Bill Ends Abstinence-Only Funding,... →

SO MUCH WIN IN THIS. Sorry, Project S.O.S… But I could have never accepted an engagement ring as my personal sex symbol, when you were preaching to my hormonal high-school self about ignoring my reproductive organs in the name of God. There’s a lot to be said about a bunch of born-again virgins telling me I was a big skank if I wanted to “damage my goods” before walking...

Dec 21st

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Health Care Reform Bill-- close, but no cigar

From http://angryblackbitch.blogspot.com This health care reform bill, negotiated on the backs of women and soon to be presented for a vote with political boots placed firmly on the throat of reproductive justice, is unacceptable. I’m saying that knowing full well what’s at stake…because women’s health is not worth less than the health of others. And I’m saying that knowing that there but for...

Dec 21st

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Dec 18th

Dec 17th

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An exchange in a dorm

A freshman resident: Suzy, are you single?

Me: No. I'm independent. [exit]

Dec 16th

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SNOOZE FEST-- Episode I →

My new radio show. Check it out!

Dec 16th

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Denver, CO is the most sexually active city in the...

slowgraffiti: abilly: ohyeahfacts: (source) If I wasn’t moving before… It is so on now. Denver was actually one of the cities on the shortlist, just below Boston. Maybe it’s worth another look… That fact is fucking impossible. Why? I fucking live here and I sure as hell make up for some of those Baptists. Hahahahahahaha! I sure love to hate you sometimes, J-Ville. At least...

Dec 16th

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You know you're a gender studies geek when

You know you’re a gender studies geek when you have to add the word “heteronormative” to your Microsoft Word dictionary.

Dec 15th

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WHY

on earth did I sell my copy of Female Chauvinist Pigs at the Strand last year? Oh yeah, because I was broke and sold half of my feminist library to buy food. D’oh! I’m writing one of my finals on compulsory heterosexuality, and what female sexuality would look like without the influence of the hetero male gaze. So, friends, I’m wondering— what do you think a feminist...

Dec 13th

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thoughts on ‘consent’ →

beetx: Consent implies nothing more than agreement to undergo. Nothing more than ‘yes’. One consents to undergo operations to save one’s life, or to reduce unbearable physical suffering. One signs the consent form without desiring to experience the pain and danger that operations necessarily entail. One does not sign a form proclaiming that one enjoys an operation.

Dec 13th

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Uganda bans female genital mutilation →

Ugandan MPs have voted to outlaw female genital mutilation - also known as female circumcision. Anyone convicted of the practice, which involves cutting off a girl’s clitoris, will face 10 years in jail, or a life sentence if a victim dies.

Dec 12th

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“America is filled today with feminist women—who are defiant against their...”

– Turned Aside After Satan! If you get beaten, it’s your own damn fault! Put on some clothes, hooker! (via robot-heart-politics) (via missworld) i just vomited all over my floor. well, maybe not but i thought about it. (via letstalkequality) … … … Yeah there’s nothing to be said here…. (via...

Dec 10th

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Dec 10th

Study: Parents' Sex Talk with Kids: Too Little,... →

By the end of the study, more than half of the parents reported that they had not discussed 14 of the 24 sex-related topics by the time their adolescents had begun genital touching or oral sex with partners. Forty-two percent of girls reported that they had not discussed the effectiveness of birth control and 40% admitted they had not talked with their parents about how to refuse sex before...

Dec 9th