aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

anarchistettin:

profeminist:

“fascist rogue state deploys chemical weapons against unarmed civilians on another country’s sovereign soil”

Scott Madin‏, responding to report “

US Border Patrol has just launched tear gas into Mexico. Breeze carrying it hundreds of yards. Parents running away with choking toddlers. #migrantcaravan”

five minutes before they did it, my friend’s roommate said “they won’t do it” 

People are like “oh you’re exaggerating it’s just tear gas” IT’S AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME TO LAUNCH CHEMICAL WEAPONS INTO ANOTHER COUNTRY. YOU CAN’T CLAIM THE AUTHORITY OF UPHOLDING INTERNATIONAL LAW WHILE BREAKING IT.

thelittlemerms:

cloudfreed:

unofficialkaiser:

an-old-school-butch:

dottiep:

Queen!

i agree that jameela makes great points at times, but she’s also the same woman who thinks the likes of laverne cox are women just because they identify that way. you can’t be a woman who calls out the deep-seated misogyny of society while also saying that any male who “feels” like a woman is one, and his opinions on womanhood automatically become relevant.

I hope you and all TERFs shit your pants in public too.

buddy her thinking trans women are women is a bonus not a flaw 

right now either I have so much energy that I’m vibrating because I physically. can. not. move. fast. enough.

Or my body knows if I stop moving for even a millisecond I will crash fucking hard bc of severe sleep deprivation

place your bets

You know what we need more of? Fat women in Victorian-era stories. Some people have this idea that every woman back then was thin “because corsets”, but there are plenty of period photos with large women in Victorian dress.

marzipanandminutiae:

yes yes YES

gorgeous lady!

Ivan Markov painting circa 1870. this girl is lovely, if not trying very hard with her maenad costume

this woman is probably some sort of performer, judging by her many tattoos, but there are plenty of photos floating around of thin Victorian performers, so here’s some representation of a less-than-proper larger lady

more on the average-sized side, but she has a taxidermied cat on her head and I feel that deserves to be seen by as many people as possible because I’m so confused

my beloved French fashion dolls, while their waists are fairly slender, almost always have little molded double chins that suggest a more ample size contained by a corset

actually all of the women in the photos above are wearing corsets. so why don’t larger corsets and garments survive in the same numbers as their smaller counterparts? for the same reason that mediums and larges are harder to find than smalls when shopping- more people wore those sizes, so they got snapped up quickly and worn until they gave out. larger clothes were more expensive then as now, so they would have been kept until they pretty much fell apart

you’re absolutely right, anon. as today, Victorian women came in all shapes and sizes