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“If You Know Someone Who Doesn’t Believe Sexism Exists, Show Them This”
Link here: [x]Everyday Sexism - www.everydaysexism.com, @EverydaySexism
(via fabfatfemme)
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“I’ve had people tell me that they don’t feel that they could read a book with a lesbian main character because they don’t believe that they could relate to it. The difference between you walking out of a book store, frustrated at not being able to find a story that you could relate to, and straight people telling me they’re not certain if they could relate to a lesbian main character, however, are two vastly different things. It’s a straight world—almost every story in existence is straight, every myth and fairy tale we’ve been told, growing up, is straight, every movie, every commercial we see (or that gets any play or notoriety) is straight. When people tell me, “I don’t think I could relate” for ONE book, they’re not understanding the fact that we have to not relate ALL the time if we want to read anything. Obviously, there are wonderful straight stories that we both love, but we don’t have the luxury of being able to say “meh, it’s straight, don’t think I can relate to it!” —Sarah Diemer, Why Queer Girl YA Stories Are Important: A Dialogue on Project Unicorn by Its Authors. (via fuckyeahlesbianliterature)
This is a great explanation of straight privilege in literature, and is also relevant to bisexuals, trans* people and other people who aren’t generally represented in literature.
(via bisexual-books)
(via bisexual-books)
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“ Six years ago, I had a deal with Lifetime Television to develop my bestselling novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, as a TV series. It soon became clear that the relationship wasn’t going to work, when two executives insisted that my pilot outline “wasn’t Latin enough,” because it told of middle class, educated American women who happened to be Latina.
“This reads as if it were about me and my friends,” complained one executive in disgust.
I didn’t know how to respond, so I asked her what she’d prefer.
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“Why don’t we make the girls debating whether or not to date men in prison? I know that’s what Latinas talk about, just like it’s what black women talk about.”—Opinion: The problem with “Devious Maids” goes far beyond Hollywood
people always want to talk shit about us when we complain about fucked up representation…but these are the conversations happening in board rooms. like, jesus fucking christ. fuck this planet.
(via alienswithankhs)
we sure wouldn’t want women of color to be portrayed as normal people would we
(via crackerhell)
Mandatory reading!
(via feminist-space)
This is a really important piece. Definitely worth reading.
(via becauseiamawoman)
I kinda wanna fight someone. God forbid you find yourself relating to people of colour. Also, as an almost-30 black woman I can tell you I’ve NEVER talked about with ANYONE about dating someone in prison. I literally have never known anyone who has gone my entire life.
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
