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"Simply put: you do not get to build a magazine around making women feel inadequate and then express astonishment and pity when they comply. This is the culture that Glamour and its ilk have helped to build — a culture that is relentlessly critical of women’s bodies, a culture that considers women’s bodies public property open to debate, a culture that trains women to turn this criticism on themselves, and to accept and internalize every comment, opinion, observation and judgment on their bodies no matter who it comes from, be it a parent, a friend, a boss, a significant other, or a stranger on the street, because they think they deserve it."

— Real Quick: Glamour is shocked. I mean eviscerated. I mean shocked. « Two Whole Cakes (via grrrlstudies)

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blog.twowholecakes.com 1026 ♥ 06.02.12

think-progress:

A Church posts a billboard apology to North Carolinians for “judgmental, deceptive, manipulative actions” done against the LGBT community with the passage of Amendment One.

(via itswalky)

think-progress 8864 ♥ 05.31.12

ivynoelle:

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Self Portrait (c. 1895)

“[Johnston] presents herself with beer mug in one hand, cigarette in the other, and skirt scandalously hiked up above the ankles. On one of her fingers are several rings from male suitors she had rejected.” (Martin W. Sandler, Against the Odds: Women Pioneers in the First Hundred Years of Photography)

Badass of the day: Frances Benjamin (muthafuckin’) Johnston.

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Tagged: badass, fuck yeah, photography, history, .

ivynoelle 995 ♥ 05.30.12

rosalarian:

fuck yeah!

I cannot stop laughing at the expression on the boy in outer space’s face

Tagged: he is so earnest, .

einsteinonacid 149211 ♥ 05.30.12

Gaps in sexual health care for male teens

hellyeahscarleteen:

He was 17 and had come to Johns Hopkins’ Harriet Lane Clinic for a routine physical.

The pediatric resident who took the young man’s medical history asked him if he was a father or had ever gotten somebody pregnant. The teen said his girlfriend was due to have a baby in a couple weeks.

“We congratulated him, reviewed with him his needs and any concerns but made sure that we discussed his reproductive life plan and, based on this, provided him and his partner with appropriate family planning services,” recalled Arik Marcell, MD, MPH, assistant professor with the Bloomberg School’s Center for Adolescent Health and a teen health expert with the Hopkins Children’s Center, who was supervising the clinic visit.

When it comes to male teens, this type of doctor-patient interaction is hardly typical. Far too often, said Marcell, medical providers fail to initiate discussions about sexual and reproductive health with adolescent males, a subject that care providers frequently raise with teen girls.

Had the doctor not asked his 17-year-old patient about fatherhood and pregnancy, he would not have known about the imminent and transformative event facing this young father-to-be.

“They’re not routine questions for boys, and I don’t see why they shouldn’t be,” said Marcell, whose recent lecture on the topic at the School was entitled “Sexual and Reproductive Health Care: What About the Young Male?”

“It’s really on us to bring these topics up as part of our work with young men in clinical settings,” he said.

Read the rest here.