OTHS Femme Revolution Club

nessfraserloves:

smoestoe:

mipiacemolto:

This was a full page ad in the Canadian National Post.
With the Ontario Provincial Election fast approaching, many people feel that their opinion MUST be heard. That’s when private partisan ads, like these, begin to find there way in the faces of the general public.
This, my friends; is a total disgrace. This ad is not only hugely offensive to the entire LGBTTQQ Community in an outward attack, it also bases its’ arguments on the concept that people who identify as LGBTTQQ are not real people. WHAT IS THIS!!! This is Canada we’re talking about! Yet, here we are being faced with this hideous form of discrimination.
Also, while it does seem like an overkill to point out, I still feel this issue needs to be addressed. This ad, which is brought to us by the apparent “Institue for Canadian Values” as an attack on the Toronto District School Board, uses children as the face for this attack-ad. Not only is this strategy weak and low on their part, but it is also an opportunity to see the real character of these people. They claim that the School Board is corrupting their children, and here they are, using and corrupting their children themselves so that they can grow up to abuse the human rights of other people because they weren’t given the curriculum to understand that human rights are rights that ALL humans deserve.
To top it all off, they hide behind arguments such as religious rights/beliefs (which I would like to point out, all religions focus on the fair treatment of all individuals and their human rights) and the main argument that teaching children about all types of people is somehow harming and/or corrupting them.
My argument is this: ALL PEOPLE deserve equal human rights. This would not be an issue if the curriculum was focused on racism or ableism. Instead, because the focus is on homophobia and anti-heterocentrism, it somehow is an entirely different issue, which I argue is wrong and, in itself, abusive to human rights and the premotion of ignorance and hate.
Non-progressive ads like these are what set back any human rights activism and lead us to further abuse.

This needs to be stopped. Anyone who actually understand their religion understands that we need to accept and love everyone. I am hurt that this group thinks all religion people are bigots and that anyone who has “Canadian values” is a bigot.
Tumblr, do your stuff. That’s the executive director’s information.

Ekron Malcom
Executive Director ekron@canadianvalues.ca
Tel: 416.391.5000 EXT 344
Fax: 416-391-3969
Charles@word.ca
Canada Christian College
50 Gervais Drive
Toronto, ON M3C 1Z3

This is really, really disgusting.

Wtf!

smoestoe:

mipiacemolto:

This was a full page ad in the Canadian National Post.

With the Ontario Provincial Election fast approaching, many people feel that their opinion MUST be heard. That’s when private partisan ads, like these, begin to find there way in the faces of the general public.

This, my friends; is a total disgrace. This ad is not only hugely offensive to the entire LGBTTQQ Community in an outward attack, it also bases its’ arguments on the concept that people who identify as LGBTTQQ are not real people. WHAT IS THIS!!! This is Canada we’re talking about! Yet, here we are being faced with this hideous form of discrimination.

Also, while it does seem like an overkill to point out, I still feel this issue needs to be addressed. This ad, which is brought to us by the apparent “Institue for Canadian Values” as an attack on the Toronto District School Board, uses children as the face for this attack-ad. Not only is this strategy weak and low on their part, but it is also an opportunity to see the real character of these people. They claim that the School Board is corrupting their children, and here they are, using and corrupting their children themselves so that they can grow up to abuse the human rights of other people because they weren’t given the curriculum to understand that human rights are rights that ALL humans deserve.

To top it all off, they hide behind arguments such as religious rights/beliefs (which I would like to point out, all religions focus on the fair treatment of all individuals and their human rights) and the main argument that teaching children about all types of people is somehow harming and/or corrupting them.

My argument is this: ALL PEOPLE deserve equal human rights. This would not be an issue if the curriculum was focused on racism or ableism. Instead, because the focus is on homophobia and anti-heterocentrism, it somehow is an entirely different issue, which I argue is wrong and, in itself, abusive to human rights and the premotion of ignorance and hate.

Non-progressive ads like these are what set back any human rights activism and lead us to further abuse.

This needs to be stopped. Anyone who actually understand their religion understands that we need to accept and love everyone. I am hurt that this group thinks all religion people are bigots and that anyone who has “Canadian values” is a bigot.

Tumblr, do your stuff. That’s the executive director’s information.

Ekron Malcom

Executive Director
ekron@canadianvalues.ca

Tel: 416.391.5000 EXT 344

Fax: 416-391-3969

Charles@word.ca

Canada Christian College

50 Gervais Drive

Toronto, ON M3C 1Z3

This is really, really disgusting.

Wtf!

(Source: prendalamiamano)

“ Sorry if you can’t get married now!

— White male classmate on bus who accidentally bumps into me (an Indian American girl) while I’m sitting in one of the seats. In high school & made me feel angry, upset, dehumanized. (via microaggressions)

High School and grrrlVIRUS

grrrlvirus:

I’m a high school student, and today I wore my favorite pair of high heel boots. They’re red and black, which makes me feel like a total badass.

One of the girls in my 1st period class said “You look like a hooker in those boots” to which my response was “Thank you”

She said “I just called you a slut, you shouldn’t be thanking me.” Again, with a big smile on my face “Thank you”

riotgrrrlsarenotdead:

i remember my first english teacher in scool has this as a kind of a box,now i’m asking myself if she’s feminist…

My neighbour’s mom had this as a light switch cover for years and (I didn’t know it then but I realize now) she began sleeping with a woman…

-Emily

“ Female orgasm is a different story. Shhh, don’t talk about that – it makes people uncomfortable. Think about it—how many slang terms for female orgasm can you think of? Can you make a list? Are there mainstream movies that depict or discuss girls or women masturbating? Although I can think of a few exceptions (Pleasantville, The OH in Ohio), if female masturbation occurs in mainstream films, it is often told from a male pornographic fantasy perspective (e.g., American Pie). Such media depictions suggest that men have uncontrollable sexual drives, (which, apparently, women do not) that must be satisfied immediately by any means necessary. Unlike men’s, women’s sexual desires are peripheral to our conversations about sex and sexuality.

— The Clitoris: Most. Awkward. Discussion. Ever! | SociologyFocus (via linzyxxxxx)

(Source: sociolab)

Article about horrific non-regulated faith-based ‘tough love’ teen homes in the south

femonster:

“Girls were not allowed to converse except from 6 to 9 p.m. each Friday. They were not allowed contact with their families during their first month, or with anyone else for six months. By that time, Roxy said, most girls are ‘broken,’ having been told that their families have abandoned them, and that the world outside is a sinful, dangerous place where girls who leave are murdered or raped.”

motherjones:

Women isolated from secular society, scarred for life, and beaten for crossing the religious authorities. Kandahar? No, Missouri. And conservatives keep the system running.

It operates basically like a prison camp - click to page two, three, and four at the bottom of the article to see how they use monstrous tactics to abuse kids in the name of ‘tough love’… This makes me so sick I want to vomit. I highly suggest reading this because this is a terribly important thing to be aware about.

The Voice Like Our Own

knowhomo:

Do you know what it is to be an outsider
on the other side of the fence?
How alone you would feel, if excluded you were.
Does it make any sense?

Can you imagine the isolated soul
with no-one in sight to hear
the cries and the tears that your heart would shed,
and the constant, looming fear?

Can you see in your mind the life of a man
without anywhere to belong?
Because a society judged him unworthy,
because they think they’re right, and he’s wrong.

Try and imagine the pain that you’d feel,
with sneers and hateful words, and spit at your heels.
What would it be like if the gates were locked;
you couldn’t get in, and you couldn’t get out?

Imagine the feeling that you’re worthless,
some dirt that’s been stepped on by someone’s uncaring shoe.
Perhaps at that point it’s too much for your heart,
and you take your own life, to stop it hurting you.

Imagine this world, for maybe a minute,
after that you can stop; you don’t like it, sure
but there are people who go through this every day,
and they can’t stop it, unless they’re no more.

So when you hear of hate, bigots and death,
don’t side with haters, cause that’s how you’ve been bred.
Imagine how it is, or was for that guy,
the one that’s hurt, or lying dead.

So imagine the feelings and memories too,
of people oppressed, hated, abused;
Of people who lived outside of that fence
and what they came to – does it make sense?

— Author Unknown

(Poem found at Gay Family Support Blog, Gay Ghana, and GLBT Homeless Youth Shelter)

“ Our demand for justice is stronger than their laws, our passion for freedom is stronger than their prisons.

— Kellen Farshea (via gaywrites)

stfuconservatives:

life:

Wow, talk about drastic measures — A man sets himself on fire outside a bank in northern Greece. The 55-year old man had entered the bank and asked for a renegotiation of the overdue loan payments on his home and business; the bank, reportedly, refused. (Note the gasoline falling from his right hand.)

Feast your eyes on more great photos from the past week: Photos of the Week

wow

This is very powerful, and I’m feeling a lot of different things right now from seeing this photo and the motivation for his actions.
-Emily