The Disney Princesses - no matter the decade, beauty and sexuality remain their only assets.
California-native, femme writer, theorist and feminist who likes pretty things. Bloodstream of ink, lyric heartbeat. I queer everything.
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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. DR. SEUSSYes! to all of these movies…I would not be the same person without fantasy telling me I can always dream bigger and brighter than what is around me, that imagination can change things, and that fantasy inspires us, teaches us, and gives us the tools we need in reality.
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edited gender and kids page
Even before you’re born, people have an expectation of what you’ll be like based on your sex. Once you are here, the first thing that happens is you’re wrapped in a pink or blue baby blanket. Your assigned gender is reinforced every time you take a trip down the pink and blue toy aisles and just about every time your family buys clothes for you. By the time you are a toddler, you already have a sense of your gender identity. Next you get curious about body parts and begin to make a connection in your head between anatomy and gender roles.
Going into your first day of school, you’re already pretty good at making decisions about your gender based on the examples around you, from friends, family, TV shows, and games. Kids and grown-ups often reinforce these roles, making comments like, “You can’t play with that, that’s a boy toy.” At this stage of development, gender rules can be very rigid and limiting. How can we offer kids more options for self-expression, ease the pain of bullying, and show the next generation that there are just as many ways to be a girl as there are to be a human?
What are your earliest memories of your gender?
How has your identity changed since then?
(feel free to reply to our rhetorical questions. :) -mel )
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Howard Pyle’s “The Mermaid”
I saw this in real life when I was 14 and cried. The guy was amazing. He stole his son’s crayons on his first day of school and drew an unreal life-like pirate climbing storm-torn deck until the crayons were down to the nub.I grew up reading Howard Pyle’s versions of King Arthur tales. Now yet another reason to love him.
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roses always fade. but the memories remain, only growing nostalgically fuzzy, so the rosiness only grows.
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➜I don’t understand the problem people have with little boys wanting to dress up as female characters for Halloween or for Comic Con or, you know, for whatever event requires dressing up as someone. It really is no different from a little boy dressing up as Captain America or Prince Charming because they’re not dressing up as these characters because of what their gender or sex is but because they like the character. It’s as simple as that. If a little boy decides to dress up as Black Widow it doesn’t necessarily mean that he wants to be a woman or that he feels as though he is a woman, most likely it just means that he thought she was fucking cool and the best character in the Avengers movie. Even if he does want to be a woman or feels as though he is one, who gives a shit? There’s this horrible hypocritical attitude going around with parents stopping their children from being who they are because they want to protect them from being ridiculed and from not being accepted. Doing this does not help them. It makes things worse for them. Home should be a haven for all children but when children realize that even their parents don’t accept who they are, that haven disappears. They suddenly have nowhere to be themselves at. And I’m writing this and trying to make a valid argument against parents and people doing this and acting this way but I really can’t think of one more obvious than to flat out say that it’s one of the shittiest things you could ever do to your children. Let your children be who they are. Let your daughters dress up as Iron Man for Halloween and let your sons dress up as Cinderella because you only have a short amount time with them and you should really be trying to make that time as happy as possible.
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50 Shades of Gray critics slam bondage stereotypes
“The virginal Anastasia finds the world of handcuffs and leather whips both alarming and arousing. She soon learns, however, that Christian’s predilection for bondage and spanking is a consequence of being sexually abused as an adolescent.
While the books are fiction, this explanation plays into stereotypical attitudes toward the alternative sex lifestyle, says Tristan Taormino, a U.S.-based sex educator and author of The Ultimate Guide to Kink.
‘There is an assumption that the reason he’s kinky is because he is damaged, because he had a rough childhood,’ she says.
‘There’s this assumption that there’s this one-to-one correspondence, which in real life there’s isn’t.’”—Andre Mayer, CBC News
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July 24 in the Harry Potter world- 1991: Harry Potter receives his first Hogwarts letter. Vernon and Petunia Dursley burn it. Harry’s bedroom is moved from the Cupboard under the stairs to Dudley’s second bedroom.
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Curious Confessions of a Cleis Press Intern: The catalyst to better communication, forgiveness, and connection.
Different Daughters: A Book by Mothers of Lesbians by Louise Rafkin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
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I had this exact lip balm as a kid. Part of the summery childhood nostalgia.
Got this on now aha
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