faineemae:

Muslim women who choose to wear the Hijab but are also Athletes of the fiercest kind.

tumblr has changed my opinion on headscarves, and made me realize it’s BULLSHIT that france has banned them. because if a woman is choosing to wear one as a religious choice, that’s not oppression. oppression is a ot of other small things, the headscarf is visible but also you can be badass w. one, like these ladies

angrynaps:

marcharig:

salllllllliethesalad:

best. tip jar. ever.

best tip jar ever

BEST TIP JAR EVER

thesavagesalad:

kitschy-kat:

beardsbeerandliterarybadassery:

disgustinghuman:

sex-positive-bitches:

Kristen Stewart: smiling is not an obligation, professional or otherwise

 ”She stands out on the red carpet because she does not smile broadly or pose; she usually looks slightly uncomfortable. Of her red-carpet experience,Stewart said:
People say that I’m miserable all the time. It’s not that I’m miserable, it’s just that somebody’s yelling at me…I literally, sometimes, have to keep myself from crying…It’s a physical reaction to the energy that’s thrown at you.”

“Stewart is often a target of a specific kind of body policing: the “smile, baby” requirement. When she appears on the red carpet and does not assure us with her teeth that she is simply thrilled to be reduced to a presence, a dress, a posture, she is often the target of harassment for her expression. There is an expectation of women in general and famous woman in particular to always assure the onlooker that they are happy to be looked upon through smiling, and Stewart rejects this.”

Women are expected to be nice and sweet, to make other people feel comfortable. A woman who says ‘hey, I think there’s a problem here’ is being ‘negative.’ A woman who doesn’t smile while she’s being harassed is ‘humourless.’ A woman who prefers to stay focused on tasks is a ‘cold bitch.’ Significant gendering is involved here; women have an obligation to look and act a certain way and when they don’t, they need to be hassled until they do.

ye girl, I feel your pain
wouldn’t believe how many random people tell me to fucking smile 

Right? I’d have a panic attack up there.

I see the criticism of Lana Del Rey as an extension of this, people getting angry that she looks awkward when she performs and characterising her as this stone-cold distant weirdo when there are videos of her laughing in interviews and smiling with fans. I’ve seen lots of indie boy bands where the singer drawls into the mic, standing motionless and staring at the floor but apparently that’s just being cool. When she does it she’s a bad performer.

ILY KIT

ALL OF THAT

ALL

OF 

THAT

angrynaps:

lyssamae:

Again! Again!

feministhistorian:

lati-negros:

sociolab:

All of the books are in MOBI or AZW format for Kindle.  If you want to convert the files to PDF or ePub I recommend Calibre or online-converter.  If you have any problems with downloads or formatting please let me know and I will fix it asap.

• Myths of Gender by Anne Fausto-Sterling  [X]
• The Second Shift by Arlie Hochschild  [X]
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich  [X]
• Feminism Is For Everybody by bell hooks  [X]
• The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills  [X]
• Dude, You’re A Fag by C.J. Pascoe  [X]
• Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Charles A. Ellwood  [X]
• The Goffman Reader by Charles Lemert  [X]
• The Cambridge Companion To Simone de Beauvoir by Claudia Card  [X]
• Genders by David Glover  [X]
• Cultural Geography by David Sibley  [X]
• Critical Theory After Habermas by Dieter Freunlieb  [X]
• Punishment For Sale by Donna Delman  [X]
• Everything Is Obvious by Duncan J. Watts  [X]
• Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch by Dwight A. McBride  [X]
• Encyclopedia of Sociology by Edgar F. Borgatta  [X]
• Bodily Citations by Ellen Armour  [X]
• Suicide by Emile Durkheim  [X]
• The Rules of the Sociological Method by Emile Durkheim  [X]
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser  [X]
• Handbook of Social Theory by George Ritzer [X]
• The Blackwell Companion To Major Classical Social Theorists by George Ritzer  [X]
• Between XX and XY by Gerald N. Callahan  [X]
• How To Observe Morals and Manners by Harriet Martineau  [X]
• Habermas and Contemporary Society by John F. Sitton  [X]
• Critical Pedagogy For Social Justice by John Smyth  [X]
• The Power of Labeling by Joy Moncrieffe  [X]
• Gendered Lives by Julia T. Wood  [X]
• Gender Trouble by Judith Butler  [X]
• Undoing Gender by Judith Butler  [X]
• The Spirit Level by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson  [X]
• The Myth of Choice by Kent Greenfield  [X]
• Essentials of Social Research by Linda Kalof  [X]
• Food Politics by Marion Nestle  [X]
• The Digital Divide by Mark Bauerlein  [X]
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber  [X]
• Sister Citizen by Melissa Harris-Perry  [X]
• Brandwashed by Martin Lindstrom  [X]
• August Comte by Mike Gane  [X]
• The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf  [X]
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire  [X]
• The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo  [X]
• The Sociology of Culture and Cultural Studies by Pierre Bourdieu  [X]
• Drift by Rachel Maddow  [X]
• The Marx & Engels Reader by Robert C. Tucker  [X]
• Let Them Eat Junk by Robert Albritton  [X]
• Consumer Culture by Roberta Sassatelli  [X]
• The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu by Simon Susen  [X]
• Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh  [X]
• Quiet by Susan Cain  [X]
• From Marriage To the Market by Susan Thistle  [X]
• The Cambridge Companion to Marx by Terrell Carver  [X]
• Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen  [X]
• White Like Me by Tim Wise  [X]
• Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness by Toure  [X]
• Building A Housewife’s Paradise by Tracey Deutsch  [X]
• The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore  [X]

Books to read for leisure or if you’re trying to figure what you should study/major in

I wish this came up on my dash before I rushed off to buy Rachel Maddows book. Not that I don’t love supporting her but I could have used that money to get books I would use in grad school..

just ‘cause it’s summer doesn’t mean you can’t learn!!

angrynaps:

covermebad:

Artist: Marina and the Diamonds

Covered Artist: Justin Bieber

Song: Boyfriend

oh no i accidentally love this

felldowntherabbithole:

You won’t recognize this version of ‘Mama Mia’ thanks to Jasmine Kennedy’s incredible voice. Love YM&C for finds like this.  

http://youmeandcharlie.com/yo-dj/jasmine-kennedy/