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College student.Feminist.Abolitionist.
Believes in the power of love, hope, and people.
Will never stop learning, informing, fighting.
"One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
02:44"Except you can’t show a topless woman on TV - and you can’t defibrillate a woman in a bra. So victims of heart attacks on TV are *always* male.
Did you know that a woman having a heart attack is more likely to have back or jaw pain than chest or left arm pain? I didn’t - because I’ve never seen a woman having a heart attack. I’ve been trained in CPR and Advanced First Aid by the Red Cross over 15 times in my life, the videos and booklets always have a guy and say the same thing about clutching his chest and/or bicep.
And people laugh when I tell them women are still invisible in this world." —
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re: feministing - for women, heart attacks look different
Things I did not know, but should.
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They put up some awesome billboards in austin a few months ago showing the signs of a heart attack that women will feel. And I know they were effective because I was in the car when mando saw the billboard and said “Man I had no idea women had different symptoms for heart attacks!”
Way to go city of mine :)
Even better? A woman having all the “classic” (read: male) symptoms of heart attack is more than twice as likely to be sent home from the ER than to be checked out, EKGed, and examined.
Because we’re just hormone-addled hysterics. :-(
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i do not endorse feministing but factual quote.
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IMPORTANT!! IMPORTANT!!!
Did NOT know this.
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21:19"To imply, however, that all womyn suffer the same oppression simply because we are womyn is to lose sight of the many varied tools of patriarchy." —
Audre Lorde, An Open Letter to Mary Daly (via mujerinterrumpida)(via thechocolatebrigade)
00:43"Show emotion and you are too fragile, untrustworthy, and incapable for the serious adult work of politics. You are manipulative, and all the other things people like to say about women when they express feelings; you can’t approach situations objectively, you can’t be trusted to make the right decisions in times of stress, you clearly aren’t capable of setting aside your feelings on complex emotional issues. Don’t show your emotions and you’re inhuman, suspect because you don’t behave in a feminine way, which means you might be too cold and unfeeling for politics, unable to bring compassion to your job." —
Female Candidates and the Emotion Doublebind – this ain’t livin’ (via lookoutsideyourself)
Extremely personally relevant.
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redlightpolitics:
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The day marks the anniversary of the political assassination of the Mirabal Sisters in Dominican Republic.
UN officially designated the day in 1999 but activists across Latin America had already been commemorating the day…
