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20 something premed (bioengr) desi girl going insane

@jihyoioo ✧* ೃ༄

[zae @itszaeok]

korra KIND. korra AMAZING. korra GREAT avatar

[Efe @EfeTheeGreat]

"Girls are naturally nurturers"
You mean after you bought her dolls and a toy kitchen set?

[Nooshin Samimi نوشین صمیمی @nsamimi9]

As a woman who grew up in Iran, I understand why many Iranian women react so vehemently and viscerally to this gesture of solidarity. Encounters with the morality police were (and probably still are) an all-consuming part of women’s everyday lives in Iran. I completely understand their experience of the hijab as an instrument of state coercion and gendered restriction.

But as an anthropologist of the United States, I also understand the danger of importing that experience into Western contexts uncritically; without reckoning with what the same sign signifies in a different context. In the West, the hijab often indexes membership in marginalized Muslim minorities. Therefore, uncritical, universal anti-hijab critiques can easily reinforce Islamophobic and racist discourses.

The problem is not that Iranian women’s experience of the hijab is false. It is that the hijab’s meaning is neither portable nor universal: its social and political meaning changes with context.

As for this particular gesture of solidarity, these French women are correctly recognizing that the policing of women’s bodies takes different forms. Forcing a woman to wear the hijab and forcing her to remove it are different expressions of the same underlying claim: that others may decide what she can or cannot do with her body. A woman’s attire is hers to choose and so are all her other decisions concerning her bodily autonomy.

[୭ ˚. @yinezhagr]

you seem pretty lazy for a girl who's obsessed with academic success

[🦢 @Fairyuxfhe]

As a woman I am extremely aware the only reason I have rights is because women before me got mouthy, organized, and made herself inconvenient. Thats why I see women who uphold the patriarchy as traitors

[luna @cigarrodeclavo_]

the masters favorite dog is still a dog

[Rusty Buckets 🇵🇸 @RustyBUCKETS321]

Every woman is a representative of all women and all men are just another man

[ح @kataraakgae]

@unfortunaterj puerto rican

[Alex @chorizanthe]

The thing abt Steinem is yes, she was a liberal feminist, but she was part of a current of women's liberation that was genuinely transforming American life for the better, whereas now there is no feminist movement at all. I understand both the nostalgia and the criticism.

[nyko 🙃 @blakesbbgirlism]

#firesiblings

[ح @kataraakgae]

@activemuffin @Limitlessbluee @hailstrasza I do not believe in terfism and am an active ally to my local trans community, simply want to expand my understanding as this isn’t a perspective I’m familiar with

[ح @kataraakgae]

@activemuffin @Limitlessbluee @hailstrasza those things don’t mean anything to gender or your personhood as a woman, man or anything inbetween, it’s just genetic information that exists. something only pertinent in a medical context where your genetics need to be considered. Sorry I’m a bio student so I’m j confused

[$ @jxtsummer]

one of the hardest vanities to surrender is your desire to be understood

[ح @kataraakgae]

wait till they hear about the last name that 22 million people in south asia have…

[🎧 @headphoneemoji]

noah kahan? of the genghis kahan family?

[ada @buddiestranger]

i’m sorry to biSamir truthers but that is a Straight man to Me