Apparently The Iranian Government Has Flown In Hisbollah Militia From Lebanon To Put Down The Protests

I'm late to this convo but it's alarming that the definition of misogyny has been watered down so far that people will position 'misogyny' and 'sex trafficking women' as separate things, as if the latter isn't an expression of the former. confining misogyny to 'inconsequential' slights, lesser, unimportant internet wank, while treating the violence harming women as this clouded, unnamed mystery without rhyme or reason has done irreparable damage to discussions of misogyny among online leftists. from denying the patriarchal role marginalized men play within their own communities, to branding the violence against gnc women as a sign that men are oppressed for being masculine, to framing feminism and the trans rights movement as inherently antithetical each other, to the ridiculous notion that misogyny is the least serious form of oppression, it's like basic feminist points have completely flown out of the fucking window. if not anything else please love and care for the women in your life beyond quirky posts about your favorite female fictional characters #feminism

DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR

You know what’s awesome? Research. You know what’s not awesome?  Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.

FEAR NOT.

Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects. Feel free to add if you like!

GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.

Directory of Open Access Journals - A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.

Directory of Open Access Books - Like the above, but for ebooks. Also multidisciplinary.

Ubiquity Press - Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more. Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.

Europeana - Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.

Digital Public Library of America - American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.

Internet Archive - In addition to books, they have music and videos, too.  Free! And legal! They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.

College and Research Libraries - Library science and information studies.  Because that’s what I do.

Library of Congress Digital Collections - American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.

LSE Digital Library - London history, women’s history.

Wiley Open Access - Science things! Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.

SpringerOpen - Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.

Elsevier Open Access - Elsevier’s kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this. Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.

POV a male character exists and Tumblr finds out

[ID: a drawing of a stickman, on which is text which reads as follows. 'OMG my poor little meow meow, war criminal, he's my girlfriend, bi but no one wants him, I could make him worse, manipulate mansplain malewife (sparkling heart emoji.)' End ID]

Don’t let anyone silence your voice or steal your power, which is your vote.

Your vote is private. Your vote is your own.

Vote accordingly.

For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it

In the city of Ardabil, Iran, security forces of the Islamic Republic attacked a school and 7 students were seriously injured. The students were taken to the hospital, but unfortunately one of them died due to internal bleeding.

#MahsaAmini‌

50 WORDS TO USE INSTEAD OF “SAID”

Do you ever find yourself over-using the word “said” in your writing? Try using these words/phrases instead:

stated

commented

declared

spoke

responded

voiced

noted

uttered

iterated

explained

remarked

acknowledged

mentioned

announced

shouted

expressed

articulated

exclaimed

proclaimed

whispered

babbled

observed

deadpanned

joked

hinted

informed

coaxed

offered

cried

affirmed

vocalized

laughed

ordered

suggested

admitted

verbalized

indicated

confirmed

apologized

muttered

proposed

chatted

lied

rambled

talked

pointed out

blurted out

chimed in

brought up

wondered aloud

(NOTE: Keep in mind that all of these words have slightly different meanings and are associated with different emotions/scenarios.)

Twitter thread by Melissa Caruso about a labyrinthine magical bookstore in Syracuse, NY edited: it's in Saratoga Springs, NY! Link to the first tweet in the thread; most pictures have image descriptions! Now here are the screenshots of that thread:

And then a hero of the labyrinthine magical bookstores of the world put all the bookstores that people listed in the replies on a map! (Google Maps link)

Stencils seen in Iran featuring the names and faces of women murdered by cops during the ongoing protests following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, a 22 year old Kurdish woman who was murdered by the morality police after being arrested and beaten for supposedly incorrectly wearing a hijab.

For Mehsa, Nika, Sarina, Mino, Hadith, Hajar, Hadida, Hanana, Aisan and every other woman whose life was stolen these days, because she cried out for freedom.