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Sex

  • Be proud of yourself; never feel ashamed. Feeling proud of yourself and your sexual decisions in a world that tries to makes you feel ashamed is a revolutionary act.
  • Fuck double standards. Fuck it being okay for for guys to hook up and not girls.
  • Get educated in compressive sex ed. If abstinence only is being taught, fight it.
  • Have real orgasms by any means necessary
  • If anyone you know is flashing their tits for no other reason than to get a free shirt and some attention, talk to them about it.
  • Take control of your sexuality. Be safe and smart.

Pop Culture

  • call sexist ads and commercials out
  • reject Maxim, Playboy and any other form of pop culture that tells you that you are not hot enough
  • value yourself out for what the media doesn't, as long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men.

Reproductive Rights

  • find out your pharmacies policy on giving women birth control and EC
  • remember that anti-choicers at heart are just folks horrified by the idea of premarital sex
  • Take birth control
  • volunteer at your local clinic

Violence

  • be proactive
  • be safe, but you shouldn't have to live by a rape schedule
  • bring up rape culture
  • dont stay with someone who threatens or abuses you.
  • there is no such thing as a rapeable offense

Work and Money

  • call bullshit on opt-out articles
  • Do something fun for equal pay day
  • start fighting for child care now!
  • work your ass off doing something you love

Dating

  • don't date guys who scoff at feminism
  • fight for the right of everyone to get married
  • pay for yourself

Beauty

  • call people out for using women's appearance to attack or judge
  • don't diet
  • fuck beauty standards
  • if someone uses the ugly or pretty card for that matter to keep you silent, keep on talking

politics

  • check out the White House Project
  • if there is a poor representation politically of women in your hometown or even in your school, get working
  • run for office, seriously do it.
  • vote, please, god, vote.

Spreading The Word

  • call yourself a feminist LOUD AND PROUD!!!
  • if you hear the phrase "I'm not a feminist but..." call them out. If they have feminist opinions then they probably are feminists (Gasp!)
  • take women's & gender studies classes
  • tell people that the f-word is not a bad word for girls to want to be.
  • visit feminist blogs'
jun 14 2011 ∞
jan 2 2015 +