The Personal is Political

This is a blog where I will be spouting out all of my personal political arguments, thoughts and beliefs. I encourage interaction and you're more than welcome to submit or ask questions. I identify as a feminist and most of my personal philosophies are built around social justice concepts. If you want to jump right to stuff I've written myself check the "the personal is politic" tag. Creative Commons License
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It doesn’t matter that most people with uteri are women. That’s not why it’s misogynistic. People who oppose abortion do so because they hate women, and in their mind the only people with uteri are women. It’s an intersection of cissexism and misogyny where a cissexist framing of bodily association to gender is used as a tool of oppression against women.

autumn-and-eve (via notafraidofruins)

Which is why simply refusing to allow that erasure to continue is a revolutionary act in and of itself.  If we can reframe the discussion in real life terms, in the reality that men can and do get pregnant and that some women can’t get pregnant or that some people with uteri can’t get pregnant we are left with the fact that abortion rights are all about pregnant people, PEOPLE who can become and/or already are pregnant.  People, not women, not men, not uterus bearers, people.  Because, you see, to all those anti-choicers out there pregnant people aren’t people at all; they’re incubators for the fetus, the fetus they see as being more of a person than the pregnant person is or ever could be.  Refusing to allow their erasure of trans* people helps to break down both the cissexism and misogyny.  Intersectionality helps everyone.

(via razingcomplacency)

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