Rape Culture - The rambley version of my Slutwalk speech - [TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE, RAPE CULTURE, VICTIM BLAMING, SLUT SHAMING]

Subi talks on a pretty personal level about how the police treated her after she reported a rape, and how that is part of and helps create the rape culture we live in.

This is also pretty much a first rambling draft of the speech I’m going to make at London Slutwalk 2012, hope to see some of you there!

More videos on rape and rape culture: http://bit.ly/PqQ0dv

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Home from UK Feminista’s Summer School and back on the internet! Brilliant, inspiring, and reassuring weekend, but also really exhausting - two days of concentrated feminist discussion takes a lot of mental energy! Plus the physical exertion of walking up and down Bristol’s many many hills. So exciting to get to meet some of our followers too! Hope you had great feministy time at the Summer School too and we weren’t a sleepy disappointment after walking up all those hills (so many hills). And a big thank you to our Bristolian friends for housing a troupe of travelling feminists. Hooray for Dames on tour! ^_^

Home from UK Feminista’s Summer School and back on the internet!

Brilliant, inspiring, and reassuring weekend, but also really exhausting - two days of concentrated feminist discussion takes a lot of mental energy! Plus the physical exertion of walking up and down Bristol’s many many hills.

So exciting to get to meet some of our followers too! Hope you had great feministy time at the Summer School too and we weren’t a sleepy disappointment after walking up all those hills (so many hills).

And a big thank you to our Bristolian friends for housing a troupe of travelling feminists.

Hooray for Dames on tour! ^_^

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somekindofbecca: Dames on a train! (Taken with Instagram)

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Dames on a train! (Taken with Instagram)

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uswhoresdontneedyou: GUESS WHO’S GONNA BE A SPEAKER AT THE SLUTWALK?!?! THIS SLUT RIGHT HERE THEY CONFIRMED IT, THEY WANT ME HOLY FUCK We can just announce this by sharing Subi’s big happy overwhelmed face can’t we? Course we can… Subi’s been invited to speak at London Slutwalk 2012!! Some of the other Dames will be marching too and we’d love you to march with us. We’ll put up another post nearer the time, but if you’re planning to attend London Slutwalk on Saturday 22nd September then let us know and we’ll see you there!

uswhoresdontneedyou:

GUESS WHO’S GONNA BE A SPEAKER AT THE SLUTWALK?!?!

THIS SLUT RIGHT HERE
THEY CONFIRMED IT, THEY WANT ME
HOLY FUCK

We can just announce this by sharing Subi’s big happy overwhelmed face can’t we? Course we can…

Subi’s been invited to speak at London Slutwalk 2012!!

Some of the other Dames will be marching too and we’d love you to march with us. We’ll put up another post nearer the time, but if you’re planning to attend London Slutwalk on Saturday 22nd September then let us know and we’ll see you there!

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Subi’s activist mum! - [GUEST VLOG]

[TRIGGER WARNING FOR TALK OF ABUSE AND RAPE]

Merry Cross talks about disability activism and its relationship with feminism.

More Guest Videos: http://bit.ly/OaTZKx
More Feminism and Ableism Videos: http://bit.ly/OMtKuj

Merry is a member of Disabled People Against Cuts. Find out how you could get involved here http://www.dpac.uk.net/

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Want to come hang-out with some of the Dames? Will you be in Bristol next Friday afternoon or Saturday evening?  From 14th - 16th September Becca, Subi and Emily will be in Bristol for the UK Feminista Summer School, and we’d love to use this as a chance to meet you! We’re organising two meet-ups, the first on the Friday afternoon that should be fully accessible to everyone: https://www.facebook.com/events/438719179503934/ The second on the Saturday night that will be over 18s only and will be in an alcohol serving venue of unknown accessibility (but we’ll do our best!): https://www.facebook.com/events/497809020229393 So if you want to come hang out and chat then let us know!

Want to come hang-out with some of the Dames?

Will you be in Bristol next Friday afternoon or Saturday evening? 

From 14th - 16th September Becca, Subi and Emily will be in Bristol for the UK Feminista Summer School, and we’d love to use this as a chance to meet you!

We’re organising two meet-ups, the first on the Friday afternoon that should be fully accessible to everyone: https://www.facebook.com/events/438719179503934/

The second on the Saturday night that will be over 18s only and will be in an alcohol serving venue of unknown accessibility (but we’ll do our best!): https://www.facebook.com/events/497809020229393

So if you want to come hang out and chat then let us know!

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Feminists and disabled people, UNITE AND FIGHT!

[TRIGGER WARNING for discussion of ableism]

More Feminism and Ableism Videos! http://bit.ly/OMtKuj

Sorry the video’s late! Subi discusses feminism and the disability rights movement and how they need to work together because INTERSECTIONALITY.

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Women and Protest

Subi talks about women, protest and how the policing of women’s anger hurts women protesters. With added friends saying stuff at the end!

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Prude Shaming is DANGEROUS AS HELL [Trigger warning for discussion of rape culture]

Subi talks about prude shaming, how it affects us and why it’s dangerous. 

Tell me what you think about prude shaming, how it’s ever affected you, and how you think we can tackle it. 

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I promise I had actually finished making this video before midnight, it just took YEARS to actually upload to Youtube. Anyway, here you go, me talking about women in comedy.

**Trigger warning for rape jokes**

Sorry about the terrible lighting in this video. 

Subi talks about the tired old claims about women in the world of comedy.

Matthew Perry quote: http://www.kellimarshall.net/quotes/matthew-perry/

The blog post about the Daniel Tosh rape joke controversy (tw for rape jokes):http://breakfastcookie.tumblr.com/post/26879625651/so-a-girl-walks-into-a-com…

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