A Mighty Girl

“A letter to a friend…This subject is old but I have never answered it in its entirety. And even with this post it will remain incomplete. The question why I would LET Willow cut her hair. First the LET must be challenged. This is a world where women, girls are constantly reminded that they don’t belong to themselves; that their bodies are not their own, nor their power or self determination. I made a promise to endow my little girl with the power to always know that her body, spirit and her mind are HER domain. Willow cut her hair because her beauty, her value, her worth is not measured by the length of her hair. It’s also a statement that claims that even little girls have the RIGHT to own themselves and should not be a slave to even their mother’s deepest insecurities, hopes and desires. Even little girls should not be a slave to the preconceived ideas of what a culture believes a little girl should be.”

If you’re a toy company called out on enforcing gender stereotypes by filling your catalog with girls dressed as princesses and boys dressed as superheroes, what do you do? If you’re Top Toy, one of Sweden’s largest toy chains, you print a genderswapped Christmas catalog featuring girls with Nerf guns and boys with doll houses and Hello Kitty. Duh.

Everyday Activists (via sociolab)

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My 5 year old reading Captain Marvel on the way home from the comic book store.

This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.

xxAA

Richard Green, tribal historian for the Chickasaw Nation, published a biography of Te Ata in 2006 (Amazon).  Chickasaw playwright JudyLee Olivia wrote a play based on the life of Te Ata.  The play won the Five Civilized Tribes’ Best American Indian Musical Award in 2000.

“I need feminism because it is important for people to know the difference between female supremacy and female empowerment!”