The Empowerment Project

Nothing but the upmost respect for her.

Obese Applicants More Often Denied Entry to Graduate Schools: Study

Wow.

(via iridessence)

Another point against me lol yay,

Custom Ethnic Dolls by Karen Byrd

Founder, owner and designing artist of Natural Girls United, Karen Byrd has taken on the project of creating multicultural dolls that have a variety of natural hairstyles, including wavy, kinky, curly, coily hair, braids, locs, afros, afro puffs, and textured up-dos. She takes custom orders for dolls on her website. 

 ”I have wanted to take-on the project of customizing dolls hair, to have the look and feel of styles, and textures of ethnic women and girls, for a long time.The Natural Girls United! project has turned into a business, and is something that I hope will help to bring a positive view of what ethnic beauty is.  There is a serious need for our young girls to be able to have dolls that look like them. It is something that affects their self esteem and confidence, and how they fell about themselves. But each day we learn that it is important to show them and teach them that their beauty is beautiful.” -Karen Byrd

Feminism is having a wardrobe malfunction.

Does your brand of feminism remove barriers for women, or simply move them around? Does is expand options for women, or does it just shift them? You don’t liberate women by forcing them to choose option B instead of option A. What is comfortable for you might not be comfortable for someone else, and it’s entirely possible that what you see as oppressive, other women find comfortable or even downright liberating.

Before you think the girl in the middle is a strawman, let me tell you I used to be her, back in my misguided youth. I considered myself the standard to which other people should adhere. But that was stupid. It’s not up to me to tell people how to dress, and it’s much nicer to let everyone choose for themselves.

Dean of Students, Fidel Trujillo at New Mexico Highlands University made a sexual assault/rape and domestic violence victim delete a recording of a witness testifying to a prostitution ring operating on campus. The ring was run by the football players who were accused of gang rape in 2011, so the Dean obviously wants to silence her before this reaches the public. She was kicked off of campus after the men accused her of “harassing” them and “exposing them to public hatred” by telling other women what happened and to be careful of them. Luckily, she had the video backed up. The university is not doing anything about it so she needs her voice to be heard elsewhere. Please reblog this video to show what exactly the university is trying to cover up. If more people help spread this around the internet, eventually something will get done.