Recent Posts Tagged With 'protests'

• Feminist in action

  Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 18:36 in protests, taking action

  I wanted to share this with all of you. I was recently tagged in this photo on Facebook that someone took for my campus newspaper. It's from when nutty extremists came to our campus last year to preach hatred against gay/lesbian people, and as a larg...

• Proof that online activism r0x!

  Posted on Monday June 29th, 2009 at 13:52 in transgender, Ignorance, protests, taking action

  Many of you might have heard about the storm of controversy surrounding the highly offensive "Tranny Alert" website. Essentially, the site would encourage people to submit pictures of what they perceived to be transgendered people and the photos woul...

• Celebrate Gay Pride Month

  Posted on Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 at 12:23 in videos, protests, gay lesbian, taking action

  HAPPY GAY PRIDE MONTH!THE HISTORYThe month of June was selected to celebrate GLBTQ pride to commemorate the Stonewall riots. It was on June 28, 1969 that a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn was raided by New York police. Tensions between NY police and...

• Anti-choice protesters show up to Obama commencement address

  Posted on Sunday May 17th, 2009 at 15:06 in videos, abortion, protests, politics government

  Inevitably, anti-choice protesters showed up at Notre Dame to protest President Obama's commencement address. Honestly, can't the guy fucking congratulate college graduates without it being turned into a political issue? He was not there to push abor...

• Beauty pageants: excluding and humiliating women

  Posted on Saturday May 2nd, 2009 at 11:25 in videos, race, sexism, protests, beauty body image

  Yes, Miss California (known for her anti-same-sex marriage views) did receive breast implants paid for in full by the Miss USA pageant. Why? Because beauty pageants, no matter how much people insist it's as much about "personality" as it is about loo...