- JAG lawyer, speaking to my husband’s plant during Sexual Assault Prevention Month. (via circusbones)

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cognitivedissonance:

from The Invisible War

I wish I didn’t know what she was talking about.

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pigeonloki:

The Invisible War 

• Since 2006, more than 95,000 service members have been sexually assaulted in the U.S. military
• More than 86% of service members do not report their assault
• Less than five percent of all sexual assaults are put forward for prosecution, and less than a third of those cases result in imprisonment

 

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thegreensage:

stefanhayden:

This is Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. She worked for UNIVAC in 1949 who made some of the first computers ever. In 1951 she discovered the first computer “bug.”. In 1952 she had an operational compiler. “Nobody believed that,” she said. “I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

You might not know what a compiler is, but it’s the reason you have an Operating System with programs on or a phone with apps. There would be no Windows or Apple or facebook or twitter or tumblr without her.

Today 14% of engineers are female. Some thing when wrong. Grace Hopper is a BAMF and more people should know.

GRACE HOOPER ROCKS!!!

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freedomtomarry:

Tatjana Plitt is journeying across the country and photographing military families to demonstrate that the so-called Defense of Marriage Act hurts real couples and real families. This couple, for example, Ashley and Liliana, recently welcomed a baby boy into the world, Brice. However, even though Ashley is on her son’s birth certificate, DOMA prohibits her from receiving the “paternity” leave that any other military spouse would receive in the event of the birth of a child. Reblog this photo or click the heart to stand with Ashley and Liliana, and check out all SEVEN amazing portraits. 

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bigfatfeminist:

Holy shit.

(Source: upworthy, via bonnefoy)

slutwalkseattle:

Rape victims say military labels them ‘crazy’ - CNN.com

lilyevanspotter:

Stephanie Schroeder joined the U.S. Marine Corps not long after 9/11. She was a 21-year-old with an associate’s degree when she reported for boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina. “I felt…

the-seed-of-europe:

“The war was an epochal event for its generation: almost every gay man who was young during the war (like almost every heterosexual man) remembers it as a critical turning point in his life, and given their age, it was almost inevitable that the war should serve as the backdrop to their first sexual experiences and efforts to live outside the family nexus. Moreover, it is clear that the war enabled many men to participate in the gay world who otherwise would not have done so and led many more to have the only homosexual experience of their lives. But this does not mean that the war generation was the first generation to leave the constraints of family life and watchful neighbors, nor that it was first during the war that an urban gay subculture took shape.”

-George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940.

Another recommended reading, a masterpiece of social history that in part analyzes the Great War’s effect on the shaping of queer culture, life and individuals.

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