Today in Labor History January 21, 2017: The Women’s March took place, the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. It was prompted by several of Trump's misogynist statements during his campaign for president. Marchers were advocating for legislation in support of women's rights, immigration reform, healthcare reform, disability justice, reproductive rights, the environment, LGBTQ rights, racial equality, freedom of religion and workers' rights. Over 470,000 people marched in Washington, D.C. Up to 5.5 million people participated throughout the U.S., or 1.5% of the entire U.S. population.
The savage murder of a 41-year-old pregnant woman, the country's first femicide of 2024, has stirred fresh calls in Greece for femicide to be made a distinct criminal act...
People Who do Harm are not Monsters
Barnard Center for Research on Women
"Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? In this series of four short videos, anti-violence activists Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby ask and explore: What does it look like to be accountable to survivors without exiling or disposing those who do harm?"
"It is really hard to see someone as a human being and hold them in their full humanity and see the harm they have done. That is a very hard task. Each of us needs to increase our ability to hold the complexity of seeing someone as a full human and seeing the harm they have done.
Any tips on how to do that?
Engagement. Moving towards that person. Getting more comfortable with the presence of conflict as a necessary part of healing and moving forward as a community."
In response to the thought-provoking question recently raised on my website about when do we transition from identifying as transgender to simply being women, I'd like to offer some reflections...
There is no conflict between being transgender and being a woman, even being both at the very same time.
Reflecting on the shared experiences of womanhood, we recognize that no two journeys are alike.
Today in Labor History January 12, 1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote. The first place in the world where women got the right to vote was New Jersey, in 1776. However, in 1807 this was repealed and it reverted back to white men, only. The first place to continuously give suffrage to women was Pitcairn Islands, in 1838. These were the descendants of Tahitians and Christian Fletcher and other mutineers from the HMS Bounty. The first sovereign nation to give women the right to vote was Norway, in 1913. The U.S. finally granted women the right to vote in 1920. Women won suffrage in Canada in 1917, Britain and Germany in 1918, Austria and Holland in 1919. Women could not vote in France until 1944, or in Greece until 1952, or in Switzerland until 1971, or in Saudi Arabia until 2015.
Last month I and my co-workers from @weareopencoop attended the #openepic conference in vienna. unfortuanletly I caught covid and got sick the day I was supposed to give my talk. Which means I now recorded it and everybody not just the conference attendees can enjoy this introduction into something that I like to call "Open Feminist Workplace Recognition" to sound very sophisticated
Supreme Court Upholds Idaho Law Jailing Doctors Who Provide Abortions
“SCOTUS just allowed Idaho to throw health care providers in jail for providing emergency abortion care while they consider this case,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) wrote in response to the Supreme Court’s order. “This is a chilling reminder that the anti-abortion movement doesn’t care if women live or die — as long as they’re forced to give birth.”
While childminding is not only a quantity issue (there is always a question of the quality of provision), the UK's failure to develop a workable policy on #childminders is pushing a decline in provision...
When the #Tories talk about getting people back to work, lurking behind is the 'traditional' view of men back to work, women stay at home & look after the kids.
Without childcare whatever you think about #mothers working, a significant choice is being removed!
Me: (looking at my daughter's class schedule for 8th grade) 'What's this FN&F?"
Her: 'Food, Nutrition and Family.'
Me: "Oh, like Home Ec? Are there any boys in that class with you?'
Her: (confused) 'Of course. Why?'
Me: 'When I was in school, the girls took Home Ec and the boys took Shop'
Her: 'That's stupid. How are boys supposed to learn to cook and take care of the family?'
Me: (proudly) 'Exactly.'
Colonialism and Orientalism are unfortunately deeply rooted in Western feminism. In a more recent conference I was invited to speak, at some point somebody asked about pluriversality and anticolonialism in feminist activism. The quantity of oriental comments and assumptions about non-Western cultures was appalling. When I tried
"Barbie feminism": a superficial, white feminism that universalise the concept of women, and see some cultures as 'inferior' and 'so patriarchal' that they will accept even them being bombed, slaughtered, and subject to white violence. Muslim women are particularly despised by those feminists, as an Iranian woman who grew up in Italy once told me:
'They accept us only if we reject our religion and start to wear Western clothes'.
So, I'm not surprised that feminist scholars don't care about Palestinian women, or Palestinian LGBTQ+ community, for that matter. It's a shame and a stain on the feminist movement.
But not all feminists have been silent on Palestine. #NonUnaDiMeno openly supports Palestinians self-determination:
I'm watching yet another iteration of Greek mythology where Zeus is a deadbeat dad who wants to do better and Hera is the vengeful word-I-don't-use, and it's just so sexist.
Does anyone know of any Greek myth retellings from Hera's point of view? I'd love to read a feminist take on all that.
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"Ozempic shows us why we cannot trust this corporate feminism: It is a feminism of aesthetics and individualism and commercial opportunism, not of political commitment. As soon as the cruel honesty of capitalism tells Mattel that it’s in their best interest to do so, they’ll leave feminist Barbie behind, the same way they abandoned the plus-size models and the body positive photoshoots."
comments like this always make me sus. So many dudes (and women with #internalizedMisogyny ) really do think they have a "gotcha" when I say "maybe #gender (as perceived by algorithms and puritanical legislators) shouldn't be the determining factor in how much #censorship is applied to someone's upper body?" and they reply "so you support people having sex in public?!" Like...what? Are you trolling or is your brain literally so warped by puritanical misogyny that you equate female nipples with actual sex?!
@toplesstopics Completely stupid; if that’s their psychology, then I guess men shouldn’t be allowed to be topless in public either because women find the bare chests of men sexy and if they see a topless guy walking down the street, they’ll have no choice but to start making out with them! 😂 Wow…just, wow!
👉Exciting new volume: Feminism and the early Frankfurt School.
Αn original collection of scholarship bringing together scholars of the Frankfurt School and feminist scholars. Essays included in the volume explore ideas from the early Frankfurt School that were explicitly focused on sex, gender, and sexuality, and bring ideas from the early Frankfurt School into productive dialogue with historical and contemporary feminist theory.
'It might be time for me to get away from all these liberal snowflakes': Progressive 'artsy' woman says her date made 'the feminism' leave her body. Why?
