btw, if you had problems with the promo code earlier, sorry, their distributor sold out. but now it's back in stock & the promo code will work until April 15th! #TDoV#TDOV2024#trans#transgender#LGBTQ#feminism#books
#vendredilecture (comment ça on est samedi?) Mais avec la sortie de "yet another shit tier science book" sur les différences #genetique, je me suis décidé à faire monter sur ma pile un livre qui y traine deouis 6 ans: Testosterone Rex de Cordelia Fine.
Il revient sur l'idée, qui a très mal vieilli depuis, que la testostérone est aux fondement des "différences de comportement et cognitives" entre les hommes et les femmes. Ça date de 2017, et ça se lit vraiment bien. #science#feminism#psychology
Before "The Handmaid's Tale", there was Sonya Dorman's chilling "The Deepest Blue in the World"—and you can find it in the 3rd volume of Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women...
On this final day of Women’s History Month, let us celebrate and honor the work that women do for us. Maria Kalman has written a book titled “Women Holding Things,” which is both a literal and metaphorical reference to how women hold us up.
”[Molly Ivins] came already baked, so to speak. She was already almost fully developed as a writer. So there was not much editing to do, except maybe tone down some of the excesses. I think I saved a couple of libel suits ...”
Today in Labor History March 29, 1797: William Godwin married Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin was an English journalist, philosopher and novelist. And one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. His most famous books are “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice” and “Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams,” a mystery novel that attacks aristocratic privilege. Wollstonecraft was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, and is regarded by many as one of the founding feminist philosophers. Her most famous book was “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792). She died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.
As co-editors of the Texas Observer, Kaye Northcott and Molly Ivins used humor and embedded themselves in the feminist movement. In our magazine, Correspondent Eva Ruth Moravec interviews Northcott about the history of our publication: https://www.texasobserver.org/forging-their-own-way-kaye-northcott/
The UN has just appointed (by acclamation - there were no other candidates put forward) the Ambassador from Saudi Arabia to he'd up the UN Commission that is supposed to promote women's rights across the world & empower women politically....
Given the grudging, uneven & slow progress on such empowerment in his own state, the notion that this can possibly be a positive more for global women is beyond belief.
This is an image that should cover the front page of most magazines and news papers.
The amazing strength and bravery of women of Gaza who are showing the world how love and humanity looks like.
This is not going to be published, no one will dare humanizing the victims of the genocidal regime of Israel. Much less a Palestinian woman wearing Hijab.
The plight of women in #Gaza is underreported not only because many media even in liberal Western democracies still are based on male dominance but because liberal #feminism has a blind spot regarding its shortcomings in opposing the colonialist and imperialist i.e. patriarchal rule of their governments.
Those imperatives are baked in a feminism that restricts its activities on equal chances in their national market societies without criticising their extractivistic and capitalistic methods of accumulation in the Global south.
In the end women themselves want to benefit from this exploitative relation instead of liberating women and other genders all over the world in special solidarity with those who have nearly no agency left to resist war, famine and suppression.
The gigantic gap regarding rights, freedoms and wealth between Israel and #Palestine signifies this hierarchical patriarchal relation and manifests its violent structure in Gaza in the unbearable insight that this is about annihilation
“It’s not just the beating me down that is hard,” one Black woman PhD candidate told a researcher. “It is the fact that it feels like I’m villainized and made out to be the problem for trying to advocate for myself.”
Women interviewed for the study report feeling isolated, abused and overworked. One said she had been tricked into handling a two- to four-person job entirely by herself.
I've finished: Six-Guns Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
This one has been on my wishlist for a while. It was hard to get in audio with an Israeli credit cart and I wasn't completely sure about it since I'm not much of a western fan.
I'm very glad I managed to get my hands on it.
I love Velente's writing. I love that the Snow White reimagining is only one aspect of the novella. I love that Snow isn't the only character in distress and that the oppression and dispossession is explored in more than one way. I love how far she had to go to find peace, that there was no quick magic fix.
The fact that feminism is still being treated as unnecessary and intrusive by the majority of the world (including MANY people right here in the 'land of the free') makes me want to punch the patriarchy in the throat. And I'm a pacifist.
Circumcision as Child Abuse: The Legal and Constitutional Issues
W Brigman, 23 J. Fam. L. 337 (1984-1985)
"This paper will examine the medical and psychological case against routine neonatal circumcision and will discuss the potential legal and constitutional barriers to treating the practice as child abuse."
If you show the value of a victim, you feel empathy. This increases the desire for equality but you feel bad: it endangers your health.
On the contrary, iIf you stress the mistake of a victim, you protect yourself: you feel like it should not happen to you. Society supports such detachment if the perpetrator is a white man or a police(wo)man.
Blaming the victim justifies inequality, discriminations, violence by the strongest. It normalizes (adult, white, male or cis) privileges. Therefore it normalizes patriarchy and white supremacy.
I'm trying to re-find an article about perceptions of women in leadership roles, showing that there was no middle-ground between perceptions of too soft, and cold and unfriendly. But I can't remember where I read it. Can anyone help me? #women#feminism
Today's new tShirt design that I created in Illustrator while I livestreamed on joystick. 😝 (I put a watermark on it just in case anyone gets nefarious ideas 😅 )
Catching up on reading some book reviews and I've been reminded of an extraordinary book I read some years ago called The Natural Way Of Things by Charlotte Wood. It's bleak, terrifying but fiercely feminist, picking apart the brutality of patriarchy to examine externalised and internalised misogyny. If you choose to read it, the words "she's gone to the fence" will stay with you for a long time.