Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia, their view of feminism continues to equate support for women's right with terrorism.
As always there is talk of a move towards better rights in Saudi, but its hard to square this narrative of improvement of the plight of women, with the continued judicial actions against females who are promoting such social change via social media.
"We need, as we always have, the “YES” of our practices:
constellations of care, where each and every one of our
still-beating hearts, in concert, rebelliously speaks louder
than words, forming unmistakable patterns of different cosmologies, different worlds, life against their death machine."
#TaylorSwift recently paid homage to early Hollywood star Clara Bow on her new album "The Tortured Poets Department."
Bow was known as Hollywood's "hottest jazz baby," becoming a huge star who received 45,000 fan letters a month in the 1920s. However, she struggled under the strict control of the studio system and was often the target of tabloid gossip. After decades of relentless demands, Bow made a bold move to leave Hollywood.
♲ @kurt@pod.thing.org:> Liebe Freundinnen und Kunstinteressierte,Feministische Künstlerinnen gestalten den #Stadtraum und malen für eine gerechte und inklusive Stadt – Einblicke in ihre Projekte und Kämpfe zeigt die Netzwerk-Ausstellung Feminist City Utopia in der Galerie neurotitan mit einem außerordentlichen Begleitprogramm!
Wir laden herzlich ein zur Vernissage am 25.05.2024 um 18 Uhr und freuen uns über Ihre & Eure Teilnahme an zahlreichen Programmpunkten während der Ausstellung vom 25.05.-15.06.2024! Für die Bekanntgabe über Ihre & Eure netzwerke wären wir ebenso sehr dankbar – please spread the word!
Details im Überblick: Feminist City Utopia Eröffnung: 25.05.2024, 18 Uhr | Ausstellungsdauer: 25.05.-15.06.2024 Mo-Sa 12-20 Uhr | Galerie neurotitan, Rosenthaler Str. 39, 10178 #Berlin
Das aus der Graffiti- und Urban Art-Kultur hervorgegangene Netzwerk United #Feminist Power lädt zur partizipativen Ausstellung ein, um gemeinsam Vorstellungen einer feministischen Stadt zu gestalten, zu diskutieren und auf visuelle Aktionsformen im öffentlichen Raum zu erweitern. In der #Galerie entsteht eine transformierbare Stadtlandschaft, die feministische Utopien erfahrbar macht. Themen wie Gewalt gegen #FLINTA*, fehlende Räume und Infrastrukturen sowie Ausschlussmechanismen werden intersektional-feministische Vorstellungen gegenübergestellt. Kunstwerke dienen dabei als Vermittlung und Manifestationen von Optimismus und Empowerment. Andere Städte sind möglich und dies bedeutet im Rahmen der Ausstellung gerechte und inklusive Städte. Umfassendes Begleitprogramm mit Diskussionsabenden und Filmscreenings, Fassade Painting, Action Dinner, queerfeministischem Sommerfest mit Live-Acts zur Finissage u.v.m.!
KÜNSTLERINNEN Künstlerinnen von United Feminist Power zusammen mit: Alice Dee | Chili con Carne | Eva Kietzmann | Helena Her | Julia Nägeli | Lea Greub | Lena Fakler | Lena Stoehrfaktor | Lulia Ghirmay | Petra Kübert | PMS | Reclaim Your City | Sandra Rummler | Sbrama | Süß-Bande | Vlada und vielen mehr … REFERENT*INNEN Christoph May – Institut für Kritische Männlichkeitsforschung | Der Periodenladen | Emanzipatorisches Verhütungskollektiv Leipzig | Feminist Park Collective | Missoir | Susanne Fitzek – Hypographia Festival
This trend of all gender bathrooms with multiple stalls. I don’t get it. Honestly it feels anti-trans to me or maybe it’s just anti-women. But I have fewer bathrooms I can comfortably use if the one on the floor I’m on is all genders.
Any one want to discuss? I’m not trying to to attack anyone I just really can’t fathom who we’re serving here. As a woman I need a space that I can retreat to. Not bc I was taught to be afraid but bc I’m a survivor of domestic violence.
ICYMI: The Association of Shinto Shrines is a powerhouse in the Shinto world. However, with shrines nationwide turning their backs, its once unshakable power is not as mighty as it once was.
Provincializing Intersex: U.S. Intersex Activism, Human Rights, and Transnational Body Politics
D. A. Rubin, 2019
"the transnational regulation of sexed bodies occurs not only through the globalization of Western biomedical conceptions of sex/gender normativity, but also through global circulations of human rights discourse and impositions of US neoliberal democratic frames of subjectivity."
We are still failing across the world to get more women into leadership roles in politics which itself stems for a failure to get more women into political careers.
Whether you believe women do politics differently, or whether you see this as an issue of gender representation, to be two decades into the new millennia & for this to still be the case tells us that patriarchy & male domination remain issues that has yet to be disposed of
"Feminist theory secures rather than challenges, Hemmings shows in one of the book's most compelling arguments, a variety of postfeminist, gender-equality discourses that are central to the reproduction of global power relations." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1057/fr.2011.41
in 2017, at Tomioka Hachimangū Shrine, head priestess Nagako was murdered by her brother Shigenaga, who believed her role should belong to a man. Shockingly, he wasn’t alone in this belief: Japan's Association of Shinto Shrines refused to recognize Nagako for years.
so i hope the lesson learned from the closing of Women in Tech and Women Who Code is that corporate America and empire feminism ain't gonna save us, right?
#feminism was meant to dismantle the white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy not to develop software that would empower the white supremacist, misogynist, capitalist oligarchy into further dehumanizing and oppressing the rest of us.
the non-profit industrial complex needs to die for truly liberatory & cooperative communities to rise.
#WomenWhoCode is shutting down for funding shortfalls. I can’t think of a more dire canary in the Silicon Valley coal mine than this. We can expect a social fascist turn in the IT industry from here out as the remaining jobs not taken by AI are rationed out to men only.
$4m is chump change for infotech capitalists, a few bucks tossed to a pan handler. That they won’t fund #WWC anymore isn’t an economic decision, but palpably a policy priority toward a hard social rightward turn.
In 2020, the Shinto Seiji Renmei’s parliamentary group ousted Secretary General Tomomi Inada over her supportive statements on LGBTQ rights. In 2022, they distributed pamphlets at a meeting of the Liberal Democratic Party, claiming that “homosexuality is a mental disorder.”
:d20: You can get the version 1 of the GAFAMa vie privée (breach of my privacy) card game and the version 2 of the “Précis de protection sur Internet” toolbook at the following link:
:d20: Tu peux te procurer la version 1 du jeu de cartes GAFAMa vie privée et la version 2 du livret-outils "Précis de protection sur Internet" sur le lien suivant :