"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
"The experience of horror that causes a temporary break in Western feminist subject/object relations may precipitate a straightforward judgment of the other-subject or practices concerned as unacceptable. In other words, the experience of horror may well mark the stopping point of the deferral of the limit discussed above. This is very clearly the case in some responses to FGC [Female Genital Cutting], in which the horror itself is repeated textually as evidence in several ways."
"Brooks’ somewhat throwaway disgust (the article does not otherwise discuss FGC) marks the limit of Western feminist subjectivity in two ways, in fact. It marks a limit in order to produce clear judgment, and it also frames her more open argument about religious veiling as one that can be taken seriously as nonrelativist. Her affective certainty here allows her reader to consider her less absolute position elsewhere."
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.
@jesseplusplus I’m certainly far on the outside looking up at the nosebleed heights of the infotech socioeconomic pyramid. So I hope you’re right. But WWC did good for some of us far outside of Silicon Valley. I was one such, though couldn’t take it anywhere myself. For that alone they get my salute.
@Shufei thank you for sharing your perspective, it's super helpful to hear their impact outside of my own bubble and how they helped you. I was in Silicon Valley, so it felt a little different there, but I can definitely see how their initiatives could help in a lot of places much less saturated by tech.
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 :
Leafing through one of the few books on Prunella Clough I came across this painting that brings together hrw quasi-leftist interest in workers as subjects, and her move towards tentative abstraction in the 1950s
"Seventy percent of those killed by Israel’s war in Gaza are women and children. In the end, Western feminism will not be betrayed by the patriarchy nor by Trump or Rishi Sunak or any of the interchangeable right-wing men in power, rather it will be undone by its own foot soldiers: women who have been silent over the worst crimes our generation has witnessed in our lifetime"
Fatima Bhutto #Feminism#Gaza#Women
"Western feminism" is not a thing. The feminism that doesn't criticise the role of capitalism in exploitation is a minority between feminists, but it's very represented in politics and media, just like capitalism is represented while critics of capitalism are popular.
Since 1969, the Association of Shinto Shrines has overseen most shrines in Japan. But ongoing controversies are driving some away. Learn about the scandals - and cases of discrimination against women and LGBTQ people - that are causing some shrines to bail.
Nina Burleigh on how Trump's election was driven by "furious backlash against women’s gains":
"The election of Trump in 2016 was many things, but first and foremost, it was a slap in the face to American women. It signaled the end of an era when women and girls could believe, based on statistics about women in the workforce and girls in college, that we were living in an era of progress."
Tamura Toshiko (田村俊子) was one of the first Japanese women to make a living off her writing in the modern era. Yet her legacy extends beyond the New Woman era, as her focus expanded from gender to social issues involving racial discrimination and class oppression.
Hey ihr Schlauen und Liebhaberïnnen des feministischen Kampfs: Hat wer von euch je ein Fotografie oder ein gemaltes Bild von Linda Malnati gesehen? #feminism#history@histodons