Today in Labor History December 16, 1977: Eight women in Willmar, Minnesota, launched the first bank workers strike in U.S. history. They were protesting sexual discrimination like unequal pay and treatment. They picketed outside the bank when the wind chill was -70 F (-57 C)
Something about the hype around #Damsel just rubs me the wrong way. The whole "this is no fairy tale" spin is annoying. Have you ever read more than two fairy tales in your life? I can list you hundreds of traditional stories where women kill monsters and save themselves. Seriously.
Quit shitting on folklore without knowing it.
Also, I recently heard the term "add a sword feminism" and it is very accurate.
Pilita Clark (FT) shares some depressing data on the global perception of the progress of equality for women... it seems that majority of the world's population think it has gone far enough.
As Clark concludes:
'The more evidence we see of hardening attitudes, the more work we need to do to understand why. Because one thing is certain: female inequality is still very real and the already long effort to overturn it still has much further to go'!
Hello world - I've just joined and trying to find friends. I'm an #artist generally working between #communityart and #soundart. I'm into #feminism and experimenting with the #creative possibilities of #hamradio. I'm also a #PhD student studying #listening. Please say hello if our interests overlap! :)
what we call ‘enclosures’ were, and are, ways of abolishing collective land use for the benefit of individuals who become the new, private, exclusive owners. in 15th and 16th century england, enclosing land involved surrounding it with hedges, ditches, or other barriers to movement. as sivlvia federici notes in /caliban and the witch/, although enclosures were often secured through one or another form of legal instrument (purchases, licences, decrees, statutes, etc.), legalization was generally preceeded by prolonged campaigns of harassment, intimidation, and threats of eviction, including on the basis of economic pressures: increases in rents and taxes. as federici writes, ‘i define all these forms as /land expropriation/ because, even when force was not used, the loss of land occurred against the individual’s or the community’s will and undermined their capacity for subsistence.’
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/
Today, in an absolute tour-de-force of cognitive dissonance, a gender-critical fan of evolutionary psychology, writing for a conservative magazine, wondered why women who support trans rights won't simply accept that feminism is based in accepting women's biological inferiority.
Here's my piece explaining (well, mostly explaining, also poking fun) why this makes no actual sense. #trans#feminism#journalism#news
I was struck by Helen MacNamara's evidence to the #CovidEnquiry & decided to explore the question of the negative impact of a lack of #gender diversity a little further... here's what I found, for @NWBylines
And its not a particularly positive picture... we need to do a lot more on #genderequity if we are in the future to avoid some of the storms we've recently sailed into.
"You Don't Have to Be Pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked "female"."
Three night safety volunteers, who help vulnerable women on the streets of Westminster and have official high vis with local council and Met police logos, were apparently arrested at 2am for doing their job and then held for up to 14 hours, including 3 hours in handcuffs for at least one of them.
'But journalist Mic Wright, who reported the arrests on Twitter, said those arrested were members of Westminster City Council’s nighttime safety volunteers group Night Stars. The volunteers, who wear vibrant pink high-vis vests, support at-risk women and help vulnerable members of the public to ensure they get home safely. Soho is one of the areas they operate in, according to the Westminster City Council website. They often provide people in need with water, directions, slippers or someone to talk to and work in partnership with the Met, whose logo appears on their uniforms. Westminster City Council did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Mr Wright said one member of the trio arrested left the police station in tears after the incident. "They were arrested for being in possession of… rape alarms. They hand them out to women," Mr Wright tweeted.
News of the arrests has been met with widespread outrage and concern. Jamie Klingler, co-founder of Reclaim These Streets, said: "Even for the @metpoliceuk this is a preposterous excuse. They were volunteers in high vis".'