Des films faits par des femmes, et développant une manière de voir différente de celle dont on nous abreuve depuis l'enfance (films de mecs blancs cis csp+), ça vous dit ?
Une petite liste non exhaustive, validée by myself, que je complèterai au fil du temps et des visionnages :
Thanks @ravensrod for sharing "an Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis by James Baldwin" written in 1970 with lots of relevance to today's #GazaGenocide
Women and Girls in Gaza Are Suffering Through Their Periods Without Water, Medicine, Pads
"After months of Israeli bombardment, the health care system in Gaza is “completely collapsing,” Doctors Without Borders warned in December. Women, girls, and pregnant and menstruating people are among those experiencing the brunt of this: One hospital worker told Bisan that the “scarcity of basic products results in more hospital visits, longer hospital stays, and worsened conditions” due to infection and disease. On December 22, the World Health Organization reported that no “functional” hospitals remained in northern Gaza, and only nine remained in the south to serve an endless influx of injured and sick patients. Other women Bisan spoke to describe the “humiliation,” indignity, and mental health toll of being on their periods and lacking access to basic sanitary products. This is all on top of the physical pain and discomfort of a period under the best circumstances, and the daily, inescapable threats to their lives from Israel’s ongoing military campaign.
As of Tuesday, Al Jazeera reports at least 22,185 people have been killed, at least 57,000 have been injured, and thousands remain missing since Israel launched its offensive on Gaza in October. The Israeli death toll from Hamas attacks on Oct. 7 stands at 1,139 with about 200 people kidnapped. In October, Palestinian Family Planning & Protection Association’s (PFPPA) executive director Ammal Awadallah told Jezebel that life under occupation has always strained the sexual health resources available to women and girls: “Even before the latest escalation of attacks on the Gaza Strip, everything we had was so limited—and of course, this is not the first time the Gaza Strip has been attacked by Israel.”
But over the last few months, the state of sexual and reproductive health in Gaza has become a crisis. At the end of October, Al Jazeera reported that the total lack of privacy, water, and sanitary products amid Israel’s war on Gaza has forced many women and girls to take pills to delay their periods. This is despite unpleasant side effects the pills can cause, such as irregular bleeding and nausea. "
It's the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade and abortion is under sustained attack. A couple years ago I wrote a short piece "We're Pro-Choice and We Riot: How Anarcha-Feminists Built Dual Power in Struggles for Reproductive Freedom" in @igd_news about the history of anarcha-feminist struggles to defend abortion and build autonomous health infrastructure.
"Anarcha-feminists were on the front lines of the struggle for abortion throughout the 1980s and ‘90s. They were convinced that Roe v. Wade would not last forever and that they could not depend on the state and the legal system to protect reproductive freedom. Anarcha-feminists took a three-pronged approach to abortion struggle: defense of abortion clinics, construction of grassroots reproductive health infrastructure, and an anti-state approach to building feminist dual power.
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Anarchists advocated expanding grassroots infrastructure and self-organization to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to perform their own reproductive care. They argued that this would produce true reproductive freedom and autonomy that was independent of the state and its laws."
America Ferrera's "Barbie" monologue was initially praised for expressing the frustrations of being a woman, and then slammed for its oversimplification of feminism. Now, the actress is defending the speech in an interview with the New York Times. Here's the full interview (may be paywalled); we'll link a free-to-read summary from TODAY in the comments. What do you think of the controversy?
FYI: There are white women who see Black women’s joy as an expression of them “getting above their station.” It’s beyond their (WW’s) control, which infuriates them. Many white women are subconsciously angry w/themselves for ceding subservience to their mates, which manifests as redirecting their anger to WOC.
'you cannot buy the revolution. you cannot make the revolution. you can only be the revolution. it is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.' #art#history#inktober: what can i tell you about this powerhouse human? you already know that ursula le guin was a pioneering science fiction writer whose works incorporated #feminism, #anarchism, #race & gender fluidity - & she expanded upon these themes across five decades. #ursulaLeGuin#sciFi#literature#illustration#portrait#oregon
😂 #Bias in science is not funny, but I cannot refrain from laughing. Leader (supposedly masculin) of a Copper Age grave turns out to be a female with very high social status. I just have to share this. #gender#Feminism
It's not that I'm only interested in interviewing #kinkEducator s, #sexWorker s, nude #photographer s, nudist/naturists, etc, it's that "mainstream" creators don't seem to be keen on being associated with "adult-only" content that focuses on #activism for the crazy radical notion that #gender based #censorship is BS and either ALL nipples should be banned from mainstream social media and public, or NO nipples 😑
"Women were disproportionately affected by those cuts, making up 69.2% of all tech layoffs, according to The Women Tech Network. And that's on top of the industry's ongoing gender imbalance. Women hold just 26% of jobs across all STEM occupations and even less — 24% — in computer fields, according to the latest available data from the U.S. Department of Labor."
Interestingly the world largest asset manager #BlackRock today issues a report suggesting that corporations with the most #gender balanced workforces deliever the best return on assets (a measure they prefer to the more volatile share price).
There key point is not that #women are preferred, but rather a balanced #diversity is the key to corporate #business success. That said forms with a #female CEO also outperform their competitors.
There's a whole generation of women in China inspired by the undeniable influence of online feminism. The country's popular social media apps like Weibo, Xiaohongshu and Douban provide an environment for women to question traditional gender roles, discuss domestic violence and sexual assault and share stories of hope and freedom. Rest of World delves into the feminist revolution taking place online in China.
More on the prejudice(s) in #financialservices.... which brings us back to the old Lehman Sisters Q.: would the risk taking & general toxic activity associated with the financial sector be lessened if #women were at the top rather than the industry being dominated by white men?
The one thing we can be sure right now, is that we are a long way from finding out!
Opinion | Why Aren’t More People Getting Married? Ask Women What Dating Is Like. (www.nytimes.com)
Harping on people to get married from up in the ivory tower fails to engage with reality of life in the dating trenches.