My mom was getting her master's degree in Psychology was working with at risk girls , many had gotten pregnant, some more than once. She talked to them about birth control but the people in charge said that was forbidden. (late 1950's Indiana) my mom told them that was just ridiculous, as well as stupid. When she kept getting hassled left the program in disgust.
She was an old school #feminist
#MarleneDietrich#Asian#Revolutionary emulated #portrait shot by my fellow photographer friend, Jamidi. I only allowed Jam & 1 other photographer pal to take portraits of me. Shot at Jam's home in #VictoriaBC, 10 yrs ago. I just have longer hair & few extra face wrinkles now. Still have my 'fuck the system' & 'fuck colonialism' stances.
A #FeministDystopia movie I watched this week (by happy accident!) was Swallow.
Incredible, beautiful artistry, direction, acting, sound, color, everything, in this film. Haley Bennett was truly extraordinary as the lead. I prefer her performance to any of this year's Oscar nominees. She held me completely in suspense the whole time, bizarrely relatable.
Highly recommend watching this one, even if only for its spectacular ending!
If you haven't seen it - go see it! It's really fun and funny.
In that same vein, is Polite Society. Personally I think I liked Polite Society even more than Bottoms, but I'll have to re-watch both.
I also really enjoyed Moxie. Lighter fare, in a kind of teen high school movie way, but I like how it confronts the complicity of adult women in positions of power, & treatment of dating, teen love, sex.
(What's a #Feminist#Movie? IDK - I guess something I wouldn't be embarrassed to serve up to my son at an appropriate age, & wouldn't need to do clean-up to counteract the sexism.)
By the way, my 10 yo boy said yesterday: "You know how movies often have a lead guy, & he's kind of or very sexist, & then they give him a redemption arc where he 'learns something'? Those movies almost never have him do repairs to the people he hurt. He changed, that's it."
Today in Labor History March 22, 1972: U.S. Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. It failed. And to this day, women earn 84% of what men do. One of the exceptions is public education, where teachers’ unions have fought and won the right to collectively bargain salaries based on years of experience, not gender. The first ERA was introduced to Congress in 1923. The 1972 had wide bipartisan support, including by presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter, and seemed destined to pass. However, Phyllis Schlafly mobilized conservative women against the amendment, arguing that it would disadvantage housewives, make them eligible for the draft and cause divorcees to lose custody of their children. This killed the ERA in the 1970s. From 2017-2020, several states have ratified the ERA. However, it is uncertain whether these ratifications are legal, since they occurred after the deadlines. Schlafly went on to become a major player in the anti-abortion and anti-feminist and anti-LGBTQ rights movements.
Für die Deutsche freunden :
Es gibt eine neue besetzt Kino in Frankfurter Bornheim: das Berger Kino, von eine queer-feministsischen Gruppe, wilkommen! Bitte gehen Sie sofort :)
We are thinking about doing our mini-mask bloc of two tonite for the feminist action day. But i don't think i have the courage for this, plus it would piss me off too much.