Hey white supremacist patriarchy! Cut the crap or women and their bodies are going to get just as scary as you always thought they were.
#DownWithPatriarchy #FeminismIsForEverybody #paris #femenistfight
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#FeminismIsForEverybody
#MonaEltahawy says it best.
It’s March 9 and it’s still International Women’s Day, because every day is International Women’s Day. Patriarchy does not rest. And we fight patriarchy every day. Every day we remember, as Audre Lorde said, that “women are powerful and dangerous.” And every day I send my love and solidarity to women everywhere—cisgender and transgender women. And every day, I look patriarchy in the eye and I vow: I will fucking destroy you. Happy International Women’s Day, every day!
To those born with a uterus in the USA: women of the world are with you.
Women's rights are human rights; feminism is for everybody/every body.
Fight the good fight. Never surrender.
Edit to add article author: Hibaaq Osman is a Somali political strategist and founder of Karama, a coalition of groups in 13 Arab countries focused on advancing women’s rights
#humanrights #womensrightsarehumanrights #FeminismIsForEverybody
Mona's Daily Dose today is particularly apt for women, like me, whose bodies are seen by some as undesirable in so many ways simply because we have lived so long. I'm thankful to have lived as long as I have, with a body as healthy as it is, no matter how it looks. We've all lost someone we thought would be with us longer. I count my lucky stars not to be among them.
"To look honestly at our bodies as we age is to begin to understand what Bruce Lee meant when he said, “Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." To be water is to acknowledge the folly of “control.” Who wants to “control” their body? At a time when we enthusiastically vow to become ungovernable in the face of fascism, to believe we can “control” our bodies is not just the height of folly, it is a form of fascism of the self, surely."
We in the West would do well to take a closer look at what's working to establish equality in so called developing nations.
"Too often, it seems to me, as I hear discussions in the west of what the new Syria will look like, this impassioned feminism is completely overlooked. Maybe it’s too Kurdish. Maybe it’s too militarised. Maybe it’s too socialist. Maybe it’s just too unlikely. Maybe what western onlookers want when they think about feminism in the Middle East is something more polite, less determined, less angry? But every single day I’m in north-east Syria, whether I visit a university or a justice council, an ecology academy or a demonstration, I feel my breath taken away by the depth of commitment that women show to what they have created here."
#FeminismIsForEverybody #Syria #rojava #rojavakurdistan #daanes #jinjiyanazadi
Mona offers so many insights. This "Daily Dose" concludes: A woman can be strong without offering proof she has suffered.
#feminism #FeminismIsForEverybody #MonaEltahawy #strongwomen
Oh, to be as strong and fiery as Mona. She fights for humanity in all things.
#MonaEltahawy #FeminismIsForEverybody
#patriarchy
https://open.substack.com/pub/feministgiant/p/daily-dose-68?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=i0l1d
“The greatest barrier preventing us from fully challenging sexism is the pervasive antifeminine sentiment that runs wild in both the straight and queer communities, targeting people of all genders and sexualities.”
Julie Serano, Whipping Girl (2007)
Why is it?
#Meme #Memes #Feminist #FuckMisogynists #FeminismIsForEverybody
- Nine Princes in #Amber by #RogerZelazny
- The #Steerswoman by #RosemaryKirstein
- Trout Fishing in America by Richard #Brautigan
- #Xenogenesis by #OctaviaButler
- The Age of Spiritual Machines by #RayKurzweil
- #PIHKaL by #AlexanderShulgin
- #FeminismIsForEverybody by #bellhooks
The frame of “books to know me” was interesting. Haven’t consciously thought about some of these books in years, but I guess it’s not meant to be seven books taking up the most space in my head.
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