What happens when stakeholders along the #supplychain join forces to eliminate #gender-based violence? Find out how investigations by WorkerRights and empowering #women #workers led to an advocacy success in #Indonesia in my feature for #TriplePundit.
https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2025/garment-worker-gender-justice-agreement-indonesia/821951
#TheMoment a St. John’s fire station got its first all-female crew
Capt. Gina Burke recounts the moment a team of all-female firefighters worked a shift together for the first time, making history for the St. John's Regional Fire Department.
#firefighting #gender #history #StJohns
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6800233?cmp=rss
#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2025.06.17 — As a writer, how anonymous do you want to be?
I am a gender fiction feminist writer who also includes gay, trans, and autistic characters in their stories, sometimes in romance plots. My work might qualify to be banned in most southern states. Here's a poll. Let's see how I'm doing (and, yes, a few followers know who I am, but won't tell).
Click which is true.
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#ScribesAndMakers 2025.06.16 — Have you ever tried hyperbolic crochet?
I can be hyperbolic at times, but I'm never crochet-y.
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#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool
#gender #fiction #writer #author photographer chef cooking
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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#WordWeavers 2025.06.15 — If your MC found a clean, sealed, unlabelled box, would they open it? Why or why not?
Likely. Even if it were on the street (but not, for example, on somebody porch or stoop). She's not stupid, though. She has the ability to do such things remotely and safely. How that works is because she can [spoilers].
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#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
#WordWeavers 2025.06.16 — Has your physical health ever affected your ability to write or the topics you write about?
Today of all days you ask that? Yes. It is very hard to think some days. Today it is almost like driving drunk, but writing. (Mind fog made worse by a muscle relaxer.) I am hoping the version I completed of the novel and sent to the beta readers won't embarrass me.
It doesn't affect my topic choices.
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#gender #fiction #writer #author
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2025.06.15 — Have you ever challenged yourself to write without editing? What were the results?
Wut? I cant even write to sentences without making a typo. LOLhelicoptering on this one. Me? Writing without editing? Never accepting that challenge!
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#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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#PennedPossibilities 702 — What is your MC’s greatest achievement?
In the WIP at the point I'm writing? That she tipped over a locomotive? Well, arguably, it's having convinced Rainy Days to take her on as a student, though maybe she was already on the antagonist's radar. Then again, you never know with Rainy Days.
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#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
This is a most unusual conversation. First that there are people who come to MIT who have never programmed. Second how unexpected her presentation is for anyone from MIT.
https://www.mit.edu/~anabell/
https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Get_Programming/czgzEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=get+programming&printsec=frontcover
#mit #programming #python #learning #unusual #video #podcast #good #gender #book #wishlist
(I’m trying this post again to see what happens when I use hashtags)
MI6 has appointed its first female leader. What took it so long? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/16/mi6-first-female-leader-blaise-metreweli #UKsecurityandcounter-terrorism #Womenintheboardroom #Womeninpolitics #Lifeandstyle #Politics #Business #Society #UKnews #Gender #Women #Women #MI6
"Scallops are neither male nor female. They can be both, or they can switch: male to female, female to male, according to the seasons and their biological needs. Scallop gender is as fluid as the ocean that they live within."
Anja Murray, Naturefile, on Ireland's Lyric FM (5 mins)
https://www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/22292115-naturefile/
#nature #scallop #radio #podcast #mollusc #biology #zoology #NaturalHistory #LyricFM #gender
Shows of Weakness
https://www.the-reframe.com/shows-of-weakness/
> What is a woman? is meant to convey "we will control your gender, and we will be extremely deadly to you if you won't be controlled." This control is being established for all women, by the way, not just trans ones. If you want to establish #women as lesser than men, you're going to need to hold a secure border between who is and who is not a full #person, so that you can operationalize the inequality with precision.
#USPol #Gender #LGBTQIA
Left leaning women reject rightwing males. “For me, caring about other people is such an enormous feature of who I am and what I believe. I can't date a man who doesn't care about immigrants' or women's rights. Empathy is a huge part of what I look for in a partner.” “I would not date anybody who votes Conservative. That's a huge turnoff for me. Political views are someone's values.” #dating #politics #gender #leftwing #rightwing https://thekit.ca/living/living-relationships/dating-political-gender-gap/
An antidote to toxic masculinity?
https://nonzerosum.games/masculinity.html
#Masculinity #Feminism #MRAs #WomensRights #MensRights #Gender #Courage
"No King"
Millionen gegen Trump
Mehr dazu bei https://www.fr.de/politik/militaerparade-proteste-ausschreitungen-no-kings-demos-gegen-donald-trump-geburtstag-zr-93784957.html
a-fsa.de/d/3HE
Link zu dieser Seite: https://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/articles/9187-20250616-no-king.html
Link im Tor-Netzwerk: http://a6pdp5vmmw4zm5tifrc3qo2pyz7mvnk4zzimpesnckvzinubzmioddad.onion/de/articles/9187-20250616-no-king.html
Tags: #Demokratie #Trump #NoKing #Demos #Gewalttaten #Krieg #Frieden #Militär #Aufrüstung #Menschenrechte #Abschiebung #Migration #Soziales #Gleichberechtigung #Gender #Diskriminierung #Ungleichbehandlung
"When we talk of “white men” we are describing an institution."
- Sara Ahmed, White Men
If you haven't read Sara Ahmed, you're missing out.
Her essay "White Men" goes a long way to making sense of how institutions work, and how their behaviours diverge from their stated mandates.
I read this essay 8 1/2 years ago and I have never stopped thinking about it.
https://feministkilljoys.com/2014/11/04/white-men/
#Kyriarchy #SaraAhmed #FeministKilljoy #Race #Gender #Hegemony
#PennedPossibilities 701 — MC POV: What is freedom to you?
Either MC from Reluctant Moon:
I'm a student! I live in my mother's home! Is freedom real? I have no idea what it's like because, though I understand the concept, I've really never experienced it. More of the I can't do this or that'll really get me in trouble in my life right now.
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#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
#EroticMusings 2025.0608 Week 2 (June 8-14) Craft: Do you intentionally experiment with new techniques? Share an example! (If you want to.)
I am going to take "techniques" as writing techniques. I am ill qualified to talk about me or my partner's prowess. In a sense, this is spoilers for the Reluctance series stories.
New techniques? Yes, I have to. What I'm writing now skirts the boundaries of propriety, saying a lot without saying much. It is ancillary to the novel, yet it and the gender roles depicted are also a major plot point in the story. I work to write what the characters feel, and their adventures, but I don't use the vernacular at all, which would color it in ways that I find unappealing. Thus you'll find plenty of wordplay and the playful use of rhetoric, utilizing the lesser used meaning of words or phrases, reusing unrelated words or phrases that context will clarify, and, rarely, making up words. Innuendo proves useful, too. Moreover, by not describing anything except what interests the character, skirting full descriptions that other authors insist on giving to fit the context of the reader rather than the context of the POV character, the reader will build up a picture of what's happening until they "get," for example, what the characters are wearing.
A reader's imagination is far better than authors often give them credit for.
In the following excerpt, the MC refers to what in our society is her boyfriend, Streak. If you read the story carefully, and read this excerpt carefully, you'll understand what she's comparing having passed the test to. I highlighted the sentence. In the context of the story, it is 100% obvious, yet never stated.
…By the way, you passed the test."
"Passed?" I sat hard in the chair. My tail bone stung. "I passed!?" Tears streamed down my cheeks; my whole body felt electrified—possibly more so than after Streak's best effort. I felt powerful. The release of tension felt amazingly good. I shivered, delighted beyond measure, craving more. Silently, inside: Yes!!!
You might characterize this post as utilizing the described technique, which is why I did not CW.
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#romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
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