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content note (cross-posted from Helen Blogs) Both this blog, and the ‘lets talk about rape … Part 1′ were written some time ago, but were both popular blogs at the time. However when ‘Fragmentz’ ceased to exist, so did the blogs. I had been asked a few times recently to repost them and declined, however … Continue reading Let’s talk about rape pt 2 by @helen_a15
(cross-posted from BottomFace) In 1963 Betty Friedan wrote the movement provoking book The Feminine Mystique. Forty-nine years on women have seen many changes for the better. Women are leaving the home and have access to careers. They have more options than motherhood and indeed are choosing to start families later. Many women receive university educations, … Continue reading The Feminine Mystique Redux by @LUBottom
(Cross-posted from The Real Thunder Child) If you were a feminist, you would not feel the need to tell us. Your actions and what you say to other males would mark you out. If you were a feminist, you would see misogyny for what it is, everywhere it is, neither feeling personally hurt or blamed … Continue reading If you were a feminist. by The Real Thunder Child
(Cross-posted from The Joy in My Life) I’ve always considered myself somewhat of an idealist – i’m a bit of a hippy frankly, who studied Anthropology in Brighton, a city known for its gay pride, festival-esque activism, reggae nights by the beach, and open drug indulgence. And of course, listening to that much Desmond Dekker … Continue reading Reconciling Idealism with an Increasingly Unequal Reality by The Joy in My Feet
Emma Watson has given a speech to support the launch of UN “He for She” campaign. There has been considerable support, retweeting and endorsement of her speech and in particular the point at which she invites men to be part of the solution. Tweets like this: “Chaps out there. Sign up for @HeforShe and watch … Continue reading Emma Watson, Feminism and Men by @hhbruichladdich
(Cross-posted from It’s Not a Zero Sum Game) Feminism is one of those things everybody has an opinion about. Women, because it affects them; men, because they think it doesn’t affect them. The belief that we all know how to do feminism, however, is rooted in deep and probably completely unacknowledged and unwelcome misogyny: it must be simple, … Continue reading Men: Stop telling us how to do feminism by @marstrina
(cross-posted from Petal fall from my afro like Autumn) MY MIND IS BLOWN… Pakistani Pop Star Aaron Haroon Rashid, has created a new super hero: the Burka Avenger. Quite literally a burka-clad super hero who fights for girls right to education, punishing the bad guys with nothing more than books, pens, and inner peace. This anti-violence, … Continue reading “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Burka Avenger fighting for women’s education
Safe spaces are not just physical entities. They can, and should, exist inside your own mind. The most intimate safe spaces — the physical boundaries of your own body, the theoretical boundaries of your own self-definition — should be the most inviolable ones of all. Most women know that this is not how things work … Continue reading On safe spaces and compliance by @glosswitch
Speech given at Reclaim the Night Perth 2013 The connection between domestic violence and the attacks on women’s crisis services and on abortion access is something the organising committee wanted to draw out, and it’s linked to why we are having a women-only march tonight. It’s become more forbidden for women to do anything by … Continue reading Connecting the attacks on abortion access and the attacks on our bodies at Liberation is Life
(Cross-posted from John Stompers) Halloween is my Christmas. Even if I wasn’t born on November 1st and named after a witch, theSamhain season would still be holiday numero uno for me due to the candy, costumes, and supernatural spookies celebrated in the absence of religious, nationalist or familial obligations. Since autumn reaps harvests of nostalgia, … Continue reading Ghosts of Prostitution Debates Past by Samantha Berg
(Cross-posted from Feminist Borgia) Note: In this review I am predominantly going to be looking at depictions and treatment of women in the newest GTA game. Please do not bother to comment on how men are treated or on other problems within the game. These are well enough documented. Also, there are major spoilers in … Continue reading Grand Theft Auto V – A Feminist’s Review by @feministborgia
Cross-posted from Reading Medieval Texts ‘The Fall of Icarus,’ c. 1560-70. Every now and again, because I don’t know any better, I end up engaging with my favourite brand of Idiot on the Internet, the intellectual mansplainer. You know the sort of thing: you mention you’re studying late-medieval women’s reading, and they start to explain … Continue reading Patriarchy and the Establishment of ‘Objective Facts’: The Narrative is Already Gendered by @LucyAllenFWR
(Cross-Posted from the Kraken Wakes) Posted on May 7, 2014 by The Kraken Hold the boat, kraken lovers. Hold the bloody boat. I have just read something so heinous and bleak-hearted in that faux-newspaper for mouthbreathers, The Metro, that I may have to leave you a moment to soak my frontal lobes in a cleansing mixture of hydrochloric … Continue reading Rape Night by @cathjanes
The Anti-Feminist Woman and the Case for Bodily Integrity by Victoria A. Brownworth The Oxford English Dictionary, which I rely on regularly for words I don’t quite understand, defines an anti-feminist as “one opposed to women or to feminism; a person (usu. a man) who is hostile to sexual equality or to the advocacy of women’s rights.” The … Continue reading The Anti-Feminist Woman and the Case for Bodily Integrity by @VABVOX
A couple of years ago I sat in a café with a man talking about masculinities. One of the things he said has stuck with me. “But what do you say to a 6 year old boy who asks, ‘Mummy what does it mean to be a boy?’” At the time I had a 6 … Continue reading Masculinities, Femininities, and Socialisation by @SparkEquip
(Cross-posted from Reimagining My Reality) A post I wrote in June 2013… My job involves discussing sexism, violence and women’s rights. I’m on maternity leave at the moment but I still find I’m spending a lot of time considering these issues. Recently the Saatchi and Lawson story hit the headlines, and I couldn’t stop thinking … Continue reading Sexism, aggression, and not being a silent witness by Reimagining my Reality
(cross-posted with permission from ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES) This post is about the slaughter carried out by Elliot Rodger in Santa Barbara. It is about violence, the hatred of women and the general hatred of humans. Consider carefully whether you wish to read it. 1. The Recent Events Elliot Rodger, 22, spent last Saturday killing people in Santa … Continue reading The Day Of Retribution. On Elliot Rodger, the Butcher of Santa Barbara. by @Echidne
Robocop & the Politics of Emancipation Posted on February 9, 2014 The 2014 Robocop remake has arrived! Revamping, updating and down-camping the 1987 original for the viewing pleasure of the global mass market! Boo corporations, post-90s technology, human emotion and/or error… Yay Robocop! While the new story has been adapted accordingly for our newer, shinier and digital-er time, the … Continue reading Robocop & the Politics of Emancipation by @elizabethethird
(Cross-posted from Abigail Rieley) Date: September 24, 2013 Author: Abigail I’ve been having a bit of a contentious time on Twitter lately. It can be like that sometimes and mostly lately I’ve been steering clear. I’m tired of having the same argument. It’s the argument that pops up with depressing regularity whenever someone raises the … Continue reading Me thinks they doth protest too much by @AbigailRieley
The Making of the Suppressed Histories Archives For forty years, Max Dashú has researched global women’s history and cultural studies. Her legendary Archives now hold a collection of over 15,000 slides, with tens of thousands more images in hard copy and digital format, as well as text files, maps and books. Dashú has created 130 … Continue reading The Making of the Suppressed Histories Archive