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The volksmoeder ideal promoted a dependent position for women, as participants in the lives of their husbands and children rather than active in their own lives. Only within this circumstances role could women achieve social recognition.

http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/man-made-women-gender-class-and-ideology-volksmoeder-elsabe-brink

#afrikaanse feminisme #south african feminism #volksmoeder #woman's studies #intersectional feminism

#Afrikaanse Feminisme #south african feminism #white privilege

..many of our media companies are going where the money is, and the money isn’t in real news – it’s in confirmation: confirmation of your worst fears, of your bigotries, of your animosities, of your unequivocal rightness

http://everydayfeminism.com/2017/03/guide-to-overthrowing-media/

#feminism #media #activism #truth

Dr. Giordano’s extensive research into the neurocognitive functions of placebo effects has demonstrated to him that, although many people equate placebo effects with “sham” or bogus medicine, that isn’t quite the right way to view it. A growing body of research suggests “that a host of differing factors in our environments can induce such changes in brain activity, and these responses can be conditioned, learned, and, in some cases, be rather powerful,” he says.

https://health.good.is/articles/himalayan-salt-lamps-placebo-effect

#placebo #health #anecdotal #alternative medicine

I'm on a mission to find solid feminist movements here. It's turning out to be tougher than I think.

#feminism #intersectionality #activism #south african feminism

A cultural shift in activism is already underway as the global climate justice movement begins to inhabit its politics, tilting towards being a truly revolutionary force. This process demands introspection and an investigation not only of our personal cultural inheritances, but also the urgent need to heal toxic inherited structures inside ourselves and our movements.

https://roarmag.org/essays/paris-attack-climate-justice-movements/

#embodied politics #social movement #climate justice #freedom #humanity

Why, we ruminated together, whether we are seeking tenure-track jobs or have tenure already or simply want to get inside the covers of a book, are we besieged by so many anxieties and fears regarding what we think we are allowed to say, allowed to write, allowed to express? Might it be possible, we wondered out loud, to found a press that would specifically answer to the specific desires of singular individuals who might almost be dying(inside) to write something that they have convinced themselves in advance is unpublishable and for which no existing publisher would take the “risk”? And might a publisher then perform the (loving) function of a form of self-care that attends to these singular desires, that allows them to flourish and find their way into the world that would be sustaining of the spirit and dignity that gave birth to them? (The Publisher as an Agent of Natality.)

https://punctumbooks.com/blog/it-is-the-connection-of-desire-to-reality-that-possesses-revolutionary-force/

#academia #writing #publishing #fear #queer

they call it “revolutionary,” “radical,” and “new.” They call it the “future” and they build “Futures Initiatives” and “Futures Institutes.” Wait until they find out that the locks on the very things they will build and are building have been changed and their “keys” no longer work. It’s going to be very cold Outside, but it’s also going to be warm if you seek out the basements and bars and clubs and spare bedrooms and parks and parties where some of us are now gathering to stage a Revolution. 1535415_588454681228435_1538350744_n And yes, this is a Revolution, and a joyous one at that. It involves radical (even productively regressive) change but also a reclamation of what was always ours and always will be ours, held in common (let’s call this not just intellectual property but historical property). It involves non-possessive love and mutual admiration. It involves vows of poverty and mendicant itinerancy. It involves walking together across the City in the rain. It involves building makeshift shelters in the Woods. It involves cocktails. It involves dancing. It involves the idea, in the parlance of the poet Lisa Robertson, that “the most pleasing civic object would be erotic hope.”[2] Bear with me.

https://punctumbooks.com/blog/it-is-the-connection-of-desire-to-reality-that-possesses-revolutionary-force/

#digital humanities #queer #feminism #anarchism #revolution

Can any NGO or group coherently advocate for disobedience against decision makers, yet expect unwavering obedience towards their own hierarchical internal making structures? Can one truly advocate for external disobedience while replicating those same power structures internally? Instead is it not time for the climate justice movement to strive towards participatory systems of organizing, internally and externally, where no one is required to “obey” and thus “disobedience” is unnecessary?

https://roarmag.org/essays/paris-attack-climate-justice-movements/

#embodied politics #walk the talk #climate movement #climate change

A holistic approach to this crisis is needed, and we would be wise to follow the leadership of those who have — against great odds — preserved coherent, sustainable and respectful cultures of existence on this planet.

https://roarmag.org/essays/paris-attack-climate-justice-movements/

#indigenous leadership #intersectional feminism #anarchism #freedom #resilience

Indigenous leadership is so vital to the climate justice movement because it proves not only that “another world is possible” but that “other worlds already exist” to challenge the monoculture of neoliberal global capitalism. By focusing on the culture of resistance rather than the targets, one can construct forms of resistance that are themselves alternatives.

https://roarmag.org/essays/paris-attack-climate-justice-movements/

#diversity #ecology #intersectionality #direct democracy #freedom

MAGAZINE MORE Account Subscribe Login Pages About Shop Photo: Allan Lissner Cultural shifts in the climate justice movement March 22, 2016 ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY The disruption following the Paris attacks made clear that the climate justice movement has to internalize its own motto: “system change not climate change!” AUTHOR Kevin Buckland A hundred days on, as the climate justice movement looks back to the COP21 Climate Summit to see what may be learned, we reflect on the context of the violent attacks of November 13, 2015 that foreshadowed the unstable and volatile world we will all inhabit for the rest of our lives. The ensuing crackdown on climate protesters sent shock waves through the Climate Coalition’s (CC21) plans for a series of mass climate mobilizations around the COP21 UN climate summit. This opened fissures at every weak point, revealing the political values dormant beneath and bringing to the front cultures of resistance that had the structural integrity and coherence to be able to thrive under the Parisian “State of Emergency”. Several underlying trends that characterized successful activism during COP21 indicate an emerging cultural shift in climate activism, especially in places where the call for “system change” was not just being demanded, but enacted by the movements themselves. Three trends in particular can be identified: The spread and increased role of creativity in activism; The deepened commitment to indigenous leadership; and The evolving tensions between rhetoric and form among different organizational models. What these trends may portend for the future of this growing movement as it begins to inhabit its politics, is that it is tilting from a protest movement towards being a truly revolutionary force. CULTURE OF RESISTANCE From the epic images of Ende Gelaende to the endlessly circulating photographs of the People’s Climate March; from the beauty of kayaktivists swarming to block oil tankers to coordinated global days of action: the climate justice movement is coming of age in a digital era where creativity is currency. The new tools for communication integrated by the climate justice movement decentralize storytelling and simultaneously provide space for the innovation of new forms of disruption and protest; both of which push the “culture” of activism into new grounds. Creativity is about how movements are redefining the boundaries of what activism is and what activism can be. It redefines the scope of how we resist, not only what we resist. In a globally connected culture innovative new forms can spread quickly; cross-pollinating, mutating and merging new tactics into the mainstream of the resistance cultures. In doing so, the climate justice movement is innovating new ways people can organize together in the context of collective crises, blurring the lines between tactics, resistance, prefiguration, and revolution. It is striking to see the conservative approach to maintaining centuries-old tactics despite being surrounded by technologies that could allow for new forms of activism. One notable example from the COP21 organizing was the emergence of the Climate Games — a decentralized, affinity-group based “online/offline disobedient action game” that is pushing mass activism into the digital age. The Games format, though adopted by very few larger organizations, provided a decentralized mass alternative to centralized collective organizing. During the two weeks of the Games more than two hundred actions were submitted including coalmine blockades, bank occupations, radio frequency takeovers, speech disruptions, and a quite bit of graffiti. As a decentralized, horizontal and self-organized project, it has a coherence between rhetoric and form that conventional forms of mass organizing lack.

https://roarmag.org/essays/paris-attack-climate-justice-movements/

#climate games #decentralised activism #climate justice #freedom #organise

Creativity is about how movements are redefining the boundaries of what activism is and what activism can be. It redefines the scope of how we resist, not only what we resist.

https://roarmag.org/essays/paris-attack-climate-justice-movements/

#creative activism #activism quotes #freedom #climate change

There is no single blueprint for a municipal movement. Doubtlessly, however, the realization of such free political communities can only come about with fundamental changes in our social, cultural and economic fabric. The attitudes of racism and xenophobia, which have fueled the virulent rise of fascism today in places like the United States, must be combated by a radical humanism that celebrates ethnic, cultural and spiritual diversity. For millennia, sex and gender oppression have denigrated values and social forms attributed to women. These attitudes must be supplanted by a feminist ethic and sensibility of mutual care.

https://roarmag.org/essays/communalism-bookchin-direct-democracy/

#feminism #radical humanism #freedom #society #roar magazine

Whether the twenty-first century will be the most radical of times or the most reactionary … will depend overwhelmingly upon the kind of social movement and program that social radicals create out of the theoretical, organizational, and political wealth that has accumulated during the past two centuries… The direction we select … may well determine the future of our species for centuries to come.

https://roarmag.org/essays/communalism-bookchin-direct-democracy/

#murray bookchin #social movement #equality #intersectionality #feminism

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