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1.THE ABORTION MINISTRY OF DR. WILLIE PARKER, John H. Richardson
This quote is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor who wrestled with “Thou shalt not kill” before joining a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and I found in this…
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Widow of refugee who set himself alight 'being kept in hotel and denied a lawyer'
Woman says she is unable to call her family and officials are trying to convince her to return to Iran, but an immigration spokesperson denies the allegations
Portrait of Iranian refugee who died after setting himself on fire. His widow says she has been told to stay away from the windows of the hotel. Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images The widow of Omid, a 23-year-old refugee who set himself alight on Nauru, says she is being kept in a small Brisbane hotel, told to stay away from the windows, and sedated if she starts to cry too much.
The woman, whose husband died on Friday from injuries sustained when he set himself alight in front of UN representatives at a refugee settlement, also said she has been denied a lawyer and is unable to call her family, and that immigration officials are trying to convince her to return home to Iran.
“You know I’m grieving and I need to cry but as soon as I want to cry they give me pills or injections to keep me calm,” she said in a recorded message sent to Guardian Australia and interpreted. “They don’t want my voice to be raised or heard by others. They want me to be emotionless and inactive.”
Omid was medivacced from Nauru almost 24 hours after he set his clothes on fire.
His wife has blamed the delay
– in both medical care on the island and in transferring him out – for his death.
On Friday she said her husband had gone hours without seeing a doctor when he was first brought to the Nauru hospital, and that he couldn’t be given intravenous pain relief.
Omid’s wife, who did not want her name printed, was brought to Brisbane to be alongside her husband in hospital, before he died. She is now believed to be in the company of a friend and immigration guards at a Brisbane hotel. She is understood to be receiving medical care at the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation.
“They are keeping me in a small hotel and no one is supposed to know about my location. I have to be careful even when I walk by the windows, so not to be observed from outside. They have told me, if anyone finds out your whereabouts we will put more restrictions on you. I’m not even allowed to yell or cry.”
She said she had sought access to a lawyer, but it was denied to her. “They told me because I don’t have a right visa I’m not eligible for a lawyer,” she said.
The ABC reported on Monday morning the Australian government has asked Omid’s family to foot the $17,000 bill to send his body back to Iran, but it is understood the repatriation is still being discussed.
A friend of Omid’s wife said immigration officials had also tried to convince her to return to Iran with her husband’s body. She is, just as Omid was, a recognised refugee whose claims of persecution in her home country were found to be valid…….. Continued at:- http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/02/widow-of-refugee-who-set-himself-alight-being-kept-in-hotel-and-denied-a-lawyer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
A powerful new voice for socialist feminism
Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies & Revolution Laurie Penny Bloomsbury, 2014
English author Laurie Penny describes herself as a “journalist, activist, feminist, troublemaker, nerd and net denizen”. Her book, Unspeakable Things, is a collection of polemical essays in which Penny takes aim at mainstream (liberal) feminism, which she says “remains tepid and cowardly”.
“The torment of the middle-class housewife longing for an office job … has been allowed to define the popular understanding of what feminism is for, and what women really want, for two generations”, Penny contends.
It goes without saying that this kind of feminism does not talk about poor women, queer women, ugly women, transgender women, sex workers, single parents, “or anybody else who fails to fit the mould”, Penny says.
Having gained admittance to the male world of work, which was previously closed off, Penny notes the irony facing a great many exhausted modern women. She writes that the archetype of the 1950s housewife “is probably rather appealing: spending your days fussing around the house and watching your kids grow up is hardly less dignified than trekking daily to an office job that pays you less than the cost of a two-room flat.”
Penny is eager to cut away at the scaremongering and misinformation that continues to surround feminism: “It is not about taking rights away from men, as if there were a finite amount of liberty to go around.”
Her central thesis is that neoliberalism has tightened the straightjacket of gender oppression around young women and men.
Young men are conditioned to believe that their identity and virility depends on being powerful. When viewed in the context of an economic system in which there are fewer and fewer winners, this appears increasingly out of touch.
Feminism, she contends, offers the starting point from which to question the unreasonable demands of capitalist patriarchy.
Her chapter on the gender politics of the internet, “Cybersexism”, is the standout of the book, as it is where the originality of her insights really shines through.
Like many of her generation, 27-year-old Penny grew up online, and the internet has played a key role in her personal and professional identification as a feminist.
The internet is a double-edged sword, she suggests. It opens up spaces for women, girls and queer people to share their experiences of discrimination. But it also amplifies sexist and misogynist voices: “Germaine Greer once wrote that women had no idea how much men hate them. Well, now we do.”
Two recent cases add weight to Penny’s thesis that to be an outspoken, opinionated female in the public eye is to be regarded as fair game for sexist trolls. Guardian columnist Jessica Valenti took to Twitter to ask her followers if they knew of any countries in which tampons are subsidised. Many of the lewd replies were tinged with slut-shaming.
When Australian columnist and comedian Catherine Deveny dared suggest that “the spirit of ANZAC does not define our nation”, she became the target of a hate storm on social media, in which it was suggested she “deserves raping by a bull”.
Penny considers the internet as an extension of the system of “patriarchal surveillance” that has existed to keep women in line for centuries. She ventures that “perhaps one reason that women writers have, so far, the calmest and most comprehensive understanding of what surveillance technology really does to the human condition, is that women grow up being watched”.
However, women and girls are all too frequently cast as passive victims as far as their interaction with the internet are concerned. Increased censorship and filtering is often advocated on the grounds that it will “protect” young girls from the supposed sexualising influence of the internet.
Penny maintains that this argument is less about safety than it is about controlling girls’ access to information, and is, moreover, the “thin edge of the wedge” where state censorship is concerned.
Whether for the purposes of writing a professional CV or an online dating profile, today’s young people must be skilled in the art of projecting an idealised, often not-entirely-accurate, version of themselves: “You tell your potential boyfriend the same lie you tell your potential boss: I’m easy-going, flexible, low-stress and cheerful, just like you want me to be.”
Even if your work is lining up packets of pasta shapes on a shelf, “you must love your job so much that if you weren’t getting paid, you’d do it for free: all waged labour has become the Girlfriend Experience”.
I would have liked to see Penny more fully articulate the “revolution” part of her title; her discussion of revolutionary politics appears to be limited to her involvement in the Occupy movements in Britain and the US.
Nonetheless, Laurie Penny writes with wit and honesty, and Unspeakable Things marks her as a powerful new voice in socialist feminism. Source:- https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57439
She wears short skirts, I wear clothing patched up with communist slogans,
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I will jam an ice pick up your nostril if you try to shame, invalidate, or rape her for her clothes ☭☭☭☭
Don’t read the book/ see the film, just read this. It’s much more entertaining. And much better written (though the bar was low, of course). This is my kind of 50Shades.
‘He’s ready to see you now,’ says the well-dressed receptionist. I find myself wondering what she gets paid. Some people seem to get off on the constant presence of servile flunkies, and I make a note to actually talk to some of them later in this story. Meanwhile, Christian Grey, superstar billionaire, is waiting for me in his office.
I have no idea why he has agreed to this interview with Red Rag – he must have had his people research our political leanings, and he knows we’re looking through his financial records, which are murky and confusing, just like Grey Holdings itself. Nobody’s ever been sure what the company actually does. They prefer to focus on Christian Grey’s tight abs and storm-grey eyes. But I can’t get excited over someone whose precise methods of profiting from the alienated labour of god knows how many low-waged staff still need investigating.
They’ve got a point, though – Christian Grey is incredibly hot, and also really rich and successful, like Mark Zuckerberg if Mark Zuckerberg were incredibly hot. Also a bit like Edward Cullen from Twilight, although not enough to constitute a copyright violation, because he’s wearing a business suit. Just another bloodsucker.
“Miss Gold,” he says. His voice is deep and growly like a sexy vacuum cleaner. “Please sit down. May I call you Emma?”
“Let’s keep this professional,” I say, turning on the recorder.
“You’re a very sweet girl,” he says “And I’m sure you’re just waiting for someone to sweep you away from this mundane life of entry-level journalism. It’s a collapsing industry, you know. Don’t you want to know what I do to relax?” Christian Grey runs his fingers over the back of my chair.
“I’m going to take a wild guess that you like to tie up submissive young women and beat them to a pulp while you sob about your mother.”
Christian Grey looks out the window broodingly. “Okay, fine,” he says, “Let’s talk about finance.”
My inner goddess puts on a necklace of men’s skulls and starts doing a war dance of victory.
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Rest of this gripping instalment: Penny Red: Fifty Shades of Socialist Feminism.
(Orig. posted on feimineach.com)
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Dear Men
Why do you use women like you do? What is wrong with being upfront and finding women who have the same desires as yourself? Why must you go after those of us who are not looking for something short term? I know that there are good women out there who would be perfectly happy w an open relationship while they provide you with excellent sex & companionship. I know this bc I used to be one of them. Now that I'm looking for something long term and committed with a man, and I long for the days I was attracted to women. If all either of us wanted was sex, it was made clear from the get. It wasn't this weird game where you are trying to figure out wtf is actually going on. I used to watch heterosexual women with pity bc of the way men treated them. Now I am pity myself I am in their shoes. I know now what it's like to be used and thrown away. I know now what it's like to say something and mean it but have your partner just say whatever is necessary in order to have another conquest. I didn't dislike men as I do now. Now that my body yearns for the male touch, my mind distrusts and generally dislikes men. Wtf is that? I guess it's because now I've experienced what it is to be meat. I've experienced what it is just to be a vessel strictly for a man to get his dick wet. And all the while I have tried to be clear, set up distinct boundaries, and not put out until later in the relationship even when I'm horny as fuck. I guess this is just part of the heterosexual female human condition. I find it to be cliche and I'm over it. Have some dignity, guys. Be bigger than what the patriarchy has taught you to be and have some compassion for your fellow human beings. It seems a much braver and difficult road to tread than to be the average douche bag womanizer.
