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Radical Feminism in Motion

[feminspire]

How unfortunate is it that my parents had to literally force me to wear beautiful parts of my culture because I was afraid of being ostracized, but Selena Gomez can take aspects of the clothing I grew up with and make money off of them? How unfortunate is it that South Asian immigrants and South Asian Americans are Otherized every single day for the way they look, talk, and dress, but Urban Outfitters continues to commodify and make a profit off the sale of bindis – as made popular by American pop stars? [..] My bindi is not a way for you to present yourself as being friendly to South Asian culture while exotifying it. My bindi is from my mother, put in my drawer because it is another mark of my internalized Otherness, on top of my brown skin. My bindi is tainted by Western celebrities trying to be “cultural” or “bohemian” or “tribal.” My bindi is not just a piece of plastic, my bindi is not for sale, and my bindi is not for you.

Anisha Ahuja, “Selena Gomez, What Are You Doing?" (feminspire.com)

[mysharona1987]

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

Gail Dines: Putting The Radical Back in Feminism [Note: Subtitle error. In the 7th gif it should read in the 1st sentence, "We are all in this stinking shit together!"]

[re-interpellated]

It’s obvious that tumblr views gender not as a binary, not as a hierarchy, not as a performance, but as a commodity bought to portray the image of uniqueness, like all other fashion items found in your local shopping mall.

[lolmythesis]

Country stars used to cry when they got cheated on. Now they wreck your car and/ or shoot you.

American Studies, Fordham University

"I’m Gunna Show ‘Em What A Little Girl’s Made of:" Feminism and Country Music

[digg]

I stand for every woman who has ever been tormented for being sexual — for every woman who has been harassed, ostracized and called a slut for exerting her sexual autonomy — and for every woman who has been the victim of The Double Standard. You want to see me naked. And then you want to judge me for letting you see me naked.

"I’m Finally Revealing My Name And Face As The Duke Porn Star" (via digg)

[ladiesagainsthumanity]

Since being outed by a classmate as a porn performer, Duke freshman Belle Knox (that’s her performance name) has received endless slut shaming and death threats. NOT OKAY. She responded with a totally badass feminist essay on her right to perform and the hypocrisy of shaming (female) porn performers while celebrating (male) porn consumers. Read her essay here.

[carrierudzinski]

I Am Enough © Carrie Rudzinski and Terisa Siagatonu   It is 2014. A female student from Duke University is publicly outed for making porn to pay for college. She says porn brings her unimaginable joy. That she feels in control of her body. That she is empowered. But there is something terrifying about a womyn in power. Darling they taught you sex is power sex is debt free sex is all that you are but little girl, don’t you know, they built you up so they could rip you down? So they could show you only belong to the public? The media doesn’t slut shame the men who have fucked her, filmed her. The classmates who threaten to rape her into submission. How the ones who jacked off to her threw the first stone.  The media has taught me that female sexuality is the most powerful thing in the world by how much they want to destroy it. My own birth was the perfect marketing strategy because my body is the best billboard. My body is for sale. My body will feed the masses. Force feed me anorexia and I will learn how to undress in the dark. To un-want my own worth. I have been conditioned to believe that I am imperfect. That my body is an anchor. That my gender is commodity.   Every layer of my identity has taught me what a dead end road looks like. To be a womyn of color is to watch my community choose to fight racism over sexism as if they weren’t part of the same war. It means there are people who believe I should die for being brown, but only AFTER I’m raped. Being a womyn is psychological warfare. When I try to stand up for myself I’m a bitch. When I don’t want to have sex I’m a prude. When I say no I mean yes. When I get angry I’m crazy. When I own all of this I’m a target. Which means I never had a chance. People tell me I’m a powerful womyn. Yet I give birth to the ones who will become the most important people in the world, but I will never be considered one of them. They will hold my womb against me, accuse it of being a liability rather than calling it the first village, the one every child is raised in.  If we grow up to be what we see and men control 97% of our media, then how can women desire to be anything but skin? How do we break the cycle when being an empowered womyn is an open investigation everyone demands proof of?   But I am the proof. This poem is the proof. My voice is a dangerous thing. My voice is faster than they can smother it. My silence will not protect me. It is better to speak our truth than to pretend like we don’t have one. For the womyn who are told that they’re “too much” and “not enough”. For the girls who think that their eating disorder is the prettiest thing about them. For the ones who have the audacity to speak and the ones who will be hurt if they do. To every womyn in this room tonight: No one wants you to know the most common way we give up our power is by thinking we don’t have any.   We make up over half of this country’s population: Imagine the healing our voices could inflict if we started speaking as one. We are one. We are power. We can break the cycle. We are holy. I am enough. I am enough. I am enough.    

[deathtopaternity]

UGH I CAN'T WAIT TO GET HOME TO QUEBEC AND SEE MAMA & PAPA

[losetheboyfriend]

Joan Jett and Lita Ford onstage the Whiskey a Go-Go, Los Angeles; captured by Jenny Lens (1977)

[gregory-lejeune]

Lyon, Fête des Lumières 2014.

Photos: cc https://www.flickr.com/photos/maxime_fort/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

[radicalarchive]

'Afro-Asian Solidarity', Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Movement (Canada-Quebec), Toronto, 1970.

[televisionofnomads]

Quebec City

[medievalpoc]

So, someone just dropped this in my inbox, and no, I haven’t written about it but I knew about it. This is the sort of thing that happens, unfortunately. I do have a post about the Black Madonna of Chartres, Our Lady of the Pillar.

Here’s the linked article above, and here’s another article from someone who visited for a pilgrimage, with photos, from patheos.com.

 They did this in 2009.*

They “restored” the entire cathedral based on how they have assumed its builders in the Middle Ages (the 1200s) intended it to be. Including, but not limited to, painting a Black Madonna white.

No matter what you think about the Black Madonnas of Europe, or the arguments about their meaning and intent or anything like that, painting her this way is both an academic and a religious sacrilege. There is…a lot to say about the whole debacle, but I’ve already been rubbing my forehead enough over this. I’ll just say that this “restoration” says a lot more about society today than any medieval society.

* The change to the Madonna itself was apparently slightly more recent. The “restoration” to the entire Cathedral began around 2009 and is supposed to be completed in, I believe, 2017.

[snow-haired-witch]

What country do you live in?

What country do I live in? 

Now is time to make my maman proud

To rise, and SHINE

Because, mon cher anon, I live in one of ze greatest countries in Europe! Que dis-je, in ze world! 

I live in ze country where even dogs drink wine

Where everyone is classy! From Presidents

To Youtubers 

And TV shows!

(Wiz celebrities from ze best to ze worst)

We used to be a monarchy

But then REVOLUTION BIATCHS

We are always very élégants

We have fine littérature! 

This one is about a whore!

This one is about how our capital and “city of lights” sucks

And in this one a giant pisses on a city!

I don’t know what to say.

Conclusion: France iz a nice country. (I didn’t say there were nice people because we french are ze fucking rudest dickheads I ever seen) 

Nor nice animals BEHOLD ZE BEAUTY OF OUR NATIONAL SYMBOL ZE MAJESTIC ROOSTER (or cock.)

PS: I WON’T SAY OMELETTE DU FROMAGE. 

PPS: IF YOU ASK A FRENCH TO SAY ZIS, ZEY WILL PROBABLY KILL YOU AND COOK YOUR BODY INTO SOME DELICIOUS DESSERT. 

[appendixjournal]

This 1908 image of women smoking and drinking was intended to be a horrifying glimpse of a post-suffrage future. Now it just looks like an awesome bar. Read more, or buy a copy.

[soulrevision]

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There was a lot of talk today about the media’s failed coverage [read: non-coverage] of the 234 Nigerian girls, thus came the #234WhiteGirls hashtag.

No, none of us wants any white girls to go missing. We just want these Nigerian girls to get the same amount of coverage that white girls get (or would get), because EVERY girl matters.

#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS