Feminine Writings

Women in literature, women's history, and contemporary women's issues. All women's narratives are included. All women's stories are told. This is an internationally and intellectually-centered space.

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“Shaping Identity: Male and Female Interactions in Cinema” By Jonette Lauren Lagamba

Not a text or photo post from me this time, but a fascinating dissertation I happened to come across while researching women in film. Wow, this gets very detailed! Going into themes such as film noir, the femme fatale, Italian cinema, and even women’s roles in connection to Shakespeare. Had to share!

Shaping Identity: Male and Female Interactions in Cinema

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Reblogged from my second blog, ‘Divas, Damsels & Smudged Mascara’ dedicated to everything on women in classic film. This is an amazing piece I came across on women’s representation in cinema.

[inqilabi]

Porn needs to start being shamed again. Don’t call it natural. Don’t accept it. Make a contemptuous and disgusted face when you see a guy talk about it, or a woman support her SO’s porn habits.

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All Saudi women are under travel ban unless their guardians permits them to travel. Women are treated like dangerous criminals, their crime is being women. Saudi Arabia is world’s biggest women prison

#StopEnslavingSaudiWomen

#EndMaleGuardianship

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Queen Latifah photographed by Janette Beckman, 1990.

[sauvamente]

“White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them to act as exploiters and oppressors of women. White women may be victimized by sexism, but racism enabled them to act as exploiters and oppressors of black people. Both groups have led liberation movements that favor their interests and support the continued oppression of other groups. Black male sexism has undermined struggles to eradicate racism just as white female racism undermines feminist struggle. As long as these two groups or any group defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others.”

— bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From margin to center (via ceedling)

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We all need to take this message to heart.

[prokopetz]

Today’s aesthetic: keeping the same tab open in your browser for three solid weeks because you’re definitely going to get around to reading and/or acting on whatever’s in it any minute now.

[dropthosegloves]

[femininewritings]

This particularly resounds with me considering a bit of street harassment I went through the other day.

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Women’s economic empowerment is the right and smart thing to do. What's stopping us?

Despite recent gains, large gender gaps persist in all kinds of work. How can we change this?

Women’s economic empowerment is the right and smart thing to do. Women’s rights are human rights; the human rights case for gender equality is incontrovertible. The human development, economic and business gains from empowering women are substantial. Greater gender equality means a country is associated with better education and health, higher per capita income, faster and more inclusive economic growth, and greater international competitiveness.

SOURCE

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Reblogged because it’s important info.

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Tracee Ellis Ross and Grace Jones (1991)

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'People of Color in Publishing': Striving for More Industry Diversity

On December 6, publishing staffers gathered to celebrate the launch of a new grassroots organization addressing the need for greater inclusivity within all areas of children’s and adult publishing.

Yay to the next generation of publishing folk aiming to help those along the way! The official launch is heartening and beautiful. So great to see them shine! 

[fineish]

my goal for 2018 is more blush, more books, and less caring what people think of me

[fuckwhoyoucamewith]

You’re doing amazing sweetie

[aziz4m]

yasssss queeenn

[yassmines]

kill them baby!

[starlight-in-a-bottle]

I think she just made herself my new best friend

[iwilleatyourenglish]

these comments are so fucking inappropriate and honestly trivialize a tragic situation.

this girl was sold by her parents into what is sexual slavery dressed up as a marriage, so she tried to kill her husband to escape his abuse, but accidentally poisoned 27 people instead. 17 people died, with at least one victim being a child. Bibi has openly expressed deep regret over having accidentally killed innocent people.

she was sold by her parents, the very people meant to protect her, and made into a sex slave. in her desperation, she made a mistake that cost innocent people their lives. she was then arrested by a legal system that could have prevented all of this by protecting women from sexual slavery in the first place, but won’t. 

she will likely be abused in prison and sentenced to death.

she’s not “queen” or your “new best friend.” she’s a young woman who has been subjected to horrors and, in an effort to fight back, accidentally committed one, a fact that is likely destroying her.

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[christel-thoughts]

there are a lot of words in those pictures. so, to simplify, 

Zora Neal Hurston interviewed the last living person who was stolen from Africa as part of the transatlantic slave trade. 

a book was written. 

We’re getting that book in May 2018.

[femininewritings]

Wow! Truly exciting news.

[aspiritualwarrior]

She transforms her own dark into her own light. She sees her private shadows - and loves them. She meets her emotional depths - and owns it. She faces private fears of separation - and rises above the illusion. She is the source of her Self and she is always in a state of greater becoming.

Molly McCord, The Modern Heroine’s Journey of Consciousness (via aspiritualwarrior)

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Let's talk about Women Economic Empowerment: 3 Actions to achieve Gender Equality

On 25 November 2017 , the yearly campaign “16 days of activism against violence against women”, conceived by UN Women, started, with the aim of raising a...

Great piece on something of utmost importance: financial/economic empowerment for women. A good read!

According to the OECD, for women, “economic empowerment is the capacity, above all, to participate in, contribute to and benefit from growth processes”. Women’s economic empowerment can therefore be seen as fundamental to strengthening women’s rights and enabling women to have control over their lives and exert influence in society.

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[femininewritings]

Excellent piece about a book I definitely want to read. I grew up in the military community and think this is an interesting insight into a brave group of women whose contributions have often been overlooked.