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Marguerite Stern is a french feminist who started the collage feminicide movement: women who write on street walls about male violence. She started it all by herself one night. She once streamed live as a man was agressively confronting her and it was pretty scary. But she stood her ground and he ended up giving up. This is her:

behind her is written "she leaves him, he kills her"

"Julie was killed by her ex on the third of march 2019, she had filed 5 complaints to the police"

"the 124th femicide victim of the year was your neighbour"

"femicide: government guilty, justice complicit"

Of course Marguerite has received a lot of attention from anti-feminists, but the most vicious ones have been trans activists. They hijacked the collage feminicide movement and used Marguerite's technique to advocate violence against women. On the walls, instead of calling out male violence, they wrote "burn terfs at the stake", "genital preference is transphobia", "save a trans kill a terf" and other pornographic and "queer" nonsense, just repeating what americans say basically. Marguerite condemned these actions and has been critical of gender ideology ever since, even giving her support to J.K. Rowling.

After this, she says her life completely changed and she was attacked like she'd never been before. She receives graphic death threats on a regular basis, simply because she does not believe it is possible for a man to be a woman. Trans activists have made fun of her appearance saying she needed "facial feminization surgery", have threatened to kill her family and told her to prepare their funerals, have openly discussed assaulting her by taking notes of which streets she uses etc. I've seen it all with my own two eyes. Exhausted by all of this, Marguerite was recently admitted to a hospital for mental health issues and took a break to recover. 2 days ago she received two graphic death threats, one is a painting that is actually displayed in a gallery, showing Marguerite being decapitated.

I'm making this post in support of Marguerite, I think those who dare to take a stand on behalf of women need to know they aren't alone in this. I also want to remind everyone once again that currently the most vehement anti-feminists in the west are not our typical MRAs, but the proponents of gender ideology.

"My life is really hard. But I wouldn't change it for the world. Because I offered myself the greatest of luxury: expressing my ideas freely and being perfectly at ease with my morals."

"to the women fighting"

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Women Artists to Know!

I've organized the names here into a few broad categories just to keep this from being a huge impenetrable wall of text, but there's a ton of stylistic variation within each category, and overlap between them. For painters who mix figuration and abstraction, I just picked the category I thought was the closer fit. All of these are artists I personally like, so they're mostly contemporary, and this is (obviously) nowhere close to being an exhaustive list of significant female artists in any style or medium. I'll add more names as I think of them or find them. Living/currently working artists are in blue :)

Painters

Abstractionists: Miyoko Ito, Hilma af Klint, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Cecily Brown, Judy Chicago, Agnes Pelton, Aigana Gali, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Donna Huanca, Francesca Mollett, Anne Appleby, Amy Sillman, Bernice Bing, Louise Fishman, Michael (Corinne) West, Olga Albizu, Loie Hollowell, Lee Krasner, Wook-kyung Choi

Figurative painters: Georgia O'Keeffe, Marlene Dumas, Jane Freilicher, Jennifer Packer, Mary Newcomb, Tamara de Lempicka, Mamma Andersson, Agnes Treherne, Mary Fedden, Nicole Eisenman, Dana Schutz (controversial, but make your own judgments), Florine Stettheimer, Sue Bright Lautmann Hertel, Shara Hughes, Joani Tremblay, Lois Dodd, Rosa Loy, Marion Wagschal, Amrita Sher-Gil, Susan Rothenberg, Tatiana Blass, Suzanne Valadon, Michiko Itatani, Zinaida Serebriakova

Surrealists: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Leonor Fini, Toyen, Gertrude Abercrombie, Jane Graverol, Marion Adnams, Rachel Baes, Emmy Bridgwater, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, Bridget Bate Tichenor, Maria Anto

Textiles, Sculpture, Printmaking, Conceptual Art

Textile artists: Tracey Emin (she's worked in a lot of mediums, but I'm mainly a fan of her quilts), Faith Ringgold (insane quilter), Gunta Stölzl (legendary Bauhaus weaver), Anni Albers (another Bauhaus legend), Otti Berger (another), Olga Fisch (another), Olga de Amaral, the Gee's Bend quilters, Mary Walker Philips, Woomin Kim, Sheila Hicks, Maris Van Vlack (one of the best textile artists currently working, and she's still a student!), Erin M. Riley, Samantha Bittman, Mrinalini Mukherjee

Sculptors, printmakers, conceptual artists: Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Roni Horn, Kiki Smith, Ruth Asawa, Käthe Kollwitz, Germaine Richier, Erika Verzutti, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Eva Hesse, Senga Nengudi, Leonor Antunes, Alicja Kwade, Edith Dekyndt, Alice Channer, Lubna Chowdhary

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Feminist Literary Resources - MASTERPOST

Disclaimer: I have not read all of these books and essays. This is not an endorsement of the content of any particular books. I just hoard pdfs and wanted to share. Books I read or am reading are italicized, books that I recommend are bolded.

Full Books 

Outlaw Woman - A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - PDF Link

A Deafening Silence - Hidden Violence Against Women and Children Patrizia Romito - PDF Link

Letters From a War Zone  Andrea Dworkin - PDF Link

Our Blood - Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics Andrea Dworkin - PDF Link

Angela Davis - An Autobiography Angela Davis - PDF Link

Assata (Shakur), An Autobiography Assata Shakur - PDF Link

Beyond the Frame - Women of Color and Visual Representation Angela Davis and Neferti Tadiar - PDF Link

Caliban and the Witch - Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation Sylvia Federici - PDF Link

Feminism Unmodified - Discourses on Life and Law Catharine A. MacKinnon - PDF Link

Only Words Catharine A. MacKinnon - PDF Link

For Her Own Good - Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English - PDF Link

Going Out of Our Minds - The Metaphysics of Liberation Sonia Johnson - PDF Link 

The Great Cosmic Mother - Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor - PDF Link

Beauty and Mysogyny - Harmful Cultural Practices in the West Sheila Jeffreys - PDF Link

How to Suppress Women’s Writing Joanna Russ - PDF Link

Loving to Survive - Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence, and Women’s Lives Dee L. R. Graham - PDF Link

Beyond God the Father - Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation Mary Daly - PDF Link

Gyn/Ecology - The Metaethics of Radical Feminism Mary Daly - PDF Link

Sexual Politics Kate Millett - PDF Link

Natural Liberty Sage-Femme Collective - PDF Link

Pornland - How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality Gail Dines - PDF Link

Radical Feminist Therapy - Working in the Context of Violence Bonnie Burstow - PDF Link

Right Wing Women  Andrea Dworkin - PDF Link

The Dialectic of Sex - A Case for Feminist Revolution Shulamith Firestone - PDF Link

The Spinster and Her Enemies - Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930 Sheila Jeffreys - PDF Link

The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism edited by Dorchen Leidhodt and Janice G. Raymond - PDF Link

This Bridge Called My Back - Writings by Radical Women of Color editors: Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua - PDF Link

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State Catharine A. MacKinnon - PDF Link 

Trauma and Recovery - The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror Judith Herman, M.D. - PDF Link 

Unpacking Queer Politics Sheila Jeffreys - PDF Link

Who Cooked the Last Supper? - A Woman’s History of the World Rosalind Miles - PDF Link

Why Does He Do That? - Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men Lundy Bancroft - PDF Link

Wildfire - Igniting the She/Volution Sonia Johnson - PDF Link

Woman Hating Andrea Dworkin - PDF Link

Women, Race, and Class Angela Davis - PDF Link

Essays, Pamphlets, Articles, Manifestos, Letters, Shorter Books

Post-Mortems - Representations of Female Suicide by Drowning in Victorian Culture Valerie Messen - PDF Link

Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon Kathie Sarachild - PDF Link

A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century - PDF Link

Ancient Hatred and Its Contemporary Manifestation: The Torture of Lesbians Susan Hawthorne, Ph.D. - PDF Link

Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights Angela Davis - PDF Link

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - A history of Women Healers Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English - PDF Link

Bringing Together Feminist Theory and Practice: A Collective Interview PDF Link

The Combahee River Collective Statement PDF Link

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence Adrienne Rich - PDF Link

A Collection of Essays on Feminism and Sexism in the Anarchist Movement PDF Link

Everyday Male Chauvinism - Intimate Partner Violence Which is Not Called Violence - PDF Link

Free Space - A Perspective on the Small Group in Women’s Liberation Pamela Allen - PDF Link

Is Art Creating Patriarchy or is Patriarchy Creating Art? Mary B. - PDF Link

Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought Patricia Hill Collins - PDF Link

Liberalism and the Death of Feminism Catherine A. MacKinnon - PDF Link

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw - PDF Link

Marx and Gandhi Were Liberals - Feminism and the “Radical” Left Andrea Dworkin - PDF Link

The Subsistence Perspective - Beyond the Globalized Economy Maria Mies and Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen - PDF Link

Off Our Backs - The Feminist Newsjournal - Issue on Mary Daly PDF Link

Disappearing Ink: Early Modern Women Philosphers and Their Fate in History Eileen O’Neill - PDF Link

Hands, Tools, Weapons Paola Tabet - PDF Link

S.C.U.M. Manifesto Valerie Solanas - PDF Link

Sexology and Antifeminism Sheila Jeffreys - PDF Link

Sinister Wisdom - A Gathering of Spirit - North American Indian Women’s Issue PDF Link

Taking Our Eyes off the Guys Sonia Johnson - PDF Link

We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - PDF Link

Why a Materialist Feminism is (Still) Possible - And Necessary Stevi Jackson - PDF Link

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Which side are you on?  Pete Seeger 1919-2014

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Farmer and his brother making music, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 (via Vintage Photos: Russell Lee - Pie Town)

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photo credit: OLD HAT RECORDS

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Clarence Gatemouth Brown on guitar and fiddle. Frank Zappa named Clarence Brown as his all-time favorite guitarist. (Source: Legends of the Blues by William Stout)

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1961 Chevy Belair Wagon by head in the hive on Flickr.

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photo credit: Dull Tool Dim Bulb