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Suing for Justice
I want to present you the amazing history of Lamda Legal, the first legal assistance fund for LGBT people in the US! They reached some milestones in enforcing equal rights. For example they supported the case of Brandon Teena in 2001, whom you may heard of in the movie “Boys Don’t Cry” (http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/26275.html).
See which other cases Lambda fought that we also still benefit from today:
http://www.lambdalegal.org/about-us/history
Do we even know what “the good life” is?
Political leftie activists use to demand “the good life for all”. Do we even know what that is for us personally? If offered to us, would we even take it?
https://dasmaedchenimpark.org/2016/05/14/das-schoene-leben-was-ist-das/
"I still belong here”
Report by a disabled elderly woman who still belongs to her house project. Community can be family!
https://dasmaedchenimpark.org/2016/11/17/ich-gehoere-immer-noch-dazu/#more-3602
Alice Walker: The color purple
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One of my favourite books (and I don’t have many) :)
I admire so much the unexpected happiness that comes into the life of that woman. I admire how she weaves something precious out of that only raw material we have, how shabby it may be, called life.
Was verbindet "Die Tribute von Panem", die "Twilight"-Saga und den SM-Porno "Shades of Grey"? Sie exportieren einen amerikanischen Puritanismus nach Europa, der sogar noch in der Pornografie lebendig bleibt.
A good article about the puritanism that popular books like Hunger Games, Twilight and Shades of Grey contain: the man as the wolf, the woman as the lamb, and both of them successful if erotically self-controlled. Hihihi :)
Amazing song, one of my favourites! Though I can’t figure out the language still... ;) Must be something like Catalan.
The power of vulnerability / Die Macht der Verletzlichkeit
♥ Thank you so much for being open Brené Brown ♥
No good aims without good means!
That goes to some queerfeminist groups who tend to develop in a quite authoritarian direction, as Patsy L’amour Lalove’s text collection “Beißreflexe” describes. For a long time, I had a diffuse discomfort when it came to some political actions or the behaviour of some people. I just started to read the book, but I already highly estimate Leo Fischer’s essay “Repression für alle”.
“Wenn nicht Rechte erkämpft werden, sondern Privilegien gestrichen, ist das Eichmaß des gesellschaftlichen Fortschritts nicht gewonnene Freiheit, sondern möglichst gleichmäßig verteilte Repression.”
Translated by me:
“If you don’t fight for rights but eliminate privileges, then the measure for social progress is not the gained freedom but an equally distributed repression.”
Let’s create a queerfeminism on the basis of respect (a minimum respect for all human beings)!
Ein wunderbares Lied von Nina Sonnenberg aka Fiva MC über den Zwang, Kinder zu kriegen...
Fiva MC: Profi
“Ey, Du willst Profi sein Hör was die Profis meinen und mach es professionell (und mach es professionell) Du könntest soviel sein Du musst dich so beeilen, denn es geht sowieso schnell (denn es geht sowieso schnell) Erstmal bitte mach nix anders, weil es dann so anders klingt Änder doch mal dich, damit dir das Gesamt bestimmt Du willst doch nicht so bleiben, sondern dahin wo die anderen sind Mitte 30, Reihenhaus, Laminat und erstes Kind Also mach mal mit (und alle machen mit) Zahle deine Rente ein, auch wenn es keine Rente gibt Ich weiß, Kinder kosten Kohle, schau mich nicht so enttäuscht an Du bist kein Hello-Kitty Mädchen, du bist Deutschland Auch wenn die anderen denken, du lebst nur für den Job Und du hoffst, dass das Erwachsensein von allein kommt, merkst du wie die Zeit vergeht, und es alle anderen tun und du hörst die Uhr in dir, sie macht tick tack -- BOOM Baby, baby, baby, such dir jetzt nen Mann! Leg dich einfach hin und fang gleich damit an Mach die Beine breit und lass ihn einfach ran und du wirst Ma-ma-ma-ma-mama! Ey, Du willst Profi sein Hör was die Profis meinen und mach es professionell (und mach es professionell) Du könntest soviel sein Du musst dich so beeilen, denn es geht sowieso schnell (denn es geht sowieso schnell) Also hör auf die Presse, was sie schreibt, ist richtig Deutsche Frauen sind zu männlich und zu egoistisch Hör auf deinen Körper, denn dein Körper hört dich nicht Bitte nimm Karriere nicht so wichtig Also sag es laut: WICKELTISCH Ich will einen WICKELTISCH Mit 30 will ich keinen Schmuck, sondern einen WICKELTISCH Vater Staat, Kinderlos, ich bin schuld, bitte nicht Hallo Deutschlands Mittelschicht, ich tu das hier nur für dich Auch wenn die anderen denken, du lebst nur für den Job Und du hoffst, dass das Erwachsensein von allein kommt, merkst du wie die Zeit vergeht, und es alle anderen tun und du hörst die Uhr in dir, sie macht tick tack -- BOOM Baby, baby, baby, verlass deine WG Such dir einen Chef, der sogar ne Frau versteht kauf dir mal ein Auto, das zur Abwechslung auch geht denn du wirst Ma-ma-ma-ma-mama! Ey, Du willst Profi sein Hör was die Profis meinen und mach es professionell (und mach es professionell) Du könntest soviel sein Du musst dich so beeilen, denn es geht sowieso schnell (denn es geht sowieso schnell)”
For all ladylike lady lovers...
... you are not alone! Lindsay King-Miller describes her “Life As An Invisible Queer”.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/advice/a6323/invisible-queer-femme/
Let’s create a world where you don’t know a person’s sexual orientation “unless you ask”! (Same with political orientations... stop wearing uniforms!)
Felice Schragenheim
A short story of the life of a Lesbian Jewish woman in the time of National Socialism, Felice Schragenheim: http://www.lesbengeschichte.de/bio_schragenheim_d.html
“Point of it all”
I love this song! Have a close look on the lyrics. You can find a very interesting discussion about what it means here: http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858608127/
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
On identity
I recently saw the great video “Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local” by Taiye Selasi. Have a look!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCKzpXEW6E
About sex, porn and fantasy
Recently, I read some feminist critics on porn. It made me ask myself what porn actually is. Here is my answer:
Porn is not a manual how to have good enjoyable sex. The fact that people often make this assumption does not make it more true. Porn is not responsible for being mistaken as sex education or a rolemodel for erotic interaction.
Porn is a story, porn is a fantasy, porn is an imaginative roleplay that someone made a movie of. Fantasies are diverse, so (yes!) go producing your sort of porn and add some new styles to the genre. But don’t call it feminist or women-friendly porn! As if all feminists like the same kind of erotic fantasy!
You are missing an essential difference. Erotic fantasy and social utopia: two different things! Me and my girlfriend playing a kidnapper fucking a helpless housewife does NOT represent the way we want society to be :P Porn is the fantasy, porn is the soundtrack for your masturbation. No need to critizise the ‘doggy style’ as degradation and anonymity. No one asked you to put it on the front page of an equal opportunities report, did they? ;)
I want to share a quote of Nina Hartley, porn film actress, with you:
“Pornography is a paid, professional performance by actors. It is a fantasy, it is not meant to be a rulebook and guidebook or a how to as a general rule. And it goes to show how poor our sex education is in this country that people are reduced to looking at an entertainment medium for information about the body.” (source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/porn-star-nina-hartley-real-sex_n_3708132.html)
So the only reason to refuse roleplays including degradation is: They don’t turn you on!
I am a feminist because I want to fight oppression in society, not narrow consensual erotic roleplays and erotic fantasies.