mississippist.

feminism/comics/things i read.

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Lesbians are suffering the horror of “corrective rape”:

In South Africa, corrective rape of lesbians has become so common it is now considered pandemic in that country. More than half of all lesbian victims are also murdered. … Eudy Simelane, a lesbian soccer star in South Africa, was gang raped and beaten and stabbed to death. She had more than 100 wounds, even on the soles of her feet. Noxolo Nogwaza was raped and stabbed multiple times with glass shards. Her skull was shattered. Her eyes were reportedly gouged from their sockets. International rights groups assert there are more than a dozen such rapes each week, though not every lesbian is killed in the process. Pearl Mali reported that when she was 12 years old, she was raped for the first time by an older man that her mother brought home from their church. He raped Pearl in her own bedroom, which he did daily until she was 16. Mali told the New York Times, “My mother didn’t want me to be gay, so she asked him to move in and be my husband. She hoped it would change me,” she said. … Corrective rape has also become commonplace in Jamaica, one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations. Keshema Tulloch, 33, a Jamaican lesbian, was attacked in Kingston last year and then shot by police for attempting to defend herself against the man beating her. She was arrested and charged with attempted murder. No charges were brought against her attacker nor the police officer who shot her but international rights groups are trying to free her. Maria Barin, from a family originally from Iraqi Kurdistan, was murdered in Lanskrona, in southern Sweden, stabbed to death by her brother in an honor killing because she refused to marry a man to help her family financially. Lesbians are being stoned to death in Saudi Arabia, burned at the stake in several African nations, beaten to death in India, raped and hanged in Cameroon, raped and set on fire in Nigeria. …

READ “Erasure: The New Normal for Lesbians,” by Victoria Brownworth

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After selling over 60 million copies of the book worldwide, the just-released movie version of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is on track for an international weekend take of $158.3 million, which would make it Universal’s second highest opening weekend of all time .. (more here)

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath was originally published in 1962 under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas”. Notice how the first few covers from the 1960s and early ’70s use vague and symbolic imagery intended to convey the unsettling contents of the book.

As Sylvia Plath becomes more of a feminist icon throughout the ’80s and ’90s, the imagery is replaced by a portrait of the author, perhaps conflating Sylvia Plath the person with her pseudo-autobiographical character Esther Greenwood. The last image, from 2013, terribly mis-represents the book, using chick-lit style imagery that is more suited to reissues of pulpy “trash” favourites like Valley of the Dolls.

Because Sylvia Plath is such a favourite among feminists (white feminists, I should clarify) perhaps the publishers felt that The Bell Jar should be represented via coded feminine/retro 1950s imagery, despite the fact that it deals largely with non-corporeal themes of mental illness rather than beauty ideals.

(All images via sylviaplath.info)

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The term /queer/ has lately become popular in activist and progressive academic circles in part, it seems to me, precisely because it makes it easy to enfold female homosexuality back ‘into’ male homosexuality and disembody the lesbian once again.

Terry Castle, The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (via throughmotion)

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A siren is no longer a woman who drowns men, catching them up in the net of her song, where they fall from their own stupidity, and our power. A siren is on top of the vehicles of men's army against each other and women, especially the poor. At night we hear it going and fear the fears about the war at the end of the world, fear for ourselves that we have lost so much as to become illegal. We wonder in our sleep how they came to get that noise, and how they were so unselfconscious as to steal the very name from us, siren.

They will hear the true sirens again. They will, they will know us. They will know me by my teeth.

They Will Know Me By My Teeth - Elana Dykewoman

"To Be Sold To And Shared With Women Only"

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Missy 1/2/00

This is the last of the three strips I made for the upcoming “revenge” issue of quarter moon, published by locust moon press. 

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[homosozialismus]

is that a xenomorph with eyelashes is that happening

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So that we know they are straight xenomorphs

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i hope this was helpful

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[daryl-seitchik]

this is one of three strips i made for the upcoming “revenge” issue of quarter moon, published by locust moon press.  I think it’s coming out this winter. 

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Two women walk into a bar. One says “Have you heard of the Bechdel Test?”. The other replies “Yes, my boyfriend told me about it.”

[pillowprinze]

I made this zine for my sis on inspirational Japanese people.  **To my dearest sister Rhiannon, There is nothing more liberating than  acceptance and pride of one’s own diversity.**

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im literally crying @duncepud