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[radicalkitkat]

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[thelastgoodcountry]

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

[maudit]

[profeminist]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

Gifset source

[dhaaruni]

We read Persepolis, and watched the adaptation, in the 10th grade, and it's stayed with me ever since. I'm eternally in awe of Marjane Satrapi's bravery and resilience, and may she rest in peace.

[vexingwoman]

If you hear the words “adult human female” and YOU interpret that as being nothing more than a baby making machine, YOU are the misogynist.

[radicalkitkat]

Seven Lives and a Dream (1980-91), Sheba Chhachhi

An expression of Chhachhi’s interest in what she calls "indigenous feminism," a pre-modern form of feminism originating in the Indian subcontinent, Seven Lives and a Dream represents the political and social awakening and activism in which the artist was actively involved. It is composed of eighteen black and white photographs that include both documentary images taken in the 1980s in New Delhi at women’s movement demonstrations and a series of staged portraits of feminist activists from 1990–91. The earlier images included in this group demonstrate the anguish and intense emotions felt by the activists. Chhachhi’s interrogation of her own documentary practice led her to find further ways to express and capture the complex subjectivity of her sitters, resulting here in the staged portraits made in collaboration with seven activists. Identified as Radha, Shahjahan Apa, Sathyarani, Shanti, Devikripa, Sharadaben, and Urvashi, the portraits were taken with props of the activists’ choosing in public or domestic settings. "The staged photographs gave me the opportunity to alter the balance of power somewhat…" Chhachi has recalled.[1] Indeed by the 1990s, she had begun to question the power relationships embedded in the mode of documentary photography, including her own earlier practice, which to her seemed to: "unconsciously reproduce something close to the colonial recording of ‘natives’. It became necessary to find a path to a representation of ‘citizens’, with agency and control over their own representation."

text from here | full collection here

[mauveliptint]

Every time I post something about Indian men here, I get responses - mostly from white women (I assume) - and it’s always the same tired notion: “I’m not a racist, but Indian men deserve the racism they face because they treat their women badly or are casteist in their own country.” and honestly, shut the fuck up. Stop hiding your racism behind the guise of feminism.

Bcs let’s be real, your people don’t care about gender when you are being racist towards Indians. You’re not some white savior standing up for our rights, you’re part of the problem, part of the oppression. Just admit you lack critical thinking and can’t grasp nuance. Racism and misogyny, sexism are entirely separate issues. Both can exist at the same time but one doesn’t excuse or justify the other.

Also, if your argument starts with, “I’m not a racist, but” you’re already outing yourself as one. Take your bigotry outside and get away from my blog.

[misandriz]

The way most wedding traditions are rooted in extreme misogyny…be it dowry, the father sending his daughter away, the idea of a wife belonging to the husband, women being expected to take their husbands last name etc etc. Also in Hindu weddings there’s a ritual “kanya daan” (giving away of the daughter) performed by the father I’m physically sick this is so dehumanising what do you mean a woman is reduced to a donation or gift, with her father sending her away to a man to “take care” of her? Again it’s clear a woman is never seen as her own person only as someone’s daughter or someone’s wife but never fully herself🤢 what’s worse is how normalized all this is. Let’s talk about how the dowry deaths of Indian women/ women being burnt alive/ the family abuse etc such heinous cases happening almost everyday and the fact no actions are ever being taken against the perpetrators just shows what a sick joke this country is lol

[rootsnoopy]

My cousin got married the other day and she had to touch her husband’s feet and take his ‘blessings’ and her father had to wash his feet.

No one did anything because it was something that she had to do because it was expected.

[radfemtextandart]

[dailyrina]

Rina Sawayama photographed by Chloe Sheppard

[gnc-centric]

You can learn a bit more here

[eroticcannibal]

Kate Beckinsale has posted about being abused and cheated on by Michael Sheen.

Which I suppose explains his dissapointing response to what Neil Gaimann did.

[marmorada]

I'm sorry, is this ironic? 😭 On a post about Gaiman being a rapist you're wondering if his bestie Tennant is chill?

[flowerlygirls]

man you sure are the poorest littles meow meow alive bc *your* life is ruined after a famous man turned out to be an abusive crap pile

[radicalkitkat]

Prev's tags say it perfectly

[liirker-at-thresholds]

I really like how the scientology speedrunning trend is developing, in this clip we see that the participants are

Not deterred by the closed door

Working as a group

Protecting their identities

Inflicting material costs to the institution via property destruction

Getting away at the end

These ideas were not all here from the beginning. They are genuinely gaining experience that can be applied elsewhere

[pinkypoodle]

The reason women never move as one big united group the way incel men do is because women constantly divide each other into categories instead of focusing on the common issue they claim to care about. Men will overlook differences in marriage status, sexuality, lifestyle, or whatever else as long as they share the same resentment toward women.

Meanwhile, women’s spaces are always busy excluding other women for being married, straight, mothers, feminine, male centered, or whatever category they decide is unacceptable that week. Then people wonder why women centered movements constantly collapse into infighting instead of functioning as a united group.

[bookofknives]

weird women 5eva

[virtualcremefem]

lmao at how terf/swerf is always the FIRST thing on DNI lists and not pedo/racist/etc...

[r3albatman]

Zitkála-Šá "Red Bird": a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist.

(February 22, 1876 - January 26, 1938)