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Patriarchy, Polygamy & Paternity: A Book Analysis

“The choices we have to make in this world are hard and bitter. Sometimes we have no choices at all.” TW/CW: Mentions of rape. A marriage between five, with a secret holding this polygamous home together in dicey stability. Bolanle, our protagonist to be Baba Segi’s fourth wife. A decision that angers her mother, confuses her sister and earns her the ridicule of her community (and her…

Patriarchy, Polygamy & Paternity: A Book Analysis

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An Iceberg Model Thought Exercise: The Kenyan Femicide Crisis.

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” Audre Lorde. Between January 2016 and December 2023, 500 women were murdered. Femicide is not a series of isolated tragedies it is a national crisis driven forward by the patriarchal oppression and the systematic failings of our leadership. The mismanagement of public resources and the failing…

An Iceberg Model Thought Exercise: The Kenyan Femicide Crisis.

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Images of  Collectif Afroféministe MWASI a group of Afro-Feminist activists in France founded by  Annette Davis, Sharone Omankoy and Fania Noël. 

Source: http://welkermedia.com/daily/intersectional-feminism-france

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L'afromaton poursuit sa route avec sa même détermination anthropoétique de collecter des paroles d'afro-descendants all over la planète. Pour cet afromatage n°6, c'est en terre afroféministe que j'ai déployé ma cabine pour capter l'expérience vécue des femmes noires. Inutile de regarder sur la carte, vous ne trouverez aucun lieu dans ce man's man's world où la femme noire jouirait de ses pleins pouvoirs humains ! C'est donc, à Paris, à la Générale, qu'un collectif militant (Mwasi) s'est enfermé pour défaire le monde de ses suprématies, le refaire avec de nouveaux liens et faire d'une salle de théâtre un pays afrofem friendly. Nom du pays : Nyansapo festival Peuple : majoritairement des jeunes femmes noires Devise : Don't agonize, organize ! Couleurs : noir, nègre, afro, panafro... (tout sauf black) Dans l'afromaton, une trentaine de Nyansapien-nes a défilé. En attendant de mettre en beauté et bout-à-bout tous les témoignages, en attendant le film et le site afromaton... voici un teaser-résumé de quelques réflexions piochées au hasard dans ma besace. Merci à l'équipe afromatonne : Isabelle Kanor, Rama Kébé, Marilor Dobgeh et Kim de la Générale VK, le 28-29-30 juillet 20017 Filmé à La Générale, Paris contact : [email protected]

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Thank you for your answers! Are there any good, french intersectional feminist that get media attention or coverage? Also, are femen terfs?

You’re welcome! (Anon is talking about this post.)

1. Good French intersectional feminists who get media attention…..

Hmmm……. There’s Rokhaya Diallo. She’s a journalist, activist, writer, director, and she’s a Black Muslim woman. She speaks up against islamophobia, racism, police brutality, abolitionism… It’s pretty frustrating because everytime she’s invited on a TV or radio set, they also invite some famous racist asshole because they hope that they will have a “clash” and it will “buzz” on social networks. It’s exploitative and disgusting.

If you want to read what she writes and you don’t speak French, her blog has an English version.

She also has directed several documentaries like “De Paris à Ferguson : coupables d'être noirs“ (”From Paris to Ferguson: guilty of being Black”).

In March 2015, the (female) mayor of the 20th Paris arrondissement tried to prevent her from speaking at a feminist talk. It backfired and the talk was rescheduled elsewhere, but it was typical of the way that intersectional feminists, especially Muslim ones, are treated in France. The mayor, Frédérique Calandra, went so far as to say: “[Rokhaya Diallo]is as made for feminism as I am made to be an archbishop.”There is an article in English about the whole thing here.

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In April, there was a whole section in an issue of a famous French paper, Liberation, about France’s “new anti-racists” - meaning activists who have a political vision of anti-racism and fight against intitutionalized racism (nothing “new” about that, lol… it’s just that French media didn’t talk about it before social networks gave them more visibility). Amongst the articles, some were portraits of French feminists like Sihame Assbague and Fania Noël (the latter is in Mwasi, an Afro-feminist collective), but the articles were… meh… The journalists were trying to distance themselves from them, and acting like “reverse racism” were actually a thing (in French, it’s called “anti-White racism”) or like “communalism” were a terrible scary thing. (The activists actually rewrote the articles - x, x -, it was great.)

The thing is that some French journalists are following these activists’ Twitter accounts and will sometimes mention their tweets in articles to capitalize on their popularity, but they are never really given a platform. So they create their own…

You have to know that in France, the word “communalism” is systematically used against PoC, especially when they’re trying to make any kind of collective action. White French people will more or less subtly exclude PoC from every space, and then turn around and wring their hands like “why are you doing things together / without us???” It would be laughable if it wasn’t violently and regularly used against activists, trying to reframe their actions as “hateful” and “dangerous” (more or less subtly relying on racist / islamophobic stereotypes). For example, Sihame Assbague and Fania Noël organized a Decolonial Summer Camp in August, for French PoC to educate themselves about institutionalized racism, share their experiences and discuss how to organize and fight against racism. And this initiative has been talked a lot in French media as “forbidden for Whites”… nevermind the fact that White people are not subjected to institutionalized racism, or the fact that the white gaze prevents honest, productive discussions about racism. It went so far that it has been briefly discussed in the National Assembly, with Ministers “condemning” the whole thing… Like… 120 PoC try to create something for themselves, the whole thing is organized by feminists, and the frigging National Assembly is acting like we’re on the verge of civil war…

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There’s also Amandine Gay, a French director and an Afro-Feminist (here is her blog), who just directed “Ouvrir la voix” (”Speak Up / Make your Way”), a documentary that gives the floor to Black girls and women, and Mrs Roots, who has a great blog, (some articles are in English), they had a bit of coverage during the protests against Exhibit B (you can read all about it on Mrs Root’s blog), but I’m not sure if they’ve been given coverage since? And even during the protests, the coverage was awful, journalists were acting like the protestors didn’t “get” that it was an “anti-racist” piece of Art. Paternalism, condescension, scorn… it was disgusting.

I hope that when “Ouvrir la Voix” is released, we’ll hear a lot more about Amandine Gay! :)

I’ve probably forgotten some great people, please feel free to reblog and add names to that list, add information about the people I’ve mentioned or correct me if needed.

2. Are femen terfs?

I have no idea actually? I wouldn’t be surprised… but just the fact that they are raging islamophobes, and also the fact that they are lead by a man with dubious motives, were enough to make me lose any interest in them, so I haven’t read much about them in a long time.