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Wow!
Had no idea today was the anniversary. Been here awhile, huh? And I've been on tumblr even longer than that because I ran a small fandom blog for awhile (though not anymore).
Thank you to everyone who's been around for most of that time, and for the new people who've followed more recently. My activity here has ebbed and flowed over the years, but I really do love tumblr. Let's keep doing our thing.
Omg, Vlamis's airstream video I AM DEEEEEAD! 20 years of fangirling and I have reached my limit! This man is too much for me! 🥰😭☠️☠️☠️
I agree, the fan service is out of this world
A huge thank you to Samantha ( @iwriteaboutfeminism on Tumblr) for hosting the Hogwarts Reading Challenge 2020! I jumped on the proverbial bandwagon a bit here and leapt at the words Hogwarts and reading.
Gryffindor Pride!
Class: Defence Against the Dark Arts
Book: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Connection: Aside from the obvious magical element, Children of Blood and Bone has an overarching narrative of overcoming oppression and facing adversaries.
Genre: YA Fantasy
Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Class: Potions
Book: I’ll Find You by Liz Lawler
Connection: Potions deals a lot with cures and remedies, almost like Muggle medicines, so this medical thriller fit really nicely, the detailed description of the pharmaceutical drugs is what sold me!
Genre: Medical Thriller/Crime
Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Class: Charms
Book: How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
Connection: Charm; in the romantic sense, as a noun, not a verb.
Genre: Fantasy
Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Class: A History of Magic
Book: The Familiars by Stacey Hall
Connection: A historical fiction based on the Pendle Witch Trials
Genre: Historical Fiction
Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Class: Herbology
Book: With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Connection: Cookery; herbs and spices (everyone says she has magic hands/her cooking unlocks vivid memories)
Genre: Contemporary YA
Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Class: Transfiguration
Book: We Were Liars by E. Lockheart
Connection: transfiguration (noun): a complete change of form or appearance into a more… spiritual state. I don’t need to describe the way this story is told; this definition fits.
Genre: YA Psychological Thriller
Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Class: Astronomy
Book: Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
Connection: Our solar system is full of planets and stars, including an anxiety-ridden blue/green ball called Earth.
Genre: Self-Help
Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Final page count: 2’476
Again, check Samantha out she’s really cool!
Credit to @twicns for the banner/header! ❤️
JACOBIN MAGAZINE
March 8 is International Women’s Day, but this year, it will also be an international day of action in more than thirty countries. Organizers of the massive Women’s March on Washington on January 21 are among the supporters of a call by prominent scholars and activists for a women’s strike that will organize resistance “not just against Trump and his misogynist policies, but also against the conditions that produced Trump, namely the decades-long economic inequality, racial and sexual violence, and imperial wars abroad.”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and a member of the National Planning Committee for the International Women’s Strike USA, talked recently about what March 8 could bring to the new resistance.
Why the call for a women’s strike on March 8?
There are many reasons. The first and perhaps most important reason is that the election of Donald Trump as president has unearthed a tremendous outpouring among women in opposition to his regime and agenda.
This was most palpably demonstrated on January 21, when an unprecedented outpouring of protest overwhelmed cities across the country. Where thousands were expected to demonstrate, millions of men and women clogged the streets around the country to show the deep revulsion and opposition to Trump.
The outpouring was surprising, but the sentiment of opposition and resistance was not.
Trump has breathed new life into the old insult of “sexist pig.” He has been accused of sexual assault by many women; he has bragged about sexually assaulting women; he has made violent and abusive comments about women’s appearance, intelligence and more. More importantly, he is pursuing a political agenda that will make ordinary women’s lives harder.
January 21 showed the potential for the re-emergence of a feminist movement, but March 8 is a call for a particular kind of feminist movement. If there is a critique of the J21 action, it is about the reluctance of its organizers to embrace politics, opposition, and militancy. Instead, they did not want to pose the march as being against Trump and seemed to downplay politics.
So we see March 8 as not just a call to protest the Neanderthal in the White House, but to put radical politics at the center of the resistance.
For the last several years, “lean-in feminism” — which was kind of embodied in Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president — has been elevated as a goal for all women. Those who espouse its politics have made shattering glass ceilings that impede their ascent into corporate boardrooms, electoral politics, and other destinations in white and wealthy America as the real objective of feminism.
We see March 8 as a reclamation project in that sense — as an effort to reconnect with the militant and radical politics of socialist feminism and Black feminism of the 1960s and 1970s, which located the oppression of women in capitalism and the free market.
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iwriteaboutfeminism replied to your photo “Anti-Donald Trump protest happening now in Toronto. Just a note: I...”
I'm so glad to see that this has gone international!!
There’s been several Anti-Donald Trump protests in Canada already:
Montreal, Quebec
Vancouver, British Columbia (also there was a second protest in Vancouver this week, though I don’t have photos of that one)
And in addition to the protest in Toronto today, there is another one next week (November 19th, 2016)
There’s a lot of frustration going around about the unfair role that superdelegates are playing in this year’s election so, if you want to help even the playing field, lobby the superdelegates in your state!
