Voices In Movement

18. I post whatever I like, whatever I find is important or should be shared, and whatever I find interesting

[dilbarjaani]

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even if her shackles are very different from my own” -audre lorde

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[liberalsarecool]

Men made decisions to rape with fellow rapists. They decided sexual abuse and torture were bonding experiences.

Language matters. Stop removing men from their active role in raping children.

[arinzeture]

Assata Shakur On Racism And Capitalism!

[artemis-melody]

The epstein files thing is like ultimate proof that nobody gives a fuck about women. The richest most powerful men in the world committed unforgivable crimes against humanity, but because women and girls were the majority of the victims, it's okay and not worth talking about to the extent that it needs to be talked abt.

All the men on that list need to get the death penalty but since they are men and the victims are women nothing will ever happen to them

[crisismoth]

sometimes i be saying im gonna go to bed and then i dont go to bed. frequently in fact. this is because i have the heart of an optimist and the soul of a liar

[rad-octopus]

Several different angles have come out re the ICE shooting this morning in Minneapolis, and he was trying to protect a woman. He was a legal observer, a nurse, who saw a woman shoved so hard she collapsed into a snow bank, and he was trying to put his body between her and ICE. Bovino is out here straight up lying, saying "he wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement" when you can see from multiple angles he's got a cell phone in his hand, his other hand is empty, he's taken down and sat on by half a dozen ICE thugs for several seconds before that fucking murderer pulls out his gun and unloads it into a disarmed, subdued legal observer. There is no fixing or redeeming ICE. There will be mass prosecutions of this shit if I have to go to law school and do it myself.

White people, this is the inevitable conclusion of not listening to minorities who have been living through these kinds of killings for decades, centuries. We're several lines into the holocaust poem, and I am so sick of hearing people act like we're still in the first line, that "this isn't America". Be so fucking real with yourself.

[girlfishes]

Recently had the experience of watching a male academic give a presentation for a view that I disagreed with. I pointed out a contradiction in the Q & A that lead to him saying that he didn’t know how to defend something that his entire case rested on.

This isn’t me tooting my own horn. There isn’t some genius essence to me that allows me to brilliantly uncover flaws that even a subject matter expert can’t see. And this is such a powerful thing for women to internalize because it goes for him too.

There is no inaccessible genius that men like him who have PHDs and can give talks around the county have that we don’t. They have put in the work to get where they are, but that doesn’t mean they have grown an extra brain hemisphere which allows them to understand these concepts in a way that we can’t.

I often see women self-exclude from conversations about complicated subject matter because they just assume that whatever the men are arguing about must be beyond them, often on the basis of their fancy degrees or even confident tone. Even if you don’t have a thorough understanding of the subject matter (women often understand more than we give ourselves credit for), you are very capable of interacting or even challenging what people are saying.

Don’t count yourself out because you think there is a great difference between your reasoning abilities and men who are established in the field. Both of you are capable of reasoning and making the same mistakes. The intellectual playing field is way more level than it appears. This is especially the case if you take time to do your own reading and research. Don’t assume you won’t understand it. It may take some work, but remember there is nothing inherent about you that makes you less able to reason than any accomplished male.

Experts are wrong all the time. Ordinary people, ordinary women, have the ability to challenge any kind of argument.

[bugsybaritone]

I don’t think the men I go to school with and work with would understand why the murder of Amber Czech is hitting me as hard as it is. I never knew her but we were the same age and both working in trades, dealing with the bs that comes from being in a male dominated industry.

Her murder made me think about something I hadn’t before. I’ve known since I decided to go into the automotive industry that I would face discrimination and possibly harassment from my male peers but I had never thought about the possibility of being murdered at work by a man twice my age because he simply doesn’t like me. She probably hadn’t thought about that either.

It’s already been a week since she was bludgeoned to death by a disgusting coward of a man and yet almost no one is hearing about it. The first video I saw about it was literally yesterday and it was someone talking about how little attention her case is getting. It’s bullshit. She will never see her 21st birthday nor any milestones she had yet to reach because a man didn’t like her.

[europeanamericanamericans-deact]

the trades are so incredibly hostile to women. before i got sick i wondered if i should pursue a trade because i struggled in school but was talked out of it by many people for that reason.

feeling so angry about the loss of this young woman. her family has set up a go fund me page in case anyone on tumblr wishes to donate

Donate to Amber Czech Memorial, organized by Shawn Labat

We are heartbroken to share the loss of our beloved, Amber Czech. She was taken from us far too soon … Shawn Labat needs your support for Am

[foxmulders]

it’s crazy how much you can read if you read

[amilta]

Women will wake up before her entire house, cook, clean, do laundry and 759329 other tasks and go to work and come home and do it all over again just for men to say “women weren't meant for labour” when what they really wanna say is, “women weren't meant to be paid and recognised for her work.”

[radfem-suggestions]

make a donation to a local womens shelter this holiday season

[goyangii]

sorry to hijack your post a bit!

just adding that if you maybe aren't doing well financially women's shelters are often in need of other things. services like this help find shelters near you and their wish lists. googling around can find you info as well. note that a lot of places might not accept furniture and things like that, but the sorts of things they might need are usually pretty simple: toiletries like soap and towels, baby supplies, clothing, linens, toys (for their children), cough syrup, and so on. a lot of women who are fleeing dv and relying on shelters leave with very little, maybe just a suitcase if even that. so they often need essentials like those items!

volunteering is another way to make a positive difference if you can't donate physical goods or money. ofc with covid this might be complicated but if by chance a shelter near you is seeking help, that's another great way to do so!

as a final note a lot of shelters need help not just during the holidays but year round. so if you can't donate now, def consider doing so later! promise they'll still appreciate it loads ❤️

[sichorean]

we were always grateful for anything but remember anything *you* need on a regular basis, a woman in a shelter will need too! Pads and tampons are important and often overlooked. Things like lip balm and hair brushes/tooth brushes are also really nice because everyone needs their own, and we often don't have enough.

[voicesinmovement]

I think the most difficult thing about being a feminist who enjoys the lesbian romance genre is watching lesbian and bisexual female authors bend over backwards to make sure they are giving their undying support and praise to trans women. THIER OWN LESBIAN ROMANCE BOOKS! It's disheartening to see them degrade themselves to make sure everyone knows they are doing their job to "protect the dolls" 🙄 even in fiction.

[mrdyketator]

[spiderfreedom]

Thomas Jefferson’s wife, Martha Jefferson was either pregnant or taking care of kids her whole life, with small two year gaps between pregnancies. She married him in 1772 and:

She was always sickly and her pregnancies weakened her. The final one was the killing blow, as she gave birth to a large child in a difficult birth. She died four months later.

One wonders, if this woman was so sickly, why didn’t her husband, a rich man, just not have PIV sex with her? They knew where babies came from and they didn’t need them to run the farm or anything. Why did he have sex with this woman over and over, until her pregnancies killed her?

I’m sure one can find other examples of history. The fact that with birth control, women choose to have much fewer kids, is to me proof women did not actually desire these very large families.

[thestrugglingpoliticalartist]

This is so sad. Taking a long look at her list of children, you can see that out of all those pregnancies, only two really survived her. The rest died within a year or two. Having your children over and over again grow to be 1 or two years old, old enough to have a personality, and consistently die on you is more than cruel. For her husband to see this and continue to impregnate her is absolute torture. The data is fairly plain, but you can see just how traumatized she must have been before she died. The last two girls both had the same name and neither lived.

If I were to make a bet, I would guess that not only did he not care one bit about his wife, but he was likely hoping for a son and applying more pressure on her because of it. We truly are nothing but cattle in the eyes of men, and they would happily go back to this form of marriage if there was no resistance.

[thesinisterspinster]

I mean it could have been as simple as measles, small pox, or scarlet fever. But also keep in mind at this time jefferson was also rapeing Sally hemmings and keeping his own children as slaves (and mind you he was doing this to his wife and Sally and they were probably not the only ones) I apprecate jeffersons views on religion but he wasn't a good man (is there such a thing?)

[antigonick]

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. Once you study and really get a good understanding of the way the system in the United States works, then you see, without a doubt, that the civil rights movement never had a chance of succeeding. White people, whether they are from the North or from the South, whether it was in 1960 or 1980, benefit from the oppression of Black people. [...] The almighty dollar is king; those who have the most money control the country and, through campaign contributions, buy and sell presidents, congressmen, and judges, the ones who pass the laws and enforce the laws that benefit their benefactors.The rich have always used racism to maintain power. To hate someone, to discriminate against them, and to attack them because of their racial characteristics is one of the most primitive, reactionary, ignorant ways of thinking that exists.

—Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

[horrorlesbians]

when gillian flynn said “I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains — good, potent female villains. Not ill-tempered women who scheme about landing good men and better shoes (as if we had nothing more interesting to war over), not chilly WASP mothers (emotionally distant isn’t necessarily evil), not soapy vixens (merely bitchy doesn’t qualify either). I’m talking violent, wicked women. Scary women. Don’t tell me you don’t know some. The point is, women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves — to the point of almost parodic encouragement — we’ve left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.”

[prodigalwitch]

men believe in the concept of 'women's intuition' becuase they'd rather believe that women have an inherent connection with nature (much like that of an animal) than accept that women could be skilled at pattern recognition. first of all, they'd have to admit that women have a learned skill and human intelligence. and secondly, they'd have to admit that men display patterns of abuse that are able to be recognized + abusive men are not just a handful of uniquely deranged psychos

[prodigalwitch]

men have found this and are big mad. guess i hit a little too close to home. thanks for the notes, fanboys

[mindoraan]

being a woman means NOTHING except that you are a female 💞💞💞💞 theres no restrictions, no limits. a woman can be anything and do anything and look any way she wants. there are infinite ways to be a woman 💜 all you gotta do is BE BORN FEMALE 💖