As Hind Elhinnawy observes:

'If the world can tolerate the Taliban’s abuses, Iraq’s restrictive laws & the US restrictions on abortion access, it reveals the fragility of women’s & girls’ rights globally, and how easy it is to take them away'!

Feminism's work is never done & any idea that once rights have been won they don't need continually defending against (mostly) male political attack is very much mistaken.

Patriarchy never rests!

#feminism #gender #HumanRights

https://theconversation.com/how-womens-basic-rights-and-freedoms-are-being-eroded-all-over-the-world-243302

the 'let's roll up our sleeves and get organizing' in response to the election results and potential crises on the horizon is encouraging (albeit frustrating since it's what so many have been pleading for us to start doing since the *last* election), but as things stand right now, i don't see a path toward meaningful organizing gains

until we can reach a critical mass of masking again, working together is a non-starter. we can have our differences but when they put others at risk, we're simply not on the same side. soc-dem, dem-soc, little c communist, liberal, anarchist, leftist, feminist, abolitionist, antifascist, environmentalist... it doesn't matter how you identify unless we find consensus on taking care of each other

developing a culture (counterculture?) of care is step zero and your organizing efforts won't have any support from people like me until we do

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#organizing #communityOrganizing #movementOrganizing #activism #ClimateCrisis #election2024 #trump #antifascist #leftistnews #migration #immigration #housingjustice #disabilityJustice #COVID #COVID19 #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #Gaza #genocide #endtheoccupation #reproductivejustice #feminism #abolition #protest

I love Jeanette Winterson's work - I have read many of her books, although I must admit not in recent years. This is an interesting insight into her early career.

"‘She gave me the chance that became my life’: Jeanette Winterson on her first editor, Philippa Brewster"

#books #publishing #feminism
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/16/she-gave-me-the-chance-that-became-my-life-jeanette-winterson-on-her-first-editor-philippa-brewster?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Over the last few years I've been reading quite a lot of SciFi, both contemporary & 'classic'/older books.

One of things that is really striking is that while authors have always been able to imagine new technologies & universes, and often even seen new forms of future society, few (until recently, and then mostly female writes) have been able to imagine any sort of revolution in sexual politics or gender relations....

From which you can draw your own conclusions.

#SciFi #books #feminism

Is the Employment Rights Bill a step on the road to a better conditions for workers, or the limit of Labour's ambitions?

There's already been a lot of business push-back, so a clear worry is that rather than being a downpayment on a Labour led change for workers, its the whole thing.

However, if it is really is a first step & it Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) start to inform policy, then Amy Brooker's hopes for workers may be fulfilled.

#gender #workers #feminism

https://www.progressivebritain.org/the-employment-rights-bill-a-bold-step-toward-building-a-feminist-future-of-work/

Something about the hype around #Damsel just rubs me the wrong way. The whole "this is no fairy tale" spin is annoying. Have you ever read more than two fairy tales in your life? I can list you hundreds of traditional stories where women kill monsters and save themselves. Seriously.

Quit shitting on folklore without knowing it.

Also, I recently heard the term "add a sword feminism" and it is very accurate.

#storytelling #folklore #StorytellingPSA #feminism

To fall is to be drawn to that which is beneath you. To fall is a condition, not an event.

#SaltIslandDiaries #historicalfiction #bookstodon #victoriana #Massachusetts #feminism

The textile factory girls of early 19th century #Massachusetts made a phenomenon of themselves during their own time by functionally converting the town of Lowell into a sprawling college campus for the working class.

Anyone who feels trapped in a brain-dead job ought to check out these factory workers.

Some articles about them are here: https://earlywithdrawal.net/victoriana/index.php/articles

#19thcentury #history #industrial #feminism #bookstodon #midjourney
@histodons

Loom and Spindle – Victoriana

At a time when people increasingly feel disempowered and without outlook, the "mill girls of Lowell" offer an inspiring story of human triumph in face of withering conditions.

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2064-d799-cfb1-993552020832

#capitalism #unions #industrial #feminism #midjourney #history #19thcentury #NewEngland #Massachusetts
@histodons

Thursday, 15 July 1847
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The humid air of the cape, which had overly embraced us to-day, began off the coast to consider greater ambitions. It would seek us out to-night for wet kisses and sudden discharges of electric energy. I feared for Ophelie in her barn loft, but reminded myself that the barn animals have always been safe there, and she would be as well.

#midjourney #bookstodon #HistoricalFiction #foreshadowing
#feminism #VictorianEra #Victoriana
#SaltIslandDiaries

I'm reading a book about the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra that was founded in 1940 (because women were generally not considered fit to be performing musicians in orchestras at the time). It is inspiring and fascinating, and goes on my "how is this not a prestige TV show yet?" list.

#bookstodon #AmReading #WomensHistory #music #feminism #books #Canada

https://secondstorypress.ca/adult/from-kitchen-to-carnegie-hall

https://earlywithdrawal.net/tolton/2022/06/22/the-salt-island-diaries/

#SaltIsland #Massachusetts #NewEngland #VictorianEra #feminism