Revolutionary Feminism
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When Pregnancy Is the Crime: An exit interview with Lynn Paltrow, who has spent decades representing women jailed for miscarriages and stillbirths.
nymag.com When Pregnancy Is the CrimeAn exit interview with Lynn Paltrow, who has spent decades representing women jailed for miscarriages and stillbirths.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230624214433/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/lynn-paltrow-pregnancy-justice-interview.html
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Lise Vogel - Domestic Labour revisited
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/506790
> This serves as a great introduction to Marxist Feminism.
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Random Shower Thought
While searching up why people abort their unborn kids I noticed a particular detail that caught my attention
> The majority of women who choose to have an abortion are unmarried. According to data from 2019, 85.5% of those who had abortions were single women. For some of these women, the fact that they are unmarried contributes to their decision to seek an abortion. About 8% of those responding to the survey on reasons for having an abortion specifically note that they do not want to be a single parent. from the Partner and Family Issues Section
I'm starting to think there is institutionlized discrimination against single mothers. If there is, does it constitute misogyny?
- yewtu.be Unsolved: Diana, Hunter of Bus Drivers
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Crosspost
lemmygrad.ml Question about the probably canceled podcast and jimmy fulan gong - LemmygradI was recently listening to the probably canceled podcast and I came across Jimmy fulan gong in the episode about the porno mafia. I thought he seemed interesting and well researched, so I listened to a few episodes on the occult etc and came across William Ramsey whom I looked into and found that h...
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PSL Editorial – Abortion rights are not a pawn in a political game
www.liberationnews.org PSL Editorial – Abortion rights are not a pawn in a political game - Liberation NewsToday caps a week in which elite politicians from both parties shamelessly used abortion rights as a
- www.workers.org Yvonne Swan Wanrow set precedent for self-defense cases
Record numbers of women and gender-oppressed people are being locked up. Writing for the Guardian, Marianne Kaba estimated that between 71% and 95% of incarcerated women have experienced physical violence from an intimate partner. As children and adults they experienced multiple forms of phys...
>Survivors are punished for defending themselves and their children. They are criminalized because they have removed their children from abusive situations, have been coerced into criminal activity and have committed “crimes of survival” in order to live. Poverty makes women and gender-oppressed people more vulnerable to violence under capitalism, whether it is from the state or domestic partners.
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Let's talk about She-Hulk, 'anti-wokeness', Tucker, Tate, 'Gamers' 'US Patriot Socialism' 'National Socialism' and the pathetic, man-child-led, Western world.
yewtu.be She Hulk and Angry Man-BabiesLatest work on my cyberpunk adventure Neofeud 2! The first one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ You can help me finish Neofeud 2 by grabbing the first one or on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofeud Neofeud 2 site: https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud2 Get Neofeud on Steam...
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SilverSpook on female warriors and the movie Prey
octodon.social SilverSpookGames (@[email protected])Attached: 1 image As 'Action Fans' attack #PreyMovie as unrealistic for having women warriors, consider that women fought on the front lines in #indigenous non-patriarchal cultures, like Hawaii, but the White Man's World has fought to erase this from history, like our languages.
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(Thoughts?) What about the boys? Addressing educational underachievement of boys and men during and beyond the COVID pandemic
blogs.worldbank.org What about the boys? Addressing educational underachievement of boys and men during and beyond the COVID pandemicWhat about the boys? Addressing educational underachievement of boys and men during and beyond the COVID pandemic
Went and dug a little deeper and it seems that for high-income nations, this trend of more women than men graduating in universities (as well as outperforming in school) has been going on for multiple decades now.
Apart of me wants to think its just right-wing hysteria because this was brought to my attention by some random podcast clip using this example as somehow proof that patriarchy doesn't exist lol. Some articles I read did mention how other factors (particularly class and race) was a higher determinant of school/university success.
And I particularly do not like biological explanations anyways (too essentialist to my taste, but I can't say for sure). I forgot which article in particular but it did argue it's because men used to be able find jobs in more traditional blue-collar industries, leading to this present day discrepancy.
What do you all think?
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A Queer/Intersectional Theory for Tankies
libcom.org The Gender Accelerationist ManifestoDeath to gender! Freedom to the queers! But gender dies through eating its own tail. Gender is dying already. Its death rattle is upon us, but it still has time to save itself. It is on us to hurry it along to its final end. To speed it on. To make it... Accelerate.
The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto
I expect this to be a bit controversial. I actually went into this article a bit skeptical of its scope. Intersectional feminism is already pretty heavily written about. But what our authors have done is figure out how to remove the liberalism. In removing liberalism, however, what remains is a proposition far more radical than most people would have ever conceived. We're going to take the "abolish gender" slogan seriously at face value, because doing so is the only way to alleviate the contradictions of gender norms under capitalism. Some choice quotes:
> Material relations are relations of production. That is, they are the way we relate to the various ways we labor and produce things. All of society is based upon these relations of production and they produce all of our social systems. Gender is no different. > > So where does gender’s material base lie? Gender is produced primarily by the division of reproductive labor. Reproductive labor is any labor that helps to produce the next generation, including sex, birth, childcare, and homemaking, and gender is defined by how this labor is divided up, with the different genders being distinct classes which are expected to perform specific sorts of tasks regarding reproductive labor.
> Gender is the earliest class systems and, as a result, it precedes the state, even in its earliest most basic form. This means that, unlike capitalism, race, neuronormativity, and the various other class systems, the state is not the primary means by which gender is imposed upon people. This isn’t to say that the state doesn’t impose gender, but it is supplementary, not primary. By the time states were cropping up, gender had already solidified itself and become quite adept at imposing itself upon others.
> As has been referenced previously, gender is a system of class, and is one defined by the domination of manhood over society. This is why another name for the gender class system is patriarchy. Gender as a social system is patriarchy and patriarchy is the social class system of gender. Within this class system, we find three distinct classes, two accepted and one subversive.
> This class dynamic of man over woman is the principal dynamic of patriarchy, but they do not comprise the only two classes. Instead, we find that some people relate to reproductive labor differently than how it’s imposed upon the population. This is especially the case with regards to sex, when someone engages in sexual relations that do not fit with the dynamics imposed by patriarchy. This includes people who are sexually attracted to people of the same gender (gay/lesbian people), of multiple genders (bisexual/pansexual people), or no gender (asexual people). In addition, people whose gender is different from the one patriarchy assigns to them can’t be classed as neatly as people who accept the assignment by gender. While they might be personally men or women, they aren’t treated by society in quite the same way so they comprise a distinct social class. Characteristic to this is the detachment of sex and romance from reproducing the next generation. While it’s still possible for all of these groups to reproduce the next generation, it is no longer a necessary part of sex and romance. > > Since this third class is defined by it’s difference from those of the first two classes, it is named queer. Queer people are all those who relate differently to the division of reproductive labor assigned to them by patriarchy. Because of the different relations, queer people are inherently subversive to the class system as a whole and constitute the revolutionary class under patriarchy.
> Class, class, class. We are dominated and controlled. Sorted and divided. But where do we factor into all this? People see class like this as merely imposed, but that fails to account for the ways we actually interact with it. It isn’t simply imposed upon us. We are active participants within it, we perform it.
> This is hardly done freely. The violence of the system is inherent and systemic. We perform these acts surrounded by the violence of gender. But we still perform them. Gender isn’t content with forcing itself upon us. Instead, it forces us to say “yes” to it. > > This serves as a method of control and reproduction. Gender isn’t inherent, but it spreads by assigning us to a class and forcing us to say yes to that class. “Yes, I am a man. It is who I am and who I always have been. I cannot escape it or deny it. I am a man.” This is nothing but a lie we are forced to repeat. But by repeating it enough, we come to believe it. Gender becomes natural, inescapable, eternal. It ceases to be an imposed identity and becomes an eternal part of who we are. By objecting to my gender, you are objecting to that which is inherently me. > > Here lies one of gender’s greatest defense mechanisms: Ourselves. We insist upon it and reject those who turn away from it. It becomes an unholy act for those who turn from the path. Indeed, it seems to us as if there’s no other option. We say yes because that’s all we can say. It is made inconceivable that it could be any other way.
- www.theguardian.com ‘Have you recently had an abortion?’ Australian transiting through US questioned then deported
Madolline Gourley says she was on her way to Canada for a holiday when US immigration officials intervened
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Second Wave Feminism Didn't Go Nearly Far Enough
Reactionary gender norms hurt men too. Supporting queer rights supports everyone.
Thread: https://nitter.net/LGBTglitterati/status/1547205786601930752
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PSL statement: Supreme Court eviscerates abortion rights, the time to fight back is NOW!
www.liberationnews.org PSL statement: Supreme Court eviscerates abortion rights, the time to fight back is NOW! - Liberation NewsPhoto: Abortion rights demonstration in San Diego, May 4. Credit: Liberation With outrageous disrega
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10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman
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Catcallers are such scum
- www.vanityfair.com Monica Lewinsky’s Verdict on the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard Trial: We Are All Guilty
Courtroom porn and social media have turned innocent bystanders into a mass of mudslingers.
I know, I know, it's an article by a lib published in a lib magazine but it's definitely worth a read. The online reactions to the trial are definitely indicative of a cultural backlash to the metoo movement and the effect of the verdict will be victims being more hesitant to come forward.
- therednation.org Indigenous Feminism Does Not Discriminate - The Red Nation
Adopted September 6, 2019 Introduction/Executive Summary Skirts not required, but always admired <3 The term “Indigenous feminism” originated in demands from Indigenous women, femmes, and LGBTQ2+ relatives to address the … Continue reading Indigenous Feminism Does Not Discriminate
- www.politico.com Exclusive: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.
- www.vanityfair.com Idaho’s Uniquely Evil Abortion Bill Gives Rapists’ Families a Say
The parents and siblings of rapists would be able to sue the doctor who performed the procedure for up to four years under the law.
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Women’s struggle for suffrage and beyond – Liberation School
www.liberationschool.org Women’s struggle for suffrage and liberation: The road to legal equality – Liberation SchoolThe upending of tradition and new modes of social organization created new forms of exploitation and oppression, as well as openings for struggle and independence.
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Celebrating International Women’s Day - Breaking The Chains
www.liberationnews.org Celebrating International Women’s Day - Liberation NewsOriginally published in Breaking the Chains magazine. For over a hundred years, women and progressiv
- www.liberationschool.org Celebrating International Women’s Day – Liberation School
To commemorate International Women’s Day, we publishe excerpts from Kollontai’s 1920 article, "International Women’s Day," written just over two years after the October 1917 socialist revolution in Russia.