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#anti porn #anti sex work #dating

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#radfem art

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Radblr Survey

Hey y’all I’ve put together a quick survey for radblr. If you wouldn’t mind filling it out to help me get some data, that would be amazing!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDE75AEHyEIvaNbEMnL3qe0Ms3-QEcwM5PDSSlhCrCQvlmrg/viewform?usp=sf_link

#boost

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#surrogacy #resources

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Talking to other women about feminism feels like going into a factory to talk to the workers about unionizing but all you get is

“But the boss said we shouldn’t unionize!”

“I don’t need better hours, actually. Don’t tell me what to do with my life!”

“It’s my right to do whatever work I want for as little pay as I want. Now go away!”

“So what if these machines are dangerous, who needs all ten fingers anyway?”

“I don’t want to get paid more that feels kinda selfish?”

“I don’t even accept pay, because I’m a good person 😌💅”

#libfem #anti feminism

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Here are two choices (among others) for options to support women in Afghanistan right now:

Women for Afghan Women: https://womenforafghanwomen.org/

A GoFundMe “Women Globally Working to Protect Afghan Women” here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/protect-women-leaders-in-afghanistan?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet

Both allow anonymous donations and both are vetted. Even if you can’t afford to donate, you can share these options with others.

#resources #afghanistan

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I really can’t say I recommend watching the videos of the evacuation at Kabul airport because I think I’m going to be sick. But I can’t look away.

This makes the fall of Saigon look like an orderly fire drill.

And where are the women? All I see in these videos and photos are seas of men. The women are the ones in danger. Where are these men’s wives and sisters and daughters? Did they really run for their own safety and leave the women behind?

#resources #afghanistan

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I really can’t say I recommend watching the videos of the evacuation at Kabul airport because I think I’m going to be sick. But I can’t look away.

This makes the fall of Saigon look like an orderly fire drill.

And where are the women? All I see in these videos and photos are seas of men. The women are the ones in danger. Where are these men’s wives and sisters and daughters? Did they really run for their own safety and leave the women behind?

#resources #afghanistan

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The acts of violent men benefits all men

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This is out of the blue! I am Afghan and I am currently living in Afghanistan. Today (15 Aug 2021) the Taliban entered the capital city of Afghanistan which is Kabul. The government is going to change to an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. They ruled in Afghanistan for 5 years, 20 years ago. I've heard stories about them since I'm 19 and luckily was not yet born. And let me tell you the stories were terrifying, but they were just horror stories to me and I never thought that I'd be living under their regime, but here we are.

Let me tell you something shocking: girls can only study up to 6th grade. The future of female students in universities hasn't been decided yet. According to what I've heard they go from house to house and ask for girls and women (12 to 45 year olds) for marriage.

As they are just pieces of crap, I don't really believe that they'd let us have mobiles or use the internet. I really hope this isn't my last post in here! But if it is I want to let the world know of what they've done and what they're doing.

Don't forget us!

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Kabul has fallen, Afghanistan is almost completely under Taliban rule now, and President Ashraf Ghani has fled. I wasn't alive during the Vietnam war, but having seen the images of Saigon at the end of it, it's impossible not to think of them when seeing the footage of Chinooks airlifting US embassy workers to Kabul airport. l cannot tell you how surreal it is to be watching the news from neighboring Pakistan, sitting next to my grandfather who has been alive for every change of government since the Brits left after the war.

History repeats and repeats and repeats, nobody learns a damn thing, and innocent civilians are the ones that suffer.

250 000 Afghans have left their homes. Many more are going to do so. And that's just the ones who flee. Those who don't will live under a conservative rule that is going to commit crimes against humanity on a daily basis, that is going to ruin the lives of generations to come.

The worst part is, I don't know what else there is to be done at this point. I can only pray that my country will accommodate the incoming refugees, though I fear they won't.

All I ask is that international community keep Afghanistan in their thoughts, and that everyone raises their voice against what is happening, both in terms of what the Taliban is doing, and how the actions of foreign powers led us to this point. The US, the UK, Pakistan, are all at fault, and must be held accountable

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Extraordinary Women: Books to Read

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America’s Enemies by Jason Fagone

In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life of Elizebeth Smith who played an integral role in our nation’s history for forty years. After World War I, Smith used her talents to catch gangsters and smugglers during Prohibition, then accepted a covert mission to discover and expose Nazi spy rings that were spreading like wildfire across South America, advancing ever closer to the United States. As World War II raged, Elizebeth fought a highly classified battle of wits against Hitler’s Reich, cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine used by German spies. Meanwhile, inside an Army vault in Washington, William worked furiously to break Purple, the Japanese version of Enigma–and eventually succeeded, at a terrible cost to his personal life.Fagone unveils America’s code-breaking history through the prism of Smith’s life, bringing into focus the unforgettable events and colorful personalities that would help shape modern intelligence.

My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett (With), Wendy W. Williams (With)

The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993—a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women’s rights, and popular culture. My Own Words offers Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution. Throughout her life Justice Ginsburg has been (and continues to be) a prolific writer and public speaker. This book’s sampling is selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams. Justice Ginsburg has written an introduction to the book, and Hartnett and Williams introduce each chapter, giving biographical context and quotes gleaned from hundreds of interviews they have conducted. This is a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of America’s most influential women.

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel 

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or “human computers,” to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group included the wives, sisters, and daughters of the resident astronomers, but soon the female corps included graduates of the new women’s colleges–Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the ladies turned from computation to studying the stars captured nightly on glass photographic plates. The “glass universe” of half a million plates that Harvard amassed over the ensuing decades–through the generous support of Mrs. Anna Palmer Draper, the widow of a pioneer in stellar photography–enabled the women to make extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what stars were made of, divided the stars into meaningful categories for further research, and found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Their ranks included Williamina Fleming, a Scottish woman originally hired as a maid who went on to identify ten novae and more than three hundred variable stars; Annie Jump Cannon, who designed a stellar classification system that was adopted by astronomers the world over and is still in use; and Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne, who in 1956 became the first ever woman professor of astronomy at Harvard–and Harvard’s first female department chair.

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

What does it mean to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From early childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hopes of giving her a better life; that forever feeling slightly out of place was simply her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as she grew up—facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see, finding her identity as an Asian American and a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came from—she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth. With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets—vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.

#resources

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If you think “sex work” should be fully legal based on a sense of social justice and the idea that it’s the best thing for the women in the industry, consider this:

Maybe there are some women who truly do want to be “sex workers”. Maybe some women really can do it without being traumatised. Maybe they even find it empowering. I’ll entertain that idea for a moment to get this point across. The fact is that the demand will always outweigh the supply. Huge numbers of men want to buy sexual access to women’s bodies, and in places where it is legal that demand only increases. In comparison, only a very small number of women truly choose it and want to do it. So what happens when there aren’t enough women willing to offer their bodies up for men to buy to match the number of men wanting to buy them? You get women forced into it by abusive pimp “boyfriends”. You get the sex trafficking of millions of impoverished women. You get huge numbers of women facing an option between prostitution and poverty. 

I would rather the small number of women who might genuinely want to be in the sex industry have to find new jobs than have pimps, johns, and brothel owners/managers be able to legally get away with doing this to women. This is why we need the Nordic model, and why I’ll always be an abolitionist despite the loud minority of sex worker activists who assert ad nauseam that there’s nothing inherently wrong with the sex industry.

(Learn more about the Nordic model here)

#anti sex work

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maybe this?

There was a tumblr post. It went like "should my suffering be beautiful" a black eye on red background. Does anyone know?

#rb

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hi im the anon with the recs. recently i read Liberating Ourselves in the Boudoir (it's a zine you can find on yggdrasildistro.wordpress for free) and it's an anarcho-feminist criticism of bdsm. it's a bit short imo but it talks about bdsm in the context of civilization, it's ties to capitalism and consumerism, power dynamics, how bdsm basically is patriarchy and a bunch of other stuff

Thats very interesting, I’ll have to check it out!

#resources

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I hate conservatives so much it’s insane. You’re not protecting women from tims you’re the fucking reason trans ideology exists in the first place, you’re the reason these fucking men feel entitled to our spaces, you’re the reason homosexual and gnc women are mutilating their bodies. I didn’t want to become a boy because I was introduced to trans ideology, I wanted to become a boy because I was tormented and excluded for not being feminine and was sexually harassed at a young age. trans ideology just gave me an unhealthy way to escape your toxic bullshit. And you don’t actually want to fix the problem, you don’t want gnc women and men to accept themselves, you just want to shove everyone back into your stupid boxes. You are not our fucking allies

#right wing is not our friend #feminism movement

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LOBA: A VISUAL ESSAY.

lady snowblood / swallowtail, brenna twohy / sylvia plath / the wolf’s bride, aino kallas / gleipnir, walton ford / black widow: the name of the rose, marjorie liu / little red riding wolf, jason schneiderman / sharp objects, gillian flynn

#female rage