My microfeminism this weekend is watching With Love, Meghan.

It's totally innocuous, but so much hate has been lavished on it.

Is it my type of programming? No. But I think she's charming and quick and has an ease about her.

Some people were squabbling over her correction of Mindy Kaling calling her "Markle" -- Meghan gently asserted herself about something that annoyed her. It was not a big deal. Women should be allowed to practice this without being censured.

#Patriarchy
#Feminism

Lasst sie selbst die Gewalt spüren, welche sie täglich verbreiten.

Les féministes t'encouragent à quitter ton mari, tuer tes enfants, pratiquer la sorcellerie, détruire le capitalisme et devenir trans-pédé-gouine d'Alex Tamécylia est un manuel acerbe, féroce et très drôle. Qu'est ce que j'ai ri ! L'humour fait un bien fou et relit les un.es aux autres, fait communauté tout en permettant un pas de côté.
Je conseille vivement ce petit livre tout rose.
#mastolivres #feminism

G.L.O.S.S. was a rad trans-feminist punk band. This is “G.L.O.S.S. (We’re from the Future).”

Opening lyrics:

They told us we were girls
How we talk, dress, look, and cry
They told us we were girls
So we claimed our female lives
Now they tell us we aren’t girls
Our femininity doesn’t fit
We’re fucking future girls
Living outside society’s shit

https://girlslivingoutsidesocietysshit.bandcamp.com/album/demo

(Inspired by @SrRochardBunson’s antifascist music thread.)

Our Justyna's case update in English!

Video @arte.tv_pl

#abortion #IamJustyna #poland #feminism #womenrights #women #WomensRights #aborcja #AborcjaBezGranic #jakJustyna @aborcja

Estos guantes con garras supuestamente eran usados por las mujeres de mediados del siglo XIX para defenderse. Aunque es posible, no me termina de convencer. No se sabe dónde se expuso y solo encuentro un artículo que lo pone en duda, pero hay que pagar por leerlo. #historia #history #feminismo #feminism

Part Three of Heikki Suosalo's review of Laura Lee''s career has now been published on the web site of the Soul Express magazine:

https://www.soulexpress.net/lauralee_part3.htm

Laura Lee Rundless is a long-time favorite of mine. She started out as a gospel singer, and for many years, was a member of the Meditation Singers. She launched her solo career in secular music in 1966 with the great single, "To Win Your Heart" / "So Will I" for Detroit's Ric Tic label. During the late sixties and early seventies she recorded profilically for labels like Chess, Cotillion and Hot Wax, scoring quite a few memorable hits along the way. But of course, you can read about this all in Suosalo's previous articles:

https://www.soulexpress.net/lauralee_part1.htm
https://www.soulexpress.net/lauralee_part2.htm

Back in the 1990s, when I was taking American Studies as a minor subject at the University of Helsinki, I even wrote a ten-page essay on her first Hot Wax album ("Women's Love Rights", 1972). I think I mostly concentrated on analysing the explicitly feminist themes in the lyrics and probably provided some historical background as well, but the amount of information available to me at the time (beyond the record itself) was fairly small, at least compared to the impressively detailed account provided by Suosalo.

Heikki Suosalo has been writing on soul music since the early 1970s, first for Blues News and later for Soul Express. Although I have met him only a few times (I think most recently at a William Bell concert in 2017), his numerous articles and also the radio programs ("Soulin syke" on YLE) he hosted in the early 1980s have had a big impact on me and introduced me to many great artists and records.

I saw a feminist video yesterday that made me see something I can't now unsee. That zombie apocalypse genre is white supremacist. Making a whole class of subhumans so that the (usually white, cishet) protagonists can take what they want when they want it and slaughter the subhumans by whatever means desired, violently.

I've always seen it as an allegory for capitalism. The zombies have sped up from the shamblers of Night of the Living Dead as we've accelerated ecosystem destruction. Now there's another layer.

It's the same with the show I've been watching on Max, Falling Skies (circa 2011-2016). I'm pushing through it because I like post apocalypse stories (civilization has finally fallen so the natural world can regenerate--hooray!) but it's such a patriarchal, white supremacist show that I'm spending most of my time grumbling at it while I note the many ways in which it's fucked up.

The main character (a cishet white man, and intellectual history professor) and his three sons, plus his father figure (commander in the militia he belongs to after alien invasion) are the only characters with any depth. Everyone else is an NPC. They kill off people of color willy-nilly (starting with black men), and white women also including the prof's own daughter end up being just two dimensional plot devices, vehicles for showing the suffering and heroics of the leading men.

I'm almost to the end of it and nearly turned it off for good last night because of a plot line in which the eldest son's girlfriend is badly wounded and they want to infect her with alien biotech to save her. She clearly and plainly told him no, she didn't want that in her and he had to let her go. So he lied to the doctor and they infected her anyway. A clear violation of consent because he "just couldn't do it" selfishly. After she miraculously recovered, she ended up belting him across the face for doing it against her will then kissed him in thanks for saving her life. The female doctor, a stepmother figure, told him that she'd have done the same for his dad. Making violating consent "romantic" and excusing it.

It's gotten really hard to watch cheap and easy sci-fi and horror because of awareness of the systems of oppression that permeate these offerings and reinforce these fucked up narratives. I'm only interested now because I've only one season out of five to go so I'm probably going to keep watching it and hating it the whole time. Mainly because it's nearly impossible to find anything that isn't this politically awful and I'm not a rom-com person.

If I was younger and had the chops I'd try to write something feminist and anti-racist set in a dystopia, for TV or film. But I don't have it in me to do that anymore and even if I did, there wouldn't be any studio that would make it more likely than not, because the storytelling machine that is the film and TV industry is there to prop up the themes of patriarchy, racism, and the state, not warn us about them.

As per usual I'm barely awake and still ingesting coffee so no doubt there will be multiple edits for clarity and typos.

Since the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s there's been a continuous fight over the Swedish word "hora" as used by immigrants.

Today its main dictionary sense is "prostitute". But until 200 years ago it primarily meant "woman who has sex outside of marriage", without reference to whether any payment was involved. And this definition, with the traditional value-system it implied, was still strong with several immigrant groups that arrived in Sweden from the 60s onward. 1/3

In the name of the family: Yes, Europe could be headed for a ‘Project 2025’ too.

In almost every election in Europe in recent years, a discreet but increasingly powerful force has been at play to help bolster the far right.

Much like “Project 2025”, a set of ultra-conservative networks are waging a campaign to dismantle European policies and replace them with traditionalist Christian values.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250321-in-the-name-of-the-family-yes-europe-could-be-headed-for-a-project-2025-too?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

More than ever there is a need to push back really hard against the international coalition of #authoritarian #alphamale #patriarcat that is also pressing really hard to roll back all the progresses of #feminism, especially in the area of sexual and reproductive rights.

But insult and personal attacks of that kind can only encourage them, not scared them. We need to be a lot more vicious than that. We need to attack their discourse where it hurts most and pound hard.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/22/women-rights-un-anti-abortion-choice-poison-of-patriarchy-returns

Ich empfehle allen unbedingt den Film "Ein Tag ohne Frauen" zu sehen!
Eine richtig gut gemachte Dokumentation über die Revolution der Frauen Mitte der 70er in Island. Der Film zeigt sehr gut, dass eine Gesellschaft verändert werden kann und hat mir wieder etwas Kraft & Hoffnung gegeben.
Lasst uns dem Beispiel folgen! Mehr Frauen an die Macht!

Läuft noch bis Ende April, z.B. im 3001 Kino -› https://www.3001-kino.de/de/programm/detail/25-03-21/8929-ein-tag-ohne-frauen/