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desibishishere · 1 year
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Idiot ppl: what is this new trend of feminism in Desi culture?!?!!! Women r supposed to be at home!!!
Me, a woke Desi: actually there were a lot of queens, merchants and warriors in Desi history, like-
Idiot ppl: OMG ur one of feminazis, aren't u??
Me: It's feminists and as I was saying, there are a lot of badasses in history like,
Jhansi ki Rani aka Rani Lakshmi Bai led a rebellion against the British raj
Umayamma Rani, queen of Kerala, made the first open revolt against British, established a women's medical College in Kerala, worked against caste system
The story Kannagi, lady from the Chola n Pandiya kingdom times.
Rani Velu Nachiyar, known by Tamils as Veeramangai("brave woman"), first Indian queen to wage war against British.
Nur Jahan's administrative skills proved greatly valuble during her period of reign as she defended the Empire's borders in her husband's absence and navigated family feuds, rebel uprisings. She attended the court whether Janahgir was there or not.
Bharatiyar a 19th century feminist poet.
AND THERE ARE SO MANY MORE
So what did we learn here u mysoginistic piece of gobar
FEMINISM EXSISTED BEFORE UR FORE-FATHERS WERE BORN U UNEDUCATED OFFSPRING OF A DEMON!!
Thankyou for coming to my Ted talk
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viol3tlavender · 2 years
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Okay, so this is a manifestation and LOAssumption page. Kindly do not come to this page with things like your recent asks. DO NOT SPREAD HATE. I won't allow any of that from further on. So, if you want drama or you want to indulge in some kind of drama, stay tf away from me and this blog. This is a safe place and any kind of racist,homophobic, islamophobic, lgbtqia+ antis/haters and trash people with shitty mindset aren't allowed.
Ty :)
VIOLET
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auniverseofatoms · 2 years
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don't "make" people tell you private things by asking them tons of questions. respect their boundaries.
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catchymemes · 2 months
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reality-detective · 2 months
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1963 Refrigerator 🤔
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daily-spooky · 2 months
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skiesandflowers · 3 months
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Just because we aren't seeing more posts about Palestine, doesn't mean the genocide has stopped. Let's keep Praying and speaking up for Gaza, Palestine.
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sirguyofdykesborn · 5 months
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how are you a lesbian but he him
please... the pronouns is all i have left of my father
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liberalsarecool · 2 months
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Solar energy has so many benefits. Raising salaries for teachers is such a needed narrative.
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politijohn · 3 months
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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"
just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible
#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order#at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers#90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent#like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries#but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate#and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something#cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare#and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity#and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media#and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons#and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators#instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period#anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives#so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world#(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin#oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value#and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the#important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)
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writing-with-olive · 11 months
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when you call your reps to ask them to pretty please stop taking away your rights, remember:
In deep red areas you're a republican who is thinking of voting for someone else if they don't vote what you want on this specific bill because it impacts your republican ideals so very much
In swing states you're an undecided voter who's gonna go blue if they don't vote how you like
remember to call because that way their phone is going off and their peers can hear it because their offices are close together (emails and letters don't work like that), so it can rattle them if they get high volumes. remember that you gotta make them feel like they're losing something.
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sar-soor · 6 months
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Some things to note when you're discussing Palestine and Israeli apartheid in the coming days/weeks/months (not a complete list but will update as I have the emotional energy):
Do not refer to what is happening in Palestine as a "conflict" or "war." These words imply a balance of power that does not exist. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have no military, no control of their borders, no control over their access to resources like electricity, water, and medical supplies, no freedom of movement, and, most importantly, they do not have the most powerful government in the world funding them.
Israel is an apartheid state. Refer to it as such. It is based in a settler colonialist system that actively recruits and funds people from the Jewish diaspora to move into homes on stolen Palestinian land. Since the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, 42% of the West Bank has been illegally settled while 86% of East Jerusalem has been stolen for settler use. Under international law, the expansion of these settlements is illegal. Israel has faced zero repercussions for their actions. Hold them accountable in your speech.
Do not refer to the Israeli army as the "IDF" (Israeli Defense Force). Palestinians refer to them as the "IOF" for a reason--Israel does not need to defend themselves from civilians who have no military. From 2008 to September 2023, over 3,800 Palestinian civilians were killed by the IOF. There is no need for oppressors to defend themselves--they are the ones on the offense at all times by the nature of their positions of power.
Remember that decolonization will not be a peaceful process. Do not condemn a group of people who have been brutally colonized, ethnically cleansed, and displaced from their homes for 75 years for fighting back against those oppressing them. This post concisely explains why the violence necessary for decolonization will never match that of the violence necessary for the sustained process of colonization. You cannot break free of a violent system with nonviolence. When Palestinians attempted peaceful protest in 2018 on the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, they along with clearly marked journalists, doctors, and medics were shot and killed for their actions. Oppressors will maintain their power status by any means necessary; the ongoing genocide of Palestinians is proof of that. Decolonization requires violence because colonization itself is an inherently violent system.
Zionism does not equate to Judaism. Do not let Zionist propaganda fool you into believing that condemning the Israeli government is in any way antisemitic. The Israeli government does not represent the views of all Jews, even those who are Israeli citizens. Governments should always, always be criticized and held to account for their actions. Israel is no exception to this rule. Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. Anyone who tells you otherwise is weaponizing true Jewish oppression and suffering as a means to gain support for a violent, racist, apartheid government.
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catchymemes · 2 months
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honeyglazedbabe · 4 months
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there’s this tweet that was like “y’all fought for marriage equality just to be in open relationships” and i know it’s kinda a joke or whatever but it makes me so sick. young queers are so busy respectability politicking and hating open relationships and polyamory that they’re willing to minimize the real reasons for the marriage equality fight. Like hello??? Think about all the husbands during the aids crisis who couldn’t see their man because the family took over as next of kin or bury him because he had no legal rights as his partner? Think about all the partners who can’t share health benefits, or adopt or file taxes together. Who cares if they fuck other people on the weekend. Legal protections matter despite whatever your feelings on marriage as an institution or the sanctity of monogamy. it still matters. I hateee seeing young people joke about and take for granted things our elders needed.
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