#interectionality

[femtober]

Hi, I'm Sarah.

Femtober was born 6 years ago as a means to challenge myself to be more aware of female directors and their space in horror on Letterboxd. In the years that have passed, women have carved a niche space in the genre and in film overall, but as I compiled my list this year in accordance to my rules (which - really are pretty abritrary. But if other list challenges have rules then why can’t I?), I realized that though women keep making films, there’s only so many rules that can be made surrounding films that land on Amazon, Hulu, Shudder, and repeat. 

I feel like I’ve dipped far beyond the mainstream at this point, and my hope is that mainstream films (like Five Nights at Freddy's) will continue to follow, but the pace feels achingly slow. And while Letterboxd is a good resource for finding some of these films, there’s a distinct lack of interectionality that’s often hard to reconcile with. Perhaps I’m focused too much on identity in an already trangressive genre, but I don’t think I am. 

When Femtober began, I was interested in watching films made by people like me, but the more films I watched, the more I realized how much we need films from all marginalized people to succeed. While Femtober is a somewhat binary project, there are so many filmmakers in the genre who are gender nonconforming that also have important things to say. 

I guess all of this to say is, while Femtober is a project that is important to me (and really not to many others lol), I’m feeling a little discouraged by just how much of a male space the genre really is. So even if you’re doing some other list challenge this October, consider seeking out films from women and non-binary people. Consider broadening your horizons in a genre that’s meant to challenge you, even if your list doesn’t specify it. 

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Well! That was a lot! Here are the rules: 1 Most popular female-directed horror on Letterboxd you haven't seen (Films ->Genre ->Horror) 1 Holiday-centric Film 1 Remake, Reboot, Prequel, or Midquel 2 Films from Centennial Studios 2 Films from non-AMPTP Studios 3 2023 Films 3 Films from Acclaimed Television Directors 3 Films from LGBTQIA+ directors 4 Films not in the English Language 5 Short Films 6 Decades

And of course, EVERY film MUST be directed by a woman. It’s entirely possible to complete your own list using none of the films listed here. Have fun and happy Femtober!

#femtober #femtober2023 #femtober6 #women in film #female directors #female directed films #women filmmakers #watch challenge #movies #film #horror #horror movies #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #saw #letterboxd

[politicalsci]

#politics #feminism #angela davis #joe biden #neera tanden #democratic party #us politics #intersectional feminism #interectionality #the left #capitalism #establishment democrats #neoliberalism

[enfant--terrible]

idle thought, but i often wonder if the kind of transphobia exhibited by the straight, middle-class, white women of Mumsnet and its ilk stems from a kind of psychological defensiveness - in that like, because they themselves have generally conformed to the sociological script of Typical Womanhood(TM) - cis, heterosexual, white, giving birth to and raising children - they take it as a sort of personal attack to be faced with the truth that those things are not synonymous with womanhood. also that acknowledging the reality of trans people means acknowledging that they are not automatically always the victim, or always the underdog, just by virtue of being women. perhaps that is part of why they are particularly aggressively transmisogynistic - it is, cognitively, far easier for them to dismiss trans women’s lived experience and claim the old two-step patriarchal hierarchy they are familiar with is still what is happening - because engaging with the truth of the situation demands a humility, emotional honesty, and capacity for self-evalution that most of these women are not willing or able to develop. (sidenote: i guess this is not-entirely-dissimilar to the logic at play when white LGBT+ people resist acknowledging that we still enjoy white privilege?)

#this may be a dumb point i have one (1) braincell #TERF bullshit #terf rhetoric #uk pol #interectionality

[anti-marxistcult]

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why so islamophobic @JimSterling ?

on the channels covering this, the LGBT people in the comments agreed that it should not be taught to young children. The people agreed in the comment sections that age 13 and up was the age teens should be taught, children have no need in their childhood to know about sex, sexuality and can’t comprehend what exactly they are being told, it be like teaching them politics (I suspect the left politically groom their kids young anyway since they use them as proapgand props), I mean fuck if their parents want them to know sooner then they can teach them themselves. 

For comments, check them out here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYi2GqLwMxw

So Jim Sterling, suck on that dick! :p

because they fear them ;)

it sure is when you do your homework on Alfred Kinsey.

I have a better one; if the Left claim we’re born “blank slates” then that means gender dysphoria is being ignored and gender ideology (post-genderism) is being promoted instead which is detrimental to legit trans (not the trenders) and it also means “gays aren’t born that way”, doesn’t it. Is already causing problems - even within the LGBT if you kept up with the news, like earlier this year a lesbian spoke on trans activists targeting lesbians to convince them to become transmen.....hmm

Personally I believe it is what Milo said; nature vs nurture and the Left are conditioning their kids with their gender ideology, and that is not a conspiracy; they flaunt it on social media and push it in academia. So anyway, people are agreeing with the muslims on this issue from what I’m seeing despite the hypocrisy and double standards from the regressives but still the point is the Left targeting the youth with their marxist religion while they’re under double digits dont look good to any rational person across the board. tsk tsk

#jim sterling #islamophobia #lgbtq #intersectionality #islam #you see how progressivism interectionality is poison?

[imeverywoman420]

Right wing white guys calling women speaking about misogyny “white feminism” is so funny. Like oh mr hitler lover 69 wants to tell us about interectionality?

[astriiformes]

Incoming book rec, but I got my copy of “Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex,” by Angela Chen in the mail today (it only just came out) and after tearing through the whole thing, I’m going to throw it out there that it’s a solid must-read for aces and allos alike. 

She does a wonderful job of centering the ace experience in a way that I think will be really valuable for allies that want to better understand asexuality and the struggles aces go through, while simultaneously being an incredibly validating read that had me, as an ace person, consistently going “I can’t believe there’s a book out there that actually talks about this” -- I felt seen from the dedication onwards, and it kept that energy the whole way through. Not to mention the book isn’t just an autobiography, but the synthesis of dozens of interviews with aces of so many demographics -- disabled aces, trans aces, aces of color, aces who are more than one of the above, and so much more -- and is a really fantastic case study in doing interectionality right. And for those on the other side of the aspec equation, the chapter where she breaks down romance, amatonormativity, and the pressures it enforces had some of the most accurate and empathetic writing I’ve seen on the aromantic community as well, with a clear delineation between the identities that nonetheless dwells in the ways asexuality and aromanticism both defy similar social norms. (Which was actually really refreshing to see from an allo ace writer -- she even dips a little into the stereotypes faced by allosexual aromantics, in a way that felt neither out of place nor like it was trying to draw parallels between the communities that weren’t actually there)

It’s a great primer to asexuality that I am really glad exists, because I definitely intend to point allies or people who want to educate themselves towards it in the future. But it’s also an exploration into the ways our society puts sex -- and to a lesser extent, romance -- on a pedestal, and what the ace perspective has to offer the rest of the world in tearing it down. I was waiting to recommend it until I got my hands on a copy, but she addressed every issue I usually worry people will mishandle fantastically. I would love to see this book do well, for so many reasons, and I doubt I’m the only one who will get a lot out of it. Definitely the best book I’ve read so far this year.

#the most impressive thing i can say about it is that i cannot remember the last time i tore through a whole book the day i got it #i am....... really glad #that said it was (unintentionally) a pretty funny read at times as someone who is both very ace and very online and has been for a while #love seeing a citation for a 'blogger' and going 'that's a tumblr user and i've read their aroace luke skywalker fanfic' #aceblogging #book recs

[makiruz]

Today I saw with my own two eyes, self proclaimed lesbian feminist Julie Bindel, imply universities are bad because they make people “woke” and stupid, you know, like a conservative.

This in the same paragraph where she says interectionality is a thing of young privileged women. Not surprised a white British woman will throw a black woman under the bus like that, but it’s still sad

#rants #Julie Bindel #feminism

[nataliewhiteforequalrights]

The Activist In The Artist In The Activist ...oh my.

The Activist In The Artist In The Activist …oh my.

Bill Brady Gallery is hosting me in an exhibition (Miami on the 7th of April 2017!)and selling the art that allows me to make the art, that fuels the activism, to save our rights to create the art. As the Gorilla Girls say “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” #IntersectionalityMatters

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[thefeministpaper]

MenAreTrash

MenAreTrash.

When a woman gets sexually assaulted, the first thing that goes into the minds of the people is what was she wearing?, when we have information on the type of clothing she had on we can determine if she asked for it. We proceed to wait for information about the time period she was raped and if her outfit suited the environment she was in, we go ahead and wait for journalists and the…

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[isaacc008-blog]

Crosley-Corcoran Response

Interectionality plays a very strange role in my life. The more I think about this topic of privilege, the more I realize something so weird. This realization is that if my life played out differently, I wouldn't even be typing this response because I wouldn't even be in college! Since our first discussion on privelege and after hearing what my classmates had to say or how they interpreted it and reading what Tal had to say, I realize that im not supposed to be here in college. I mean just look at the class. I am the only noticeable minority. I am an anomaly. If that's not proof of privilege and opportunities that arise from unchangeable aspects, then I don't know what is. I say this because the idea of intersectionality is the only reason I am here. I was raised middle class. I went to a predominantly white private school (I was the only black kid in the entire school from 2nd grade all the way to 8th) and adopted their mindset. This mindset told me that success was just something thats supposed to happen to me. I was supposed to get good grades and graduate salutatorian. I was supposed to get a full ride to UK. I was supposed to succeed, not because I'm a male and definitely not because I'm black, but because of the school my parents had to put me in and the mindset I was brainwashed with while I was there.

Before this discussion and before I started thinking about privilege and intersectionality, everyone was just a human to me. Some had more than others. Some were smarter. Some were more athletic. Now I see others and wonder what their upbringing was like and how it shaped them as a person. Do they understand other peoples struggle... CAN they understand peoples struggle? Do they have the same mindset I used to have that blinds you from empathy?

Overall, the article explained the definition of privilege I was trying to put my finger on in class. It's not about your upbringing. It's about what you are right here and now. Not how it makes you better or makes your life easier, but how you may have less of a hinderance doing certain things because of aspects of your life that you can't change. I believe both left and right sides go way to far trying to prove privilege or trying to debunk it. For example, I could not take Tals article seriously because I didn't understand what he was talking about and why he was talking about it. I feel like he missed the concept entirely. When it came to Briana, she had the right idea, but went too deep with it. The idea of privilege is very simple.

[fivedollarradio]

In theory, [intersectionality] the benign notion that every form of social oppression is linked to every other social oppression. This observation — coined in 1989 by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw — sounds like just another way of rephrasing a slogan from a poster I had in college: My liberation is bound up with yours. That is, the fight for women’s rights is tied up with the fight for gay rights and civil rights and so forth. Who would dissent from the seductive notion of a global sisterhood?

Well, in practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history. Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane. -- Bari Weiss

I thought the original intention of intersectionality was to address the intersection between racial and sexual oppression. As in, a black woman is not oppressed because of her race or her sex, but as a black woman. Those two things can’t be separated. Using interectionality as Weiss calls “a caste system” is, what I think, what happens when these concepts move from an academic to a popular context. They’re applied too broadly, and at the same time, we’ve gone from oppression as structural to oppression as something individualistic. (Listing in your profile where you sit on various axes of oppression.) It’s a pretty risky piece for the Times, still.

(PS: I found the original link on Jerry Coyne’s site, Why Evolution Is True)

#identity

[nataliewhiteforequalrights]

Thank you Edy Blue! #MarchForERA will see you soon!

Thank you Edy Blue! #MarchForERA will see you soon!

Edy Blu was born and raised in Virginia on a farm in Shenandoah Valley. She sings raggae, jazz, rock and folk. She recorded her debut EP, Heart Opener, in Fall 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. We will rock with her during the #MarchForERA

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