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sleaterkinnie · 1 year
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will never forgive what corporations have done to feminism and how they have brainwashed countless young girls into thinking this new wave of feminism is how it should be. that they are rebelling by not being basic yet still being as pretty as humanly possible at all times. that the best place a girl can be is a ceo. that womanhood is sacred and divine and specific and cant be dirty or ugly or annoying or come in different shapes and sizes. we are slowly turning back to being pure and beautiful as possible through some warped ass tiktok “spirituality”
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tygerland · 5 months
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Annie Lennox - September 1983, London - photo by Peter Ashworth.
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leatherlesbianstuff · 20 days
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Women being shown how to examine themselves at the LA self-help clinic, Bettye Lane, 1972.
Happy International Women’s Day!
We’ve come so far but there’s still so much further to go 💪
Sourced from @womenphotographershistory on Instagram
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hairtusk · 6 months
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Marilyn French, The Women's Room (1977)
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scobbe · 8 months
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“Ah! Poor women, how they are misunderstood! And yet they love God in much larger numbers than men do and during the Passion of our Lord, women had more courage than the apostles since they braved the insults of the soldiers and dared to dry the adorable Face of Jesus. It is undoubtably because of this that He allows misunderstanding to be their lot on earth, since He chose it for Himself. In heaven, He will show that His thoughts are not men’s thoughts, for then the last will be first.”
- Saint Therese of Lisieux, A Story of a Soul, slyly suggesting not only does Christ suffer in solidarity with women but also that women will be elevated over men in heaven.
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marysbrighteststar · 4 months
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the anti-aging industry is disgusting. we will inevitably age, you don’t have to inject your face with botox and drink from specialized straws when you can just face reality.
aging is beautiful. God created us this way, and we should allow ourselves to feel life to its full extent instead of fearing our beauty being lessened.
when your worth is placed on character instead of outer-appearance, you will glow with happiness, and that’s what truly makes someone gorgeous forever.
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disease · 6 months
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KATHLEEN HANNA | BIKINI KILL | ‘90s
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reasonsforhope · 7 months
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Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday [September 6], ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights in a sweeping decision that extended Latin American’s trend of widening abortion access.
The high court ordered that abortion be removed from the federal penal code. The ruling will require the federal public health service and all federal health institutions to offer abortion to anyone who requests it.
“No woman or pregnant person, nor any health worker, will be able to be punished for abortion,” the Information Group for Chosen Reproduction, known by its Spanish initials GIRE, said in a statement.
Some 20 Mexican states, however, still criminalize abortion. While judges in those states will have to abide by the court’s decision, further legal work will be required to remove all penalties.
Celebration of the ruling soon spilled out onto social media.
“Today is a day of victory and justice for Mexican women!” Mexico’s National Institute for Women wrote in a message on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The government organization called the decision a “big step” toward gender equality...
The Details
The court said on X that “the legal system that criminalized abortion” in Mexican federal law was unconstitutional because it “violates the human rights of women and people with the ability to gestate.” ...
-via AP News, September 6, 2023. Article continues below.
The decision came two years after the court ruled that abortion was not a crime in one northern state. That ruling set off a slow state-by-state process of decriminalizing it.
Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to drop criminal penalties.
Abortion-rights activists will have to continue seeking legalization state by state, though Wednesday’s decision should make that easier. State legislatures can also act on their own to erase abortion penalties.
For now, the ruling does not mean that every Mexican women will be able to access the procedure immediately, explained Fernanda Díaz de León, sub-director and legal expert for women’s rights group IPAS.
What it does do — in theory — is obligate federal agencies to provide the care to patients. That’s likely to have a cascade of effects...
Lifting Abortion Restrictions Across Latin America
Across Latin America, countries have made moves to lift abortion restrictions in recent years, a trend often referred to as a “green wave,” in reference to the green bandanas carried by women protesting for abortion rights in the region.
The changes in Latin America stand in sharp contrast to increasing restrictions on abortion in parts of the United States. Some American women were already seeking help from Mexican abortion rights activists to obtain pills used to end pregnancies.
Mexico City was the first Mexican jurisdiction to decriminalize abortion 15 years ago.
After decades of work by activists across the region, the trend picked up speed in Argentina, which in 2020 legalized the procedure. In 2022, Colombia, a highly conservative country, did the same.
-via AP News, September 6, 2023. Headings added.
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billyengland · 3 months
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Feminism in a nutshell. You did this to yourselves, ladies. Now it's up to you to fix it.
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tomieexoxo · 2 months
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ballpitwitch · 7 months
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The Matrix Resurrections: Featurettes
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haggishlyhagging · 10 months
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Why were women of the present cut off from women of the past and how was this achieved? While we had been ready to believe the lessons of our own education and to accept that there was but a handful of women in the past who had protested against male power, that they were ‘eccentric’ at best, and more usually ‘neurotic’, ‘embittered’ and quite unrepresentative, then the absence of women's voices from history seemed understandable. But when it began to appear that there had been many women who had been saying in centuries past what we were saying in the 1970s, that they had been representative of their sex, and that they had disappeared, the problem assumed very different proportions.
For years I had not thought to challenge the received wisdom of my own history tutors who had — in the only fragment of knowledge about angry women I was ever endowed with — informed me that early in the twentieth century, a few unbalanced and foolish women had chained themselves to railings in the attempt to obtain the vote. When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a woman's press, and a women's bank run by and for women, I could no longer accept that the reason I knew almost nothing about women of the past was because there were so few of them, and they had done so little. I began to acknowledge not only that the women's movement of the early twentieth century was bigger, stronger and more influential than I had ever suspected, but that it might not have been the only such movement. It was in this context that I began to wonder whether the disappearance of the women of the past was an accident.
Dale Spender, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them
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coquette blogger joan of arc be like my year of quest and relaxation
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cridhe · 11 months
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obsessed with this book im reading rn. essential reading for anyone interested in (first wave) feminism and/or imperialism:
Burdens of History British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915
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hairtusk · 6 months
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Andrea Dworkin, 'Pornography', from Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981)
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reading up on the different waves of feminism and it struck me how each wave was consistently criticized for not being inclusive enough
and I can agree with this on an intellectual level; there's women across the world in different cultures that are oppressed and that need speaking up for and it makes sense to do that
but at the same time, I find it really heinous to be told it's selfish and not 'real feminism' if you just fight your fight, stand up for women that resemble you, who live your life, live your plight
it just seems like a vile tactic to punch the movement down. oh, you only think of western women? what about nepalese girls who have to sit in menstruation huts?
yeah man, that's fucking horrific but maybe the nepalese feminists can educate that part of the world? and maybe us western women can focus on our specific cultural oppression?
this movement is regressing at a rapid rate. we're now being asked to stand up for all marginalized groups of people
this is purposely muddying the waters
let feminism be about women
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