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(x)kristen loves women and she doesn’t take shit
It’s wonderful how much of this game she is not playing.
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I have never been to an event where the speakers have thanked specifically women for being brave enough to come, despite how challenging misogyny can be dangerous for women.
But nearly all events for women right’s I’ve been to have profusely thanked and singled out men for how great they are to think women are people too.
These are not events I feel comfortable at anymore.
I’d like nonbinary people to be included too. Yeah, leaving the house is dangerous.
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A catcall is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The purity myth is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The fetishization of female purity in a world where catcalls are an acceptable form of communication telegraphs one thing very clearly:
“Women, stop sexualizing yourselves—that’s our job, and you’re taking all the fun out of it.”
The sexualization of women is only appealing if it’s nonconsensual. Otherwise it’s “sluttiness,” and sluttiness is agency and agency is threatening.
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Author refuses permission for Israeli company to publish The Color Purple
World renowned author Alice Walker has refused to give permission to an Israeli company, Yediot Books, to publish her award-winning novel, The Color Purple.
Citing Israel’s “apartheid policies”, Ms Walker wrote in a letter dated 9 June, “It isn’t possible for me to permit this at this time for the following reason… Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.”
The Color Purple, which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was filmed by Steven Spielberg in 1985 and nominated for 11 Oscars. Both the book and film deal with racism in the American South in the first part of the 20th century.
During the 1980s, Walker also refused permission for the movie adaptation of her book to be screened in apartheid South Africa.
Walker’s move has been welcomed by the South African Artists Against Apartheid collective and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, which described it as a significant “victory” for the cultural boycott of Israel.
Read the Alice Walker’s below:Letter from Alice Walker to Publishers at Yediot Books
This letter is published with author’s permission.
June 9, 2012
Dear Publishers at Yediot Books,Thank you so much for wishing to publish my novel THE COLOR PURPLE. It isn’t possible for me to permit this at this time for the following reason: As you may know, last Fall in South Africa the Russell Tribunal on Palestine met and determined that Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. The testimony we heard, both from Israelis and Palestinians (I was a jurist) was devastating. I grew up under American apartheid and this was far worse. Indeed, many South Africans who attended, including Desmond Tutu, felt the Israeli version of these crimes is worse even than what they suffered under the white supremacist regimes that dominated South Africa for so long.
It is my hope that the non-violent BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, of which I am part, will have enough of an impact on Israeli civilian society to change the situation.
In that regard, I offer an earlier example of THE COLOR PURPLE’s engagement in the world-wide effort to rid humanity of its self-destructive habit of dehumanizing whole populations. When the film of The Color Purple was finished, and all of us who made it decided we loved it, Steven Spielberg, the director, was faced with the decision of whether it should be permitted to travel to and be offered to the South African public. I lobbied against this idea because, as with Israel today, there was a civil society movement of BDS aimed at changing South Africa’s apartheid policies and, in fact, transforming the government.
It was not a particularly difficult position to hold on my part: I believe deeply in non-violent methods of social change though they sometimes seem to take forever, but I did regret not being able to share our movie, immediately, with (for instance) Winnie and Nelson Mandela and their children, and also with the widow and children of the brutally murdered, while in police custody, Steven Biko, the visionary journalist and defender of African integrity and freedom.
We decided to wait. How happy we all were when the apartheid regime was dismantled and Nelson Mandela became the first president of color of South Africa.
Only then did we send our beautiful movie! And to this day, when I am in South Africa, I can hold my head high and nothing obstructs the love that flows between me and the people of that country.
Which is to say, I would so like knowing my books are read by the people of your country, especially by the young, and by the brave Israeli activists (Jewish and Palestinian) for justice and peace I have had the joy of working beside. I am hopeful that one day, maybe soon, this may happen. But now is not the time.
We must continue to work on the issue, and to wait.
In faith that a just future can be fashioned from small acts,
Alice Walker
This woman is legendary.
DAMN PROUD THAT SHE’S AN SLC ALUM, DAMN PROUD
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“gender serves male supremacy” said the white feminist while living on the colonized land of Indigenous peoples who had many matriarchal and gender non-binary (more than two genders) societies that were egalitarian and have faced extreme repression due to white supremacist patriarchy which she benefits from, being a colonizer.
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Eartha Kitt slamming and shutting down street harassment and objectification in Anna Lucasta (1958)
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Some have a difficult time with feminism. ‘Why not a human liberation movement?’ they say. The answer is that the power differences between the sexes, races, and classes are still so extreme that invoking humanism, at this time, dangerously denies that fact.
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The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen charged with felony for science experiment →
This is what the school-to-prison pipeline looks like. This is how black youth criminalized.
- She was doing a science experiment
- She’s being charged as an ADULT
- She’s being charged with a FELONY
If this all goes the way the prosecution wants, this young woman will be LEGALLY discriminated against for the rest of her life. No voting, housing discrimination, employment discrimination (as if getting a job while black isn’t hard enough), etc. etc.
There is a petition up … spread the word.
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot
Hey, remember this from yesterday? Go ahead and hit up the petition.
Riptide spoke to the Polk County School District about why they felt expulsion was a fair punishment for Wilmot. Their response: kids should learn that “there are consequences to their actions.”
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The school is on twitter and facebook. Feel free to start the public shaming.
what the everloving FUCK
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