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Check out Rise UP!, an excellent digital archive of feminist activism in Canada covering the 1970s through the 1990s. @…
https://riseupfeministarchive.ca/
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No wonder the #religiousright got all bent out of shape:
"Three factors have spurred this astonishing influx - the example set by working #women during World War II, the birth of the #feminist movement during …

(From birdsite: Alex Bertulis-Fernandes @alexbertanades)
Last week one of my art teachers suggested I 'dial down the feminism.'
Today I showed him my newest piece:

Attend “Feminist -vs- Fascists: Justice Can't Wait! Trump Is Not Immune!” rally
Organized by Women’s March
Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 9:30 AM EDT
At the Supreme Court of the United States
https://action.womensmarch.com/events/

Feminist -vs- Fascists: Justice Can't Wait! Trump Is Not Immune!
Join our Noise Protest so the Supreme Court will hear us loud and clear: 📣 📣 📣 JUSTICE CAN'T WAIT! TRUMP IS NOT IMMUNE! On April 25, defendant Trump will argue to the Supreme Court that he shouldn’t face prosecution for his January 6th insurrection attempt. His rationale: because he was President. We disagree. Presidents should not given a free pass for attempting to overthrow our Democracy. Period. Ever. 📣 WHY IT MATTERS • Accountability: Being president doesn’t mean yo…

A Feminist Romance Novel, Podcast! Temptations at Sweetwater Creek - complete series 🤠💘📖
Feminist romance comedy tale | Total listening time: 1h 49m
After their car breaks down in Texas, three friends take refuge at the Sweetwater Creek Ranch Inn where they meet a brooding cowboy with a rough exterior, a sexy innkeeper searching for a friend, and a mysterious guest who may or may no...

A Feminist Romance Novel, Podcast! Temptations at Sweetwater Creek - complete series 🤠💘📖
Feminist romance comedy tale | Total listening time: 1h 49m After their car breaks down in Texas, three friends take refuge at the Sweetwater Creek Ranch Inn where they meet a brooding cowboy with a rough exterior, a sexy innkeeper searching for a friend, and a mysterious guest who may or may not be a vampire. 1 seasons, 4 episodes as of Feb 14, 2024.

Abortion Emerges as Decisive Factor in New York's 3rd Congressional District Special Election - Feminist Majority Foundation
https://feminist.org/news/abortion-emerges-as-decisive-factor-in-new-yorks-3rd-c…

Persuasion or Insulting? Unpacking Discursive Strategies of Gender Debate in Everyday Feminism in China
Yue Deng, Zheng Chen, Changyang He, Zhicong Lu, Bo Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15985

Persuasion or Insulting? Unpacking Discursive Strategies of Gender Debate in Everyday Feminism in China
Speaking out for women's daily needs on social media has become a crucial form of everyday feminism in China. Gender debate naturally intertwines with such feminist advocacy, where users in opposite stances discuss gender-related issues through intense discourse. The complexities of gender debate necessitate a systematic understanding of discursive strategies for achieving effective gender communication that balances civility and constructiveness. To address this problem, we adopted a mixed-met…

Linke, Feminist*innen, Demokrat*innen, die den Umgang mit den Mädchenprojekten des FRIEDA Frauenzentrums richtig finden, weil die oder einige der Leiter*innen als "pro-palästinensisch" beobachtet wurden, sollten sich klarmachen, dass ein derart autoritärer Umgang irgendwann auch andere trifft, wenn dazu geschwiegen wird.
http…

JSYK the important part of "feminist killjoy" is "feminist" not "killjoy"

I got Hole's first single and hated it. I found Pretty On The Inside to be just ok, a bit too noisy and dissonant.
But Live Through This not only sounded better, the songs offered a more sophisticated take on feminist punk rock.
This article does a good job of explaining what was so cool about this album from a socio-political point of view.

Hole's 30th anniversary of album "Live Through This" and Courtney Love's feminist legacy
Op-ed about the feminist legacy of Hole's "Live Through This" album 30 years later

Frameworking for a Community-led Feminist Ethics
Ana O Henriques, Hugo Nicolau, Kyle Montague
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11514 https://

Frameworking for a Community-led Feminist Ethics
This paper introduces a relational perspective on ethics within the context of Feminist Digital Civics and community-led design. Ethics work in HCI has primarily focused on prescriptive machine ethics and bioethics principles rather than people. In response, we advocate for a community-led, processual approach to ethics, acknowledging power dynamics and local contexts. We thus propose a multidimensional adaptive model for ethics in HCI design, integrating an intersectional feminist ethical lens…

"...commercial incentives to “catastrophise” menopause in the minds of women to drive them to purchase often useless products to treat it."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news

Equal Rights Amendment Achieves Huge Win for Reproductive Rights in Nevada - Feminist Majority Foundation
https://feminist.org/news/equal-rights-amendment-achieves-huge-win-for-reproductive-rights-in-nevada/

Women’s liberation mustn’t stop at either side of the Gaza fence
Feminist principles compel us to stand with both the Palestinian women being slaughtered in Gaza and the Israeli women testifying about sexual violence.
Samah Salaime
https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-…

Clever After - complete series 👩🏻‍🏫✨🤴🏼
Dramatized rom-com series | Total listening time: 1h 30m
Amelia—self-righteous, feminist, & always single—is magicked away to a fairytale kingdom. She wants to be a modern woman, but soon finds she's living out every “harmful” female stereotype imaginable, like falling in love with handsome Prin...

Clever After - complete series 👩🏻‍🏫✨🤴🏼
Dramatized rom-com series | Total listening time: 1h 30m Amelia—self-righteous, feminist, & always single—is magicked away to a fairytale kingdom. She wants to be a modern woman, but soon finds she's living out every “harmful” female stereotype imaginable, like falling in love with handsome Prince Charming, who also happens to be her best friend's fiancé. Starring Mike Manning. 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Mar 24, 2023.

🧵 Hilo: Un viejo artículo que mi amigo, mentee y ex colega Mythri Prabhakara escribió sobre el aprendizaje de la seguridad digital durante aproximadamente 8 meses mientras navegaba su #neurodivergencia y otras identidades interseccionales, y una pandemia.
(He compartido un enlace archivado porque las notas a pie de pšgina y el texto que se muestran actualmente son un poco raros)…

Aprender seguridad digital sin ser técnica
Un borrador de madera me llegó volando, cuando yo era una niña de 11 años. Había deletreado mal diagrama de Venn, poniendo “when”N. de la T.: Diagrama de When, en inglés, significaría diagrama de "cuándo" y no tiene sentido. en lugar de Venn y mi profesora de matemática me estaba dando una importante lección. Aunque no figurara oficialmente en el programa de estudios, mi lugar

A great piece!
What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford ‹ Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/what-virginia-woolf-got-wrong-about-lady-anne-clifford/?utm_medium=email&utm_term=lithub_ma…

What Virginia Woolf Got Wrong About Lady Anne Clifford
In her 1929 feminist manifesto, A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf explored the reasons why over the centuries women had written so little compared to men. “A woman must have money and a room of h…

Okay, y'all, it's time for another edition of FediDrama. This time, let's talk about dealing with criticism.
I've seen this pattern a lot when it comes to men and sexism, and it goes something like this:
Man: Says something casually sexist
Woman: Corrects him, trying to teach him why it's sexist
Man: "Well, these *other* women said it's fine, and I'm a feminist, so screw you!"
Class, what is the issue with this picture?
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The Pathway to Recognizing the Equal Rights Amendment - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2024/02/20/equal-rights-amendment-era-2024/

The Pathway to Recognizing the Equal Rights Amendment - Ms. Magazine
At the Radical Optimism Conference on Jan. 26, hosted by former U.S. Rep Carolyn Maloney, political activists from around the state rallied for recognition of the federal ERA, made plans for securing a New York state constitutional amendment, plotted strategies for the 2024 elections and committed themselves to showing strong support by recruiting signers for the national ERA petition, Sign4ERA.org. “In 2024, women’s rights will be on the ballot,” said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Femi…

This IWD I am remembering Nellie McClung, a feminist, political activist, and writer. (Coincidentally, she is also the great-aunt of my mom's childhood best friend.)
Nellie started out working for temperance (although later in life she said that prohibition had not been the right way to deal with the alcohol problem). But soon she was fighting for women to be recognized as persons under the law, and for women to get the vote.
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Because I love documenting Philippine historical markers, my simple way to honor #InternationalWomensDay today is to share these photos of 3 markers that commemorate the Asociación Feminista Filipina, the first women’s organization in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 that was founded by Concepcion Fel…

File:Asociacion Feminista Filipina site historical marker in Santa Cruz 2.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Schade finde ich, dass es bei den Protesten gegen rechts nur wenig um den Frauen- und LGBTIQ-Hass geht, der für Nazi-Ideologie konstitutierend ist.
Wenn das angesprochen wird, nicken zwar alle, aber dann wird es direkt vergessen.
Die Bekämpfung des Rechts auf Abtreibung, die Hass-Wellen gegen Feminist*innen und sichtbare Frauen, die Todesschützen, die es auf Feminist*innen abgesehen haben, Verbote gegenderter Sprache.
Dasselbe für LGBTIQ. Hass auf trans.
Wer das ver…

Palestine activist to Angela Rayner:
“Fifteen thousand children and women are dead: where has your voice been?
“You call yourself a modern-day feminist? I don’t think so. Women are having to use scraps, tents, for sanitary towels.”
And a grieving Palestinian was dragged out of Labour meeting in #Stockport,

Grieving Palestinian dragged out of Labour meeting as Rayner heckled by activists

Solarpunk in der Wildnis.
#Solarpunk #Leipzig

Interessanter Tag irgendwie...
Ich bin um 9:30 Uhr heute morgen los, weil ein Kumpel mich zu einem Brunch eingeladen hat.
Während des Brunchs kommt ein Herr an unseren Tisch, der mich mit mit dem Nachnamen meiner Tochter anspricht und dann sagt, sie sind doch der Feminist. Woraufhin mein Kumpel meint: Ah ja, ich wusste schon immer, dass mit dir was nicht stimmt!" 😂
Der Herr entpuppte sich als der Deutschlehrer meiner Tochter. Er war ihr Lieblingslehrer und hatte
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Chia Pet - "Hey Baby" (1992)
One of my all time favorites.
Their fiery feminist anger comes through without feeling strident.
#IWD2024 #InternationalWomensDay #playlist

🧵 Thread: Re-plugging an old article that my friend, mentee and former colleague Mythri Prabhakara wrote about learning digital security over approximately 8 months while navigating her #neurodivergence and other intersectional identities, and a pandemic to boot.
(I’ve shared an archived link because the footnotes and text currently displaying are a bit weird.)

Learning digital security as a “non-techie”
A wooden duster came flying at 11-year-old me. I had misspelled my Venn diagram as “when diagram”, and the math teacher was teaching me an important lesson. Although not officially a part of the syllabus, my place within the classroom was clear. I was, as she called me, a pedhi.Kannada (Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in the southwestern

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05805 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

And Then the Hammer Broke: Reflections on Machine Ethics from Feminist Philosophy of Science
Vision is an important metaphor in ethical and political questions of knowledge. The feminist philosopher Donna Haraway points out the ``perverse'' nature of an intrusive, alienating, all-seeing vision (to which we might cry out ``stop looking at me!''), but also encourages us to embrace the embodied nature of sight and its promises for genuinely situated knowledge. Current technologies of machine vision -- surveillance cameras, drones (for war or recreation), iPhone cameras -- are usually cons…

A Holistic Indicator of Polarization to Measure Online Sexism
Vahid Ghafouri, Jose Such, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02205 https://<…

A Holistic Indicator of Polarization to Measure Online Sexism
The online trend of the manosphere and feminist discourse on social networks requires a holistic measure of the level of sexism in an online community. This indicator is important for policymakers and moderators of online communities (e.g., subreddits) and computational social scientists, either to revise moderation strategies based on the degree of sexism or to match and compare the temporal sexism across different platforms and communities with real-time events and infer social scientific ins…

#LosAngeles #FreePalestine #Palestine #CheviotHills