Feminist pioneer #MoniqueBégin dies at 87

«In 1966, she was a signatory of the founding charter of the #FederationDesFemmesDuQuebec, for which she served as the first vice-president.

The following year, she was named secretary general of the #RoyalCommission of Inquiry into the Status of #Women in #Canada. The report it published in 1970 remains important to this day.»

#FFQ #Quebec #Feminist #Feminism #CanadaHealthAct #ChildTaxCredit #OrderOfCanada

Read more here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/feminist-pioneer-monique-b%C3%A9gin-dies-at-87-1.6962053

Thanks again to the 80 or so who attended our #FacilitationWeek session today #Feminist #Facilitation, and for sharing your experience & insight so generously - watch this space for the recording , slides & outputs next week!

‘It’s offensive’: backlash against China’s ‘good for marriage’ women’s trend

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/10/chinas-good-for-marriage-womens-trend-ignites-social-media-debate

"The country’s #MeToo reckoning continues in fits and starts, despite social and legal obstacles to individual cases and government crackdowns on #feminist groups.”

#China #feminism #marriage

"What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way."

Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and playwright, as well as an early feminist, conservationist, and defender of Native American and Spanish-American rights and culture.

https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/books-media/mary-austin-mojave-nature-writer/

#Author #Feminist #activists #Environmentalists

Lesbians problems am I right ?

#lgbt #lgbtq🌈 #lgbtq #lgbtpride #lgbtcommuntiy #lgbt🌈#trans #transgirl #transwoman #transisbeautiful #transgender #transpride #female
#transmodel #transbeauty #femme #feminism #feminist #feminineenergy
#femaleentrepreneur #femininity #femmefatale #femaleartist #gay #gaypride #gaylife #laughs #funnymoments #meme #memes #funnymemes
#dankmemes #memesfordays #lesbians

1/? #Golda, #feminist icon? #girlboss-ing #warcrimes.

I'm sorry this film exists & that this theater supports it, though I'm not necessarily saying one should ban a movie. I will say that The Carolina Theater promoting this without education/context is like celebrating #Confederatemonuments ("history" or "heritage" minus the necessary education on their context& legacy of #slavery, murder, jim crow, #policebrutality).
#humanrights #FreePalestine #blacklivesmatter #palestine #palestinesolidarity

1/? #Golda, #feminist icon? #girlboss-ing #warcrimes.

I'm sorry this film exists & that this theater supports it, though I'm not necessarily saying one should ban a movie. I will say that The Carolina Theater promoting this without education/context is like celebrating #Confederatemonuments ("history" or "heritage" minus the necessary education on their context& legacy of #slavery, murder, jim crow, #policebrutality).
#humanrights #FreePalestine #blacklivesmatter #palestine #palestinesolidarity

Wolf once had a cluster of superficial political and personal similarities to Klein: a #feminist author of real literary ability, a #Jewish woman, and, of course, a Naomi. Klein grew accustomed to being mistaken for Wolf, but never fully comfortable. Wolf's politics were always more Sheryl Sandberg than bell hooks (or Emma Goldman).

4/

#Trans #lesbian #feminist Beth Elliot’s response to #TERFs who attacked her at the West Coast Lesbian Conference, 1973

http://revolution.berkeley.edu/of-infidels-and-inquisitions/

Since it’s #LGBTqia+ #history month it’s a good time to bring this back, with a minor correction- her surname is actually Elliott, with two t’s
Also here’s a photo of Beth from around the time she performed at the conference-

Back when TERFs were barely a thing, when as a movement they were only just coming into existence, one of the first trans #woman to be confronted with their shit already looked at them and realized that TERFs make damn good #fascists. It has been that obvious this whole time.

#Feminist scholar Sara Ahmed has observed that anti-trans #feminists rely on a bit of rhetorical sleight of hand: endlessly concerned about the erasure of #feminism, and constantly given a platform to speak on it, they rely on widespread #ignorance of feminist #theory and #history in order to be taken seriously, perpetuating the very erasure they claim to mourn. #Lesbian and feminist history are, of course, intimately intertwined.

https://overland.org.au/2023/09/the-truth-about-lesbian-erasure/

"...Veel mensen maken de vergelijking met de #MeToo-beweging van een aantal jaar terug.

#Feminist en journalist #CristinaFallarás ziet dat anders. 'Het grootste verschil tussen #SeAcabó en MeToo is dat de slachtoffers zich toen uitspraken. Nu zijn het de overlevenden, de winnaars die zich uitspreken. Dat is een enorm verschil.'"

Dit kan volgens mij ook gewoon zònder het frame van "slachtoffer vs winnaar".

https://nos.nl/artikel/2488929-spaanse-vrouwen-staan-op-na-kus-bondsvoorzitter-het-is-voorbij

Ashes & Stones is @waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for September! Thank you Waterstones for supporting my debut nonfiction book. #scotland #scottish #ScottishHistory #ScottishFolklore #Witch #witchcraft #WitchesOfMastodon #Feminism #Feminist #Nonfiction #Debut #CreativeNonfiction #Books #bookstodon #Queer #Disabled #WritingCommunity #Histodon #history

People are yammering about how #PoorThings is like Frankenstein. As a promoter of obscure #Feminist TV, may I suggest that it's more like every time Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) got reborn on #LostGirl.

@ADHDefy @animefeminist Has a whole website devoted to #feminist perspectives on #Anime. I would start there. The writing on their website is also really good.

https://www.animefeminist.com/

What does #feminism bring to facilitation, and what does #feminist #facilitation look like? Register now to join us, to connect, share & learn – Monday, 11 Sep 1-2:30pm UK time #FacilitationWeek https://martingilbraith.com/2023/08/29/feminist-facilitation-facilitation-week-free-webinar/

Finished this last night.

its a pretty good book and that rare beast of a #Feminist contempory #fantasy

its not perfect, Juno Dawson's history as a YA author shows itself in the rather direct dialogue but all in all its fun even if most of the plot points are obvious fairly early in the book.

3.5/ 5

Oh yeah, men's razors have to be necessities! We can't have the slightest bit of stubble! Period products? Why would we do that? Women love being covered in their blood!

#feminism #feminist #WomensRights

I find it ridiculous to justify supporting #feminism based on the fact of having sisters, mother, daughters....
Being a #feminist has nothing to do with your family tree but with achieving #equality

It was just the case of a married couple that felt sexual disconnection, like so many out there...

Instead, Sari van Anders and friends from #QueensUniversity turned it in an amazing paper targeting the root causes that frame the role of women in our society as oppressed household laborers and #caregivers.

(just a few out-of-context inputs on neoliberism for my taste, but a must read for every #feminist interested in creating new political discourse)

#SciHub link:

https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1007/s10508-021-02100-x

Eine Zeitlang hab ich überlegt, #Feminist zu werden. Aber ich kann das nicht. Es scheint mir einfach zu dumm.