linocut print #2! first time doing lettering and i think it turned out pretty okay π
Mexico was painted purple by feminists today π₯°
Today, the feminist movement took the streets of mexico, with women marching for their rights and against the epidemic of feminicides that is taking place in the country πππ
When the march began to be organized in social networks, people were "worried" and critizised the lack of empathy (from feminists) with the women (specifically) who'd have to clean the streets after the marching - the cleaning ladies showed up to show their support tho πβοΈ
This was today and I'm filled with pride, I wasn't able to participate and it breaks my heart. However tomorrow is the mexican feminist strike - just like Icelandic women did in 1975 - tomorrow, Mexican feminist groups have called for a full on strike: no women in schools, work places or even on the streets. Women won't buy or sell anything tomorrow, or actively participate in the mexican society in any way, including social media. No internet tomorrow for us. So I wont see ya until the tenth. βββ
Where I grew up, in a country where “sex work is just work” and the social effects of the knowledge that there’s a price to peoples bodies are in the mainstream, the simple act of being a woman (or a 11 year old girl) walking down the street, was enough to have men in car after car slow down next to me, or walk close behind me and stare me down trying to figure out if I was a prostitute, asking me “how much”
Sex work seeds the mindset that every woman is a potential object to be bought for the right price, if she’s in the right situation.
This seeds the mindset in girls growing up, especially in the poorer parts of these countries, that it’s a very potential outcome for their lives to have to have sex for money to be able to survive because our options are already limited to begin with, growing up knowing what street we can walk to if we ever had to “work” to feed ourselves, in the back of our minds
The memories of the miserable women on the street I would see, and how often I was petitioned for sex for money growing up always flashes now that I live in America, when I complain of being broke or wanting extra money, people tell me to sell my naked pictures, to strip, to cam etc. Overhearing my male coworker state he would gladly help a friend out of a financial bind, but only for a blow job. And it makes me feel sick
But since sex work is just work that’s not a problem is it? I should never complain about lack of money or seek out financial help when I would get hired immediately at the strip club next door, any offer for sex is an offer for employment
It seeds misogyny and objectification, it fuels rape culture.
coercion is not a free yes, why would anyone other than a rapist want sexual interactions with someone who is only doing it out of need?
Mother Dominique Cristina responds to a tweet her daughter sent her about a guy breaking up with his girlfriend because her period started while they had sex. (x)
there is no woke or acceptable way to put conditions on which abortions are allowed! individual choices about your fucking body are not the same as eugenics! abortion on demand without apology!
I’m getting fed up with this whole “feminism as an identity” thing. Time for “feminism as an action.”
So instead of asking “can a feminist do x?” ask “is doing x a feminist action!”
Can a feminist take her husband’s last name? Mu. Null. Question un-valid, please un-ask question.
Is taking your husband’s last name a feminist action? No it isn’t. It doesn’t challenge the patriarchy in anyway, it is the status quo thing to do, it is what is expected of women, and it carries a lot of historical baggage about ownership and shit like that.
But that’s okay, your life choices don’t have to be 100% dictated by your politics unless you want them to. And it’s okay to really want to take his name while recognizing that you also want to do the feminist thing and keep your own, and it’s okay to feel conflicted and have a hard time making the choice. But no more of this enabling “as long as I made the choice myself it is a feminist choice” -bullshit. Own your choices, even the ones that aren’t informed by your feminist politics. You are still a human being and people do shit that contradicts their politics and even interests all the time. Just stop pretending that everything you do is feminist because you are a feminist, that’s not how it works.
^^this is why bell hooks challenges us to say “i support feminist movement” or “i support feminist action” rather than “i am a feminist.” she says that once we say “i am a feminist” and make “feminist” an identity rather than a political movement or a set of beliefs and the actions resulting from those beliefs, we can become complacent and think the battle is over.
still essential thinking
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen
South Korean beauty standards take shit to the next. Fucking. Level. Women are evaluated in totality based on every minor physical detail and whether it matches the ideal to the point where their decision to go under the knife for procedures the likes of blepharoplasty (surgery on their eyelids) is a main determinant of whether they get a job. For them, shit like this is an expectation. Fuck that garbage, burn it up ladies.
Leslie Feinberg on trans exclusion in feminist spaces.
“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”
From TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.
