Exactly 25yrs ago, I was in #Beijing for the UN Women’s Conference, which used to take place every 10yrs in a different country. The conference in China was the last one. Why? Global Patriarchal Fuckery
I make FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches from the Pandemic videos and the Newsletter to connect the lessons I learned from my time at the conference in 1995: We are fighting not just misogyny but also many of the patriarchy’s tentacles.
Multiplicity of Fuckeries.
I began FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter to accompany the Dispatches from the Pandemic because we must pay attention NOW to the multiplicity of fuckeries that the pandemic is accelerating. #COVID19. Sign up 👉🏽👉🏽 feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon?…
Feminism is a daily struggle. It isn’t something I keep in the closet and which I wear every few weeks when some man has been a shit to me. Feminism is more than men and misogyny. It is a daily revolution for what we are told is “impossible.” 🎥 @rerutled
I created FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter because I want what you read about feminism to be about the world and the feminist activists fighting back against patriarchal fuckery. I created it as a reminder that the U.S. is not the centre of the Feminist Universe.
I created this Newsletter because I want to write as I speak and I say “Fuck” a lot and FEMINIST GIANT is unfiltered and increasingly ungoverned.
White & Christian are considered norm and not dangerous in the U.S. 👇🏽
"GOP Sen Anthony Kern & his prayer team of anti-abortion extremists praying in tongues (that’s not an audio issue) that an 1864 law banning nearly all abortion becomes law again."
It's easy to see the fascists and theocrats when they don't look like you. When they're white and Christian, their danger has not registered enough:
So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia:Iran, that so many white women didn’t pay enough attention to theocracy that white supremacy was building at home theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…
It was being built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, not the scary brown men with beards, right?
The same arrogance and naiveté that made so many white Americans think Trump would never become president is same arrogance & naiveté that made so many think "it would never happen here” whether it was destruction of abortion rights:anti-divorce laws feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
Two months into its genocide in Gaza, the more Israel displays its savagery against Palestinians, the more obvious its moral and philosophical defeat.
Militarily, Israel is armed to the teeth and propped up by the U.S., the world’s most powerful country.
And Israel is losing
The unconscionable vote against ceasefire at the UN yesterday by U.S. & abstention by the UK are reminders that while some western political powers might still be propping up Israel’s crimes,around the world more & more people vehemently oppose the genocide.
Israel is losing
Israel’s crimes are repeatedly being equated w/some of worst genocidal crimes: from ethnic cleansing and genocide in Srebrenica to the cultural genocide of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
It has come at a staggeringly high Palestinian death toll—at least 20,000.
When the NYT is reporting it like this, something is changing
"People are being killed in Gaza more quickly, they say, than in even the deadliest moments of U.S.-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups."
"It is not just the scale of the strikes...Israel’s liberal use of very large weapons in dense urban areas, including U.S.-made 2,000-pound bombs that can flatten an apartment tower, is surprising, some experts say."
Some of you will remember that at in Sept. 2012, I was arrested in NYC for spray painting over an Islamophobic and racist pro-Israel ad.
Notice the language of the ad and how it continues to echo today. 📷 Kristy Leibowitz
Anytime you see the words “civilized” and “savage” being used, understand that the purpose is dehumanization.
I refused to allow that dehumanization to exist without challenge on the walls of the subway that I and millions of New Yorkers use.
We who oppose Israel are not savages and there are more options than Israel/Jihad. And if it makes me a savage to oppose that option, if it makes me a savage to support Palestinian freedom from apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing and genocide, then I am a proud savage.