I am not arguing for inclusion of more people of colour in a list of big moneymakers.But it is instructive to see who is 1st allowed into the hallowed club of white male moneymakers and to channel our energy into dismantling unjust systems, not demand they let in a handful of us.
As I argue in The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, my ambition is neither to be rich nor to see more women billionaires. I want to see the end of billionaires. feministgiant.substack.com/p/surviving-an…
It is imperative to channel our energy into dismantling unjust systems, not demanding they let in a handful of us - esp in a country like UK where Black people & people of colour are disproportionately impacted by poverty and where pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities.
During the pandemic, billionaires have become richer while workers that are called “essential” and who most risk their lives during the pandemic to keep open an economy that does not serve them are the least valued. feministgiant.substack.com/p/surviving-an… 🎥 @rerutled
I am flagging the BBC top earners story because those four women and the six men with them on that list of top 10 earners are all white. Along with capitalism, racism is one of the tentacles of the octopus aka patriarchy. feministgiant.substack.com/p/surviving-an…
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Govts around the world push children back to school so that they can push parents back to work during the worst global health crisis of our lifetime. Understanding that the pandemic is a fucking disaster for women around the world, read this about why UBI is a feminist issue:
“Bringing a feminist perspective to the basic income discussion foregrounds a distinct set of concerns and virtues of the proposal.” On women’s struggles in the UK to make the feminist case for a universal basic income. feministgiant.substack.com/p/surviving-an…
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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.