Civility, decorum, manners and the like are used to uphold authority--patriarchy, whiteness, wealth, other forms of privilege--and we are urged to acquiesce in service to maintaining that authority. We are not obligated to show respect to those in power. feministgiant.substack.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
Whether we are urged to be civil to racists or polite to patriarchy, the goal is the same: to maintain the power of the racist, to maintain the power of patriarchy. lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-…
I refuse to allow those who don't recognize my full humanity to expect politeness of me. If they go low, I will fucking come for them.
"If decent language has not been used to effect change on behalf of Ugandans, of what use is it? I would rather insult and change things, revise the balance of power, than keep quiet or be polite in ways that do not change anything," @drstellanyanzifeministgiant.substack.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
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There were large protests against further proposed restrictions to abortion in #Poland on Saturday, which marked the 102nd anniversary of women’s suffrage in the country. p.dw.com/p/3lyCt?maca=e… h/t @bunkybun
When the fascist fucks in your country use a pandemic to tighten their grip on your body with a near total ban on abortion, the path to freedom must be paved with profanity. Politeness is capitulation. Fuck is a feminist word. #StrajkKobiet
I wrote about the whiteness of the art world here, when I examined who the “everywoman” that a recently unveiled sculpture in the UK was meant to represent feministgiant.substack.com/p/for-mary-wol…
“She’s everywoman and clothes would have restricted her... she’s more or less the shape we’d all like to be.”
Who the fuck is “we” and who the fuck is the “every” in that “everywoman” and why the fuck is she young and white?
“I think twice before I share moments of vulnerability on social media.When you’re a feminist accustomed to having the dogs of patriarchy let loose on you, you become more comfortable with vowing to bring pain to your enemies than to admitting to your own” feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-fallin…
But I have learned to do both. And unfailingly, and surprisingly, when I do share my pain, it is held with such care and love by my community of total strangers and comrades online that I have to remind myself that softness drives the revolution as much as rage.
I refuse to emerge from this pandemic as if unscathed. I insist that we all be scathed, that we refuse to be the people we were at the start of the pandemic. A pandemic, like revolution, does not happen overnight.
We will emerge, our hearts unhealed and scarred but awesome.
"White liberal women want to save Muslim women and white conservative women want to feel superior to Muslim women and so refuse to see anything in their beliefs that consigns them to the subservience & submission they think Muslim women must live with." feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…
Liberal or conservative, white women in the U.S. are more obsessed with Muslim women and whatever they think is oppressing Muslim women than they are at recognizing their own oppressions.
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 or Iran, that so many white women did not pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building right here at home.
"I am writing to you because I want you to know the importance of telling a man to shut the fuck up.
I am writing to you because I want you to know the importance & power of being dangerous when you ask questions that challenge, not comfort, oppressors" feministgiant.substack.com/p/letter-dear-…
"I am writing to you because I want you to know that “getting along” & “uniting” & “being civil” with white supremacist patriarchy makes you complicit in its crimes. We must never “get along” with fascists or “unite” with white supremacists.We must always “argue” with patriarchy"
"I am writing to urge you to stop wanting to be liked, and demand instead to be free.
This slim book is one of the most powerful I’ve read recently. “Being Native American in this country means often having a very different take on American history and historic figures generally accepted as national heroes. patreon.com/posts/42251360
“Just because they’re your heroes doesn’t make them automatically ours, since what benefitted non-Native settlers was often dangerously harmful to indigenous communities,” Susan Power, who is from the Dakota Nation, writes in her forward.
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the order for the mass hanging of 38 Dakota men, the largest mass execution in US history.
In 1875, Lincoln’s widow Mary Todd Lincoln was tried on charges of insanity and committed to a sanitarium.