FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup compiled by Samiha Hossain:
-Nepali Women Protest
-Muslim Writers call out BBC
-Incarcerated Indigenous Women
-Sex Worker Fights for COVID Vaccine
-Black Trans Model Against Social Media’s Racism and Transphobia feministgiant.com/p/global-round…
FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup interns bring you news of feminist resistance to global patriarchal fuckery.
FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup brings you news of Black, Indigenous and women of colour — cis and trans — from around the world. It is intentionally trans inclusive.
FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup also includes articles about and of importance to sex workers, especially during this time of pandemic when they are at high risk. feministgiant.com/p/global-round…
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Nina Simone was born on this day in 1933. My love for her is boundless. Throughout the day I will share some of my favourite things that #NinaSaid for my annual appreciation and respect 💜✊🏽❤️ (Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear!” #NinaSaid
In a 1999 episode of BBC HARDtalk, Tim Sebastian asked Nina Simone “Tell me about music as a political weapon.” Here’s what #NinaSaid
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman elected to the U.S. Congress. It shows in the way she refuses to be grateful because the white boys let her in their club called Congress. feministgiant.com/p/essay-aoc-th…
It shows in the way that she calls out those white boys, whether they are the now former congressman Ted Yoho-- who called her a “fucking bitch” last year-- or Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley--who cheered on the January 6 insurrectionists--for the white supremacists they are.
And it shows in the way she threatens men on both the right and the left. It is a reminder of the vicious patriarchy that is alive across the political spectrum and is especially virulent against this young Latinx woman.
And primarily, it shows because AOC is a Disruptor.
This is a great film about African Americans who went to Spain to fight fascism as part of International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. There’s an online event today about it. h/t @MaazaMengiste eventbrite.com/e/an-alba-film…
Langston Hughes is mentioned in the film. This is a brief intro to what he wrote about the link between fascism, racism, and the Spanish Civil War
"Cause if a free Spain wins this war,
The colonies, too, are free" Langston Hughes #SpanishCivilWar
A feminist revolution targets patriarchy in the State, Street, & Home. The State oppresses men & women; the State, Street & Home together oppress women, creating a Trifecta of Misogyny. That trifecta, not just the State, is true structure of our oppression feministgiant.com/p/jan25-ten-ye…
A feminist revolution targets patriarchy in the State, Street, & Home because it recognizes that there is no liberation without sexual liberation, gender liberation, queer liberation.
It states as a revolutionary statement: I own my body, not the State, Street, Home. I do.
A feminist revolution dares to imagine liberation from the militarism of the State and from its echo in the conservatism of the Street and the Home.
A feminist revolution recognizes that the hardest revolution is the one at the Home because all dictators go home.
For 8yrs, my hair was a bright, flaming red. I dyed it red to set fire to my rage and find my power. But what good was the power of a crown of flames, during a pandemic, when I am at home all the time? How to signal power now? I shaved it all off. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ki…
The longer lockdown became, the shorter my hair had to be. I knew that, every time I looked into the mirror. But I was terrified. I hate being scared of anything. Always, whatever scares me the most, in just the thinking about doing it, is what I need to do the most. 📷 @rerutled
What was I scared of? Fuck that shit. I refuse to be scared! From a very early age, my hair has been the site of a dance between disobedience and independence. My mum cut my hair very short when I was about 3yo.
Yesterday, I got a private message on Instagram from a 19yo queer feminist. She said she wasn't sure she wanted me to reply, just that she wanted me to read her words. She reminded me of 19yo me and I am still thinking about her words.
I posted the above in the hope that she would see it. And I am thinking of writing an open letter to her - no identifying characteristics at all - in which 19yo me has a conversation with her.
She said she lives in a country not too far from Egypt. I found the word "feminism" from books in my university library in Saudi Arabia. It gave a word and practice for what I already was since age 15.
In reflecting on her words, I am thinking of power/lessness of being 19.