“Decorum” & “civility” side with white supremacist responsible for the deaths of thousands over a truth speaking Black women.
Labour MP Dawn Butler is ordered to “withdraw from the House” after saying Boris Johnson “lied” over his handling of the pandemic
Fuck civility and decorum.
That is why I said this 👇🏽 and one of the reasons this episode of an Australian TV show was banned in 2019:
Fuck Boris Johnson. His lies and criminal mishandling of the pandemic caused the deaths of thousands of mostly Black and people of colour.
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. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
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I wish I had coined “fuckery!” I can’t remember now where I first heard it. I know it’s in Amy Winehouse’s Me and Mr. Jones “What kind of fuckery is this?”
Thank you @heathercorinna for your book What Fresh Hell Is This? Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You. I am delighted to be one of the many diverse group of people you interview in it!
Thank you @DrJenGunter for sending me your book The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health With Facts and Feminism
"While the case received little attention outside of the legal world, it marked the culmination of more than 30 years of legal strategy by Christian conservatives who have sought ever-broader leeway to flout the law." truthout.org/articles/the-c…
Just as Trump was not an aberration, but rather a fruition of decades of white supremacist, misogynist, bigoted rot, so too is the conservative dominance of the Supreme Court, which conservatives have worked for since the early 1970s. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
I moved to U.S. in 2000. I've learned that many white Americans have delusional amount of confidence in their govt & its institutions. That stubborn belief in U.S. exceptionalism undergirds the refusal to see the fascism that Trump brought.
This is 3rd incident of violence against women reported in #Pakistan over the last week that sparked social media outrage.
“I was already so sick of the news about recent incidents. We are so desensitised about aggressive men. And then my friend was murdered.” #JusticeForNoor
“There are fears that the accused will get bail and leave the country…If the accused ends up going scott-free, it will feel like all women in the country have died. It will really show the reality of our criminal justice system,” @nighatdad
"'She would not compromise on Black people’s rights,' said Joseph R. Fitzgerald, author of The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation.
That iron will didn’t sit well with many men in the civil rights movement who harbored sexist attitudes."
Richardson and other women balked at the “politics of respectability” that dictated how they should behave in public, Fitzgerald said. At the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, Richardson could only utter “Hello” before the microphone was snatched away.