Limbaugh, inventor of the infamous term “feminazi”, has insulted women across America. If you haven’t heard, Republicans prevented women from testifying at the House contraceptive hearing and instead arranged for a panel of all dudes to have a dudely discussion about women’s contraceptives, and whether it’s basic healthcare that should be covered by insurance. In …
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The radical notion that women are people.
The Legacy of Fatima
Though men and women may have appropriated Fatima in different ways, men as usual authored nearly all of the preserved literature regarding her biography, so that censored writings of history function as a paradigm. This symbol of Fatima has consequently and predictably been molded throughout the centuries to fit political needs or inspirations: Fatima is …
Sectarianism and Privilege
In studying Islam and researching religious tradition, I naturally encounter sectorial differences in the perception of religious figures and in the practice of religious rituals; —while I’ve described my renouncing approach to Islamic sects, in dismissing sectarianism and contemplating its contraints from the position of a religious woman, without disclosing with which sectorial teachings I …
Celebrate Mercy–Help fight domestic violence, a video by Zeina Shaaban
Zeina Shaaban, a good friend of mine who is extremely dedicated to ending domestic violence and has protested in writing against the proposals of those who would prevent legal protections in Lebanon, has created a magnificent video denouncing domestic violence and marital rape, embedded below. Contrasted against the stark, brutal reality of abuse, in the …
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“I’m into/not into [insert race here]” is racist.
Yes, yes, yes. From The Question of Fetishization, by Natalie Reed (via Lisa Millbank at A Radical TransFeminist) Clearly, people have all kinds of different idiosyncratic attractions. Red hair, dark hair, blond hair, curly hair, straight hair, particularly large or particularly small breasts, lean body-types, curvier or heavier body types, muscle (in many different proportions), …
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Gender Wage Gaps by Level of Education (2008); by Gender and Race (1970—2010)
Click each of these to enlarge. (Institutionalized racism, in case you're living under a rock and need proof white privilege exists.) In other fun news concerning the representation of women: Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying Congressional Birth Control Hearing Involves Exactly Zero People Who Have a Uterus and …
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On sexual knowledge
Very briefly, I’d like to address the annoying and incessant reemergence of a peculiar social/unfortunately feminist phenomenon: the defining of sexual pleasure in rigid constraints and the application of these constraints to the criteria of a feminist accordingly. You may be familiar with it. Not long after Role/Reboot republished a post I had written months …
the fatal feminist 