Happy Friday the 13th everyone! 🎉🎉
feminism
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters....”
#ai #humanities #women #feminism #democracy #palantir
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power
An amazing demonstration for International Women’s Day took place in Berlin yesterday, with an estimated 30,000 attendees, most of whom were women.
Later, when I searched the Fediverse for posts about the demonstration, I could only find three profiles other than my own.
This made me wonder about the discrepancy between what happens in the streets and what is reflected on social media. Social media can be a powerful space for political expression, dialogue, and connection. However, it requires a critical mass of users.
Some time ago, I ran a small poll asking women if patriarchal dynamics and male behavior on Mastodon, which is still largely dominated by white men, make participation harder.
Out of 169 responses, about 59% said yes (23% totally agree and 36% partially agree). Just 20% totally disagree. [1]
Even though that poll is far from representative, I couldn't forget the result when I noticed how little discussion there was here about the 30,000-person feminist demonstration in Berlin.
For the Fediverse to be a viable alternative to mainstream platforms, it must reflect the diversity and energy of offline movements. In my opinion, suggesting that "normies" should remain on Bluesky is not the way to go.
#b0803 #Feminism #Berlin #WomensDay #FrauenTag #Fediverse #Fediversity #Mastodon #8M
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Happy International Men's Day (day 1 from 364) everyone!
If you think or know any man who thinks that women’s lower belly pooch is “their uterus showing and a gift from God” it’s not. It’s just fat. Normal, estrogen-driven fat distribution. Wrapping bullshit anatomy in religion to make insecure women feel grateful instead of informed is not body positivity. It’s disgusting manipulation
#bodyPositivity #feminism #anatomy #mansplaining #misinformation
♀️ #Women & #Feminism accounts to follow for #InternationalWomensDay:
@CarveHerName - Prominent women & history of women's rights
@animefeminist - Covering anime from feminist viewpoint
@hermathsstory - Highlighting women of mathematics
@vagina_museum - First museum of gynae anatomy
@lunastation - Speculative fiction magazine by female writers
@firestorm - Queer feminist collective in North Carolina USA
@Pkbwood - Director of Gender, Feminist & Women's Studies at York Univ. in Toronto
🧵 1/6
On this #InternationalWomensDay let us remember the Iranian schoogirls from #Minab, who will not grow to become women, murdered on Sat, February 28, by American & #Israel state terrorism on Day 1 of their war of aggresion.
#Trump and #Netanyahu killed every child in this photo.
Every. Single. One.
Not combatants.
Not militants.
#schoolgirls #Empire #crime
@womensvoices #feminism #intersectional #freepalestine #iran #news #socialmedia #mastodon #resistance #protest @politics @socialmedia
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Clara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg 1910, before Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate the 1908 garment workers strike in New York City.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #internationalwomensday #strike #feminism #equalpay #equalrights #GenderEquality #iwd #socialism #communism #womenshistorymonth #clarazetkin #rosaluxemburg
- Change of Perspective! -
A Punkrock Women's Day read, Punk as F*ck, #ventilverlag, 2022
https://www.ventil-verlag.de/titel/1927/punk-as-fck
50 female authors share their experiences from a FLINTA perspective in the punk scene
What does FLINTA stand for?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLINTA*
Picture taken by me © arnica montana
#book #library #womensday #frauentag #punk #equality #FLINTA #feminism #diversity #reading @punk
@bookstodon
The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.
-- Michelle Obama (Speech at UN Women, 2015)
« Sans lignée, point d’existence. » Le retour au village italien révèle une mémoire collective féminine fascinante : des femmes inventant leur propre langue pendant la transhumance des hommes. L’impossible trahison tisse un lien poignant entre les luttes des aïeules et celles de Concetta. Une ode à la transmission matrilinéaire et à la résistance culturelle.
Carmelina Carracillo, L'impossible trahison
https://www.couleurlivres.org/product-page/l-impossible-trahison-carmelina-carracillo
#feminism #women #books #italy
'What parents need to know to talk to their children about the manosphere'
The manosphere is a network of communities that create, consume and distribute content online aimed at men and boys.
They trivialise hateful rhetoric through memes, comedy and trolling (provocation or bullying for amusement) by framing it as self-help, entertainment and tools for financial success.
Manosphere content is promoted by various influencers on popular social media platforms.
#socialmedia #toxic #toxicmasculinity #sociology #culture #prevention #feminism
Elle "éclaire le travail fondateur de Janice A. Radway, qui dès 1984 analysait la lecture de romances comme un espace complexe, entre compensation, prise de conscience et exploration intime...
Un geste politique..."La lecture exprime l’inconfort des femmes dans le patriarcat, leurs frustrations, leur colère...les discussions autour de la romance deviennent elles-mêmes des lieux d’expression collective
...Lire et discuter de ces livres produit donc une forme de sociabilité féminine parfois un véritable levier d’émancipation..."
#feminisme #feminism #radway #radio #lecture #livre #romance
No olvidamos de dónde se viene.
We don't forget from where we came.
(Pictured Ana Orantes who was murdered by her husband after standing her ground againts his abuses on a tv show around 1990 and whos death started a strong movement against marital abuse)
#8m #womensday #diadelamujer #orantes #feminism #humanrights #drawing #ilustration
Rob Mulhern was in his mid-20s when one of his closest friends died. In the fog of grief, he turned to YouTube for distraction and help.
"I started getting these self-help videos from Jordan Peterson."
What began as a self-help journey became a worldview shaped by frustration and division.
#toxic #masculinity #manosphere #socialmedia #youtube #sociology #feminism #psychology #culture #media
As part of our new program around Feminist Practices, we are having three events around the International Women's Day! These events form part of the coalition of Enschede Feminists. Check the website for the full program
https://enschedefeminists.nl/
At Sickhouse we'll host a film program on Friday 6, a Fem & Queer market on Saturday 7, and a post-march aftercare on Sunday 8.
#IWD #march #enschede #feminism #events
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Hello,
We are a magazine run by #ScienceForThePeople that publishes #radicalscience
https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/
https://scienceforthepeople.org/
Here are a few hashtags as our #introduction:
#anticapitalism
#anticolonialism
#feminism
#marxism
#communism
#socialism
#anarchism
#science
#activism
#labor
#unions
#gender
#biology
#neuroscience
#biopolitics
#militarism
#politicalecology #socialecology
#ecology
#ecosocialism
#climatechange
#historyofscience #philosophyofscience
#sts
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Depuis le petit livre rouge des femmes, paru en 1972, à "Bandes d’Hystériques", film de Kita Bauchet, Couleur Livres est aux côtés de celles qui luttent pour l'égalité.
"Bandes d’hystériques" : Kita Bauchet lève le voile sur l’histoire du féminisme belge avec humour, force et sororité.
https://www.rtbf.be/article/bandes-d-hysteriques-kita-bauchet-leve-le-voile-sur-l-histoire-du-feminisme-belge-avec-humour-force-et-sororite-11688352
#feminism #equality #books
- Self-Portrait -
Book Chapter Picture
No Future! - Self-portrait for „Punk as F*ck“, Ventil Verlag, 2022
#FotoVorschlag ‚Ketten‘
#photosuggestion ‚Chains‘
picture taken by me © arnica montana
#bulbmode #photography #portraitphotography #portrait #fotografie #studiophotography #ventilverlag #punkasfuck #nofuture #punk #feminism #chronicillness @punk
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Not really new but new on this instance, so I'm making an intro post 
#reintroduction
My topics and interests are: #books, #neurodiversity, #languages and #languagelearning, #maths, #physics, #politics, intersectional #feminism, the #climatecrisis, #mentalhealth, #depression and #adhd, but I mostly toot about random stuff in the end 😅
I always try to use CWs for sensitive topics and politics posts, please let me know if I forget or miss a topic that should be CWed in your opinion.
I mostly toot in German and English, although I might toot in Spanish or French from time to time, so feel free to respond to me in any of those languages. I'm always happy to provide a translation 😊
I'm also new on pixelfed, feel free to follow me on @luce@mental.camp, and I'm semi-active on bookwyrm, at @luceliest.
In a recent comparison of engagement around a Leave.X campaign post,[1] someone pointed out that a female journalist who is active in the feminist movement and critical of Big Tech had a very different experience than others.
The Mastodon post was shared twice, while the Bluesky version was shared over 200 times and received significantly more interactions. This raises questions about tech-savvy spaces like Mastodon and how they reflect broader societal issues.
For women on Mastodon:
Do you feel that the patriarchal dynamics and male behavior in this space, which is still largely dominated by white men, make it harder for women to participate?
#Mastodon #Diversity #Fediversity #Fediverse #Feminism #BlueSky #Inclusion
Options: (choose one)
My latest read was The Vegetarian by Han Kang. It is surreal. It is confronting. It is harrowing.
It is always tricky to engage with a novel that itself so clearly engages with a different society and its problems (in this case, misogyny in South Korea), but I felt the writing was very well maintained in translation. The novel certainly packed a punch in English.
Full #review on the #blog here: https://write.as/the-casual-critic/the-vegetarian-becoming-ungovernable
RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116125502045270798
The Margaret Atwood vision of the USA continues to become more & more prescient.... we are seeing the Handmaidenisation of the USA.
What was once science fiction is now public policy.... and in the UK there are people f the right who no doubt see this sort of move as entirely justified pronatalsm.