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#vivelafeminism: “I would not call this feminism or empowerment” – @ShamaJunejo
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / September 12, 2016Feminism is a movement for gender equality, fighting for the basic rights: rights to be educated, rights to have social respect, rights to having the same opportunities as men. How is dancing in front...
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#vivelafeminism: Resignation is a feminist issue
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / August 29, 2016To live a feminist life is to be a feminist at work. Until I resigned, my own working life had been based in universities: I was a student for around 10 years and I have been an academic for over 20 y...
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#vivelafeminism: Theresa May is not my feminism – @osha001, @thefworduk
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / July 27, 2016“The idea that May’s appointment will now signify that politics is open for all women is superficial and flawed.” ⇨ Guest post by Osha Al-Mossallami (@osha001) on thefword: The UK recent...
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#vivelafeminism: “Feminism is a ball being thrown around by people for whom politics is a mere playground”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / July 26, 2016“The term ‘feminism’ has become a ball that is being thrown around by people for whom politics is a mere playground – too far away from the effects of their policies to ever feel them.” R...
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#vivelafeminism: A vogue for self-exposure has reduced feminism to naked navel-gazing @rafiazakaria
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / July 12, 2016“The current wave of confessional writing from media-savvy young women walks an unsteady line between extending the politics of the personal and unit-shifting titillation.” @rafiazakaria on theguardi...
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#vivelafeminism: ‘Marketplace Feminism’ and the Commodification of Empowerment – Susan J. Douglas
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / July 12, 2016“This feel-good, hip feminism is about style, attitudes and words, Zeisler argues, not about confronting “deeply entrenched forms of inequality.”” Susan J. Douglas on inthesetimes.com: Feminism seem...
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#vivelafeminism: I assumed it was racism. It was patriarchy. @AlterNet
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / July 5, 2016@alternet: I assumed it was racism. It was patriarchy. (Emphasis added, as always.) It’s almost cliché to say now, but fighting patriarchy without stating that you’re fighting patriarchy—or even kn...
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![#vivelafeminism: “[Feminism] is not supposed to be fun. It’s complex and hard and it pisses people off” Zeisler – @MarcieBianco](https://feimineach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/feminism-feminism-is-cool-3.jpg "#vivelafeminism: “[Feminism] is not supposed to be fun. It’s complex and hard and it pisses people off” Zeisler – @MarcieBianco")
#vivelafeminism: “[Feminism] is not supposed to be fun. It’s complex and hard and it pisses people off” Zeisler – @MarcieBianco
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / June 7, 2016Flipping excellent essay on the dilution of feminism to its apolitical, “choice is freedom” state. Instead of upending capitalism, we’ve enhanced it, and instead of smashing patriarc...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism shines a light on a world darkened by sexual slavery, mass rape and misogyny
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / April 1, 2016Feminism there. Pretty frickin’ crucial and transformative, whether you like it or not. Some top points here: piece by Joan Smith on the Independent. (No, of course you shouldn’t read BTL. Rookie mist...
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#vivelafeminism: “Feminism has certainly undermined men,” she continues
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / April 1, 2016Both men and women may have suffered as feminism has evolved, she reflects. “Feminism has made us all go out to work and made us earn a living, and the male wage is no longer, because of feminism, ...
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#vivelafeminism: Are we there yet? On feminism and social change – @feministcurrent
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 24, 2016After a screening of Suffragette, Jindi Mehat (feministcurrent) talks feminism, social movements and social change beyond the Suffragette movement, and offers a critique of “choice” and individualised...
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#vivelafeminism: Yes, there is one great contribution men can make to feminism: pick up a mop
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 18, 2016Our association of domestic labour with women is so ingrained that it’s hard to see it’s a social construction rather than an immutable natural phenomenon. In her new film Joy, Jennifer Lawrence’s cha...
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#vivelafeminism: Reclaiming femininity, crippling feminism (by @feministcurrent)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 5, 2016Fast-forward to the so-called feminism of today, which does not concern itself so much with women’s liberation as did the feminism of females now too old to take seriously. We’ve worked out a thrillin...
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#vivelafeminism: More than equality: reasons to be a feminist socialist (on @5050oD)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 22, 2015I’ll mention two or three ‘tools’ that I learnt through my feminism, and why I talk about a feminist socialism. I think feminist socialism hasn’t been realised, and yet I also think that it’s so obvio...
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#vivelafeminism: On “choice” feminism (on @feministcurrent)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 21, 2015Liberal feminists stop debate by crying “choice” when radical feminists unpack the context and impacts of choices — especially choices that reinforce male supremacy. This usually happens in conversati...
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#vivelafeminism: Is feminism a bad word? (by @amnanasir100)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 11, 2015By god, if there’s ever a debate I’m tired of having, it’s the one where we’re told that “feminism isn’t the right word to use because…”. This piece ta...
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#vivelafeminism: is feminism a bad word? (by @amnanasir100)
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 11, 2015By god, if there’s ever a debate I’m tired of having, it’s the one where we’re told that “feminism isn’t the right word to use because…”. This piece ta...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism isn’t dead, despite all the assassination attempts
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / November 11, 2015Feminism is dead. Long live feminism. The front page of the Spectator and a spate of other articles would have us believe the battle is won and we can now “move on”. I can’t be the only one who think...
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#vivelafeminism: Yes we should debate, but also celebrate, Islamic feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / November 10, 2015A few weeks ago I was drawn to the launch of a new project by the group Maslaha on the topic of Islam and Feminism. Maslaha, which means ‘for the common good’ in Arabic, is a social enterprise that st...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism makes the world safer and richer: New U.N. report confirms
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / November 9, 2015profeminist: “When it comes to war, one of the groups most negatively impacted is often ignored: women. Studies have long shown that women bear enormous burdens in violent conflicts. A new exhaustiv...
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