I saw some posts just outlining Jan 21st, and wanted to clarify that Bisan has called for a full seven days of action.
What a global strike would look like is:
calling in sick to work
purchasing bare essentials ahead of the week so you can observe the general boycott of goods / buying as little as you genuinely can
putting in a concerted effort to elevate Palestinian voices and make it clear that this strike is in support of a permanent ceasefire!
For those who will have to purchase necessary goods during this time, please observe the brands that the BDS movement is asking us to boycott!
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Right now is also a good time to mention some better uses for your money during this week.
Mirna El Helbawi and her team are working round the clock to continue to connect Palestinians as Israel does its best to cut them off from the rest of the world.
You can learn how to purchase and send e-sims here, and below you’ll find a list of what is currently needed (the areas in brackets indicate what region you should select to buy e-sims in).
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They have a Gofundme set up at the moment, but because of Gofundme’s poor track record regarding refusing to transfer funds to Palestinians, I’d recommend continuing to donate directly to their PayPal here.
Good luck to all of you. Don't turn away from Palestine!
Seeing clips of the Lily Phillips interview was truly heart breaking and only reinforces the fact that sex work especially prostitution will never be liberating and only further damages a woman’s mental health and body
For context for anyone who doesn’t know
Lily Phillips was originally only an only fans star but recently slept with 100 men in one go, for free, and filmed it.
In the interview towards the end you see her begin to cry, dissociate, and not even be able to describe how she feels
One thing that really stuck out to me is that she says she felt bad for not being able to fully please all the men and that made it all click for me that she did all of this to feel male validation and got more than what she bargained for.
To punish herself and “put”herself through such an intense trauma makes me feel like the people in her life took advantage of her vulnerability and her wanting to please and exploited it
A tale as old as time
I Can’t stand the people saying that she asked for it or that it’s her fault because she set it up when it’s very obvious she is not in the correct headspace to do things like that, no one is, I really see things like this as a form of self harm and punishment
I really hope she is able to get the help she needs and is able to safely leave the sex industry(slavery)
Wot 🧍🏽♀️lol
I understand how a lot of women do not want womanhood and the being a woman be reduced to just our genitals and I also see how other women do not want womanhood to be defined by stereotypes or what society thinks a woman is and use biology as a way to define it,
However in my culture women have never been seen as weak and have never had negative stereotypes put on us so I think I do have a disconnect to women who define being a woman with our genitalia and tend to agree with the first more
Women in my culture are seen as strong warriors, protectors, nurtures etc so I never minded those things defining womanhood and femininity in my community I do however have a problem with how the patriarchy sees us
What do y’all think?
I recently returned back to my tribal land in Mesoamérica and it feels so good to have the government off our necks for once.
I Can’t speak for all the tribes but being able to govern ourselves has been so nice especially when it comes to crimes against women
For hundreds of years women of my tribe have been raped and violated by outsiders without any perpetrators facing consequences but now since the former and now president have made it to where we can decide the rules and punishments in our tribe, their punishment is to burn
Literally they are burned alive as punishment and it sends a message to any other men who think of committing sexual crimes against women, this has greatly decreased the amount of sexual assaults
We don’t have government presence in our tribe and do not allow government police or military so it’s only men from our community who keep the community safe,
I have always thought of misogyny as a European ideology since historically in my tribe men and women have both ruled and one was never seen as less than. We are able to coexist together and it is something I wish for all society’s but unfortunately men have become power hungry
⭐️Please let me know if you have any questions about my culture ⭐️
Personal price hc but personally I think he worries a little more about his female colleagues because he knows how horrible men can be with fem hostages and just in general, like I feel it’s a different type of panic when he heard that laswell and Farrah were in trouble
⭐️i am a woman, i was born a woman and will always be a woman
⭐️I have never claimed to be a rad fem (I have never claimed to be anything for that matter) or that I know everything about rad feminism because I don’t, and that was the purpose of that post, it’s really crazy how people will say they want to educate and liberate women while yelling and degrading me for simply not agreeing with them and proceed to do the same things men do, you are no better than a man, I’ve come to realize that this community strayed from its original purpose and roots and has been taken over by people who want to put in their own two cents and opinion, this community or at least a good portion of it seems like a very miserable community, I have meet a lot of rad fems who have common sense and realize that hate will get them nowhere and being rude to me won’t achieve anything, on the other hand majority of rad fems I’ve meet have misconstrued the movement from what I’ve read and put feelings over facts, I won’t interact to hate and only to genuine discussions ⭐️
My stance
⭐️anti trans is not allowed, yes I know there are trans people who have done bad things that’s the way people in every community work, there are bad people everywhere
⭐️women will never find liberation through sex but is is something we can enjoy, prostitution, porn, and other forms of sexual slavery will always be that sexual slavery and never liberating
⭐️this is a very small minority of rad fems that believe women cannot rape but yes women are capable of rape, towards men, children, and other women, rape is to force or coerce someone into committing sexual acts and or sexual relations
⭐️I do believe everyman contributes to the patriarchy and misogyny in some way
⭐️degrading me for my beliefs and not agreeing with you only makes you sound like a man sorry not sorry
These aren’t all my stances but some key ones
I looove “all men until proven otherwise” I definitely agree with this statement as I myself am very uncomfortable around men and enter a fight or flight mentality when I am near them, thanks for having that discussion with me 🫶
My take on “radical feminism” that nobody asked for
I myself consider myself leaning very into radical feminism but I see that terf ideologies seem to get mixed in more often than not (wanna make it clear I support trans rights)
1. A lot of rad fems think that all heterosexual sex is rape which is such an insane thing to do and implies that women do not have the power or capacity to consent to heterosexual sex
2. I do agree that we as woman will never find liberation through sex or sex work however rad fems do not realize that a lot of women fall into sex work and can not simply quit, I do not support the sex work industry but I support sex workers
3. To me it seems a lot of white women have overshadowed the movement and only mention woc when it’s used as an aha! moment against men and not with the intention of actually helping
4. Extreme transphobia, the main idea is that trans women rape women’s body’s and appropriating the body, my conflict with this is women are not their bodies and trans women have always felt like women since birth is the biological aspect that’s the problem
5. A lot of rad fems think a women choosing a certain lifestyle or religion is oppressive which again perpetuates the idea that women can not make a choice without a man or patriarchal idea being involved or a sense of brain washing
I think a lot of rad fems have lost sense of the movement and more times than often make themselves appear victim like and in a constant state of martyrdom, yes we women have suffered and continue to suffer and be oppressed but we can not let this weight break us down and make us point fingers at people (trans women and women who choose religion or certain life styles) who are not the root cause of our suffering
Please let me know your thoughts
I’m actually Native American and North African ! Homosexuality is accepted in Native American culture however not in many nations in North Africa, it’s still illegal and homosexuality is seen as something from the devil and evil
My take on “radical feminism” that nobody asked for
I myself consider myself leaning very into radical feminism but I see that terf ideologies seem to get mixed in more often than not (wanna make it clear I support trans rights)
1. A lot of rad fems think that all heterosexual sex is rape which is such an insane thing to do and implies that women do not have the power or capacity to consent to heterosexual sex
2. I do agree that we as woman will never find liberation through sex or sex work however rad fems do not realize that a lot of women fall into sex work and can not simply quit, I do not support the sex work industry but I support sex workers
3. To me it seems a lot of white women have overshadowed the movement and only mention woc when it’s used as an aha! moment against men and not with the intention of actually helping
4. Extreme transphobia, the main idea is that trans women rape women’s body’s and appropriating the body, my conflict with this is women are not their bodies and trans women have always felt like women since birth is the biological aspect that’s the problem
5. A lot of rad fems think a women choosing a certain lifestyle or religion is oppressive which again perpetuates the idea that women can not make a choice without a man or patriarchal idea being involved or a sense of brain washing
I think a lot of rad fems have lost sense of the movement and more times than often make themselves appear victim like and in a constant state of martyrdom, yes we women have suffered and continue to suffer and be oppressed but we can not let this weight break us down and make us point fingers at people (trans women and women who choose religion or certain life styles) who are not the root cause of our suffering
Please let me know your thoughts
I think it’s really fucking weird how the peaky blinders fandom tries to make it ok to use a slur that was used against Romani people just because the characters in the show (who are portrayed as Romani) use it especially when it’s their “oc”. It’s disgusting to try to normalize and justify using a literal slur when you are not apart of that ethnic group and don’t struggle or go through the prejudice and genocide they do and then ignore people trying to correct you. You are scum. The show in itself it problematic because it portrays stereotypes of romani people while not using actual romani people to play these roles.