Australian singer Sarah @CommasAndAmpersands created a funny and on-point "she shanty" about mansplaining.
In three parts, fully captioned, a Tiktok trend I highly approve.
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commasandampersands where she talks about books.
Just listened to 90 minutes of fascinating audio: Here to Slay. The podcast features Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom interviewing smart black women.
Because it's on Luminary, you have to pay to listen. The good news is this teaser ep is free, where they discuss how Kamala Harris is a first and she's also problematic. (No transcript I can find)
No detailed descriptions of rape, but many survivors describe their cruel dismissal by the police and courts.
Ingrid Tischer's name was mentioned several times at the recent SDS@OSU conference. Ingrid Tischer is a disabled white woman who works in the philanthropy sector. She blogs the hell out of that experience and much more, with honest surrealism and humor. She spouts “FEDup rants” opposing TED’s goal of making knowledge a commodity.
You can spend hours exploring her site; this essay lent itself to excerption:
Lux Alptraum, 2018
ebook, print, audio (Overdrive)
five out of five stars
I enjoyed this educational screed about Western patriarchy. Alptraum examines misogyny through the lens of lies women tell to cope, including:
Alptraum’s accessible prose is bolstered by footnotes to science as well as the popular press. She strategically deploys current media images, and she’s writing directly to the reader. I think it would be an excellent gift for any person on the threshold of sexual maturity. (Opinions from actual parents most welcome!)
content notes: no explicit discussions of violence or assault
I read the Democratic Socialists of America’s Northern Virginia branch’s meeting guidelines1, thanks to a Metafilter discussion2.
One thing I know is I'm good at running meetings. I’ve herded cats in many contexts, from true consensus to Roberts’ Rules. This brilliant idea stood out from dsa_nova’s suggestions:
Men talking over women is definitely not the way socialist feminism works. To counter ingrained patriarchal behavior, whenever a white male comrade interrupts a person of color or a white woman, everyone should raise their fist.
The goal is surrounding the interrupter by raised fists–not as a precursor to violence, but as a sign of solidarity.
What do you think? Would this be effective? Do you think it would backfire by enraging the white men so notified?
That's right: PubMed has almost five times as many clinical trials on male sexual pleasure as it has on female sexual pain. And why? Because we live in a culture that sees female pain as normal and male pleasure as a right.
Lili Loofbourow
begin quote In an alternate universe back in 1974, a girl named Jane C. Hines was born. Her family moved to Michigan when she was four years old. She grew up with a little brother, had a three-legged black lab named Silver (after Long John Silver), and wanted to be a teacher, a veterinarian, a psychologist, and ultimately an author.
Her first fantasy novel, Goblin Quest, came out in 2006 from DAW. She sold two more goblin books, then published a series about three kick-ass fairy tale princesses. She’s currently writing the third draft of a modern fantasy book called Libriomancer. She also maintains a moderately popular blog.
But while she and I have had parallel careers, the results haven’t matched up exactly quote ends
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