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“There is a loud trembling unspoken story of women about to break to the surface of the world. It must break through if we are to survive as a species. It must break through.” - Eve Ensler
Read more at http://www.vday.org/node/2950
Join the movement at http://www.onebillionrising.org/
Russian feminist art collective Pussy Riot go on trial today - with a heavy sentence of up to seven years being threatened - all because they made a political protest in a church. Officially they’re on trial, but Putin’s ‘democracy’ and the Russian Orthodox Church are in the dock just as much.
SlutWalk Toronto 2012
If she was asking for it then why couldn’t you?
over 200 notes already? Sweet. Just glad so many people are against victim blaming!
(via grrrlfever)
The Port Huron Statement, and influential document for countless protest movements from the sixties onwards, was drafted between the 11th and 15th of June 1962
Mike Peters puts the statement into a historical context for TMO
Rory Dufficy, reviewing Michel Houellebecq’s The Possibility of an Island in TMO
Immediately after the Paycheck Fairness Act failed to get enough votes to avoid a filibuster in the Senate today, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), clearly fed up, gave a rousing speech aimed at women across the country who are equaly angry at being under-paid and treated as unequal citizens.
Taking the floor as soon as the measure failed, Mikulski, who reintroduced the bill last week, shouted, “We’re going to foment our own revolution”:
I say to the women out there in America, let’s keep this fight going. Put on your lipstick, square your shoulders, suit up, and let’s fight for a new American revolution where women are paid equal pay for equal work, and let’s end wage discrimination in this century once and for all.
I personally don’t wear lipstick, but I’m down for a revolution.
There are exactly three countries on Earth that do not provide guarantees for paid maternity leave. Papua New Guinea and Swaziland are two of them. Care to guess the third?
(via abaldwin360)
Dr Mary Condren, author of the groundbreaking The Serpent and the Godess, is a former Carmelite nun, with degrees in theology, sociology, and social anthropology. A combination of studies which she says, in the introduction to her book, has “to this day left me unable to read any text without asking questions about power, sexuality, and economics”
She spoke to TMO about nationalism, patriarchy, and sexual politics - full interview here
But: my own view is that men and women are not that different (with a few notable exceptions–I am not naïve about the fact that most people in prison are male, for example), or at least that the differences within the sexes far exceed the differences, on average, between them. I don’t find it at all hard to write from a male POV. It’s not a big leap. That is partly because I have always been resistant to being pigeonholed as a girl (and often resentful of having been born as one–that I chose a first name that is traditionally male is not an accident), and my sense of myself has long been androgynous.
Lionel Shriver talking to TMO about her best-selling novel We Need To Talk About Kevin
