When transphobes talk about getting rid of gender, they’re not talking about progressive gender abolition. They’re talking about getting rid of anything that makes society more accommodating for not only trans people but cisgender women also.
https://buff.ly/AKe5bvs
As we explore privilege and entitlement and #patriarchy, there are so many things men simply won't face, or don't believe are happening, or deep down are not able to face.
Because they're weak.
And it doesn't matter how conservative a woman is, if she has a #miscarriage and her husband is not a safe person to talk to, these husbands don't know that they don't know that there have been miscarriages.
That is something that men, ought to be telling other men.
The Peace Preservation Law, aimed at rooting out socialists and communists, was promulgated 100 years ago, while a new museum for kanji was opened in Kyoto 25 years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/05/japan/history/peace-law-womens-week-minobe-kanji-history-1925-1950-1975-2000/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #law #freedomofspeech #feminism #womensrights #ryokichiminobe #ryoichikuroda #kanji #kyoto
Protest art. Are you participating in the National Day of Action tomorrow? Find a protest near you: https://handsoff2025.com/
"The organization of sex and gender once had functions other than itself—it organized society. Now, it mainly organizes and reproduces itself. The kinds of relationships sexuality established in the dim human past still dominate our sexual lives, our ideas about men and women, and the ways we raise our children. But they lack the functional load they once carried. One of the most conspicuous features of kinship is that it has been systematically stripped of its functions—political, economic, educational, and organizational. It has been reduced to its barest bones—sex and gender...
we are not only oppressed as women; we are oppressed by having to be women—or men as the case may be. I personally feel that the feminist movement must dream of even more than the elimination of the oppression of women. It must dream of the elimination of obligatory sexualities and sex roles. The dream I find most compelling is one of an androgynous and genderless (though not sexless) society, in which one’s sexual anatomy is irrelevant to who one is, what one does, and with whom one makes love."
(Gayle Rubin, "The Traffic in Women")
Indeed, we're perpetually supposed to be the supporting act, and we're very far from shaking that notion out of our collective subconscious. I can't stand seeing that in myself and so try to break through it:
I am quirky, clever, and make interesting, original, and beautiful things.
Let's hear it, ladies. How about you? Say it loud and proud because, for fuck's sake, we're not kicking this can down another generational line!
Insieme siam partite, insieme torneremo! Non una, non una, #nonunadimeno!
Oggi #Firenze dice basta ai #femminicidi e al patriarcato!
I know people are being pretty awful to you all and the world is terrifying right now. Yet that is why we need each other.
sometimes I'm tempted to reach out to trumpy family members just to ask them to pinpoint *exactly which year* of America's "greatness" they're trying to return to.
reminds me of the time I was asking my mom questions to pinpoint where, exactly, she thought feminism had gone "too far." i was like... so should women have the right to vote? and there was a VERY LONG PAUSE before she reluctantly agreed that yes, voting was okay.
that pause was tooooo damn long.
"Hazel knew she had to fly." Watch an Oregon Experience episode- for free!- about the first ever Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military. #asian #history #diversity #inclusivity #feminism
https://youtu.be/vCuUdyRGEus?si=WaTqzRixWCBohdmy
Workplace support for menopause still lags in Brazil
#politics #brazil #feminism #WorkersRights
https://valorinternational.globo.com/business/news/2025/04/01/workplace-support-for-menopause-still-lags-in-brazil.ghtml?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=compartilhar
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pierre-poilievre-biological-clock-1.7499220
Are people incubators or people?
