Even the argument that ‘the presence of a penis would trigger the women’ is flawed because it neglects the fact that white skin is just as much a reminder of violence as a penis.

Whose Feminism Is It Anyway? The Unspoken Racism of the Trans Inclusion Debate by Emi Koyama (via sage-power)

i need to find this entire piece! nao!

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Here is the whole essay!

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Official Tunisian paper slams leading Egyptian feminist as 'promoting' 'gayness'

Al-Fajr, Tunisia’s official government paper, accused Nawal El Saadawi, Egypt’s leading feminist, of ‘promoting homosexuality and prostitution’.
BY DAN LITTAUER
Al-Fajr, Tunisia's official government paper, accused Nawal El Saadawi, Egypt's leading feminist, of 'promoting homosexuality and prostitution'
Renowned Egyptian feminist, Nawal El Saadawi, was accused by the Tunisia’s main paper as a ‘promoter of prostitution and homosexuality’. The smear campaign was launched last week in Al Fajr, after Saadawi visited Tunisia during the International Women’s day, where she was warmly received the country’s president, Moncef Marzouki, as well as several other ministers. 

Upon her return to Egypt, Saadawi published an article praising the achievements of Tunisian women during the revolution and said she was impressed with Ennahda, the ruling Islamist party’s commitment to women’s equality in the drafting of its new constitution. However, on Friday 15 March, Al-Fajr, the official paper of Ennahda, denigrated and castigated Saadawi as a woman that ‘promotes homosexuality’ as well as ‘prostitution’.

82 year old Saadawi is an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist, who has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation. Saadawi describes herself an atheist, and has been one of the inspirational voices to the Egyptian revolution, of which she took part in 2011 in the Tahrir Square protests. In 2004 she was awarded the North-South Prize by the Council of Europe, to name one of many lifetime and literary achievements awards.

Reacting to the news, Fadi, the editor of GayDayMag, Tunisia’s online LGBT magazine, told Gay Star News: ‘This is just one more proof to showcase Ennahda party’s hypocrisy.

‘On the one hand they fill our ears with all the nice words they know we want to hear about the democratic transition and the other hand here comes their official paper to reveal again their sick ideology. Not long ago one of their senior figures Habib Ellouz referred to female mutilation as a plastic “surgery procedure”. They claimed that’s the opinion of one of their members and doesn’t reflect the party. Let’s see of they will deny again what their paper published this week. If anything to be concluded, since Ennahda came to power, the level of dialogue in Tunisia regressed 2000 years backwards and now we hear more talk about polygamy, female mutilation and alcohol. Is that really why the Arab spring came in first place? We’re so indoctrinated by a sick ideology instead of being out their racing for economic growth’.

Tareq, a Tunisian blogger, told Gay Star News, that he thinks ‘this is a kind of retaliation towards the left wing Tunisian media which criticized and ridiculed visiting leading Salafists theologians from the Arab Gulf who advocated that women ‘must wear the hijab’, or saying that ‘SpongeBob is gay propaganda’ and so on.

‘They show they can do the same, despite Tunisia officially welcoming her’.

Olfa Youssef, a leading Tunisian feminist, who has previously said that homosexuality, is not a disease and not unislamic expressed her dismay at the smear campaign by Al Fajr. She, however, noted that she has a different approach, being a Muslim as opposed to an atheist, and that she wouldn’t have accepted an invitation to meet with the leaders of Ennahda in the first place. 

[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates” the woman, we were to say that the woman’s vagina “consumes” the man’s penis. This would create a very different set of connotations, as the woman would become the active initiator and the man would be the passive and receptive party. One can easily see how this could lead to men and masculinity being seen as dependent on, and existing for the benefit of, femaleness and femininity. Similarly, if we thought about the feminine traits of being verbally effusive and emotive not as signs of insecurity or dependence, but as bold acts of self-expression, then the masculine ideal of the “strong and silent” type might suddenly seem timid and insecure by comparison.
Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (“Putting the Feminine Back into Feminism,” pg 329)

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5 ways cis-feminists can help build trans inclusivity and intersectionality

drinkingteainthetardis:

A very well written and well reasoned article on the need for the trans community not just to be included for the sake of it, or on issues such as gender with an obvious trans community link, but on all issues, all the time, actively. And it’s cis-feminists that need to make that change.

It also includes one of the best reasoned explanations of the elements of sexism as relate to society’s creation and maintenance of binary, inflexible gender roles, and how this is a necessary base upon which misogyny builds in order to function. After all, if gender isn’t able to be broken down into rigid groupings and people don’t fit into that bipart system, how does the oppression of one set of those imagined groupings make sense?

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riley-ferretboy-konor: [[Image description: A vintage black and white flyer for the gay liberation front. A group of people are seen walking together in proud solidarity. It reads, “COME OUT!! JOIN the sisters and brothers of the gay liberation front.”]] Come out, come out wherever you are - and check out Project Queer!
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[[Image description: A vintage black and white flyer for the gay liberation front. A group of people are seen walking together in proud solidarity. It reads, “COME OUT!! JOIN the sisters and brothers of the gay liberation front.”]]

Come out, come out wherever you are - and check out Project Queer!

Time and time again we hear on our national news about the seemingly kind, quiet young male whose violent underpinnings are suddenly revealed. Boys are encouraged by patriarchal thinking to claim rage as the easiest path to manliness. It should come to no surprise, then, that beneath the surface there is a seething anger in boys, a rage waiting for moments to be heard.
bell hooks, from the book: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (via dreamhampton1)

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So Laurent Cantet is making a new version of the book FoxFire by Joyce Carol Oates.

A film version of this same book came out in 1996 starring Angelina Jolie and Jenny Shimizu.

At first, I was kind of upset at the thought of a remake since I enjoyed the original quite a bit, but after finding out that this remake shall be:

  1. foreign, and
  2. more along the lines of the original book’s story line

…I am pretty excited to see how it turns out. In the book, a few schoolgirls in 1950s New York start their own self-empowered gang after being tormented by their peers, teachers, parents, etc.

The remake is premiering in France January 2013.

You can watch the trailer here:

http://shewired.com/box-office/2012/12/04/watch-trailer-new-foxfire-girl-gang-movie-drops

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In September 2001 Early to Bed opened shop on Chicago’s north side. We felt that Chicago was in dire need of a place where women (and people of all genders) could shop for quality sex toys in a safe, welcoming space. Knowing that many women were uncomfortable in “traditional” adult stores, we felt that by creating a sex-positive, women-oriented shop, more women would feel comfortable taking control of their sexual selves and finding new ways to experience pleasure with their partners and on their own. Our shop is staffed by people who take their sex toys seriously and are able to honestly answer questions about toys and sex in general. We help people from all walks of life find toys, books, accessories and information to help them have happier, healthier erotic lives.

Since opening the shop, EtB has not only provided sex toys and information to countless people, but also has worked hard to spread our sex-positive message everywhere we can. We offer workshops in our store on a wide-range of topics and we host in-home PleasureWare Parties and Private Workshops so people can shop for toys in a fun, party-like atmosphere. We give sex-positive talks and lectures at colleges, social groups and community events. EtB is an active supporter of many local and national organizations that promote and support women’s health and sexual well-being.

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hotqueerpornfest: In September 2001 Early to Bed opened shop on Chicago’s north side. We felt that Chicago was in dire need of a place where women (and people of all genders) could shop for quality sex toys in a safe, welcoming space. Knowing that many women were uncomfortable in “traditional” adult stores, we felt that by creating a sex-positive, women-oriented shop, more women would feel comfortable taking control of their sexual selves and finding new ways to experience pleasure with their partners and on their own. Our shop is staffed by people who take their sex toys seriously and are able to honestly answer questions about toys and sex in general. We help people from all walks of life find toys, books, accessories and information to help them have happier, healthier erotic lives. Since opening the shop, EtB has not only provided sex toys and information to countless people, but also has worked hard to spread our sex-positive message everywhere we can. We offer workshops in our store on a wide-range of topics and we host in-home PleasureWare Parties and Private Workshops so people can shop for toys in a fun, party-like atmosphere. We give sex-positive talks and lectures at colleges, social groups and community events. EtB is an active supporter of many local and national organizations that promote and support women’s health and sexual well-being. http://early2bed.com/
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hotqueerpornfest:

In September 2001 Early to Bed opened shop on Chicago’s north side. We felt that Chicago was in dire need of a place where women (and people of all genders) could shop for quality sex toys in a safe, welcoming space. Knowing that many women were uncomfortable in “traditional” adult stores, we felt that by creating a sex-positive, women-oriented shop, more women would feel comfortable taking control of their sexual selves and finding new ways to experience pleasure with their partners and on their own. Our shop is staffed by people who take their sex toys seriously and are able to honestly answer questions about toys and sex in general. We help people from all walks of life find toys, books, accessories and information to help them have happier, healthier erotic lives.

Since opening the shop, EtB has not only provided sex toys and information to countless people, but also has worked hard to spread our sex-positive message everywhere we can. We offer workshops in our store on a wide-range of topics and we host in-home PleasureWare Parties and Private Workshops so people can shop for toys in a fun, party-like atmosphere. We give sex-positive talks and lectures at colleges, social groups and community events. EtB is an active supporter of many local and national organizations that promote and support women’s health and sexual well-being.

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That Feminist Dyke: kiriamaya: This is your reminder that private insurance companies...

kiriamaya:

This is your reminder that private insurance companies often refuse trans* people not only medically necessary transition care (which is seen by the insurance companies as “cosmetic” even though the medical community agrees it’s medically necessary), but also care which even the…

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When women of color, sex workers, rural women, young women, undocumented workers, transgender people or the otherwise marginalized lose their rights because they are implicitly assumed to be sluts, will we stand up for them too?

fuckyeahfeminists:

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Sarah Seltzer on Sandra Fluke and privilege

On Sandra Fluke & privilege

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queerumich: If you’ve ever been looking to get into transfeminism, whether from a feminist perspective of from that of a trans* person, I would strongly recommend this book. It has wonderful discussions of feminist issues from the perspective of trans* rights and goes into great detail about both traditional and oppositional sexism and their effect on society at large.
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If you’ve ever been looking to get into transfeminism, whether from a feminist perspective of from that of a trans* person, I would strongly recommend this book. It has wonderful discussions of feminist issues from the perspective of trans* rights and goes into great detail about both traditional and oppositional sexism and their effect on society at large.

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