“He can stay. He can go. He can be impeached or voted out. But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him, the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified and reanimated”
- AOC
You will patch up all the holes in 2025.
(this isn’t a post about knitting)
what feminist texts do you recommend?
If it’s self-help books or manifestos on how to live more feministly or organize against patriarchy, I don’t really have anything to recommend. I'm behind on that because the ones that I had read did not speak to me. I'm not the type of woman those authors like.
But if it’s history about women or meditations on what life is like for women in certain societies, I do have some recommendations. All the books I recommended, I’ve read them before.
By category in alphabetical order:
HISTORY
Beyond the Veil : Male-Female Dynamics in Muslim Societies by Fatima Mernissi
Educating Muslim Women : The West African Legacy of Nana Asma'u, 1793-1864 by Beverly Mack and Jean Boyd
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena
Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom : The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699 by Sher Banu Khan
The Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatima Mernissi
The Kurdish Women's Movement : History, Theory, Practice by Dilar Dirik
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie Jones-Rogers.
Women and Gender in Islam : Historical Root of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed
MEDITATIONS
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange (note: I'd rather you watch the play first. It's available on YouTube)
Hijab Butch Blues by lamya h
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing…And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader by Zora Neale Hurston
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawaal El-Sadaawi
Playboy by Constance Debre
Selected Writings by Clara Zetkin
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Answer / La Respuesta (expanded edition) by Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali
I Imagine the Gods, Jack Gilbert
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two things. I think america needs to retire the “killing baby hitler” debate for good bc it turns out a lot of them would vote for & cheer for adult hitler as he strips away their rights and plans world domination
but on the topic of voting…….. can someone investigate into this quote from donald trump?? “He [elon] knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide”
united nations? nato? abraham lincolns ghost???? literally ANYONE????
JD Vance went to the Marines, then Ohio St, then Yale Law. He was a socio-economic diversity admission. He was DEI.
He was first a Marine, and it transformed his life. The government transformed his life.
I am sure JD used his college education and Law Degree to better his life more than he could imagine.
He met his wife at Yale Law. Do you think JD said professors were the enemy? Usha's parents are professors. Are they the enemy?
When JD was in Silicon Valley, I'm sure he used his schooling pedigree to his advantage.
Now, he code switches to talk to MAGA. He talks in white supremacy narratives.
Education is now bad. Professors are the enemy.
JD thinks he can just forget where he came from and who he is.
TikTok is back -- for now
"I`ve lived to bury my desires…", Alexander Pushkin (translated by Maurice Baring)
Can Biden or Harris speak to this?
Seems calling Nazis a Nazi is unpopular with the journalists and headline writers.
Make them quote you. Call them Nazis.
Fascism is here. Start punching Nazis.