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
Occasionally we're afraid of those eyes who don't even have the courage to confront themselves
Hey, y'all! I made these today! I release them into the world to support the cause! They're sized for 8.5x11 printer paper. Take 'em. Print 'em. Post 'em EVERYWHERE.
"I`ve lived to bury my desires…", Alexander Pushkin (translated by Maurice Baring)
I'm desperately looking for booktubers (or just youtubers) that are over 30ish and don't speak about YA/Fantasy/Romance 😭
i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.
there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.
anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.
A Better World - create an alternate history timeline
Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game
Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet
Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games
Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones
Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy
ZenGM - simulate sports
Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi
IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)
Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface
The Cafe & Diner - mystery game
The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game
Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions
Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game
Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game
Miniconomy - player driven economy game
Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes
BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators
Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil
Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.
if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.
The face of a lazy motherfcuker.
Honestly, good for this reporter. It's probably the first time he's been asked a legit question regarding this train of thought in years.
Trump’s pardons are beyond offensive.
That includes you, police person and Blue Lives Matters person. You should be alarmed. It shows you don't give a shit about your own people.
He even tucks the thumb
oh boy
Welcome to the Fourth Reich dickheads. This is what you wanted. This is what you get.
Daily fucking reminder that Luigi Mangione is innocent, completely and fully. He has been convicted of no crime. He has had no fair trial. He is a SUSPECT. Luigi Mangione is entirely innocent and everyone needs to stop parroting this insidious propaganda that he “committed” the crime he is only SUSPECTED of. He is not a murderer. He is not a criminal. He is an innocent man.
I'm desesperately trying to find a hobby for this new year because I'm seriously depressed and way too anxious about my daily life and work. But I'm good at nothing??
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.