Lois Shearing argues that the Far Right has been working to normalise thinness among women, through a (new) 'body fascism'... rejecting body positivism the Right are using the usual tools of body surveillance to control women, their lives & aspirations - certainly while size inclusivity in the media has not disappeared, once again its under attack by the body police of the Right:
'The far-right, then, is a thin supremacist movement'!
exceptions to the GOP’s muted response is Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s longtime Republican leader, who after last week’s firing of Haugh expressed exasperation with Trump’s personnel decisions. “If decades of experience in uniform isn’t enough to lead the NSA but amateur isolationists can hold senior policy jobs at the Pentagon, then what exactly are the criteria for working on this Administration’s national security staff?” McConnell said. “I can’t figure it out.” #nato #feminism
Retour sur l’avant-première de GIRLS FOR TOMORROW au Luminor.
Un vrai moment de partage, au coeur d’un contexte politique tendu. Un immense merci à toutes celles et ceux qui étaient présent.e.s avec nous à Paris 
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Et une pensée très spéciale pour toute notre équipe et nos partenaires.
GIRLS FOR TOMORROW arrive sur ARTE le 9 avril. On a hâte que vous découvriez les Girls !
Am 7. Juni 2025 findet der Slutwalk am Marienplatz in München statt. Das Motto 2025 lautet: “Nein, das ist nicht ok. Von sexistischen Witzen bis zu struktureller Diskriminierung.”
Ich freue mich, wieder dabei zu sein und einige von euch zu treffen.
@mrkeef Ugh, a skyfairy delusionist, spreading bullshit propaganda.
BLOCKED.
#Atheism #fsckALLreligion #FsckChristoFacists #FsckSkyfairyDelusionists #FsckRWNJs #FsckThePatriarchy 
#Feminism #FreedomFromReligion #RemoveALLReligiousTaxPreferencesFromALLAspectsOfSociety #religion
#JohnOliver as right on point as ever. The #extreme-right and #authoritarian movements are just instrumentalising #womenrights to advance a completely #patriarcal #transphobic issue, turning #feminism on its head, and he just shows how they do it.
We’re reading “A Door Into Ocean” by Joan Slonczewski for our next book club – an ecofeminist sci-fi classic. Granted, it’s a niche pick, but maybe there’s someone out there who loves this stuff?
We meet on Zoom and usually discuss for 1.5-2h. Doesn’t matter whether you’ve finished. On June 3, RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/unread-bookclub/events/307007097/ #BookClub #Feminism #SciFi
Amazingly, Slonczewski has documented her influences in this wonderful study guide: https://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/books/adoor_art/adoor_study.htm
Very much looking forward! 
In lettura:
Invisibile women
Exposing data bias in a world designed for men
di Caroline Criado Perez
ESSENTIAL reading, y'all.
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Marginalized voices, our voices, need space. With the CFC, we are creating this space for you… And we also recognize the challenges in claiming this space. If you see queer feminist topics underrepresented, here’s your chance to change that:"
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Marginalized voices, our voices, need space. With the CFC, we are creating this space for you… And we also recognize the challenges in claiming this space. If you see queer feminist topics underrepresented, here’s your chance to change that:"
https://events.haecksen.org/cfc25/index.html
Submission deadline: 14.04.2025 at 23:42
Ever wanted to try out a talk or workshop? We provide you with the test environment in order to do so and would love to support you :) Queer feminist spaces want to focus on different things than only #Patriarchy . What get’s you excited and what do you think we should check out?
https://events.haecksen.org/cfc25/index.html
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Do you want to help us to extend our horizon? We would really appreciate more artistic, activist and other societal relevant contributions to our utopia! What’s your idea for our collective future? You have only this week left to do so:
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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
I like Reductress & read it weekly, enjoying its often witty combo of #feminism & #satire. Unfortunately i feel they missed the mark a bit here, mocking something that is very real for those of us "enjoying" the universe's "gift/s" of #introversion , #SocialAnxiety, #Depression.
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Introvert Requires 48 Hours of Alone Time to Recover From 15-Minute Conversation
In a developing story out of a darkened bedroom, 28-year-old Alissa Donahue recently returned home after engaging in a brief 15-minute conversation with a coworker, and has now begun her required 48 hours of alone time.
“The conversation was actually really pleasant,” Alissa told reporters. “Unfortunately, it did drain me so much I needed to lie down immediately when I got home, and then not get up for two and a half hours.”
Alissa said that no matter how pleasant a conversation is, she always needs some time to herself to recover.
“Engaging verbally with another human in general just drops my energy levels to zero,” Alissa explained to reporters. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a brief conversation with a coworker or a high-pressure job interview. Either way, I’m going to need to binge watch 18 episodes of Avatar the Last Airbender afterwards just to get right with myself.”
Sources close to Alissa have described socializing with her as “talking to a rapidly melting snowman” and “experientially similar to overwatering a plant.”
“I love chatting with Alissa,” Alissa’s coworker, Jamie, told reporters. “It’s just hard because I feel like I’m killing her. With every second we spend discussing an episode of a show we both watched this weekend, I feel as if I’m stealing energy from her lifeforce and somehow imbuing it into myself.”
Alissa wanted to make it clear that it wasn’t that she found these types of conversations to be unenjoyable, it was just that she didn’t possess the mental and emotional endurance to sustain them for long periods of time.
“I just need to take frequent breaks,” Alissa said. “We can talk about the show we watched this weekend, but it would be best if we did so in one-minute increments over the course of five weeks.”
As of press time, Alissa had finally recovered from the conversation and decided to re-enter the world. However, she ran into her neighbor as she was leaving her apartment and was forced to return inside for another two hours to recover from that 11 second interaction.
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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.
#woke 
