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Aura (they/she)We are cosmos. <br> We are made of stardust. <br> We are magic. <br> We are consciousness. <br> How does it feel in your body? <br> <br> <br> This is another collage from the eco feminist vulva series expanding over years. <br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/collage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/collageart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collageart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vulvaart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vulvaart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/papercollage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#papercollage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/analogcollage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#analogcollage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/collages?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collages</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/paperart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paperart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/handmade?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#handmade</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cosmos?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cosmos</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cosmic?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cosmic</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/feminist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feminist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/feministart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feministart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/feministartist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feministartist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ecofeminism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecofeminism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/feminism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feminism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ecofeminist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecofeminist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/yoniart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#yoniart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/universe?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#universe</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/art?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/analogart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#analogart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/collageartist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collageartist</a>
Ceryl<p>Janken Wiel-Hansen <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Norwegian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norwegian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Swedish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swedish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/athlete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>athlete</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feminist</span></a> pioneer in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fencing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fencing</span></a> &amp; swordsmanship. Worked in publishing, took up fencing in her 30s, international champion in few years, known as the ‘D’Artagnan of Stockholm &amp; Sweden.’ Founder of Stockholm Women's Fencing Club. Acted in plays written by partner Ida von Plomgren. Life story rediscovered when suitcase found in Østfold Museums stores. b. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 11 July1868 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janken_Wiel-Hansen" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janken_W</span><span class="invisible">iel-Hansen</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@CarveHerName" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CarveHerName</span></a></span></p>
Aura (they/she)A moth, bottom of the ocean, crystals and flowers. <br> <br> We are nature. Let this be known deep in your bones, muscles and tissue. <br> <br> This is a part of my eco feminist collage series of vulvas. <br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/collage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/collageart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collageart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/papercollage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#papercollage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/analogcollage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#analogcollage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/handmade?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#handmade</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/feminist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feminist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/feministart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feministart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ecofeminism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecofeminism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/feminism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feminism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ecofeminist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecofeminist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nature?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/wearenature?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wearenature</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/natureart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#natureart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/collages?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collages</a>
Aura (they/she)We can not birth a new world within the structures of the current systems. <br> <br> This vulva collage is one of the first I made, if not the first actually. I’m not looking for answers within the organised religions, but I am looking for ways to move softly and spiritually through the world. Maybe this was a portrait of Mary, maybe she was another holy figure in a christian artwork, but now she situated in this collage representing more than a human being. She is the spiritual deep within. <br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/collage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/collageart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collageart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/papercollage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#papercollage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/mixedmedia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mixedmedia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/spiritualart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spiritualart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/spiritualcollage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spiritualcollage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/hex?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hex</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/witchcraft?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#witchcraft</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/collages?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collages</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/analogcollage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#analogcollage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/spiritualart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spiritualart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/spirituality?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spirituality</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/handmade?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#handmade</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/handmadeart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#handmadeart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vulvaart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vulvaart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/feminist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feminist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/feminism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feminism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/feministart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feministart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ecofeminism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecofeminism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ecofeminist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecofeminist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/feministartist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feministartist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/contemporyart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemporyart</a>
Rebellin_aus_Gründen⚡️<p>Guten Morgen zusammen ☕️ </p><p><a href="https://nrw.social/tags/noisafullsentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>noisafullsentence</span></a> <br><a href="https://nrw.social/tags/noisno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>noisno</span></a> <br><a href="https://nrw.social/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feminist</span></a> <br><a href="https://nrw.social/tags/womansrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womansrights</span></a> <br><a href="https://nrw.social/tags/notallmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>notallmen</span></a></p>
Cheuk Ting Ho<p>Join <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Feminist</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> party this Wednesday: <a href="https://lu.ma/m1r895wx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lu.ma/m1r895wx</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Cheuk Ting Ho<p>Are you in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> this week? Last chance to sign up for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Feminist</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> London meetup this Wednesday. We have plenty of opportunity for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/networking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>networking</span></a> with like-minded folks and join in the discuess with our AI expert panelists. Links in comment below.</p>
Don Trueten :antifa:Hierzulande praktisch unbekannt und wie viele Revolutionäre der Commune la Paris vergessen und verdrängt. <p></p><p><strong>Elisée Reclus: Fünf Ebenen sozial-ökologischer Praxis</strong></p><p><strong>Seine überzeugende und realistische revolutionäre Vision zeigt die Voraussetzungen für eine befreite Welt</strong></p> Elisée Reclus (1830–1905) war einer der bedeutendsten #Geografen seiner Zeit, eine wichtige Figur des anarchistischen politischen Denkens und ein lebenslanger #Revolutionär, der eine aktive Rolle in der Pariser #Kommune und der Ersten Internationale spielte. Für einen politischen Denker des 19. Jahrhunderts war er außergewöhnlich, weil er sich sein ganzes Leben lang nicht nur für die soziale #Revolution engagierte, sondern auch für radikale #Ökologie, gegen #Patriarchat und für die #Gleichberechtigung von #Frauen, gegen #Rassismus und #Kolonialismus sowie gegen #Speziesismus und für #Tierschutz.<p> Am bekanntesten ist Reclus für sein Werk „Neue Universelle Geographie“, ein 20-bändiges, 18.000 Seiten starkes Werk, das als größte <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Einzelleistung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Einzelleistung</span></a> in der Geschichte der <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Geographie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geographie</span></a> gilt. Reclus gilt weithin als Begründer der Sozialgeographie. Sein letztes <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Werk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Werk</span></a>, „Humanité et Terre“ (Menschheit und Erde), war eine 3500 Seiten umfassende Synthese aus Geographie, Geschichte, Anthropologie, <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Philosophie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophie</span></a> und <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Sozialtheorie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sozialtheorie</span></a> und ist sein nachhaltigster Beitrag zum modernen <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Denken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Denken</span></a>. Das Werk beginnt mit der Aussage, dass „die Menschheit die Natur ist, die sich ihrer selbst bewusst wird“, und ist eine umfassende Darstellung der gesamten Geschichte der <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Menschheit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Menschheit</span></a> und der Erde sowie eines gemeinsamen planetarischen Schicksals, das sich durch ein tiefes Verständnis des großen Verlaufs der <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Geogeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geogeschichte</span></a> offenbart.</p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Reclus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reclus</span></a>' Geschichte der Menschheit und der Erde hat zwei Dimensionen. Die eine ist seine Darstellung des Prozesses der <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Selbstverwirklichung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Selbstverwirklichung</span></a> des Menschen in dialektischer Wechselwirkung mit der <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Natur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Natur</span></a>. Er zeigt, wie das natürliche Milieu die menschliche Entwicklung prägt, während die Menschheit gleichzeitig zur Entfaltung und Blüte der natürlichen Welt beiträgt. Er zeigt, dass der Inhalt der Geogeschichte eine <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Dialektik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dialektik</span></a> zwischen den schöpferischen Kräften der Freiheit und den einschränkenden Kräften der Herrschaft ist. Seine Idee, dass alle Phänomene der Geschichte sowohl progressive als auch regressive Aspekte enthalten und dass jede Tendenz sorgfältig analysiert werden muss, ist eines seiner einflussreichsten Konzepte.</p><p> Reclus zeigt, dass der historische Fortschritt vom Wachstum der gegenseitigen Hilfe (<em>l’entr’aide</em>) und der sozialen Zusammenarbeit abhängt – Ideen, die seinen jüngeren Kollegen <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Kropotkin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kropotkin</span></a> stark beeinflusst haben. Reclus behauptet, dass die vollständige Selbstverwirklichung der Menschheit in der Natur von einer sozialen Revolution abhängt, die mutualistische Praktiken in einer freien, egalitären, anarchistisch-kommunistischen Gesellschaft verwirklicht. Außerdem meint er, dass das Schicksal der Erde davon abhängt, ob die Menschheit soziale Institutionen und Praktiken aufbauen kann, die eine tiefe Sorge um die Natur und alle Lebewesen auf dem Planeten zeigen. </p><p> Die andere Seite von Reclus' <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Weltgeschichtsdarstellung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Weltgeschichtsdarstellung</span></a> konzentriert sich auf die lange Geschichte der <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Herrschaft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Herrschaft</span></a>. Er kritisiert den zentralisierten bürokratischen Staat und den industriellen Kapitalismus ziemlich heftig, sieht aber andere Formen der Herrschaft nicht als untergeordnete Bereiche. Er war ein radikaler <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Feminist</span></a> und ein vehementer Gegner der männlichen Dominanz sowie ein glühender Gegner aller Formen von Rassismus und der eurozentrischen Herabwürdigung indigener Kulturen. Er war ein früher Kritiker der ökologischen Zerstörung durch rücksichtslose <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Industrialisierung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Industrialisierung</span></a> und technologische <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Rationalisierung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rationalisierung</span></a> und prangerte bereits in den 1860er Jahren die Zerstörung alter Wälder an. Darüber hinaus war er ein unermüdlicher Verfechter des ethischen <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Vegetarismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vegetarismus</span></a> und der humanen Behandlung von Tieren.</p><p>(...)</p><p> Weiterlesen <a href="https://www.trueten.de/archives/13751-Elisee-Reclus-Fuenf-Ebenen-sozial-oekologischer-Praxis.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">in meiner Übersetzung</a> der Analyse von John P Clark: <a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/05/elisee-reclus-5-levels-of-social-ecological-practice/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Elisée Reclus: 5 levels of social-ecological practice</a>, 5. Juli, via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/@freedomnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>freedomnews</span></a></span> / freedomnews.co.uk </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Anarchismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchismus</span></a></p>

Global South feminists are reclaiming refugee discourse this 7th July.

Recently, 49 white South Africans claimed “refugee” status in the United States – a move that dangerously conflates white settler discomfort with real exile.

Register now and join efforts to create a Pan-Afrikan, Anti-Imperial, Feminist Migration and Foreign Policy: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist

This is one og my favourite collages. 🐌

I made it 2023 as a part of my eco feminist collage series of vulvas. Its called “soft” or “blød” in danish. I believe we are changing as humanity. We are returning to ancient knowledge, that are embedded deep in our bones. The knowledge of softness, natural ways, cycles, spiritual connection. Everything is interconnected.

Blød revolution.

#ecofeminism #feministart #feminist #feministartist #eco #awereness #nature #natureart #collage #analogcollage #papercollage #handmade #slowart #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #intersectionalfeminism #ecofeminist #vulvaart

As a #feminist and #gender #fiction #writer, I know words and wording matter. They shape the information flow and the emotions of the reader.While the linked article is excellent, I especially commend the Live Science columnist, Kristina Killgrove, for including the meta byplay amongst scientists pointing out how the study authors used language to hedge admitting to discovering a real life instance of matriarchy. They didn't want to offend some overly sensitive patriarchal man. I'm quoting the section below from the article.

"We preferred using 'female-centered' instead of matrilineal because the latter is about how people define kin," Somel [the study's author] said. "Çatalhöyük households could have been matrilineal, but we think using more general terms might be preferable. It is always good to be cautious," he said.

But Benjamin Arbuckle, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who was not involved in the study, wrote in a perspective in Science that "if the sex patterns were reversed, there would likely be little hesitation in concluding that patriarchal power structures were at play."

The columnist goes on to include this:

"This is reflective of the difficulty that many scholars have in imagining a world characterized by substantial female power despite abundant archaeological, historic, and ethnographic evidence that matriarchal fields of power were and are widespread," Arbuckle said.

If you find yourself censoring so as not to offend, don't do that. It will ruin your work and give you a bad rep. Use the right words, then explain why they are right and why others might mistakenly see them as inflammatory.

livescience.com/archaeology/an

#BoostingIsSharing

Live Science · Ancient 'female-centered' society thrived 9,000 years ago in proto-city in TurkeyBy Kristina Killgrove

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2025.06.18 — The eye of the duck: Share a ‘nonessential’ scene in one of your works that ties the piece together. CW: Uncomfortable fictional discussion about women being oppressed.

I didn't know I do this Eye of the Duck thing, but apparently I do. A lot, apparently.

The Eye of the Duck is a scene - often flashy or surreal - which is NOT essential to the general action or plot of the film, but which reveals a key theme or element of the film more succinctly than the actual plot.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments

This is a great question for assessing the texture of a novel.

This surreal scene is from Mars Needed Women. As the narrator puts it, "Five sols later, Stan's wife, Gwen, and May Ri got to talk. Somehow it turned into an interview." The whole chapter is an interview, the same way another chapter is an op-ed. Sometimes different formats better express major themes in a story. If the reader hadn't gotten that the story is about women fighting oppression, learned what oppression is often disguised as, and what it makes women do, this sequence ought clear up that misunderstanding. May Ri is the protagonist. Gwen, 45, is married to Ezekiel Stan, the in-person villain in the story. There are other villains, but none this in-your-face. I added gloss in brackets for outrages established at the top of the scene.

May Ri: You're a first contract colonist. What made you sign-up?

Gwen (sighs): Naïve? Heard Mars "needed women" in a sermon about brave men. I'd be 14 in two weeks, but rushed out into the fields to record an application. I tugged up peanuts setting flowers in the ground, got sweaty under the sun, got mud on my big sister's flimsy top and shorts and paid hell for that. The shoulder kept sliding off, and I kept pulling it back "barely" in time. I giggled. I made sure the wind pressed the cotton against my chest. The shorts rode up into the crack of my butt when I bent over. I smiled and wriggled it.

Father served an elite niche farm-fresh clientele; I got to be retro-exotic! I lied about my age.

Ezekiel liked them young.

(Waves a thumb at the 16-year-old nisei [1st generation Martian] co-wives behind her [both pregnant].)

Our town's minister okayed my EM Corp. contract when I promised to pay for church repairs. I also paid off father's mortgage. Nine months later I landed at Elysium. Nine months later I bore Gabriel.

Good enough?

Now tell me, how did you meet Ezekiel?

May Ri: He tried to rape me.

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Date: 13/06/2025
Location: Engehaldenstrasse, Bern

The slogans of the 80s youth movement were known for their tongue-in-cheek, irreverent humour. «WEG MIT DEN ALPEN - FREIE SICHT AUFS MITTELMEER = GET RID OF THE ALPS - FOR A CLEAR VIEW OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA» was one well known example. Of course we had no actual plans to "get rid" of the alps. Where would we put them? But this slogan managed to express our discontent with the status quo, our struggle for more freedom.

«WEG MIT DEN ALTEN [WEISSEN MÄNNERN] - FREIE SICHT AUFS FRAUENMEHR = GET RID OF OLD [WHITE MEN] - FOR A CLEAR VIEW ON A WOMEN'S MAJORITY» is a riff on that slogan. It addresses the ongoing anti-feminist backlash (in its full range) and is meant as shout out to the feminist strike that has traditionally been happening on June 14th in Switzerland.

While across the great ocean one much too powerful old white male will celebrate his birthday with a military parade in an effort to build his fascist regime, feminists in Switzerland are going to hit the streets to call for equal rights, bodily autonomy, an end to genocide and fascism, in an intersectional effort of connect forces with other movements – climate justice very much included, seeing as the aforementioned alps have now started to crumble on their own.

A program of all protests and events can be found here:
https://www.feministischer-streik-bern.ch/feministischer-streik-2025

See you in the streets.

Photo description: On a wall with graffitis a feminist collage reads: «WEG MIT DEN ALTEN [WEISSEN MÄNNERN] - FREIE SICHT AUFS FRAUENMEHR» translates to: «GET RID OF OLD [WHITE MEN] - FOR A CLEAR VIEW ON A WOMEN'S MAJORITY». On the right top corner a view of a blue cloudy sky.

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