Almost like there is something else going on. Like a societal system that is completely indifferent to how one self-identifies and still codes people into dominant and oppressed roles. This is such a good question. Why gender friends, are trans identified females not leading the vanguard they are after-all, (according
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wmtc: beyond #iwd: fight for women by opposing privatization
Visit We Own It for all the facts on privatization. When public services are privatized, everyone loses — except, of course, shareholders of a private company, who increase their wealth with our money. But did you know the pain of privatization hits women disproportionately harder? As this excellent article by Jane
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: International Women’s Day 2018 (#IWD2018)
Inspired by the struggles of working class women and led by the early socialist movement, a strategy formed to hold an annual day to demand equal rights, suffrage, an end to sexual discrimination and for a new social order – and given the anti-capitalist spirit, most often socialist. The first
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Females Could You Please Just Get Out of Feminism?
Wow. You go to Banff for a choral workshop for one weekend and it seems like ‘all the news’ happens while you are away. Meghan Murphy has been busy on the Feminist Current detailing the latest assault on Feminism led by – completely shocked here – Transactivists (read Male
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Justin Trudeau and the Women’s Budget
Of all the good things that Justin Trudeau has done since he liberated us from Stephen Harper's monstrous regime, the one thing I like the most is his support for women's rights.For there is no bigger or better or more pressing issue than finally assuring the equality of women.And I
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why I’m Speaking Out – The Silent Majority of Women
“Why did I speak out? Why can I not stop speaking out? I cannot stay silent whilst Lesbians are being given the ultimatum of ‘sleep with someone who says they’re a woman even though they have a penis or be labelled Transphobic?’ (I will not apologise for saying this sounds
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: An Open Letter to the BC NDP – The Feminist Current
Hey folks, go sign the letter at the Feminist Current to the BC NDP calling for a response to questionable actions of its VP. This letter was sent to all addressees, via email, on February 2nd. A response was requested within seven days. To date, we have not received
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Are you a woman?
There are lots of problems with how most of society treats transgendered people. Trying to sort out how best to rectify this has lead to many unproductive clashes. A major disagreement centres around whether biologically male transgendered people are actually women. My question to the BioMaleTrans is this: Why do
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Truth is Not Hate – How Accusations of Transphobia Silence Female Voices
If there is anything that will enrage men more is women speaking out against their view of the world. The first class citizens get mighty mad when the second class start challenging their assertions and interpretations of the world. This post delves into the war of words that is currently
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: #Metoo?
Can we talk? Many men (and some women) worry that the #metoo movement has morphed into a man-hating witch hunt where innocent men will be publicly humiliated and deprived of their livelihoods by vindictive women spreading unfounded accusations. They point to the fate of three Canadian politicians, Ont PC leader,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Emmeline Pankhurst – A Very Simple Fact.
Women have been fighting for full human status in society for a very long time. You’d think a rational society could do more in a hundred years plus, but we’re still not there yet. ” And yet I find in American newspapers there is a great deal of misunderstanding
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Kittehs Showing the Solidarity – Pink Pussy Hat Cat
Thanks to those who showed up and rallied. Bring that spirit with you and continue to raise consciousness wherever you go. 🙂
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Why Do We March?
Of the 120,000 people who attended the Women’s March in Canada, 10,000 marched in Alberta and 3,500 marched in Calgary. They were repeatedly asked, “Why do you march?” They replied they were concerned about equal pay, violence against women, protecting human rights, and ensuring the ugliness of Trumpism doesn’t seep
Continue readingWe Pivot: White Men Need Intersectionality Expertise, Oluo 6/18
Intersectionality needs to become the most understood word as we wind down this decade. I’ve been thinking that for a few years now, but chapter 5 of Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race deeply reinforces that. My … [Read more]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Normalization of Abuse Against Females in Our Society – Shanita Hubbard
Oh my goodness, an actual intersectional analysis of oppression. Thank you Shanita Hubbbard. I would recommend reading the entire article as this pull quote merely sets the stage for a vivid example of multiple axis of oppression that black women face growing up in our white patriarchal society.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How I Teach Men Not To Talk Over Me – Asserting Your Humanity as Female
How I Teach Men Not To Talk Over Me: from one feminist to another, when basic respect is lagging and conversations are impossible I’ve done this to several men, and they catch on rather quickly. You’ll be able to have a conversation right then and there, and it works long
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Patriarchy Runs Deep – The Air We Breath, The Miasmatic Soup We Breathe.
Entrenched patriarchal attitudes and norms are the enemy. Pervasive, ‘invisible’, and yet ubiquitous. The battles that must be undertaken are fraught with notion of the permanence of patriarchy and how unassailable it seems. It isn’t. Just reaching one person and showing them the way is a victory, savour it
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: It’s Females who Have Gender Dysphoria!
This is a next level comment on a thread from a post on The Feminist Current titled “If trans activists truly cared about feminism, they would respect women’s spaces”. Simple no? It’s hard to argue with the tagline, although in the comment section the TRA (trans rights activists) are certainly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A View Of What It is Like To Be Female in Society – Hellish, No?
https://blackswallowtailbutterfly.tumblr.com/post/168843611032/e4ch-thanks-jenny-schecter Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Education for Dudes, The Female Experience
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