#feminism — Public Fediverse posts
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Women are so much more powerful than men. That's the truth.
-- Caitlyn Jenner (Television interview, 2016)
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Men were only the rough sketch; women are the work brought to perfection.
-- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women, 1600 (English trans. 1997))
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Men were only the rough sketch; women are the work brought to perfection.
-- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women, 1600 (English trans. 1997))
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If women behaved like men, they’d be in jail or in charge.
-- Gloria Steinem (Speech at Smith College, 1990)
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If women behaved like men, they’d be in jail or in charge.
-- Gloria Steinem (Speech at Smith College, 1990)
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SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & MARXISM with Jelle Klaas
OT301, Friday, October 30 at 06:45 PM GMT+1
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy
Open: 18:45 - 22:00 hrs
Tickets: € 6,50A lecture with film clips and visual material by Jelle Klaas
Friday 30 October 2026
Doors: 18:45 | Start: 19:00
Spaceships, aliens, vampires, zombies, distant planets and imaginary worlds. Science fiction and fantasy are among the most popular forms of storytelling — but what do these stories tell us about the world we actually live in?
And perhaps more importantly: what can they tell us about the possibility of a different and better world?
On Friday 30 October, Ventilator Cinema welcomes human rights lawyer, Marxist and lifelong science-fiction and fantasy enthusiast Jelle Klaas for an illustrated lecture exploring these genres through a critical Marxist lens.
Moving between cinema, literature, comics, games and popular culture, Klaas examines how science fiction and fantasy reflect questions of capitalism, class, power, labour, racism, feminism and political struggle.
From spaceships and dystopian futures to magical kingdoms and the undead, imaginary worlds have long provided ways of thinking about very real political and social conflicts. Science fiction can imagine societies beyond capitalism, while fantasy can reproduce — or challenge — ideas about hierarchy, race, power and history.
So what is politically troubling about enormously popular works such as Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings?
What happens when we look at zombies, vampires, aliens and dystopian societies through the lens of class and capitalism?
And which works of science fiction and fantasy should every socialist know?
Expect an accessible and provocative journey through the genre, filled with film clips, images, references and recommendations — from famous blockbusters to radical and lesser-known works.
ABOUT JELLE KLAAS
Jelle Klaas is a Dutch human rights lawyer and Executive Director of PILP, a human rights law firm and NGO based in Amsterdam. He is one of the founders of the organisation and has many years of experience using strategic litigation to advance human rights in the Netherlands.
His legal work focuses particularly on the right to protest, anti-discrimination, civil procedure, housing policy and strategic human rights litigation. He has represented activists, communities and civil-society organisations and has been involved in major cases concerning ethnic profiling, demonstration rights and socioeconomic rights.
Before PILP, Klaas worked for fifteen years as a social lawyer, including on cases concerning the right to basic shelter and support for undocumented people.
Alongside his legal work, Klaas has been politically active throughout his life and is a Marxist.
His other great passion is science fiction and fantasy. Since childhood, he has immersed himself in the genre across films, novels, comics and games. In this lecture, these two worlds come together: political analysis and a lifelong fascination with imaginary worlds.
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/science-fiction-fantasy-and-marxism-with-jelle-klaas
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Give a man power and he’ll call it destiny. Give a woman power and she’ll call it justice.
-- Maya Angelou (Interview in Essence Magazine, 1996)
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The most radical thing any of us can do is believe women.
-- Tarana Burke (Speech, 2018)
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‘Mother of Hubble’: how Nancy Grace Roman ushered in a new era of astronomy
#history #astronomy #science #feminism
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02802-z -
Research questions piano’s one-size-fits-all keyboard
#music #feminism
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/07/piano-keyboard-design-standard-narrow-women-research -
Research questions piano’s one-size-fits-all keyboard
#music #feminism
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/07/piano-keyboard-design-standard-narrow-women-research -
Most men fear feminism because it demands they confront what they’ve done — or what they’ve benefited from.
-- Rebecca Traister (Interview with The Cut, 2018)
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Most men fear feminism because it demands they confront what they’ve done — or what they’ve benefited from.
-- Rebecca Traister (Interview with The Cut, 2018)
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If men could cry half as well as they could complain, maybe they’d learn empathy.
-- Mona Eltahawy ([email protected]) (Interview in The Guardian, 2015)
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If men could cry half as well as they could complain, maybe they’d learn empathy.
-- Mona Eltahawy ([email protected]) (Interview in The Guardian, 2015)
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👩 Gloria Steinem, Ms Magazine.
From A Bunny’s Tale to Ms. magazine, she spent decades challenging sexism and fighting for women’s rights.
👉 https://alisonlittle.blog/?p=6811
#GloriaSteinem #Feminism #WomensRights -
👩 Gloria Steinem, Ms Magazine.
From A Bunny’s Tale to Ms. magazine, she spent decades challenging sexism and fighting for women’s rights.
👉 https://alisonlittle.blog/?p=6811
#GloriaSteinem #Feminism #WomensRights -
👩 Gloria Steinem, Ms Magazine.
From A Bunny’s Tale to Ms. magazine, she spent decades challenging sexism and fighting for women’s rights.
👉 https://alisonlittle.blog/?p=6811
#GloriaSteinem #Feminism #WomensRights -
👩 Gloria Steinem, Ms Magazine.
From A Bunny’s Tale to Ms. magazine, she spent decades challenging sexism and fighting for women’s rights.
👉 https://alisonlittle.blog/?p=6811
#GloriaSteinem #Feminism #WomensRights -
The day women discover they are superior will be the day men start agreeing with them.
-- Zadie Smith (Panel discussion at Hay Festival, 2018)
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The day women discover they are superior will be the day men start agreeing with them.
-- Zadie Smith (Panel discussion at Hay Festival, 2018)
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Even now, you are still having to admit that women are superior in nature to men.
-- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women, 1600 (English trans. 1997))
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Even now, you are still having to admit that women are superior in nature to men.
-- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women, 1600 (English trans. 1997))
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There's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.
-- Ginger Rogers (Interview, 1975)
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There's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.
-- Ginger Rogers (Interview, 1975)
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Woman was the last Work of Creation, and as the last, so the best and most perfect work of God.
-- Anonymous (“Sophia”) (Woman’s Superior Excellence over Man, 1739)
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Woman was the last Work of Creation, and as the last, so the best and most perfect work of God.
-- Anonymous (“Sophia”) (Woman’s Superior Excellence over Man, 1739)
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The more enlightened a society becomes, the more it will acknowledge the superior moral sense of women.
-- Eliza Burt Gamble (The Evolution of Woman, 1894)
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The more enlightened a society becomes, the more it will acknowledge the superior moral sense of women.
-- Eliza Burt Gamble (The Evolution of Woman, 1894)
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Women’s power is the power of renewal; men’s is the power of destruction.
-- Gloria Steinem (Speech at National Women’s Political Caucus, 1972)
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When men call women emotional, they mean we feel too much to be controlled by them.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Interview with BBC Woman’s Hour, 2018)
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When men call women emotional, they mean we feel too much to be controlled by them.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Interview with BBC Woman’s Hour, 2018)
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Feminism is the radical notion that women are people—and better at it than men.
-- Rebecca West (adapted) (Paraphrased from Rebecca West, 1913)
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A story from Sepp Forscher on Medium
Read “Why we cannot stop believing.“ by Sepp Forscher on Medium: https://medium.com/@seppforscher/why-we-cannot-stop-believing-f7e5822c44f9 -
If men ran the world, wars would never end. If women ran it, wars would never start.
-- Jane Goodall (Interview with The Guardian, 2002)
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women feel threatened by patriarchy but refuse to be initiating and still make fun men when they feel like mommy girlfriends. (That's patriarchal behavior in women)
because they want a man that is at home
but it should be still a very maskuline winner type kind of guywtf
you cannot have it all
sorry not sorryget real women
#feminism #patriarchy #mommygirlfriend #stayathomedad #maskulinity #cisgender #genderroles #genderequality
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women feel threatened by patriarchy but refuse to be initiating and still make fun men when they feel like mommy girlfriends. (That's patriarchal behavior in women)
because they want a man that is at home
but it should be still a very maskuline winner type kind of guywtf
you cannot have it all
sorry not sorryget real women
#feminism #patriarchy #mommygirlfriend #stayathomedad #maskulinity #cisgender #genderroles #genderequality
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women feel threatened by patriarchy but refuse to be initiating and still make fun men when they feel like mommy girlfriends. (That's patriarchal behavior in women)
because they want a man that is at home
but it should be still a very maskuline winner type kind of guywtf
you cannot have it all
sorry not sorryget real women
#feminism #patriarchy #mommygirlfriend #stayathomedad #maskulinity #cisgender #genderroles #genderequality
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women feel threatened by patriarchy but refuse to be initiating and still make fun men when they feel like mommy girlfriends. (That's patriarchal behavior in women)
because they want a man that is at home
but it should be still a very maskuline winner type kind of guywtf
you cannot have it all
sorry not sorryget real women
#feminism #patriarchy #mommygirlfriend #stayathomedad #maskulinity #cisgender #genderroles #genderequality
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women feel threatened by patriarchy but refuse to be initiating and still make fun men as when they feel like mommy girlfriends.
because they want a man that is at home
but it should be still a very maskuline winner type kind of guywtf
you cannot have it all
sorry not sorryget real women
#feminism #patriarchy #mommygirlfriend #stayathomedad #maskulinity #cisgender #genderroles #genderequality
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women feel threatened by patriarchy but refuse to be initiating and still make fun men as when they feel like mommy girlfriends.
because they want a man that is at home
but it should be still a very maskuline winner type kind of guywtf
you cannot have it all
sorry not sorryget real women
#feminism #patriarchy #mommygirlfriend #stayathomedad #maskulinity #cisgender #genderroles #genderequality
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women feel threatened by patriarchy but refuse to be initiating and still make fun men as when they feel like mommy girlfriends.
because they want a man that is at home
but it should be still a very maskuline winner type kind of guywtf
you cannot have it all
sorry not sorryget real women
#feminism #patriarchy #mommygirlfriend #stayathomedad #maskulinity #cisgender #genderroles #genderequality
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women feel threatened by patriarchy but refuse to be initiating and still make fun men as when they feel like mommy girlfriends.
because they want a man that is at home
but it should be still a very maskuline winner type kind of guywtf
you cannot have it all
sorry not sorryget real women
#feminism #patriarchy #mommygirlfriend #stayathomedad #maskulinity #cisgender #genderroles #genderequality
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I now own this amazing 1972 edition
#feminism #GloriaSteinem #WonderWoman #DivineFeminine -
I now own this amazing 1972 edition
#feminism #GloriaSteinem #WonderWoman #DivineFeminine -
I now own this amazing 1972 edition
#feminism #GloriaSteinem #WonderWoman #DivineFeminine -
I now own this amazing 1972 edition
#feminism #GloriaSteinem #WonderWoman #DivineFeminine
