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  1. «Pink Patriarchy Pride Edition - The Perfect Survivor Problem»

    swopbehindbars.org/post/pink-p

    — SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸

    > Movements love survivors, at least certain kinds of survivors.

    > The inspirational survivor. The grateful survivor.

    > The survivor whose trauma can be packaged into a fundraising campaign.

    > But the moment survivors become politically inconvenient support has a way of evaporating.

    > It's the largely unspoken investment in what might be called the "perfect survivor." It shapes which voices get amplified, which stories get funded, which people get invited to speak.

    > It determines who counts as credible, who counts as a liability, and who gets to define what harm looks like.

    > The perfect survivor is sympathetic, compliant, non-threatening.

    > The narrative confirms existing frameworks rather than challenging them, leaving the audience with the sense that the systems in place are fundamentally working.

    > The problem is that real people almost never fit these narratives.

    > Many survivors have complicated relationships with the systems that claim to be helping them.

    > Some have criminal records accumulated while surviving. Some still engage in sex work by choice or necessity. Some return to underground economies because alternatives they were offered proved unstable.

    > Some survivors simply refuse to organize their entire sense of self around victimhood - not because they are in denial, not because they have not processed what happened, but because their identity is larger than their trauma and they decline to perform otherwise for an audience.

    > Movements that cannot tolerate complicated survivors will never build liberation for the people most exposed to violence in the first place.

    > They build something that looks like liberation, uses the right language, and celebrates the right symbols, but quietly abandons the people who needed it most

    > Liberation movements built on conditional acceptance do not dismantle hierarchies. They reproduce them with better branding. The logic of deserving and undeserving, of credible and incredible, of safe to platform and dangerous to elevate, persists.

    #SWOPBehindBars #RescueIndustry #Victimhood #Feminisms #AntiTrafficking #Survivors

  2. «Pink Patriarchy Pride Edition - The Perfect Survivor Problem»

    swopbehindbars.org/post/pink-p

    — SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸

    > Movements love survivors, at least certain kinds of survivors.

    > The inspirational survivor. The grateful survivor.

    > The survivor whose trauma can be packaged into a fundraising campaign.

    > But the moment survivors become politically inconvenient support has a way of evaporating.

    > It's the largely unspoken investment in what might be called the "perfect survivor." It shapes which voices get amplified, which stories get funded, which people get invited to speak.

    > It determines who counts as credible, who counts as a liability, and who gets to define what harm looks like.

    > The perfect survivor is sympathetic, compliant, non-threatening.

    > The narrative confirms existing frameworks rather than challenging them, leaving the audience with the sense that the systems in place are fundamentally working.

    > The problem is that real people almost never fit these narratives.

    > Many survivors have complicated relationships with the systems that claim to be helping them.

    > Some have criminal records accumulated while surviving. Some still engage in sex work by choice or necessity. Some return to underground economies because alternatives they were offered proved unstable.

    > Some survivors simply refuse to organize their entire sense of self around victimhood - not because they are in denial, not because they have not processed what happened, but because their identity is larger than their trauma and they decline to perform otherwise for an audience.

    > Movements that cannot tolerate complicated survivors will never build liberation for the people most exposed to violence in the first place.

    > They build something that looks like liberation, uses the right language, and celebrates the right symbols, but quietly abandons the people who needed it most

    > Liberation movements built on conditional acceptance do not dismantle hierarchies. They reproduce them with better branding. The logic of deserving and undeserving, of credible and incredible, of safe to platform and dangerous to elevate, persists.

    #SWOPBehindBars #RescueIndustry #Victimhood #Feminisms #AntiTrafficking #Survivors

  3. «Pink Patriarchy Pride Edition - The Perfect Survivor Problem»

    swopbehindbars.org/post/pink-p

    — SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸

    > Movements love survivors, at least certain kinds of survivors.

    > The inspirational survivor. The grateful survivor.

    > The survivor whose trauma can be packaged into a fundraising campaign.

    > But the moment survivors become politically inconvenient support has a way of evaporating.

    > It's the largely unspoken investment in what might be called the "perfect survivor." It shapes which voices get amplified, which stories get funded, which people get invited to speak.

    > It determines who counts as credible, who counts as a liability, and who gets to define what harm looks like.

    > The perfect survivor is sympathetic, compliant, non-threatening.

    > The narrative confirms existing frameworks rather than challenging them, leaving the audience with the sense that the systems in place are fundamentally working.

    > The problem is that real people almost never fit these narratives.

    > Many survivors have complicated relationships with the systems that claim to be helping them.

    > Some have criminal records accumulated while surviving. Some still engage in sex work by choice or necessity. Some return to underground economies because alternatives they were offered proved unstable.

    > Some survivors simply refuse to organize their entire sense of self around victimhood - not because they are in denial, not because they have not processed what happened, but because their identity is larger than their trauma and they decline to perform otherwise for an audience.

    > Movements that cannot tolerate complicated survivors will never build liberation for the people most exposed to violence in the first place.

    > They build something that looks like liberation, uses the right language, and celebrates the right symbols, but quietly abandons the people who needed it most

    > Liberation movements built on conditional acceptance do not dismantle hierarchies. They reproduce them with better branding. The logic of deserving and undeserving, of credible and incredible, of safe to platform and dangerous to elevate, persists.

    #SWOPBehindBars #RescueIndustry #Victimhood #Feminisms #AntiTrafficking #Survivors

  4. «Pink Patriarchy Pride Edition - The Perfect Survivor Problem»

    swopbehindbars.org/post/pink-p

    — SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸

    > Movements love survivors, at least certain kinds of survivors.

    > The inspirational survivor. The grateful survivor.

    > The survivor whose trauma can be packaged into a fundraising campaign.

    > But the moment survivors become politically inconvenient support has a way of evaporating.

    > It's the largely unspoken investment in what might be called the "perfect survivor." It shapes which voices get amplified, which stories get funded, which people get invited to speak.

    > It determines who counts as credible, who counts as a liability, and who gets to define what harm looks like.

    > The perfect survivor is sympathetic, compliant, non-threatening.

    > The narrative confirms existing frameworks rather than challenging them, leaving the audience with the sense that the systems in place are fundamentally working.

    > The problem is that real people almost never fit these narratives.

    > Many survivors have complicated relationships with the systems that claim to be helping them.

    > Some have criminal records accumulated while surviving. Some still engage in sex work by choice or necessity. Some return to underground economies because alternatives they were offered proved unstable.

    > Some survivors simply refuse to organize their entire sense of self around victimhood - not because they are in denial, not because they have not processed what happened, but because their identity is larger than their trauma and they decline to perform otherwise for an audience.

    > Movements that cannot tolerate complicated survivors will never build liberation for the people most exposed to violence in the first place.

    > They build something that looks like liberation, uses the right language, and celebrates the right symbols, but quietly abandons the people who needed it most

    > Liberation movements built on conditional acceptance do not dismantle hierarchies. They reproduce them with better branding. The logic of deserving and undeserving, of credible and incredible, of safe to platform and dangerous to elevate, persists.

    #SWOPBehindBars #RescueIndustry #Victimhood #Feminisms #AntiTrafficking #Survivors

  5. «Pink Patriarchy Pride Edition - The Perfect Survivor Problem»

    swopbehindbars.org/post/pink-p

    — SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸

    > Movements love survivors, at least certain kinds of survivors.

    > The inspirational survivor. The grateful survivor.

    > The survivor whose trauma can be packaged into a fundraising campaign.

    > But the moment survivors become politically inconvenient support has a way of evaporating.

    > It's the largely unspoken investment in what might be called the "perfect survivor." It shapes which voices get amplified, which stories get funded, which people get invited to speak.

    > It determines who counts as credible, who counts as a liability, and who gets to define what harm looks like.

    > The perfect survivor is sympathetic, compliant, non-threatening.

    > The narrative confirms existing frameworks rather than challenging them, leaving the audience with the sense that the systems in place are fundamentally working.

    > The problem is that real people almost never fit these narratives.

    > Many survivors have complicated relationships with the systems that claim to be helping them.

    > Some have criminal records accumulated while surviving. Some still engage in sex work by choice or necessity. Some return to underground economies because alternatives they were offered proved unstable.

    > Some survivors simply refuse to organize their entire sense of self around victimhood - not because they are in denial, not because they have not processed what happened, but because their identity is larger than their trauma and they decline to perform otherwise for an audience.

    > Movements that cannot tolerate complicated survivors will never build liberation for the people most exposed to violence in the first place.

    > They build something that looks like liberation, uses the right language, and celebrates the right symbols, but quietly abandons the people who needed it most

    > Liberation movements built on conditional acceptance do not dismantle hierarchies. They reproduce them with better branding. The logic of deserving and undeserving, of credible and incredible, of safe to platform and dangerous to elevate, persists.

    #SWOPBehindBars #RescueIndustry #Victimhood #Feminisms #AntiTrafficking #Survivors

  6. DIS2027 – ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2027 dis.acm.org/2027/

    interactions with digital systems are increasingly intertwined with our intimate lives and sensuous ways of knowing and being, #entanglement-theories, #feminisms, #alternative #digital-systems #designed-differently.

  7. > As feminists gather for the National Organization for Women conference, sex workers have something important to say:

    > We are NOT asking feminism to abandon survivors. We are NOT asking anyone to ignore trafficking. We are NOT asking anyone to pretend exploitation does not exist.

    > We ARE asking feminists to stop building policy about us without us.

    > For too long, sex workers have been discussed in feminist spaces as symbols, cautionary tales, evidence of patriarchy, or objects of rescue. We have been spoken about as if we are all the same. We have been used to justify laws, policing strategies, and organizational positions that too often make our lives more dangerous. And when we have tried to speak for ourselves, we have too often been dismissed as exceptions, manipulated victims, privileged outliers, or inconvenient evidence.

    > That has to change.

    > Sex workers are workers, parents, organizers, survivors, disabled people, migrants, queer and trans people, formerly incarcerated people, poor people, students, caregivers, artists, advocates, and community members. Some of us entered the sex trade by choice. Some entered through poverty, coercion, homelessness, addiction, family rejection, immigration barriers, criminal records, or lack of better options. Many of us have complex stories that do not fit neatly into anyone’s political slogan.

    > But one thing is clear: we deserve safety, dignity, autonomy, and human rights. #NOW2026 #Feminism #FeministsFightFascism

    — SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸

    #SexWork #SWOPBehindBars #Feminisms #NOWConference #USA

  8. > As feminists gather for the National Organization for Women conference, sex workers have something important to say:

    > We are NOT asking feminism to abandon survivors. We are NOT asking anyone to ignore trafficking. We are NOT asking anyone to pretend exploitation does not exist.

    > We ARE asking feminists to stop building policy about us without us.

    > For too long, sex workers have been discussed in feminist spaces as symbols, cautionary tales, evidence of patriarchy, or objects of rescue. We have been spoken about as if we are all the same. We have been used to justify laws, policing strategies, and organizational positions that too often make our lives more dangerous. And when we have tried to speak for ourselves, we have too often been dismissed as exceptions, manipulated victims, privileged outliers, or inconvenient evidence.

    > That has to change.

    > Sex workers are workers, parents, organizers, survivors, disabled people, migrants, queer and trans people, formerly incarcerated people, poor people, students, caregivers, artists, advocates, and community members. Some of us entered the sex trade by choice. Some entered through poverty, coercion, homelessness, addiction, family rejection, immigration barriers, criminal records, or lack of better options. Many of us have complex stories that do not fit neatly into anyone’s political slogan.

    > But one thing is clear: we deserve safety, dignity, autonomy, and human rights. #NOW2026 #Feminism #FeministsFightFascism

    — SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸

    #SexWork #SWOPBehindBars #Feminisms #NOWConference #USA

  9. > As feminists gather for the National Organization for Women conference, sex workers have something important to say:

    > We are NOT asking feminism to abandon survivors. We are NOT asking anyone to ignore trafficking. We are NOT asking anyone to pretend exploitation does not exist.

    > We ARE asking feminists to stop building policy about us without us.

    > For too long, sex workers have been discussed in feminist spaces as symbols, cautionary tales, evidence of patriarchy, or objects of rescue. We have been spoken about as if we are all the same. We have been used to justify laws, policing strategies, and organizational positions that too often make our lives more dangerous. And when we have tried to speak for ourselves, we have too often been dismissed as exceptions, manipulated victims, privileged outliers, or inconvenient evidence.

    > That has to change.

    > Sex workers are workers, parents, organizers, survivors, disabled people, migrants, queer and trans people, formerly incarcerated people, poor people, students, caregivers, artists, advocates, and community members. Some of us entered the sex trade by choice. Some entered through poverty, coercion, homelessness, addiction, family rejection, immigration barriers, criminal records, or lack of better options. Many of us have complex stories that do not fit neatly into anyone’s political slogan.

    > But one thing is clear: we deserve safety, dignity, autonomy, and human rights. #NOW2026 #Feminism #FeministsFightFascism

    — SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸

    #SexWork #SWOPBehindBars #Feminisms #NOWConference #USA

  10. > As feminists gather for the National Organization for Women conference, sex workers have something important to say:

    > We are NOT asking feminism to abandon survivors. We are NOT asking anyone to ignore trafficking. We are NOT asking anyone to pretend exploitation does not exist.

    > We ARE asking feminists to stop building policy about us without us.

    > For too long, sex workers have been discussed in feminist spaces as symbols, cautionary tales, evidence of patriarchy, or objects of rescue. We have been spoken about as if we are all the same. We have been used to justify laws, policing strategies, and organizational positions that too often make our lives more dangerous. And when we have tried to speak for ourselves, we have too often been dismissed as exceptions, manipulated victims, privileged outliers, or inconvenient evidence.

    > That has to change.

    > Sex workers are workers, parents, organizers, survivors, disabled people, migrants, queer and trans people, formerly incarcerated people, poor people, students, caregivers, artists, advocates, and community members. Some of us entered the sex trade by choice. Some entered through poverty, coercion, homelessness, addiction, family rejection, immigration barriers, criminal records, or lack of better options. Many of us have complex stories that do not fit neatly into anyone’s political slogan.

    > But one thing is clear: we deserve safety, dignity, autonomy, and human rights. #NOW2026 #Feminism #FeministsFightFascism

    — SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸

    #SexWork #SWOPBehindBars #Feminisms #NOWConference #USA

  11. 'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

    'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

    Josefina L. Martínez : leftvoice.org/love-and-care-be

    #property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

  12. 'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

    'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

    Josefina L. Martínez : leftvoice.org/love-and-care-be

    #property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

  13. 'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

    'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

    Josefina L. Martínez : leftvoice.org/love-and-care-be

    #property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

  14. 'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

    'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

    Josefina L. Martínez : leftvoice.org/love-and-care-be

    #property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

  15. 'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

    'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

    Josefina L. Martínez : leftvoice.org/love-and-care-be

    #property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

  16. «Decriminalise Our Lives!»

    International Women's Day: Shared Vision for Feminism.

    Statement by ESWA, EuroNPUD, S.A.F.E. and Equinox Initiative.

    [I cannot agree more with it. ❤️‍🔥😍 💯]

    -

    ‣ Criminalisation should NEVER be the first response to social and healthcare issues!

    3 years ago, the 8 March Principles were launched - to provide a new model on how we see justice.

    This International Women's Day, we're calling for care over carceralism, on issues including sex work, abortion, harm reduction, racial justice and poverty.

    We advocate for a feminism that is rights-based, not punitive.

    -

    ‣ Rights not rescue: sex work is work!

    Criminalisation, including the criminalisation of clients, is a massive driver of violence against sex workers.

    It drives sex work underground, into more danger and stigma, creates barriers to healthcare, housing, and justice.

    The 8 March Principles emphasise that consensual sexual activity between adults should never be a matter for the criminal legal system.

    Decriminalisation of sex work prioritises the safety, human and labour rights of sex workers.

    -

    ‣ Criminalisation has never stopped abortions from happening. It only makes them less safe.

    Under the 8 March Principles, reproductive and bodily autonomy are recognised as fundamental human rights.

    We demand the removal of all punitive barriers to healthcare. When we treat abortion as a crime, we violate the right to health, privacy, and bodily autonomy. It is time for a legal system that trusts individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without the threat of a prison cell.

    -

    ‣ Support, don't punish! Harm reduction saves lives. Criminalisation destroys them.

    The “War on Drugs” is a war on all humans. In practice, it disproportionately impacts women, caregivers and communities already marginalised.

    The 8 March Principles advocate for a shift from criminalisation to harm reduction. Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal one. By redirecting resources from policing to community-supported healthcare and safe consumption services, we can transform our societies for the better.

    Lived experience is knowledge.

    -

    ‣ Carceralism vs. Racial Justice.

    The legal system isn't “neutral”.
    It disproportionately targets and penalises Black, Brown and racialised communities.

    The 8 March Principles remind us that justice cannot be achieved through a system built on systemic bias. We must dismantle the structures of over-policing and invest in safety measures that are led by and for the communities most affected by state violence.

    Anti-carceral feminism is essential to realising racial justice.

    -

    ‣ The Shared Vision - Our Demands:

    • Decriminalise abortion, sex work, drug use, and activities associated with poverty.

    • Redirect resources from the carceral state to community-led safety, health, and housing.

    • Adopt the 8 March Principles globally to ensure that human rights, not moral policing, guide our legal systems.

    • Center lived experience as expertise: policies are stronger when shaped by the people most affected. Amplify community voices, recognise peer support, and treat people with dignity and autonomy.

    -

    ‣ Poverty is not a crime!

    In many places, being poor or homeless is effectively treated as a criminal offense.
    Laws targeting activities like loitering or sleeping in public punish people for simply existing.

    The 8 March Principles state that the criminal law should never be used to address social and economic exclusion.
    We cannot jail our way out of poverty, and should never criminalise the means by which the poorest survive.

    Resources belong in housing and healthcare, not policing and prisons.

    -

    ‣ Further reading:

    🌐 S.A.F.E. supportingabortions.eu

    🌐 EuroNPUD: euronpud.net
    ➕ SisterWUD: euronpud.net/project/mobilisin

    🌐 European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance: eswalliance.org

    🌐 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice: equinox-eu.com

    🗄📄 8 March Principles: web.archive.org/web/2023031106

    -

    A safer world is possible when we stop using the law to punish and start using it to protect.

    When we remove the threat of criminalisation, we create space for autonomy, safety, and dignity for all.
    It also makes space for well-being and pleasure: safer choices, informed decisions, and self-determination.

    ‣ LET'S BUILD A FEMINISM THAT LIBERATES EVERYONE, SPECIALLY THE MOST MARGINALISED.

    #8M #M8 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Europe #ESWA #SAFE #EuroNPUD #EquinoxInitiative #SexWork #HarmReduction #SRHR #Abortion #DrugUse #Decrim #DecrimNow #Decriminalization #Feminisms

  17. «Decriminalise Our Lives!»

    International Women's Day: Shared Vision for Feminism.

    Statement by ESWA, EuroNPUD, S.A.F.E. and Equinox Initiative.

    [I cannot agree more with it. ❤️‍🔥😍 💯]

    -

    ‣ Criminalisation should NEVER be the first response to social and healthcare issues!

    3 years ago, the 8 March Principles were launched - to provide a new model on how we see justice.

    This International Women's Day, we're calling for care over carceralism, on issues including sex work, abortion, harm reduction, racial justice and poverty.

    We advocate for a feminism that is rights-based, not punitive.

    -

    ‣ Rights not rescue: sex work is work!

    Criminalisation, including the criminalisation of clients, is a massive driver of violence against sex workers.

    It drives sex work underground, into more danger and stigma, creates barriers to healthcare, housing, and justice.

    The 8 March Principles emphasise that consensual sexual activity between adults should never be a matter for the criminal legal system.

    Decriminalisation of sex work prioritises the safety, human and labour rights of sex workers.

    -

    ‣ Criminalisation has never stopped abortions from happening. It only makes them less safe.

    Under the 8 March Principles, reproductive and bodily autonomy are recognised as fundamental human rights.

    We demand the removal of all punitive barriers to healthcare. When we treat abortion as a crime, we violate the right to health, privacy, and bodily autonomy. It is time for a legal system that trusts individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without the threat of a prison cell.

    -

    ‣ Support, don't punish! Harm reduction saves lives. Criminalisation destroys them.

    The “War on Drugs” is a war on all humans. In practice, it disproportionately impacts women, caregivers and communities already marginalised.

    The 8 March Principles advocate for a shift from criminalisation to harm reduction. Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal one. By redirecting resources from policing to community-supported healthcare and safe consumption services, we can transform our societies for the better.

    Lived experience is knowledge.

    -

    ‣ Carceralism vs. Racial Justice.

    The legal system isn't “neutral”.
    It disproportionately targets and penalises Black, Brown and racialised communities.

    The 8 March Principles remind us that justice cannot be achieved through a system built on systemic bias. We must dismantle the structures of over-policing and invest in safety measures that are led by and for the communities most affected by state violence.

    Anti-carceral feminism is essential to realising racial justice.

    -

    ‣ The Shared Vision - Our Demands:

    • Decriminalise abortion, sex work, drug use, and activities associated with poverty.

    • Redirect resources from the carceral state to community-led safety, health, and housing.

    • Adopt the 8 March Principles globally to ensure that human rights, not moral policing, guide our legal systems.

    • Center lived experience as expertise: policies are stronger when shaped by the people most affected. Amplify community voices, recognise peer support, and treat people with dignity and autonomy.

    -

    ‣ Poverty is not a crime!

    In many places, being poor or homeless is effectively treated as a criminal offense.
    Laws targeting activities like loitering or sleeping in public punish people for simply existing.

    The 8 March Principles state that the criminal law should never be used to address social and economic exclusion.
    We cannot jail our way out of poverty, and should never criminalise the means by which the poorest survive.

    Resources belong in housing and healthcare, not policing and prisons.

    -

    ‣ Further reading:

    🌐 S.A.F.E. supportingabortions.eu

    🌐 EuroNPUD: euronpud.net
    ➕ SisterWUD: euronpud.net/project/mobilisin

    🌐 European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance: eswalliance.org

    🌐 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice: equinox-eu.com

    🗄📄 8 March Principles: web.archive.org/web/2023031106

    -

    A safer world is possible when we stop using the law to punish and start using it to protect.

    When we remove the threat of criminalisation, we create space for autonomy, safety, and dignity for all.
    It also makes space for well-being and pleasure: safer choices, informed decisions, and self-determination.

    ‣ LET'S BUILD A FEMINISM THAT LIBERATES EVERYONE, SPECIALLY THE MOST MARGINALISED.

    #8M #M8 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Europe #ESWA #SAFE #EuroNPUD #EquinoxInitiative #SexWork #HarmReduction #SRHR #Abortion #DrugUse #Decrim #DecrimNow #Decriminalization #Feminisms

  18. «Decriminalise Our Lives!»

    International Women's Day: Shared Vision for Feminism.

    Statement by ESWA, EuroNPUD, S.A.F.E. and Equinox Initiative.

    [I cannot agree more with it. ❤️‍🔥😍 💯]

    -

    ‣ Criminalisation should NEVER be the first response to social and healthcare issues!

    3 years ago, the 8 March Principles were launched - to provide a new model on how we see justice.

    This International Women's Day, we're calling for care over carceralism, on issues including sex work, abortion, harm reduction, racial justice and poverty.

    We advocate for a feminism that is rights-based, not punitive.

    -

    ‣ Rights not rescue: sex work is work!

    Criminalisation, including the criminalisation of clients, is a massive driver of violence against sex workers.

    It drives sex work underground, into more danger and stigma, creates barriers to healthcare, housing, and justice.

    The 8 March Principles emphasise that consensual sexual activity between adults should never be a matter for the criminal legal system.

    Decriminalisation of sex work prioritises the safety, human and labour rights of sex workers.

    -

    ‣ Criminalisation has never stopped abortions from happening. It only makes them less safe.

    Under the 8 March Principles, reproductive and bodily autonomy are recognised as fundamental human rights.

    We demand the removal of all punitive barriers to healthcare. When we treat abortion as a crime, we violate the right to health, privacy, and bodily autonomy. It is time for a legal system that trusts individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without the threat of a prison cell.

    -

    ‣ Support, don't punish! Harm reduction saves lives. Criminalisation destroys them.

    The “War on Drugs” is a war on all humans. In practice, it disproportionately impacts women, caregivers and communities already marginalised.

    The 8 March Principles advocate for a shift from criminalisation to harm reduction. Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal one. By redirecting resources from policing to community-supported healthcare and safe consumption services, we can transform our societies for the better.

    Lived experience is knowledge.

    -

    ‣ Carceralism vs. Racial Justice.

    The legal system isn't “neutral”.
    It disproportionately targets and penalises Black, Brown and racialised communities.

    The 8 March Principles remind us that justice cannot be achieved through a system built on systemic bias. We must dismantle the structures of over-policing and invest in safety measures that are led by and for the communities most affected by state violence.

    Anti-carceral feminism is essential to realising racial justice.

    -

    ‣ The Shared Vision - Our Demands:

    • Decriminalise abortion, sex work, drug use, and activities associated with poverty.

    • Redirect resources from the carceral state to community-led safety, health, and housing.

    • Adopt the 8 March Principles globally to ensure that human rights, not moral policing, guide our legal systems.

    • Center lived experience as expertise: policies are stronger when shaped by the people most affected. Amplify community voices, recognise peer support, and treat people with dignity and autonomy.

    -

    ‣ Poverty is not a crime!

    In many places, being poor or homeless is effectively treated as a criminal offense.
    Laws targeting activities like loitering or sleeping in public punish people for simply existing.

    The 8 March Principles state that the criminal law should never be used to address social and economic exclusion.
    We cannot jail our way out of poverty, and should never criminalise the means by which the poorest survive.

    Resources belong in housing and healthcare, not policing and prisons.

    -

    ‣ Further reading:

    🌐 S.A.F.E. supportingabortions.eu

    🌐 EuroNPUD: euronpud.net
    ➕ SisterWUD: euronpud.net/project/mobilisin

    🌐 European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance: eswalliance.org

    🌐 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice: equinox-eu.com

    🗄📄 8 March Principles: web.archive.org/web/2023031106

    -

    A safer world is possible when we stop using the law to punish and start using it to protect.

    When we remove the threat of criminalisation, we create space for autonomy, safety, and dignity for all.
    It also makes space for well-being and pleasure: safer choices, informed decisions, and self-determination.

    ‣ LET'S BUILD A FEMINISM THAT LIBERATES EVERYONE, SPECIALLY THE MOST MARGINALISED.

    #8M #M8 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Europe #ESWA #SAFE #EuroNPUD #EquinoxInitiative #SexWork #HarmReduction #SRHR #Abortion #DrugUse #Decrim #DecrimNow #Decriminalization #Feminisms

  19. «Decriminalise Our Lives!»

    International Women's Day: Shared Vision for Feminism.

    Statement by ESWA, EuroNPUD, S.A.F.E. and Equinox Initiative.

    [I cannot agree more with it. ❤️‍🔥😍 💯]

    -

    ‣ Criminalisation should NEVER be the first response to social and healthcare issues!

    3 years ago, the 8 March Principles were launched - to provide a new model on how we see justice.

    This International Women's Day, we're calling for care over carceralism, on issues including sex work, abortion, harm reduction, racial justice and poverty.

    We advocate for a feminism that is rights-based, not punitive.

    -

    ‣ Rights not rescue: sex work is work!

    Criminalisation, including the criminalisation of clients, is a massive driver of violence against sex workers.

    It drives sex work underground, into more danger and stigma, creates barriers to healthcare, housing, and justice.

    The 8 March Principles emphasise that consensual sexual activity between adults should never be a matter for the criminal legal system.

    Decriminalisation of sex work prioritises the safety, human and labour rights of sex workers.

    -

    ‣ Criminalisation has never stopped abortions from happening. It only makes them less safe.

    Under the 8 March Principles, reproductive and bodily autonomy are recognised as fundamental human rights.

    We demand the removal of all punitive barriers to healthcare. When we treat abortion as a crime, we violate the right to health, privacy, and bodily autonomy. It is time for a legal system that trusts individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without the threat of a prison cell.

    -

    ‣ Support, don't punish! Harm reduction saves lives. Criminalisation destroys them.

    The “War on Drugs” is a war on all humans. In practice, it disproportionately impacts women, caregivers and communities already marginalised.

    The 8 March Principles advocate for a shift from criminalisation to harm reduction. Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal one. By redirecting resources from policing to community-supported healthcare and safe consumption services, we can transform our societies for the better.

    Lived experience is knowledge.

    -

    ‣ Carceralism vs. Racial Justice.

    The legal system isn't “neutral”.
    It disproportionately targets and penalises Black, Brown and racialised communities.

    The 8 March Principles remind us that justice cannot be achieved through a system built on systemic bias. We must dismantle the structures of over-policing and invest in safety measures that are led by and for the communities most affected by state violence.

    Anti-carceral feminism is essential to realising racial justice.

    -

    ‣ The Shared Vision - Our Demands:

    • Decriminalise abortion, sex work, drug use, and activities associated with poverty.

    • Redirect resources from the carceral state to community-led safety, health, and housing.

    • Adopt the 8 March Principles globally to ensure that human rights, not moral policing, guide our legal systems.

    • Center lived experience as expertise: policies are stronger when shaped by the people most affected. Amplify community voices, recognise peer support, and treat people with dignity and autonomy.

    -

    ‣ Poverty is not a crime!

    In many places, being poor or homeless is effectively treated as a criminal offense.
    Laws targeting activities like loitering or sleeping in public punish people for simply existing.

    The 8 March Principles state that the criminal law should never be used to address social and economic exclusion.
    We cannot jail our way out of poverty, and should never criminalise the means by which the poorest survive.

    Resources belong in housing and healthcare, not policing and prisons.

    -

    ‣ Further reading:

    🌐 S.A.F.E. supportingabortions.eu

    🌐 EuroNPUD: euronpud.net
    ➕ SisterWUD: euronpud.net/project/mobilisin

    🌐 European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance: eswalliance.org

    🌐 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice: equinox-eu.com

    🗄📄 8 March Principles: web.archive.org/web/2023031106

    -

    A safer world is possible when we stop using the law to punish and start using it to protect.

    When we remove the threat of criminalisation, we create space for autonomy, safety, and dignity for all.
    It also makes space for well-being and pleasure: safer choices, informed decisions, and self-determination.

    ‣ LET'S BUILD A FEMINISM THAT LIBERATES EVERYONE, SPECIALLY THE MOST MARGINALISED.

    #8M #M8 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Europe #ESWA #SAFE #EuroNPUD #EquinoxInitiative #SexWork #HarmReduction #SRHR #Abortion #DrugUse #Decrim #DecrimNow #Decriminalization #Feminisms

  20. «Decriminalise Our Lives!»

    International Women's Day: Shared Vision for Feminism.

    Statement by ESWA, EuroNPUD, S.A.F.E. and Equinox Initiative.

    [I cannot agree more with it. ❤️‍🔥😍 💯]

    -

    ‣ Criminalisation should NEVER be the first response to social and healthcare issues!

    3 years ago, the 8 March Principles were launched - to provide a new model on how we see justice.

    This International Women's Day, we're calling for care over carceralism, on issues including sex work, abortion, harm reduction, racial justice and poverty.

    We advocate for a feminism that is rights-based, not punitive.

    -

    ‣ Rights not rescue: sex work is work!

    Criminalisation, including the criminalisation of clients, is a massive driver of violence against sex workers.

    It drives sex work underground, into more danger and stigma, creates barriers to healthcare, housing, and justice.

    The 8 March Principles emphasise that consensual sexual activity between adults should never be a matter for the criminal legal system.

    Decriminalisation of sex work prioritises the safety, human and labour rights of sex workers.

    -

    ‣ Criminalisation has never stopped abortions from happening. It only makes them less safe.

    Under the 8 March Principles, reproductive and bodily autonomy are recognised as fundamental human rights.

    We demand the removal of all punitive barriers to healthcare. When we treat abortion as a crime, we violate the right to health, privacy, and bodily autonomy. It is time for a legal system that trusts individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without the threat of a prison cell.

    -

    ‣ Support, don't punish! Harm reduction saves lives. Criminalisation destroys them.

    The “War on Drugs” is a war on all humans. In practice, it disproportionately impacts women, caregivers and communities already marginalised.

    The 8 March Principles advocate for a shift from criminalisation to harm reduction. Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal one. By redirecting resources from policing to community-supported healthcare and safe consumption services, we can transform our societies for the better.

    Lived experience is knowledge.

    -

    ‣ Carceralism vs. Racial Justice.

    The legal system isn't “neutral”.
    It disproportionately targets and penalises Black, Brown and racialised communities.

    The 8 March Principles remind us that justice cannot be achieved through a system built on systemic bias. We must dismantle the structures of over-policing and invest in safety measures that are led by and for the communities most affected by state violence.

    Anti-carceral feminism is essential to realising racial justice.

    -

    ‣ The Shared Vision - Our Demands:

    • Decriminalise abortion, sex work, drug use, and activities associated with poverty.

    • Redirect resources from the carceral state to community-led safety, health, and housing.

    • Adopt the 8 March Principles globally to ensure that human rights, not moral policing, guide our legal systems.

    • Center lived experience as expertise: policies are stronger when shaped by the people most affected. Amplify community voices, recognise peer support, and treat people with dignity and autonomy.

    -

    ‣ Poverty is not a crime!

    In many places, being poor or homeless is effectively treated as a criminal offense.
    Laws targeting activities like loitering or sleeping in public punish people for simply existing.

    The 8 March Principles state that the criminal law should never be used to address social and economic exclusion.
    We cannot jail our way out of poverty, and should never criminalise the means by which the poorest survive.

    Resources belong in housing and healthcare, not policing and prisons.

    -

    ‣ Further reading:

    🌐 S.A.F.E. supportingabortions.eu

    🌐 EuroNPUD: euronpud.net
    ➕ SisterWUD: euronpud.net/project/mobilisin

    🌐 European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance: eswalliance.org

    🌐 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice: equinox-eu.com

    🗄📄 8 March Principles: web.archive.org/web/2023031106

    -

    A safer world is possible when we stop using the law to punish and start using it to protect.

    When we remove the threat of criminalisation, we create space for autonomy, safety, and dignity for all.
    It also makes space for well-being and pleasure: safer choices, informed decisions, and self-determination.

    ‣ LET'S BUILD A FEMINISM THAT LIBERATES EVERYONE, SPECIALLY THE MOST MARGINALISED.

    #8M #M8 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Europe #ESWA #SAFE #EuroNPUD #EquinoxInitiative #SexWork #HarmReduction #SRHR #Abortion #DrugUse #Decrim #DecrimNow #Decriminalization #Feminisms

  21. «Feminist self-defense workshop» (March advance ^~) 🗓️ Tuesday 3 #March2026 🕡 18:30–21:30 CET 🇧🇪 #Belgium 🏙️ #Schaerbeek 📍 Rue d'Aerschot 208 👥 FEROS 🎯 Reserved for SWers #Event #Workshop #SexWork #SelfDefense #Feminisms #UTSOPI #FEROS

  22. «Feminist self-defense workshop» (March advance ^~) 🗓️ Tuesday 3 #March2026 🕡 18:30–21:30 CET 🇧🇪 #Belgium 🏙️ #Schaerbeek 📍 Rue d'Aerschot 208 👥 FEROS 🎯 Reserved for SWers #Event #Workshop #SexWork #SelfDefense #Feminisms #UTSOPI #FEROS

  23. «Feminist self-defense workshop» (March advance ^~) 🗓️ Tuesday 3 #March2026 🕡 18:30–21:30 CET 🇧🇪 #Belgium 🏙️ #Schaerbeek 📍 Rue d'Aerschot 208 👥 FEROS 🎯 Reserved for SWers #Event #Workshop #SexWork #SelfDefense #Feminisms #UTSOPI #FEROS

  24. «Feminist self-defense workshop» (March advance ^~) 🗓️ Tuesday 3 #March2026 🕡 18:30–21:30 CET 🇧🇪 #Belgium 🏙️ #Schaerbeek 📍 Rue d'Aerschot 208 👥 FEROS 🎯 Reserved for SWers #Event #Workshop #SexWork #SelfDefense #Feminisms #UTSOPI #FEROS

  25. «Feminist self-defense workshop» (March advance ^~) 🗓️ Tuesday 3 #March2026 🕡 18:30–21:30 CET 🇧🇪 #Belgium 🏙️ #Schaerbeek 📍 Rue d'Aerschot 208 👥 FEROS 🎯 Reserved for SWers #Event #Workshop #SexWork #SelfDefense #Feminisms #UTSOPI #FEROS

  26. Politics, #Feminisms, Music. International conference, Programme: t1p.de/654kp 5.11.2025, Goethe-Institut Rome 6.–7.11.2025, German Historical Institute in Rome For attendance in person or online, please mail to info-event[at]dhi-roma[dot]it. @maxweberstiftung.de @musiconn.bsky.social

  27. Politics, #Feminisms, Music. International conference, Programme: t1p.de/654kp 5.11.2025, Goethe-Institut Rome 6.–7.11.2025, German Historical Institute in Rome For attendance in person or online, please mail to info-event[at]dhi-roma[dot]it. @maxweberstiftung.de @musiconn.bsky.social

  28. Politics, #Feminisms, Music. International conference, Programme: t1p.de/654kp 5.11.2025, Goethe-Institut Rome 6.–7.11.2025, German Historical Institute in Rome For attendance in person or online, please mail to info-event[at]dhi-roma[dot]it. @maxweberstiftung.de @musiconn.bsky.social

  29. Politics, #Feminisms, Music. International conference, Programme: t1p.de/654kp 5.11.2025, Goethe-Institut Rome 6.–7.11.2025, German Historical Institute in Rome For attendance in person or online, please mail to info-event[at]dhi-roma[dot]it. @maxweberstiftung.de @musiconn.bsky.social

  30. @alineblankertz
    Now is the best time to discover Emma Goldman, David Graeber, Angela Davis, Silvia Federici, Arundhati Roy!

    Unfortunately I could not find the Champagne content on decent media. (Only on easy-to-use but extractive platforms.)

    Here is a podcast I like about history by Jana Byars: newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/prof

    #books #history #feminisms #modernStudies #modernity

  31. @alineblankertz
    Now is the best time to discover Emma Goldman, David Graeber, Angela Davis, Silvia Federici, Arundhati Roy!

    Unfortunately I could not find the Champagne content on decent media. (Only on easy-to-use but extractive platforms.)

    Here is a podcast I like about history by Jana Byars: newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/prof

    #books #history #feminisms #modernStudies #modernity

  32. @alineblankertz
    Now is the best time to discover Emma Goldman, David Graeber, Angela Davis, Silvia Federici, Arundhati Roy!

    Unfortunately I could not find the Champagne content on decent media. (Only on easy-to-use but extractive platforms.)

    Here is a podcast I like about history by Jana Byars: newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/prof

    #books #history #feminisms #modernStudies #modernity

  33. @alineblankertz
    Now is the best time to discover Emma Goldman, David Graeber, Angela Davis, Silvia Federici, Arundhati Roy!

    Unfortunately I could not find the Champagne content on decent media. (Only on easy-to-use but extractive platforms.)

    Here is a podcast I like about history by Jana Byars: newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/prof

    #books #history #feminisms #modernStudies #modernity

  34. @alineblankertz
    Now is the best time to discover Emma Goldman, David Graeber, Angela Davis, Silvia Federici, Arundhati Roy!

    Unfortunately I could not find the Champagne content on decent media. (Only on easy-to-use but extractive platforms.)

    Here is a podcast I like about history by Jana Byars: newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/prof

  35. 'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

    Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: moniquewittig.com/wp-content/u 🧶

    #revolution #reciprocity #radicality #reversibility #materialistFeminism #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #naturalism #essentialism #sexism #heteroSexism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #minorityStudies #queer #nonBinary #culturalHistory #lesbians #otherness #linguistics

  36. 'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

    Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: moniquewittig.com/wp-content/u 🧶

    #revolution #reciprocity #radicality #reversibility #materialistFeminism #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #naturalism #essentialism #sexism #heteroSexism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #minorityStudies #queer #nonBinary #culturalHistory #lesbians #otherness #linguistics

  37. 'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

    Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: moniquewittig.com/wp-content/u 🧶

    #revolution #reciprocity #radicality #reversibility #materialistFeminism #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #naturalism #essentialism #sexism #heteroSexism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #minorityStudies #queer #nonBinary #culturalHistory #lesbians #otherness #linguistics

  38. 'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

    Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: moniquewittig.com/wp-content/u 🧶

    #revolution #reciprocity #radicality #reversibility #materialistFeminism #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #naturalism #essentialism #sexism #heteroSexism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #minorityStudies #queer #nonBinary #culturalHistory #lesbians #otherness #linguistics

  39. 'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

    Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: moniquewittig.com/wp-content/u 🧶

  40. Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶

    "Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
    … said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

    #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians

  41. Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶

    "Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
    … said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

    #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians

  42. Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶

    "Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
    … said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

    #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians

  43. Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶

    "Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
    … said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

    #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians

  44. Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶

    "Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
    … said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

  45. Öfter mal wie Alanis sein! 👍

    She interrupts herself to ask if I know about the #microfeminism trend, “where you just impose the feminine on everything. It’s anything’s like, ‘Oh, I need to talk to a doctor, because she’ll  tell me.’ I do it all the time.

    Because, obviously, patriarchy would have it be such that every fucking thing is male, including the creatures. I’m working those micro-#feminisms into every board meeting.”

    theguardian.com/music/2025/jun

  46. Öfter mal wie Alanis sein! 👍

    She interrupts herself to ask if I know about the #microfeminism trend, “where you just impose the feminine on everything. It’s anything’s like, ‘Oh, I need to talk to a doctor, because she’ll  tell me.’ I do it all the time.

    Because, obviously, patriarchy would have it be such that every fucking thing is male, including the creatures. I’m working those micro-#feminisms into every board meeting.”

    theguardian.com/music/2025/jun

  47. Öfter mal wie Alanis sein! 👍

    She interrupts herself to ask if I know about the #microfeminism trend, “where you just impose the feminine on everything. It’s anything’s like, ‘Oh, I need to talk to a doctor, because she’ll  tell me.’ I do it all the time.

    Because, obviously, patriarchy would have it be such that every fucking thing is male, including the creatures. I’m working those micro-#feminisms into every board meeting.”

    theguardian.com/music/2025/jun

  48. redmay schedule: there must be some way out of here

    src:
    https://www.redmayseattle.org/schedule

    Red May 2025 Schedule
    There must be some way out of here

    https://www.redmayseattle.org/
    https://www.facebook.com/redmayseattle/

    Some Way Out of Here?
    Friday, May 9, 11:00 AM PDT
    @YouTube

    Michael McCarthy, Jasper Bernes, Jodi Dean, Alberto Toscano, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)

    Beacon Cinema: The Encampments (2025)

    dir: Michael T. Workman &
    Kei Pritsker

    Sunday, May 11, 5:00 PM

    (This is an In-person event)

    Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech & Planetary Crisis
    Tuesday, May 13, 2:00 PM PDT
    @YouTube

    Nick Dyer-Witheford, Alessandra Mularoni, Nick Srnicek, Kyle Kubler (mod)

    Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
    Friday, May 16, 2:00 PM PDT
    @YouTube

    Sarah Jaffe, Nica Siegel

    Delmore Schwartz: Marxism & the Modernist Poet
    Saturday, May 17, 11:00 AM PDT  @YouTube

    Alan Wald, David Lau, Roy Skodnick, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)

    Beacon Cinema: Why It Happened Here
    Sunday, May 18, 5:00 PM
    (Film showing with discussion)

    (This is an In-person event)

    David Shields, Tommy Swenson, Philip Wohlstetter

    The West and the Rest: Capital & Power in a Multipolar World
    Tuesday, May 20, 2:00 PM PDT
    @YouTube

    Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson, Kyle Kubler (mod)

    Citizen Marx: Republicanism & Formation of Marx’s Thought
    Wednesday, May 21, 11:00 AM PDT @YouTube

    Bruno Leipold, Camila Vergara, Michael Hardt, Alyssa Battistoni

    American Constitutional Collapse
    Thursday, May 22, 11:00 AM PDT
    @YouTube

    Aziz Rana, Michael Hardt, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)

    TERFs

    Enemy Feminisms: , Policewomen & Girlbosses
    Sunday, May 25, 7:00 PM PDT 
    @Elliott Bay Books

    (This is an In-person event)

    Sophie Lewis, Emi Koyama (mod)

    Beacon Cinema: Fragment of an Empire (1929)
    dir: Fridrikh Ermler

    Monday, May 26, 7:30 PM

    (This is an In-person event)

    De-reification and Art Now
    Tuesday, May 27, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTube

    Jaleh Mansoor, Matt Browning, Anita Chari, Minh Nguyen (mod)

    Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect, Capitalism Was a Joke
    Wednesday, May 28, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTube 

    Leigh Claire la Berge, Jason Read, Madeline Lane-McKinley, Sarah Jaffe

    Whatever Happened to Revolution?
    Thursday, May 29, 7:00 PM PDT @TownHall

    (This is an In-person event)
    Jasper Bernes, Colleen Lye, Nikhil Pal Singh, Idris Robinson

    What Just Happened, America?
    Friday, May 30 5:00 PM PDT  
    @Vermillion

    (This is an In-person event)

    Colleen Lye, Idris Robinson, Michael Hardt, Jamie Merchant, Kathi Weeks, Jasper Bernes, Nikhil Pal Singh

    Endgame: Economic Nationalism & Global Decline
    Saturday, May 31, 12:30 PM PDT
    @Elliott Bay Books

    (This is an In-person event)
    Jamie Merchant, Nikhil Pal Singh (mod)

    The Future of Revolution 
    Saturday, May 31, 2:00 PM PDT @Elliott Bay Books

    (This is an In-person event)

    Jasper Bernes, Idris Robinson (mod)

     

    #AlanWald #AlbertoToscano #AlessandraMularoni #AlyssaBattistoni #AnitaChari #art #arte #AzizRana #BrettNeilson #BrunoLeipold #CamilaVergara #capitalism #ClassStruggle #ColleenLye #crisis #DavidLau #DavidShields #DelmoreSchwartz #ElliottBayBooks #EmiKoyama #feminism #feminisms #film #FridrikhErmler #IdrisRobinson #JalehMansoor #JamieMerchant #JasonRead #JasperBernes #JodiDean #KathiWeeks #KeiPritsker #KyleKubler #left #LeighClaireLaBerge #MadelineLaneMcKinley #Marxism #MattBrowning #MichaelHardt #MichaelMcCarthy #MichaelTWorkman #MinhNguyen #modernism #Nationalism #NicaSiegel #NickDyerWitheford #NickSrnicek #NikhilPalSingh #PhilipWohlstetter #planetaryCrisis #poetry #politics #RedMay #redmayseattleOrg #revolution #RoySkodnick #SandroMezzadra #SarahJaffe #SophieLewis #TERFs #ThereMustBeSomeWayOutOfHere #TommySwenson #video #wayOut

  49. redmay schedule: there must be some way out of here

    src:
    https://www.redmayseattle.org/schedule

    Red May 2025 Schedule
    There must be some way out of here

    https://www.redmayseattle.org/
    https://www.facebook.com/redmayseattle/

    Some Way Out of Here?
    Friday, May 9, 11:00 AM PDT
    @YouTube

    Michael McCarthy, Jasper Bernes, Jodi Dean, Alberto Toscano, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)

    Beacon Cinema: The Encampments (2025)

    dir: Michael T. Workman &
    Kei Pritsker

    Sunday, May 11, 5:00 PM

    (This is an In-person event)

    Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech & Planetary Crisis
    Tuesday, May 13, 2:00 PM PDT
    @YouTube

    Nick Dyer-Witheford, Alessandra Mularoni, Nick Srnicek, Kyle Kubler (mod)

    Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
    Friday, May 16, 2:00 PM PDT
    @YouTube

    Sarah Jaffe, Nica Siegel

    Delmore Schwartz: Marxism & the Modernist Poet
    Saturday, May 17, 11:00 AM PDT  @YouTube

    Alan Wald, David Lau, Roy Skodnick, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)

    Beacon Cinema: Why It Happened Here
    Sunday, May 18, 5:00 PM
    (Film showing with discussion)

    (This is an In-person event)

    David Shields, Tommy Swenson, Philip Wohlstetter

    The West and the Rest: Capital & Power in a Multipolar World
    Tuesday, May 20, 2:00 PM PDT
    @YouTube

    Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson, Kyle Kubler (mod)

    Citizen Marx: Republicanism & Formation of Marx’s Thought
    Wednesday, May 21, 11:00 AM PDT @YouTube

    Bruno Leipold, Camila Vergara, Michael Hardt, Alyssa Battistoni

    American Constitutional Collapse
    Thursday, May 22, 11:00 AM PDT
    @YouTube

    Aziz Rana, Michael Hardt, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)

    TERFs

    Enemy Feminisms: , Policewomen & Girlbosses
    Sunday, May 25, 7:00 PM PDT 
    @Elliott Bay Books

    (This is an In-person event)

    Sophie Lewis, Emi Koyama (mod)

    Beacon Cinema: Fragment of an Empire (1929)
    dir: Fridrikh Ermler

    Monday, May 26, 7:30 PM

    (This is an In-person event)

    De-reification and Art Now
    Tuesday, May 27, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTube

    Jaleh Mansoor, Matt Browning, Anita Chari, Minh Nguyen (mod)

    Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect, Capitalism Was a Joke
    Wednesday, May 28, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTube 

    Leigh Claire la Berge, Jason Read, Madeline Lane-McKinley, Sarah Jaffe

    Whatever Happened to Revolution?
    Thursday, May 29, 7:00 PM PDT @TownHall

    (This is an In-person event)
    Jasper Bernes, Colleen Lye, Nikhil Pal Singh, Idris Robinson

    What Just Happened, America?
    Friday, May 30 5:00 PM PDT  
    @Vermillion

    (This is an In-person event)

    Colleen Lye, Idris Robinson, Michael Hardt, Jamie Merchant, Kathi Weeks, Jasper Bernes, Nikhil Pal Singh

    Endgame: Economic Nationalism & Global Decline
    Saturday, May 31, 12:30 PM PDT
    @Elliott Bay Books

    (This is an In-person event)
    Jamie Merchant, Nikhil Pal Singh (mod)

    The Future of Revolution 
    Saturday, May 31, 2:00 PM PDT @Elliott Bay Books

    (This is an In-person event)

    Jasper Bernes, Idris Robinson (mod)

     

    #AlanWald #AlbertoToscano #AlessandraMularoni #AlyssaBattistoni #AnitaChari #art #arte #AzizRana #BrettNeilson #BrunoLeipold #CamilaVergara #capitalism #ClassStruggle #ColleenLye #crisis #DavidLau #DavidShields #DelmoreSchwartz #ElliottBayBooks #EmiKoyama #feminism #feminisms #film #FridrikhErmler #IdrisRobinson #JalehMansoor #JamieMerchant #JasonRead #JasperBernes #JodiDean #KathiWeeks #KeiPritsker #KyleKubler #left #LeighClaireLaBerge #MadelineLaneMcKinley #Marxism #MattBrowning #MichaelHardt #MichaelMcCarthy #MichaelTWorkman #MinhNguyen #modernism #Nationalism #NicaSiegel #NickDyerWitheford #NickSrnicek #NikhilPalSingh #PhilipWohlstetter #planetaryCrisis #poetry #politics #RedMay #redmayseattleOrg #revolution #RoySkodnick #SandroMezzadra #SarahJaffe #SophieLewis #TERFs #ThereMustBeSomeWayOutOfHere #TommySwenson #video #wayOut