Every time I hear of a cisgender heterosexual man who murdered women because he couldn’t find a romantic or sexual partner, I think of my youth and the number of men my unpartnered self could’ve killed. And every time we hear the excuses that patriarchy and its enforcers make for the violence on behalf of those murderous men’s dicks, it tells us everything we need to know about the difference between the kind of violence we are told to take seriously, and the kind we are told to consider as no more than the unavoidable cost of admission to living in a patriarchal world. The police in Australia have ruled out terrorism as the motive for a rampage by a man who stabbed six people to death at a crowded shopping mall in Sydney on Saturday. The police are wrong. The motive was terrorism. Patriarchy is the ideology. Misogyny is its political expression that is used to recruit and incite violence against women. Cisgender men are the terrorists. Read my new essay via link in bio and stories https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-femicide-the-approved-terrorism
Every time I hear of a cisgender heterosexual man who murdered women because he couldn’t find a romantic or sexual partner, I think of my youth and the number of men my unpartnered self could’ve killed. And every time we hear the excuses that patriarchy and its enforcers make for the violence on behalf of those murderous men’s dicks, it tells us everything we need to know about the difference between the kind of violence we are told to take seriously, and the kind we are told to consider as no more than the unavoidable cost of admission to living in a patriarchal world. The police in Australia have ruled out terrorism as the motive for a rampage by a man who stabbed six people to death at a crowded shopping mall in Sydney on Saturday. The police are wrong. The motive was terrorism. Patriarchy is the ideology. Misogyny is its political expression that is used to recruit and incite violence against women. Cisgender men are the terrorists. Read my new essay via link in bio and stories https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-femicide-the-approved-terrorism
Every time I hear of a cisgender heterosexual man who murdered women because he couldn’t find a romantic or sexual partner, I think of my youth and the number of men my unpartnered self could’ve killed. And every time we hear the excuses that patriarchy and its enforcers make for the violence on behalf of those murderous men’s dicks, it tells us everything we need to know about the difference between the kind of violence we are told to take seriously, and the kind we are told to consider as no more than the unavoidable cost of admission to living in a patriarchal world. The police in Australia have ruled out terrorism as the motive for a rampage by a man who stabbed six people to death at a crowded shopping mall in Sydney on Saturday. The police are wrong. The motive was terrorism. Patriarchy is the ideology. Misogyny is its political expression that is used to recruit and incite violence against women. Cisgender men are the terrorists. Read my new essay via link in bio and stories https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-femicide-the-approved-terrorism
Every time I hear of a cisgender heterosexual man who murdered women because he couldn’t find a romantic or sexual partner, I think of my youth and the number of men my unpartnered self could’ve killed. And every time we hear the excuses that patriarchy and its enforcers make for the violence on behalf of those murderous men’s dicks, it tells us everything we need to know about the difference between the kind of violence we are told to take seriously, and the kind we are told to consider as no more than the unavoidable cost of admission to living in a patriarchal world. The police in Australia have ruled out terrorism as the motive for a rampage by a man who stabbed six people to death at a crowded shopping mall in Sydney on Saturday. The police are wrong. The motive was terrorism. Patriarchy is the ideology. Misogyny is its political expression that is used to recruit and incite violence against women. Cisgender men are the terrorists. Read my new essay via link in bio and stories https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-femicide-the-approved-terrorism
Wonderful to see! As of Monday April 22 👇🏽 Repost from @democracynow • After more than 100 students from Barnard College and Columbia University were arrested at an encampment calling for the school to divest from Israel amid the country’s deadly assault on Gaza, solidarity protests have erupted across the country. Similar encampments have begun at MIT, Tufts, Emerson College, NYU, The New School, the University of Michigan, Washington University in St. Louis, Vanderbilt University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Columbia University has canceled in-person classes today as campus protests over the war on Gaza enter a sixth day. Classes will be held online today as the campus remains largely locked down. Organizers say at least 50 students have been suspended from Barnard and 35 from Columbia. A growing number of Columbia and Barnard alumni, employees and guest speakers have also publicly condemned or announced they are boycotting the prestigious institutions. At Yale, at least 45 students were arrested this morning as police attempted to clear an encampment set up on Friday night. Protests are continuing on the campus.
Fuck Israel and its savagery
Fuck Israel and its savagery
Fuck Israel and its savagery
Fuck Israel and its savagery
Fuck Israel and its savagery
Fuck Israel and its savagery
Fuck Israel and its savagery
Excerpts from the New Internationalist interview with Leila Khaled, July 2023 See previous post for why I chose this as my contribution to the Nakba Then and Now commemoration in NYC
Excerpts from the New Internationalist interview with Leila Khaled, July 2023 See previous post for why I chose this as my contribution to the Nakba Then and Now commemoration in NYC
Excerpts from the New Internationalist interview with Leila Khaled, July 2023 See previous post for why I chose this as my contribution to the Nakba Then and Now commemoration in NYC
Excerpts from the New Internationalist interview with Leila Khaled, July 2023 See previous post for why I chose this as my contribution to the Nakba Then and Now commemoration in NYC
Excerpts from the New Internationalist interview with Leila Khaled, July 2023 See previous post for why I chose this as my contribution to the Nakba Then and Now commemoration in NYC
Listen to Bisan 💜✊🏽❤️ Repost @wizard_bisan1 “ضهرهم في الحيط” You are terrifying them🇵🇸✌🏻☄️
Looking forward to turning 57 this summer—I like both those numbers, 5 and 7. 📷 @rerutled
I went to training today high on fear and determination. My last two deadlift sessions were frustrating: I hurt myself and could not lift what I’ve worked up to. Was it my hormones? Food? What? Today, I lifted 190lbs. I weigh 155lbs. Joy! Thank you @jeanafanellifitness 💜✊🏽❤️
I worked hard today! Last week I lifted 200lbs and it was like a stun gun to my system! Today, 185lbs needed all my inner and outer strength and I know I’m still feeling last week’s challenge. As I say at the end: it was fucking hard! I am 56 and weigh 156lbs. One of the most important lessons of lifting heavy: meet your body where it’s at. Listen to it. And honour where it takes you. Thank you @jeanafanellifitness
Honoured to be part of these readings. May 15, NYC: Repost from @warscapes • Join us on May 15th for a night of readings to commemorate 76 years of the Nakba and to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle. Nakba Then and Now: Refuse Silence invites you to raise your voice, amplify the Palestinian resistance, and demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Registration link in bio. Nakba Day marks the devastation of the Palestinian homeland in 1948 through ethnic cleansing and expulsion of a majority of Palestinian people. The Nakba, or the Catastrophe, is commemorated on May 15th of each year through demonstrations, strikes, protests and by memorializing the names of villages that were uprooted or destroyed. Nakba Day is about resisting expulsion and erasure. Today, as we are witnessing another Nakba, the world is also rising up on every continent. We invite you to join in this resistance. We will also be raising funds for the following organizations: The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund @dr.ghassan.as UNRWA Gaza Emergency Appeal @unrwa Organized by the Radical Books Collective and The Polis Project.
Honoured to be part of these readings. May 15, NYC: Repost from @warscapes • Join us on May 15th for a night of readings to commemorate 76 years of the Nakba and to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle. Nakba Then and Now: Refuse Silence invites you to raise your voice, amplify the Palestinian resistance, and demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Registration link in bio. Nakba Day marks the devastation of the Palestinian homeland in 1948 through ethnic cleansing and expulsion of a majority of Palestinian people. The Nakba, or the Catastrophe, is commemorated on May 15th of each year through demonstrations, strikes, protests and by memorializing the names of villages that were uprooted or destroyed. Nakba Day is about resisting expulsion and erasure. Today, as we are witnessing another Nakba, the world is also rising up on every continent. We invite you to join in this resistance. We will also be raising funds for the following organizations: The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund @dr.ghassan.as UNRWA Gaza Emergency Appeal @unrwa Organized by the Radical Books Collective and The Polis Project.
Thrilled to announce the return of FEMINIST GIANT and The Strand Book Store’s feminist book club in May after a hiatus. I’ll be converstion with writer and educator @erica.cardwell for a discussion of her new book Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art, published by @feministpress. Our in-person discussion on May 2 will be hosted in the Strand Book Store’s 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street. This event is FREE to attend. Details via link in my bio and stories.
