Category: feminist

Feed the Revolution: An Interview with Rojava Plan

 

see also:   Rojava Revolution Plan: Organising and Funding Projects and Volunteers
The Coopfunding campaign raised 98K euros, now closed, (14 July16), but the contribute page lists various ways people for people to participate and help this cause. Also right now volunteers can`t get into as the siege is total.
The Coopfunding campaign raised 98K euros, now closed, (14 July16), but the contribute page lists various ways people for people to participate and help this cause. Also right now volunteers can`t get into as the siege is total.
  • Rojava Plan came to the attention of Plan C’s Rojava Solidarity Cluster earlier this year and as their Feed the Revolution fundraiser finished ( the raised 98K euros) we contacted them to discuss their reasons for being in Rojava, what plans they have been developing, and the logic behind their fertiliser project.
  • We’ve also used this interview as an opportunity to find out a little more about the co-operative economy which is being developed in the region.
  • Information in English about the economic development of the Rojava cantons is quite limited but a useful primer by Abdurrahman Hemo, adviser for economic development in Cizîre Canton can be found here.revolution-in-rojava-blurb

Plan C: Could you explain a little about the Rojava Plan: Who you are, past  political experiences, what inspires you about Rojava and the logic behind the projects you are implementing.

Rojava Plan: Rojava Plan is the name we currently use for outside communication with the rest of the world it suggests our goals; we have a plan of projects to implement across Rojava. Continue reading “Feed the Revolution: An Interview with Rojava Plan”

‘Women Creating’: interview with Bolivian Anarcha-feminist and Lesbian activist, Maria Galindo

 
UPDATE, comment : ”I am Maria Galindo , I disagree with the result of this interview. it is too superficial. It doesn t really reflect my work, my policy, my dreams. que pena. we lose time and space ..”femonist T shirts

 Maria Galindo, Bolivian anarchist, feminist and lesbian activist

By: Dimitri O’Donnell   In an interview with teleSUR, Maria Galindo explains why she is one of Bolivia’s most vocal opponents of the Catholic church
`'You have to be Brave to be Queer'.. Maria Galindo
`’You have to be Brave to be Queer’.. Maria Galindo

 Maria Galindo attracts a lot of attention wherever she goes. With her knee-high, leather-studded boots, chunky goth jewelry, heavy, dark eyeliner and half-shaved head, you can’t miss the self-proclaimed rebel as she makes her way around La Paz.

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“I suppose you could say some people are afraid of me,” admits the 52-year-old anarchist, feminist and lesbian activist. “But I really don’t care what the public thinks, I’m not running for mayor and I don’t work to be applauded by them,” she says. “I was the first publicly ‘out’ lesbian in Bolivia and I’m proud of that, I’ve never not spoken about my sexuality,” says Galindo. Continue reading “‘Women Creating’: interview with Bolivian Anarcha-feminist and Lesbian activist, Maria Galindo”

Feminist Women Occupiers back In Revolutionary Action (Sevilla)

L revóThe REVO is back!

A year ago THE REVOLUTIONARY FEMINIST HOUSE “LA REVO”  was born when a house in the  ‘Ovary Gate’ (institutionally known as Puerta del Osario) was occupied as a feminist, not mixed, home  and an anti-patriarchal space.

This was the result of a long assembly process and collective knowledge that took place over several months and which was join ed by women from many feminist groups. Our goal at that time was to create a site of struggle, meeting, discussion, political reflection, critical thinking and collective creation, as well as a place from which to project our feminist ideas.

feminist occupation in Sevilla.
feminist occupation in Sevilla., this was the first ‘La Revó’ in 2015  ..la primera..

Continue reading “Feminist Women Occupiers back In Revolutionary Action (Sevilla)”

Roleplay Games using ‘#Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology’

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by  Mirella Machancoses López        A couple of months ago, I received my copy of : A Nano-Game Anthology. It took me only two days to read all the games, and I was very excited about testing a lot of them.So, first of all, I needed to figure out how to set up a time and place where we could play. I realised that some of the games are written to be played by only women but others required the presence of men for play to be the most interesting.

The second problem was choosing a space. We (as Producciones Gorgona) don’t have a meeting place so, we needed to find one. After thinking a lot about it, we highlighted the characteristics of the place we need:

  • Two or more rooms (so we can play at least two games at the same time).
  • Intimate
  • Places we could sleep

So, finally, to avoid paying a lot of money, I decided to offer my parents’ house in the countryside. We could sleep there, it was big enough, and it was intimate. In addition, we decided to go for a whole weekend of feminism games, where Saturday and Saturday night would be for women only, and the Sunday the men would be welcome.

And we did so last weekend (May 14-15, 2016). We loved all the games we had time to test. So, I will not focus this review on the anthology as a whole, but on our experiences of running the games we chose.

Continue reading “Roleplay Games using ‘#Feminism: A Nano-Game Anthology’”

Did internalised homophobia + religious bigotry cause Orlando massacre?

text By Jasmine Taylor-Coleman  BBC Magazine

religion + homophobia + gun availability + macho patriarchy = Orlando IS massacre

love is not a crime
love is not a crime

Reports that Orlando gunman Omar Mateen had been a regular at the gay nightclub he attacked and used gay dating apps have led to speculation that he was motivated by internalised homophobia. But what is it, and could it have anything to do with the worst shooting in recent US history?

Investigators are still trying to establish what led a 29-year-old security guard from Florida to murder 49 people and injure dozens more as they partied in popular gay nightclub Pulse.

They are examining indications Mateen was inspired by radical Islamism, following revelations that he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and the FBI had investigated him twice previously for terror links.

Mateen’s father also suggested his son had harboured strong anti-gay views, fuelling many people’s belief that the attack was motivated by violent homophobia. Continue reading “Did internalised homophobia + religious bigotry cause Orlando massacre?”

All-Women Feminist Comic Book Classics: Extracts and History

The Radical Story Behind The First All-Women Feminist Comic Book Series

How “Wimmen’s Comix” turned the boy’s club of underground comix inside out.

 by Priscilla Frank, from The Huffington Post, with thanks

WIMMENS COMIX

In 1954 the Comics Magazine Association of America formed the Comics Code Authority to regulate and often sanitize self-published mainstream comics. Depictions of violence, sex and drugs, as well as socially progressive content, were strictly prohibited.

Around 1968, an underground comix movement began bubbling beneath the surface of the squeaky clean comic realm, dominated by superheroes and their hapless side chicks. The movement, led by artists like Robert Crumb, Jack Jackson and Gary Panter, dodged the watchful eye of the Comics Code by selling their work in head shops as opposed to regulated comic stores. In doing so, they were free.
Wimmens comix 1975
Wimmens comix 1975

What did this new, unprecedented freedom mean for the unruly bunch of talented, defiant, and yes, resoundingly male artists? Well, among other things, it resulted in a bunch of fictional naked ladies undergoing degradation, humiliation, rape, torture and murder. And the most horribly frustrating part? It was all a big joke, and any woman who’d dare protest just wasn’t smart or cool enough to get it. Continue reading “All-Women Feminist Comic Book Classics: Extracts and History”

VICTORY for REBEL PUSSY PARADES.. Cases Dismissed

Sevilla's Rebel Pussy Parade...case Dismissed!
Sevilla’s Rebel Pussy Parade…  ! Coño insumiso de Sevilla. Foto de Aurora León
  ‘..We dressed up and paraded, accompanied by a Rebellious Pussy through the streets of Seville on May 1st, 2014, as a metaphor of what we DON’T want to be: submissive trapped women..

Next thing  the feminists were charged with a crime of incitement to discrimination, hatred and violence for reasons related to religion, for parading their giant pussy with the CGT anarchist union on the workers demo.  (full report here English/Spanish) .

Sevilla Feminists
Sevilla Feminists
 In Spain the custom is to carry effegies of the Blessed Virgin, especially in Andalusia,  solemnly round the barrios demonstrating Catholic power.
Carrying a gigantic pussy instead is seen as sacrilege by the far right
Association of Christian Lawyers who demanded up to 4 years prison plus fines, and have taken a whole series of cases against collectives promoting sexual freedom, workers rights, Basque autonomy, etc..

The CGT supported the rebel pussy with legal help and their own pussy parade, and various feminist movements have followe suit,  see photos

Devil forgiven..at CGT anarchist support demo for accused in Rebel Vagina Parade, Sevilla.2016
Devil forgiven?..at CGT anarchist support demo for accused in Rebel Vagina Parade, Sevilla.2016 Continue reading “VICTORY for REBEL PUSSY PARADES.. Cases Dismissed”