Category: social revolution

Cristy C. Road’s “Spit and Passion”

cristy c roadRead a F*cking Book: Cristy C. Road‘s “Spit and Passion”

GabriellePosted bySpit and Passion by Cristy C. Road is a graphic memoir about the anxious, fragile and formative moments between childhood and adolescence. Written with the wisdom of hindsight and illustrated with the often-gruesome imperfections that Road’s art is famous for, her memoir centers around her newly felt queerness and how her love affair with Green Day (yes, the band) saved her from the pain of being a weirdo.

Spit and Passion, via the Feminist Press

Raised by a “gang of boisterous Cuban women” in a working-class family, Road was torn between the casual homophobia that was part of the backdrop of her daily life, and her growing physical attraction to women. Continue reading “Cristy C. Road’s “Spit and Passion””

New Feminist Music: 5 videos

 by Katie Presley on July 19, 2013

B-Sides: Five Great New Feminist Songs

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Top 40 music seems to be undergoing a sea change lately. Cher has a feminist song on the radio and in the club. Neko Case is taking gender identity straight to task. Frank Ocean and Macklemore are topping the charts with songs that carve space for queer-friendly voices in the machismo-drenched worlds of R&B and hip-hop. Ann Powers at NPR declared 2013 “Country Music’s Year of the Woman,” and Jewly Hight at the Nashville Scene pointed out a similar trend last year, of female artists whose sounds still fit the country genre, but whose lyrics and personae push the boundaries of country femininity.

Neko Case with text: "Hell Yeah, Feminist Music!"

All of this points to something big: It’s been a good year for not only women in music, but feminism in music. Continue reading “New Feminist Music: 5 videos”

Mass Demos Increasing: Spanish Politicians must GO

Manifestantes-Policia-Antidisturbios-Pierre-Philippe-AFP_ECMIMA20120925_0132_4Every day the demos are getting bigger, pickets become gigantic and merge into marches and rioting.

It’s not just a case of changing Prime Minister, half the government are implicated in mass bribery. If Rajoy goes others and the maybe the whole government will fall.

Then the ‘Troika’ program of closing all public services, schools, hospitals, pensions.. plus 500 mortgage evictions a day and general unemployment.. may grind to an halt.

(Photos & Video) Thousands of angry people mobilize in many Spanish cities shouting “Mafia of Politicians OUT”. Police threaten the press Continue reading “Mass Demos Increasing: Spanish Politicians must GO”

Spanish Revolution 15M.. the first Creative Explosion

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Brazil: If I can´t dance, it is not my #BRevolution

Posted by carolina

#BRevolution, Brazilian remixed shout for Global Spring

BNAWnQsCIAAmIdHThe sleeping giant is waking up. Brazil is awakening from the Fake Progress Dream of the 1%. Brazilians are taking the streets, but the media only talks about macro politics. Brazilian youth-and-not-so are demanding other economic, civic and social ways. But the media hides the facts:

political assemblies in public, occupations of municipal assemblies (as Belo Horizontes´s occupation),

new networked collectives fighting for the right to the city, for political participation… Continue reading “Brazil: If I can´t dance, it is not my #BRevolution”

Patriarchal power: from Witch Dunking to Family Courts

HalfTheWorldsPopulationAccording to a report released by the United Nations World Heath Organization (WHO), 35 percent

of women around the world experience some form of physical or sexual violence, whether by an intimate partner or stranger, and the problem is so widespread that it is now considered a global public health problem. 

While legislative actions are commendable, to date these measures have not led to a world free from violence—women continue to be subject to it, the media continues to report it, activists continue to fight against it and we end up in a perpetuating cycle of institutional inertia.

Perhaps we need to look more closely at the history and present day use of Patriarchal Power…..

Putin and the Patriarch jailed Pussy Riot, only to see the Femen movement take off.
Putin and the Patriarch jailed Pussy Riot, only to see the Femen movement take off.

Patriarchal power: an insidious double-bind that undermines mental health Continue reading “Patriarchal power: from Witch Dunking to Family Courts”

Freedom Flight: save hero Snowden from Obama, stop 1984

Op ‘Freedom Flight’: more countries on board; human shield idea gaining support admin

freedom - CopySince our last story on the Edward Snowden affair, three countries – Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua – have offered asylum and three others – Cuba, Ecuador and Uruguay – may offer too. Also, several people – including John Cusack and J P Barlow, Birgitta Jonsdottir – have offered, if needed, to be ‘human shields’ for Snowden on his flight. Continue reading “Freedom Flight: save hero Snowden from Obama, stop 1984”