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Tag Archives: Feminism

Who says woman? Why to say it? Where?

«Why can’t we say woman anymore?» is the title of an article by Rosie DiManno shared on Twitter by Margaret Atwood a few days ago. The sharing of the article, which was published in the Canadian newspaper «Toronto Star» (#1 and #2), provoked bitter reactions that put Atwood’s positions, together with J.K. Rowling’s ones, in the ranks of trans-exclusionary radical …

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Against the social reproduction of pandemic patriarchy

→ Italian For quite some time women have been refusing to be domesticized by patriarchy. For them, it’s not a surprise that now, in times of a global pandemic, patriarchy is trying to impose itself as a necessary supplement of capital’s domination: after all, patriarchy has been pandemic for ages. In every place in the world and from different positions, …

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Continuity and revolt: women’s movements and the feminist strike

→ Italian Women’s movement is expanding and it is transforming. It is expanding because the global resonance of its struggle against male violence has turned on new uprisings in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria, Palestine and South-Africa. It is transforming because all over the world – from Lebanon to Bolivia, from Argentina to Italy, from Chile to Northern Syria – women …

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La lucha de las mujeres indígenas en Bolivia: el eterno retorno del patriarcado y el feminismo transnacional

por CAMILLA DE AMBROGGI → Italian, English El 8 de marzo de 2019, por el tercer año consecutivo, se dio la oportunidad de mostrar el poder global y transnacional del movimiento feminista, que ha sabido reinventar y readaptar la práctica de lucha de la huelga a los nuevos desafíos políticos que el capital global plantea, superando las líneas de división …

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The struggle of indigenous women in Bolivia: the eternal return of patriarchy and transnational feminism

by CAMILLA DE AMBROGGI → Italian, Spanish On March 8, 2019, for the third consecutive year, we had the opportunity to see the global power of the feminist transnational movement. This transfeminism has been able to reinvent and readapt the practice of the strike to the new political challenges that global capital poses, going beyond the lines of division that …

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A Global Flood on Strike. Women and Feminism towards March 8th

→ Italiano On March 8th a women’s strike will take place and will be a truly global event. The proposal took inspiration from the Polish women, was launched by the Argentinian ones and endorsed by the hundreds of thousands of women that all over the world took to the street on the day against male violence over women. After the …

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A strike in black. Polish women, European neoliberalism, global patriarchy

→ Italian «Any power you don’t use yourself is gonna be used against you». Audre Lorde’s words accompany on the Black Protest International Facebook page the reasons of the Polish women that today, Monday October 3rd, are striking against the abortion bill, which is under discussion in the Polish parliament. The meaning of this law, which aims at erasing the …

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The New Year’s Eve of patriarchy and the urgency of a feminist politics

by PAOLA RUDAN → IT On the New Year’s Eve, in Cologne, dozens of women were harassed, raped and robbed by dozens of men. According to current surveys, it appears that the attacks have not been concerted and planned; moreover, the «supposedly Arabs» which, according to preliminary reports, have committed those attacks were not, at least not all of them, …

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In retrospect. In memory of «unknown citizen»

by ISHITA DEY –  Delhi, 29 December 2012 We woke up to the death of the 23 year old student who was gang-raped on a moving bus in Delhi. We are terribly angry, upset and it’s a mixed bag of emotions. It is extremely personal. I feel a terrible sense of loss, fear, and hurt. As my mother puts it, …

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India: Capital comes to a hault over protest against gender based violence

by ISHITA DEY – Delhi Delhi – the national capital of India is rocked by protests from student organisations, various groups and individuals pouring in India Gate – a place in close proximity to Rashtrapati Bhavan and other centres of power. People have taken to the streets to protest against the gang rape of a 23 year old student on …

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