pre-fest/anunturi:
accept
alternativ.ro
avizier personal
fac ce vreau, dar stiu ce fac!
gramo’s
memories box
metropotam
timeout bucuresti
post-fest (/in timpul festului)/recenzii:
avizier personal
evz
gramo’s
radio guerilla
romania libera
altele?
……….retrospectiva/detalii/album foto –> in pregatire!……….
reading through “The Books that changed our lives”, i came upon this perfect description (lots of other great comments from some awesome feminists in the article):
“feminism isn’t an argument or a position but a kind of sanity … a way of looking at the world that takes the humanity of female people seriously” – ariel levy [some discussion of levy’s most famous book mentioned in an older post here].
a bit about the books that changed my life here. to which i’d add this about bell hooks, this about gloria anzaldua, this on jane eyre and this on fiul risipitor. and a feminist reading list i made a while ago here.
Liberty and justice for the parents of the Roma children burnt to death in the fire of Livorno fire on August 10th, 2007
The EveryOne Group and the “Amici degli Angeli” are asking concerned for the immediate release of the parents of the young victims, as well as immediate assistance, starting with a home and state benefit. The groups also request an all-out inquiry against GAPE, a gang of racist murderers, who are responsible for this monstrous crime.
gallery of sexist ads, parts 10^20 and 10^20+1:
– “Alicia Silverstone Strips for Animals?” (yeah, of course PETA is involved)
– “Pornography of War (Literally)”
as “bonus,” some more depictions of women being demeaned/abused that are making the rounds… because it’s all part of the same continuum:
Video of domestic violence
Blonda batuta de concubinul ei [Blonde beaten up by her live-in boyfriend]
(make sure to check out the “average joe” responses to these: “so what,” “she deserved it,” “why didn’t she just leave?” are among the mildest reactions to the video on youtube, and most of them, especially on the romanian site, are truly vile, misogynistic and violent… while the video is being sent around as a “joke”)
CAREFUL, links 3-5 contain images that could be seriously triggering!
another must read: “Ignorance abounds… on Youtube” @When She Speaks I Hear the Revolution – it’s really about a very common attitude towards female musicians… about how male-centric almost all rock music is (and more importantly is assumed to be), STILL!
ps: alison (vv) from the kills used to be in the punk band discount… and she was awesome!
some excellent points on “the personal is political”
Obviously, what people mean but won’t spell out when they say, “It’s easier,” is that it’s easier to give into patriarchal pressure than not. It’s the same reason that a lot of women find it “easier” to do all the housework, though it seems at first blush that it would be easier to share the housework. I’ve called it the “Nagging Differential” in the past, which is that women have to do more work around the house no matter what—either they have to do all the work or all the nagging, and sometimes all the work is easier than all the nagging. […] it’s often smart for an individual woman to go along with the patriarchy. At the end of the day, resistance will cost you more than compliance, which is how oppression, you know, works.
zimbabwe, lithuania
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siren, netherlands
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cinica, brazil
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skilla, sweden (who can’t make it to bucharest)
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dj combustion, sweden (who sadly also can’t make it)
short film “combustion, 5 years of kicking ass”:
music by these artists in right order (they have played live at combustion)
http://www.myspace.com/postplay
http://www.myspace.com/aliceinvideoland
http://www.myspace.com/chickhabit
http://www.myspace.com/lapumasweden
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trash can entertainment are
http://www.myspace.com/combustion_sthlm
http://www.myspace.com/cyberiacityproduction
Poly Styrene, the Raincoats and the Slits were among punk’s most radical figures but have been overlooked by rock historians. As a new book finally celebrates their influence, Leonie Cooper speaks to some of the movement’s forgotten heroes
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(see also “Prostitution… give them all a share of it!” from the blog archives/lf zine — & in romanian: “Prostitutia… dati fiecaruia partea lui!” “MAI promite legalizarea prostitutiei?”, “Prostitutie I”, “Prostitutie II”)
WATCH:
*Not For Sale*
Women speak out about sexual exploitation in prostitution and trafficking
A video by Marie VermeirenThe film (23 min) challenges the traditional views and myths on prostitution and sexual exploitation of women’s bodies. It includes interviews with women survivors of trafficking for sexual exploitation and prostitution, women sharing their life experiences and demanding governmental action and responsibility to combat violence against women, including trafficking and prostitution. The film is part of the joint project EWL-CATW on trafficking in women for sexual exploitation.
To see the film online:
http://www.womenlobby.org/site/video_en.asp
READ:
‘It’s like you sign a contract to be raped’
If you believe their PR, Nevada’s legal brothels are safe, healthy – even fun – places in which to work. So why do so many prostitutes tell such horrific tales of abuse?
— The Guardian, Friday September 7, 2007There is only one place in the US where brothels are legal, and that’s Nevada – a state in which prostitution has been considered a necessary service industry since the days when the place was populated solely by prospecters. There are at least 20 legal brothels in business now. Not so many, you might think, but these state-sanctioned operations punch above their weight in PR terms.
