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kate o’hare was a socialist + antiwar activist, jailed during WWI for promoting said views—and yeah this incident recorded in her journals is fucking me up

When her 14-year-old son visited, [Kate] O’Hare was upset that warders denied him permission to play his trumpet for her. But they had no control over what happened outside the prison’s walls. “Last night we were locked in our cells waiting for the lights to be turned out when suddenly I heard a sweet but wavering note that I instantly recognized as Dick’s cornet… Nothing ever sounded sweeter than the noble strains of ‘Lead Kindly Light.’ Before the first bar was ended a dead silence reigned … From cell to cell a whisper ran ‘Be still and listen—it is Mrs. O’Hare’s son!’ No artist ever held an audience more breathless … When he played ‘Silver Threads among the Gold’ I could hear the women sobbing.”

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So the most listened to (internationally) French artist happens to be a Black woman, her artist name is Aya Nakamura. She is the only woman in France in the top 20 of the most listened to artists. She was born in Mali (Bamako) came in France as a young child with her family and she now has the French citizenship.

She might be the one singing (a song from Edith Piaf) during the Olympics opening ceremony in France.

Again she is the most famous French artists right now internationally.

White people are putting signs saying “No way for Aya, this is Paris not the market of Bamako”. That’s how racist France is.

But wanna know the icing on the cake? The reaction of some politicians on the left. Sandrine Rousseau defending Aya by saying that it would give the image of a “tolerant and open” France. This is all about “image” they don’t want to stop being racists pieces of shit they want to be able to do it while still looking good and anti racists.

You say “this is Paris not Bamako” meanwhile when Black and Arabs undocumented workers went on strike the construction site of the Olympics had to fucking slow down and stop in some sites because there was enough undocumented workers on those construction sites that their absence meant not being able to continue.

You say “this is Paris not Bamako” meanwhile the only reason your health system hasn’t completely collapsed is because 1 doctor out of 4 is born abroad. Some of your hospitals would close without foreign doctors (Algerians represent almost 25% of the foreign doctors in France.

So you know what? This is Bamako. This is Algiers. This is Dakar. Without us you wouldn’t be a rich country. If you didn’t want us here you shouldn’t have colonized our people and shouldn’t keep looting our countries while financing corrupted governments, organizing assassinations of rulers who want to decolonize Africa and organizing uprising against them.

(P.S: Le premier qui vient défendre Sandrine Rousseau je le bloque ici on soutient la gauche révolutionnaire et porteuse de valises pas la gauche avec des relents de paternalisme colonial qui bégaie dès qu’il faut prendre position correctement contre le racisme)

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Is it just me or is this comment insanely funny

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"I would kill for you. I would die for you" would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs for me? Would you let yourself be held for me? By me?

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oh yayyy I'm glad that some wim are interested :) I just say what I say and it's never gonna be what you expect LOL but ok I'm already working on what I wanna say & concepts to introduce so. It's happening

if I posted clips of myself talking 2 myself abt this detrans shit and music, female power etc. would anyone care to listen or. on the other hand anyone wanna do a podcast w me lol

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thing is my mind works real fast and I talk fast so I feel like I need some1 to keep me on track so i don't go off into the willywacks of my mind but ON THE OTHER HAND maybe some of yall want to hear the willywacks adventures of my leaps in logic so. Up to you

if I posted clips of myself talking 2 myself abt this detrans shit and music, female power etc. would anyone care to listen or. on the other hand anyone wanna do a podcast w me lol

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if I posted clips of myself talking 2 myself abt this detrans shit and music, female power etc. would anyone care to listen or. on the other hand anyone wanna do a podcast w me lol

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watched a vid of three females who identify & present as men talking abt taking testosterone & how they feel abt singing and their voices... one said that she didn't sing much before taking exogenous hormones bc her voice was "too pretty" and didn't reflect how she felt like a "mean dude". I hate this shit so much bc I know exactly what she means... and I know that it doesn't solve the problem, doesn't reconcile the dissonance in your mind... and women would be more free could we realize that. When you say you feel like a "mean dude" I take it to mean you feel like an individual with personal power you aren't allowed to exercise & have to keep locked up, and no one hears it and denies that it exists so you think making yourself in the image of a male will make ppl see and acknowledge your power but it won't & you're still blaming your femaleness as the source of this problem. when claiming your power as a female does not actually require you to deny your fundamental composition of yourself. To truly claim your power you have to own it. To deny it is to disown it and to disempower yourself further. doing patriarchal dirty work. They put the needle in yer hands and tell you what to do with it and you do it. but you don't need it. Just none of it's necessary it doesn't fix things it makes me so mad I could scream

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get ready for an exuberant summer

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"This is the contralto/tenor/bass trio "Gloria Patri" from Dixit Dominus (RV 595) composed for the Figlie di Coro of the Ospedale della Pietà. Here the voice of Anna dal Basso (1670-1742), a documented bass singer at the Pietà, is sung by Margaret (centre), Cecilia dal Contralto (1679-1726) by Victoria, Paulina dal Tenor (1675-1748) by Penny. Vivaldi's Women challenge the cultural stereotype which assumes that female voices are naturally high and that it is wrong for them to sing low. At the end of the clip we see Micky White in the Venice archives where she has made so many remarkable discoveries about Vivaldi and the women he worked with."

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so powerful

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Bally Prell my beloved la reine de mon coeur contralto profondo

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as always letting it be known Im available and interested in online music collabs w other feminist musicians esp dykes so hit me up please for the love of all that is holy

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detrans lesbian singing kurt vile and remembering the complex and unspeakable feelings vibes

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The crazy thing i can't yet explain is how hard I've had to work to be okay with my own voice. Pre-testosterone I hated the sound of my voice so much. And as a person who primarily expresses myself w singing and musical expressions. it was crippling. And post-T I can't tell you how many nights I have spent absolutely devastated at what I did to myself. and I had to teach myself painstakingly to sing again and that was excruciating and whatever the pain doesn't matter but I got thru it. and I'm finding my voice again and no one will ever know how hard that has been. Whatever it's not about me but like I actually appreciate the expressive capacities in my voice that I have always had regardless of the effects of drugs / life / time and that has been hard fucking won. So congratulations to me. And idk I'm gonna find a way to let wimmin know it's possible to do this & I wanna hear wimmin singing and growling and sounding ugly and expressive cus I no longer give a fuck about sounding beautiful.

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Grace Jones at The Palace, Paris 1978

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86- Doreen Valiente (January 4, 1922— September 1, 1999)

The Mother of Modern Witchcraft.

“Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill, ‘an it harm none do what ye will”

When the British Witchcraft Act of 1735 was finally repealed in 1951, people claiming descent and/or initiation into secret witch cults in Britain started to surface. The most notable among them was Gerald Gardner, the Father of Wicca, who claimed to have discovered a coven similar to those described by Margaret Murray. Gardner wanted to publicly promote witchcraft in a new light, which drew the attention of like minded people.

Doreen Valiente had been fascinated with the occult and natural magic most of her life, claiming her first magical experience at the age of 13. She heard about Gardner and got in touch with him in 1952, a meeting that would have resounding influence on the future of witchcraft, Wicca, and neopaganism. Gardner initiated Valiente into one of his covens in 1953, and she quickly became his High Priestess. Over the years, Doreen worked with Gardner in improving his Book of Shadows (a collection of religious texts, rituals, and magical instructions). Gardner’s Book of Shadows had clear influence from infamous ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley, and Doreen wanted to purge it of that to protect the faith from Crowleys negative reputation.

Valiente is responsible for producing and adapting the scriptural text and poems that have become Wiccan liturgy. The “Witches Rune”, “Witches Creed”, and “Charge of the Goddess” all were heavily edited and/or written by Doreen. While “the Charge” has early predecessors, it was Doreen’s beautiful poetry, imagery, and writing that gave it its lasting impact. Her rewriting of the Charge of the Goddess is perhaps her most lasting legacy, as it has become fundamental scripture in Wiccan and pagan theology.

Doreen left Gardner in 1957, making one of the first schisms in Wicca. She went on participate in several other covens. As Wicca, paganism, and other new age movements joined the changing cultural attitudes with the environmentalism and feminism of the 1960s and 1970s, Valiente took a public role in promoting the religion. She took a prominent position in the Pagan Federation, an organization that discredited misinformation about the faith and sought to promote education.

Doreen continued on to write half a dozen books on magic, witchcraft, and Wicca. Valiente was the first to publicly articulate the Wiccan Rede in its current form. Her vision of the faith led her to urge Wiccans to accept homosexuality, and her understanding that Wicca should be practiced outdoors has become fundamental doctrine. Throughout her life, she believed in Murray’s witch-cult theory, and is credited with adding the necessary dimension to Wicca that helped propel in into an international movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen_Valiente https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiccan_Rede https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Goddess http://www.anothermag.com/…/why-doreen-valiente-is-the-moth… https://www.independent.co.uk/…/doreen-valiente-the-mother-…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gardner_(Wiccan)