#revolutionary women

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Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), Promenading in Berlin, about a year 1914 [photo by Henry Guttmann Collection]

[nickysfacts]

Pagu helped to lead Brasil into the Modern age!

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[leftistfeminista]

On the Objectification of Guerilla Women's bodies

Ana Guadalupe Martínez, like Che Guevara was known as  "Commandante". And in many ways she was the Feminist Che Guevara of El Salvador's revolutionary struggle. One of the most important guerrilla cadres of the People's Revolutionary Army (El Salvador) and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front FMLN. But one way a female Commandante is singled out for her gender, is how the Junta guards objectified her body. Even her strength and athletic fitness which she devoted to the people's struggle was ogled and groped by the guards. This is the demeaning treatment women get because of our gender, no matter how fierce and fearsome we are. Even as a revolutionary threat to the capitalist state, we are still women's bodies first to the chauvinist pigs.

JOURNAL ARTICLE Double Binds: Latin American Women's Prison Memories Mary Jane Treacy

Hypatia Vol. 11, No. 4, Women and Violence (Autumn, 1996), pp. 130-145 (16 pages)

INTERROGATORIES IN SALVADORAN PRISONS: DIALOGUES AND FEMALE NEGOTIATION ON THE MARGINS OF THE REVOLUTION

Interrogations in Salvadoran jails: Dialogue and Female Negotiation in the Margins of the Revolution

The texts of Ana María Guadalupe and Nidia Díaz are not only a fight on the political margins of the country but are also a fight against the models and configurations of women's roles on the margins of that revolution through the body. . In a very different way, Martínez and Díaz present the construction of their body, politicizing it and re-writing it. If we take into account torture techniques and the way mental fracture is carried out in prisons, gender becomes a fundamental element of aggression. Martínez and Díaz resist this aggression, without this implying the denial of the corporeal. In prisons, torturers base the ideological on the sexual as a path to demoralization. After an attempted rape, Martínez states “with this type of torture they try to influence the framework of ideological values ​​that place dignity, honor, manhood, etc., in the sexual field” (55). But, this does not imply that she wants to completely forget her body or her sexuality, what she does not want is to be manipulated through them. Martínez only expresses the rejection through the dialogues of the kidnappers, in a denial of traditional values ​​regarding motherhood and the consideration of guerrilla women:

The denial of motherhood by the kidnappers does not imply that she is not aware of her condition as a woman. We see it in the fear of being pregnant, after her rape, and in the feeling of demoralization that dominates her: “she tormented me so much that she had only one idea: to abort if it was a pregnancy. Just thinking about it caused me an indescribable despair” (119). Through desperation and anguish over an unwanted motherhood, Martínez is aware of her body, in the same way as when she undergoes a medical self-examination guided by the doctor, that is, she recognizes that her body has adapted to prison and that this is the reason why she does not menstruate.

[profeminist]

"Võ Thị Thắng (10 December 1945 – 22 August 2014) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and stateswoman. She served as a member of the Long An delegation to the National Assembly of Vietnam during its fourth, fifth, and sixth sessions. She also served as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (eighth and ninth congresses), the Director General of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, the Chairwoman of the Vietnam–Cuba Friendship Association, and the Vice President of the Vietnam Women's Union.

Outside of Vietnam, she is most well known for a photograph of her smiling at her sentencing for an attempted assassination during the Vietnam War. The photograph is popularly known as the "Smile of Victory" and has become a symbol of Vietnamese women who fought in the war."

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B5_Th%E1%BB%8B_Th%E1%BA%AFng

[deadassdiaspore]

Fatima Bernawi

Widely regarded as the first Palestinian woman resistance leader, has passed away at the age of 83. In the 1960s, she organized with the paramilitary of the Palestinian Freedom Movement, and later led armed forces in Gaza.





[opalagetribune]

poetry is not a luxury by Audre Lorde | Sun Edition / July-August 2023 I dream of Opal Age

[burningchandelier]

anything about Latin revolutions?

FUCK YEAH!

Okay, my knowledge is more limited on this subject, however--

Policarpa "La Pola" Salavarrieta (1795-1817), was a Colombian seamstress who used her skills to gain the appreciation and trust of wealthy Spanish royalist families. She used that inside position to pass information and secrets to revolutionaries. She also used her artistic skills to forge documents.

Manuela Sanez (1797-1856), most famously the lover of Simon Bolivar, Sanez has become a rallying point in her own right, know as the "liberator of the liberator." She was born out of wedlock, classically educated, worked undercover against Spain, saved Bolivar's life twice, wore a general's uniform, and may have owned a pet bear (?) Basically she was a bad bitch who was probably super fun at parties.

Also check out Haydee Tamara Bunke, Aka Tania la Guerrillera (1933-1968) she was a German Jew whose family fled Nazism and she ended up working as a Cuban revolutionary.

[lackadaisycal-art]

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

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Tumblr Tuesday: Women Loving Women in Art

It's Lesbian Visibility Week, an excellent time to be celebrating women who love women. Give it up for the sapphics, their muses, and the gorgeous art that honors them.

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[ot3]

i do fundamentally agree with the idea that stuff like 'man' and 'women' dont have to be mutually exclusive, people can identify as whatever they want, and gender is there to be played around with as much as anyone likes. but i do feel like we're seeing a trend amongst some subsets of people where they can't hold those beliefs and Also accept the fact that as it stands 'woman' is still a very real and important political class of people. like it really would be great if we were in a place culturally where gender categorizations werent very politically relevant. but they clearly are. and i feel like a lot of people in an attempt to find an understanding of gender that makes them more comfortable have subconsciously kind of abandoned a framework that calls for a structured women's lib movement.

and it's like, on one side you have large swathes of the population who still aren't fully sold on the whole 'women are people' thing. and then on the other side you have a group who correctly understand that the whole gender thing is pretty bullshit. but then, instead of using feminism as a platform to try and build towards a world that reflects those ideals politically they have just kind of retreated fully into idpol and abandoned the scraps of the feminist framework to the radfems to re-appropriate into. fucking. nouveau phrenology.

it just sucks man it feels like we're sort of at an all time low in regards to public interest in meaningful feminism that i've witnessed in my lifetime.

[bluarlequinno]

So I did a little something for Utena today considering today's the 8th of March

Let's find each other through revolution

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

im making text post memes for the whole student council but nanami gets her own post bc shes gods specialest little princess

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