#women's March

[soberscientistlife]

SAVE THE DATE ❤️🤍💙

[enlitment]

favorite moments in the French revolution?

Thanks for the ask!

There's a lot of them! At the risk of being the sort of person Žižek calls out for wanting '1789 without 1793', a lot of my favourite moments come from the early days of the revolution.

Camille's passionate aux armes! speech at Palais Royal always makes the top of my list. I'm interested in the power of words, both from the literary/philosophical perspective and as a debater, so this moment feels right up my alley. There's just something about him being able to get over his stammer in the heat of the moment and inspire the crowd...

2. Second is probably the Women's March on Versailles! I think it really highlights just how important women (and mostly working-class women in this case!) were as a political force. This is something that people often forget, thinking that just because women didn't have political rights in the modern sense it meant that they had no influence on politics whatsoever. Events like this prove that this was hardly the case.

3. To move on from 1789, I am also fascinated by the merging of the revolution and religion. That's why I'm interested in the revolutionary festivals, like the Festival of the Supreme Being. (It gets such a bad reputation in a lot of historical sources, but if you look at the Catholic festivals which this was supposed to be an answer to... don't tell me they often didn't feel just as extra).

But what I find most interesting is how a lot of secular figures basically achieved the status of a saint in revolutionary France. Case in point: Marat (re: David's painting), Voltaire and - sigh - yes, Rousseau.

Just look at Rousseau's provisional mausoleum from 1794, in which he was buried before they moved his remains to the Panthéon:

fun fact - it's also currently my laptop lock screen. Don't ask why, I try not to over-analyse it.

[claraameliapond]

Violence against women is a MENS ISSUE.

We will never be able to stop this and live in peace and safety unless the underlying cause is identified, addressed and fixed : it is a valuing issue. Cultural, institutional. While institutions are slowly changing, cultural value systems that circulate about women in men's circles are not catching up.

We can't solve this.

You have to.

It is a human rights issue.

If you do understand that women are human beings equal to you and treat them as such, please understand it is your duty to circulate and normalise that, and culturally correct misogyny in any form it presents itself among your fellow males.

I'm really sick of this. All women are.

We can see who these people who do not see us equally are. Often it's people who think it isn't them.

It's everywhere.

Culturally males are fed particular messaging about genders that present in their unconscious and conscious behaviour, bias, subjectivity. Please work on yourselves. Even if you think you don't need to. Check your privilege. And when and where you see it in others - CALL IT OUT. THEN AND THERE.

We can't fix a culture we aren't part of. Only you can.

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

January 21st, 2017: Up to five million people participated in over 600 marches in over 160 countries on all seven continents participate in the Women's March.

Prompted by the inauguration of US President Donald Trump the day before, the Women's March remains one of the biggest mass actions in history.

[urbs-in-horto]

[kodachrome-net]

Rally for Women, Chicago, January 21, 2017

[somewhat-a-sigma]

chicago 2017

[gobcorend]

Fragmento del poema 'Hombres necios...' de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Hombres necios que acusáis

a la mujer sin razón,

sin ver que sois la ocasión

de lo mismo que culpáis:

si con ansia sin igual

solicitáis su desdén,

¿por qué queréis que obren bien

si la incitáis al mal?

(...)

Con el favor y desdén

tenéis condición igual,

quejándoos, si os tratan mal,

burlándoos, si os quieren bien.

Siempre tan necios andáis

que, con desigual nivel,

a una culpáis por cruel

y a otra por fácil culpáis.

(...)

Bien con muchas armas fundo

que lidia vuestra arrogancia,

pues en promesa e instancia

juntáis diablo, carne y mundo.

[mannyblacque]

Source

[leftistfeminista]

#WomensMarch leaving sanitary pads on walls and hanging bra's from trees

[a-ginger-snaps]

If your feminism isn’t intersectional, it can be a tool of oppression! Created for the Women’s March via Task Force. 

Print available on Society6

[digitalnewberry]

I am not free while any woman is unfree

I am not free…Audre Lorde, Women's March on Chicago, 2017

View hundreds of photographs from the 2017 Women's March on Chicago at Newberry Digital Collections

[claraameliapond]

Friendly reminder, if your first reaction to hearing women speak about equality , aka feminism and being safe in public and private spaces is offence, surprise surprise, it is you we need to be protected from.

Fragile male egos are the most violently reactionary -

Stop Hurting Women

Stop Attacking Women

Women are Not Disposable

[anonymous-red-shades]

It's for woman's month, yes but... did we have to carve the Tumblr logo into her head?

[urbs-in-horto]

[akkoeln]

Women's March in Köln Wann?- Samstag, 10.12.2022 - 13:00 UhrWo?- Innere Grüngürtel (Wasserspielplatz)