Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 12, 2023
Portside
Are corporations a woke conspiracy?
Are corporations a woke conspiracy?
Are corporations a woke conspiracy?
film
‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Is the Antidote to TikTokers’ Obsession With Being a Tradwife
Jezebel
The film premieres amid a growing social media trend that romanticizes tradwives. But in Don’t Worry Darling, being a 1950s housewife is anything but romantic.
film
Netflix’s ‘Look Both Ways’ Isn’t the Feminist Movie It Wanted To Be
Jezebel
The movie "Look Both Ways" was written before Roe was overturned, but director Wanuri Kahiu and star Lili Reinhart have said in interviews that it's pro-choice. I'm not so sure.
tv
Experts Explain What Physical Gets Right About Eating Disorders
Bustle
The new AppleTV+ series explores an aspect of eating disorders rarely depicted on TV.
To Confront Sexual Violence, We Don’t Need Better Prosecutors — We Need to Abolish Them
Truthout
Prosecutors’ offices deal in punishment, not healing, prevention or justice.
Patriarchy and the Pandemic: Disentangling the Web of Oppression
People's Dispatch
The pandemic is making clearer the historical and social problems of society, how it is deteriorating to the point of triggering its own decline. Fighting for another society that cares for women and life is a necessary task for our future.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars - February 18, 2020
Portside
Corruption on top, rebellion on the bottom, and Bernie on the ballot
Rage Against the Narrative: How to Understand Psychic Violence and Murder
Praxis Center – Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
America’s 45th presidency of Donald Trump has pulled the ugly scab off the bloody sore of racial capitalism and heteropatriarchy baked into the body politic of the United States.
For Richer, For Poorer: Re-Imagining and Reclaiming the Family for the Left
The Bullet
Feminist voices emphasize that production and reproduction are inextricably linked to one another. We need to collectively reflect on our contradictory longing for family and dare to challenge seemingly natural forms of living together.
Women's emancipation and human rights: "Can These Bones Live?"
50.50
Is the human rights movement just a couple of big Northern organisations? The emancipation of women has to be one of the big all time human rights issues, but Meredith Tax says experts still think they can answer these questions without taking women's human rights work into account
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