Guest post by AYESHA KIDWAI Women in Iran cast off their hijabs and occupy the streets. Looking at these women in this photo, I think of what feelings they struggle with at this moment. How many emotions populate this picture? Courage, triumph, feelings of being exposed, fear, the sense of a point of no-return being … Continue reading Feminist reflections on the brave women of Iran: Ayesha Kidwai →
Statement released by feminists from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Fiji, Malaysia and India, August 27, 2022 We are a group of feminists writing to call urgent attention to the extra-constitutional attempts of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) to suppress dissent. Lacking a popular mandate, hunting down student protestors and activists, including a LGBTIQ activist … Continue reading SL Govt – Stop Labeling Student Protestors and Activists as Terrorists!
The internet frenzy over the Civic Chandran case has reached a new zenith over the two highly problematic — deeply elitist, sexist, logically and empirically flawed — anticipatory bail orders issued to the accused by the Sessions Court. There was a strange silence about the first one which was stuffed with elitist statements, and an … Continue reading When ‘With the Survivor ‘ Rings Hollow: Observations on the Rage over the Civic Chandran Case →
Guest Post by PANCHALI RAY A few months back, an impressive essay in one of the leading newspapers cited macro data to argue that the rapid decline of women’s labour force participation stemmed from their disproportionate household responsibilities.
In the light of the above history it seems no surprise at all that mainstream feminists in Kerala do not seem to need a critique of the punitive state at all. Nor are they really troubled by the withdrawal of the welfare state or its perversion, even in matters that crucially affect women and … Continue reading Carceral Feminism and the Punitive State: Why I am not with the Mob — 3 →
II In the 1980s, when the first feminist articulations began to be heard in Kerala, left-leaning feminists often sought to maintain a critical distance from the state, emphasizing its inherently patriarchal nature. This was not surprising as feminists of that generation had radical-Marxist roots or strong connections with it. Radical Marxism in that generation was … Continue reading Carceral Feminism and the Punitive State: Why I am Not With the Mob — 2 →
I have never been a carceral feminist anytime in my life. Right now, there is a massive tide of abuse and misrepresentation of non-carceral feminism in Kerala, so much so that any suggestion of solutions to the problem of sexual harassment outside the framework of the state is immediately dubbed anti-woman and anti-feminist. Carceral feminists … Continue reading Carceral Feminism and the Punitive State: Why I am not with the Mob — 1 →
The future of the UK economy, and indeed most western economies, is looking rather bleak at the moment. Fundamentally, British Government has three major problems economically: High Debt, both sovereign and personal High Inflation High Taxation It is basically a doom loop of which there is only one way out, that is slashing the size […]
If you are not familiar with the word TERF (as opposed to turf) it is of course an acronym. The term stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist, or as they are increasingly becoming known, women who exhibit common sense. The TERF talking on Tuesdays is everyone’s favourite peroxide blonde mother of four Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, but as […]
Two recent court cases involving women are still in the news today; the women concerned are Amber Heard and Emma-Jayne Magson. The former was a civil case, a defamation action brought by Heard’s ex-husband Johnny Depp. Because Depp is an A List actor and Heard a fairly big star in her own right, the trial […]
