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[Notícia] Feministas Radicais Espanholas Reuniram 7000 Mulheres nas Ruas de Madri

Fonte: https://4w.pub/

[em tradução livre]

Mulheres de toda Espanha se reuniram em Madri no dia 23 de outubro para protestar contra a violência masculina, a indústria do tráfico sexual, gestação por substituição (barriga de aluguel), e leis de auto identificação de gênero, incluindo o projeto de lei “Ley Trans”, apresentado pelo Ministério da Igualdade que favorece as políticas de identidade de gênero. O lema da manifestação foi “O Futuro de Todas” e teve início ao meio dia na Plaza de Neptuno em Madri, reunindo 7000 mulheres para a surpresa das organizadoras. A manifestação foi organizada pelo grupo “La Fuerza de Las Mujeres” que também divulgou um manifesto. O documento fala sobre a opressão ser baseada no sexo, reivindica por reformas nas leis para a abolição da prostituição e pornografia, e pela revogação de leis que facilitam a indústria da barriga de aluguel. Também defende que termos como “pessoa grávida”, “pessoas que menstruam”, “mulheres cis”, “gestação de substituição”e “trabalhadoras sexuais” são formas de “uma nova linguagem de apagamento das mulheres”, que não é tolerável numa democracia – nas palavras delas. O manifesto é assinado por 170 organizações feministas de toda Espanha. O país é o terceiro maior mercado de tráfico sexual no mundo ficando atrás apenas da Tailândia e Porto Rico. O tráfico sexual doméstico espanhol lucra 26,5 bilhões de dólares por ano. E muitas das mulheres no tráfico sexual são mulheres imigrantes.

A Organização La Fuerza de Las Mujeres não está atrelada a partidos políticos e é financiada por mulheres. Leia a matéria na íntegra que contém uma entrevista com as organizadoras voluntárias da Manifestação de 23 de Outubro, Lucia, Sonia e Maria.

matéria na íntegra que contém a entrevista [em inglês]

‘Dysphoric’ – Fugindo da mulheridade como quem foge de uma casa em chamas [tradução livre] – Documentário

Documentário feito pela escritora, cineasta e ativista feminista Vaishnavi Sundar. Lançado ontem online e gratuito.

Tradução livre por Ação Anti Sexista:

‘Dysphoric’ é uma série documental em 4 partes sobre a ascensão da Ideologia da Identidade de Gênero, seus efeitos em mulheres e meninas – especialmente nos países em desenvolvimento.

Sinopse: Neste mundo distópico aonde a misoginia é generalizada e a mulheridade é mercantilizada, ser mulher tem um preço. As corporações capitalizam os corpos de mulheres confundindo a definição do sexo biológico, enquanto lucram com a pseudo ciência não comprovada da teoria queer. O “gaslighting” tem a cumplicidade da mídia, da academia, do mundo político e das leis. Não é nenhuma surpresa que mulheres jovens estejam fugindo da mulheridade como quem foge de uma casa em chamas. Na última década houve um número crescente de garotas buscando transicionar através de procedimentos arriscados e irreversíveis. ‘Dysphoric’ é uma série documental em 4 partes sobre a ascensão da Ideologia da Identidade de Gênero, seus efeitos em mulheres e meninas – especialmente nos países em desenvolvimento. O filme trata da transição de gênero, dos permanentes efeitos colaterais dos hormônios e cirurgias, do lobby das corporações “progressistas” que glorificam milhares de formas estereotipadas de gênero reunidas numa moda, do crescente policiamento de pronomes, do sequestro da linguagem ao chamar mulheres de “menstruadoras”, e dos múltiplos obstáculos que as mulheres encontram quando tentam questionar a misoginia dos novos tempos. O filme dá voz para quem destransiciona, médicos, psiquiatras, sociólogos, feministas, acadêmicos e cidadãos preocupados. ‘Dysphoric’ foi feito em um ano, durante o confinamento da COVID, entre cancelamentos.

Para assistir Playlist aqui: http://bit.ly/dysphoric21 Como não há garantia de que o documentário fique online porque sempre existe a chance de cancelamento, visite http://bit.ly/limesodafilms para ver outras fontes.

Ameaça/ Sisters For Liberation – som e letra

Orgulhosamente apresento o som da Ameaça:

Esta é uma faixa da demo da Ameaça, banda que toco bateria e faço os vocais.

Letra de Sisters For Liberation:

We are still here
We survived
You have been trying to erase our herstory
Our deeds
But we are still here
We will survive
We’ll tell by our own ways
We don’t need you
We never did

You try to possess us
You try to destroy us
We are still here
Many of us have survived
The ones who haven’t
The ones you killed
Are our bravest ones
They are in our hearts
Reminding us to keep the fight

Your fire
Your genocide
All of your hatred
All of your lies

We are not fighting for equality
We are not fighting for crumbles
We are sisters for liberation

We are still here
We survived

We are still here
We will survive

—
site da banda: https://ameaca.bandcamp.com/releases

aline rod.

A Point About Genderqueer Politics

When I first started playing and writing lyrics it was because I had all this idea of getting out from my chest the oppression of patriarchy. Of course I loved music, it was not only gloom. But I thought that all the pain could be transformed into something ‘useful’. Events that I had been passed through affected my life in a way that to scream and say were a way of surviving.

I wanted to fight sexism and misogyny and I thought that in the punk scene I would find a place of support and identification.

Some feminists who are not punks say that I should leave it. But I don’t want to leave it. At least not yet. I just don’t want to stop doing something that means to me, that it’s part of my life (playing and writing) just because people involved also reproduce sexism. In every place, every job, every school, every community, every kind of entertainment, you will always find sexism and misogyny. We can’t just stop living, and leaving spaces in order to make room for others, to make them feel comfortable without our presence, without our fight.

I have been passed through many situations in and out of the punk scene that makes me keep struggling. But I don’t want to talk about that now.

I just want to point that to fight sexism and misogyny in the punk scene is restless, just like it is in our daily basis. I have always been in the brink of war. In the war. For all the reasons – discrimination, jokes, abuse, fear, threat. For some time now something “new” happened. Not to ease our fight, not to be by our side. But to add more effort to our fight. It is the genderqueer views of feminism.

One of these days, a gender fluid man told me that he doesn’t believe in “biological stuff”. I asked what do you mean by that? He said, I for myself like to wear women’s clothes. That could be fine for me (could be) because first I “don’t believe” in “women’s clothes”, isn’t that a convention? I asked why was that, and what it has to do with “biological stuff”? He answered that sentence I was sensing it was coming up: “because I feel like a woman” but he added “sometimes”. Than I just made a simple question: yeah, and how does it feel to “feel like” a woman, please tell me because I actually wasn’t born with that feeling, you know, I was forced to be a woman”. It’s pretty senseless and a very shallow view to say that “you don’t believe in “biological stuff” and say that there is such a thing as “feeling like a woman”. This is as inconsistent as it can get. Like you are saying that there is a feminine brain? Isn’t that biological? Make your decision please to believe or not in “biological stuff”. Are you saying you don’t like gender roles but believe you are in the “feminine side” because you like lipsticks and skirts? Do you actually believe that being a woman means a certain costume to wear? Or even to be feminine? Don’t you really know that we are groomed to be feminine, there is nothing natural on that. And “natural” isn’t biological?

What I see is men thinking they are subverting a convention when in fact they are stressing the gender stereotypes when they say “I like skirts that must make me a woman”. Or all the other stuff we have been listening like “I always liked dolls”, “I was always very sensitive” and so on.

I know that convention exists and the need of people to be part of conventions. I know people have dysphoria. But that is another thing. Even so, we should question why people feel so bad in their bodies, and try to find the roots of their deep discomfort. And it’s not them who should be questioned, but society.

But I also can tell that in the punk scene, and also in the anarchist scene, when you ask directly to these men, are you a woman? They never answer yes. The majority of them say, I’m nonbinary. It’s like they themselves don’t even believe in what they are saying. It’s also a very good strategy to have a possibility to change your mind when it’s convenient. When the time of convenience comes.

And than he and another friend started asking me a lot of questions in a very male socialized way of asking. Very aggressive, very putting me against the wall. I felt more than pressured. I felt what men eventually make us feel: I felt hurt.

They were two men, none of them were reclaiming they were women just for the record. So they were telling me now how I should think and feel. How my feminism “is wrong” and how it “should be”, that I should “respect” people’s choices when they want to be treated like a woman (one of them told me that). First. “people” here means “men” right? Second. You really want to be treated like a woman? Do you want to see your brother have more respect even if you are the elder one since forever? So the hierarchy of age here it was suddenly forgotten. Do you want to be seen as object for your classmates and feel very uncomfortable when they touch you? When your best friend’s father touches you and you are not able to understand what have happened but you sense you have to be in silence, because although you know nothing about it you know for some reason it will be considered your fault? Do you want to go to the gynecologist when you are a teenager and the male doctor abuses you, because “why are you in his office in the first place?” Do you want to keep being abused for male doctors along your life? Do you want to be abused for many men because it’s ok to have sex, and it’s subversive, and they just keep hurting your feelings? Do you want to see your self esteem drowning because you were supposed to be thin, or to have the right curves? Do you want to be forced to get pregnant? I’ll ask again: Do you want to be forced to get pregnant? And forced to get pregnant again? Do you want to have no idea if you want to get pregnant or if it is just pressure of someone else’s expectations or because it’s just another form he can control you even more? Do you want to raise your children alone? Do you want to have no rights and support when deciding to make an abortion? Do you want to walk always in fear???? Do you really want to walk always in fear???

Do you want to be the one chosen to be raped because you are a woman in a group? Do you really want to be the favorite target of rape? And tortured? And killed? Do you want to get less money for the same job you do now? Do you want to have prostitution and pornography as the only “opportunity” for you? Would you rather being not here having this conversation because you couldn’t even be treated further like a woman as they killed you when your were born? Do you want to have been a victim of FMG? What does it mean for you to be treated like a woman? That somebody opens the f***ing door to relieve their consciousness? Or when someone acts nicely because he wants a “favor” in exchange?

And than they told me. You should explain yourself because you seem to be transphobic.

Should I really?

Shouldn’t you try listening to me? Shouldn’t you step back? Shouldn’t you stop telling us how we have to fight against the oppression that is inflicted to us and affects our entire lives in every level? Shouldn’t you better check your position? Shouldn’t you be telling other men what they should or shouldn’t do in order to stop women exploitation as you say you care?

I think you should.

 

Aline Rod.

also published on my tumblr : http://enilador.tumblr.com/post/143438801392/a-point-about-genderqueer-politics

Women are part of the joke for the French band Attentat Fanfare

On the last January 12th I saw the show of this French band Attentat Fanfare, at VL in the city of Halle,Germany. VL is a hausprojekt, as they call here, a community where some people live, a place for gigs, workshops, left wing groups meetings and other things.

I was in the house and it happened that this band would play. The band got on stage. Except by the woman playing accordion they were all dressed in “funny” costumes. The singer was in pajamas and slippers and one of them was dressed “as a woman”.

I couldn’t help but think that it was a bad joke. Men always found a bright idea to dress up “as women” to make fun. It’s misogynistic to wear clothes associated to women in order to mock. While it can be a joke for men to wear high heels, make up, skirts, etc, for women these are things patriarchy forces us into femininity and establishes those as beauty standards that oppress us.

But. Although I’m critical of this and some other characterstics of this band, those weren’t the reasons for me writing this.

I’m reporting what took place during the concert.

In some part o the show, between songs, the singer started to announce the next song, he begun saying: “I was in Brazil and there women have big tits and great asses” (his words). At the same time his hands were drawing shapes of breasts and asses on the air while his eyes widned. I could not believe that he came at this far. For me the band was already hard to swallow, but that was a more tangible fact which left no room for doubts about what was going on. That sentence has only one interpretation: misogyny and racism. Talking about women on that way. To refer to Brazilian women on that way, from a country he probably never stepped in, but in case he did, it doesn’t count on his favor.

He showed his male and european privilege without any embarrassment. He found it very funny to reinforce the stereotype of Brazilian women. He simply doesn’t care of what this stands for. Of how women in Brazil are exploited by the sex tourism for example, which is a practice widely used for his compatriots, other european men, as well other men for any richer country.

He simply doesn’t have a clue what means to be objectified, different from us women, having our bodies been controlled by patriarchy and its laws, where our bodies are objectified and sold on beer labels, objectfied and violated for men including the ones we trust. Where the beauty standards oppress us and lead women on this restless and unsuccessful search for a perfect body/looking, which feeds both capitalism and patriarchy. Standards that are the cause for many women, also very young girls, for depression, eating disorders and other disturbances that are serius enough, but that can also lead to death. He placed himself from the step of misogyny, at the racist eurocentric male privilege place. He presents himself in this way, even in a place with political reputation. Because men feel entitled to be sexist and they benefit from it.

I reacted yelling at him in the middle of the noize the following sentences: “you have no right to say what brazilian women are! you sexist! you racist!

His answer was: “Maybe I’m too drunk”.

The audience kept dancing and they continued playing peacifully. And I left the room. I don’t want to blame the people there for their lack of reaction. I’m sticking into the facts for only one reason, because they (the facts) say a lot about what happened and how I did feel about it. I understand that sepecially women might not feel comfortable to react in situations like this. I also believe that some people didn’t see or realized it. However I also cannot help but noticing that part of “not seeing” it’s because the struggle against misogyny and sexism aren’t considered legitimate struggles. Women’s struggle is secondary, for not saying of third or fifth level in the hierachical scale of the struggles. This lack of reaction surprised me on that particular context and says a lot about how patriarchy works and also prevails in the left scene.

I can say that I have noticed, that it hit me, that his atittude hit all women, and that’s why I’ve decided to dennounce it.

I would like to inform I’m no patriot, I wasn’t defending “my country”. That’s just a coincidence, I would have reacted the same way if he would have talked about any women from any other place of the planet. What he did was to blame women for being exploited. He didn’t talked about the men who exploit them, about the industries that exploit them, neither about the patriarchal system. He objectified and also mock women who he sees been depicted in the media as carnaval accessories.

However, the offense was to all women in the room, even if people don’t realize it. And this is misogyny.

It’s not a good defense to say that it was just a joke. I realized that. And that doesn’t help it in any way, on the contrary, only confirms the level of misogyny and disrespect for women, because as doing so, you are treating women as object also for mockery.

Aline Rodrigues