So lovely
On and on it goes.
So lovely to have @sophiecooktalks pop by to learn more about our work in Sussex – and for her to drop off the gorgeous mug our Director bought for the office!
Thanks Sister Society for bringing us together 😍#community #solidarity pic.twitter.com/dcZrqR2zrz
— Survivors' Network (@SurvivorsnetBtn) March 15, 2019
Survivors’ Network Brighton used to be a feminist organization, for women – until they woke. Their what we stand for page hasn’t bothered to acknowledge the contradiction:
Feminism
We live in a patriarchal society and believe that sexual violence should be challenged from a feminist perspective. Because sexual violence is a gendered crime, we are a women-led organisation committed to offering women-only spaces and services. However, we recognise that sexual violence impacts on people of all genders in unique ways and work to build our services accordingly. We consider a trans inclusive feminism to be key to our values and central to our service. We consider the lack of services and funding for people of all genders to also be a feminist issue and look to build partnerships to address this.
So, women-only, but not women-only. Clear?
I for one would like to know how a feminism that “includes everyone” can be feminism.
I Googled for the phrase “my BLM includes everyone” but Google doesn’t recognize it.
Of course not; it’s only women who are expected to include everyone even in their own movements to challenge patriarchy, and only women who are forced to do so whether they agree or not.
https://twitter.com/BrightonResist1/status/1107358520582778882
At least in Toronto, BLM is loudly and proudly *exclusive*. Toronto’s Pride parade no longer accepts uniformed police participation due to BLM objecting to their presence… even though one of the main purposes of the parade is to foster tolerance of homosexuality in the face of a history of physical oppression by law enforcement. Having police march in the parade despite that history was a powerful symbol… but now in the interests of being a good ally to BLM the Pride organization has chosen to ‘other’ a subset of their own membership.
I find it an interesting / depressing parallel and contrast to what has been happening with woman’s groups and trans anti-feminists.
I think it’s time for B&W to self-identify as a sovereign nation, so we can live by our own rules, elect our own leaders, and not have to live with the leadership of our various despised leaders across the globe.
Hey, if self-identity can change a biological reality, why not an arbitrary geo-political one?
Hmm, but if we’re going to self-identify, there are funner things we could self-identify as which. How about an 18th century London coffeehouse but adjusted for female dominance?
I vote we self-identify as a tower of the School of Baghdad circa 890
Ophelia, jump forward a century and you could identify as the Ossington Coffee Houses of Newark-Upon-Trent, and London, financed by the very resourceful and charitable Charlotte Denison, Viscountess Ossington. The Newark coffee house, a beautiful Victorian building in the Tudor style, is still extant, but now identifies as residential apartments and restaurant.
https://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/charlotte-denison-viscountess-ossington?memorial_id=592
http://www.visitoruk.com/Newark-on-Trent/ossington-coffee-palace-C567-AT4997.html (picture of the coffee house)
Re. the coffee house (did I embed the pic? Is so, I apologise): it stands directly opposite Newark’s 12th. Century castle, and specifically its magnificent keep. The keep (the front-left corner of the building in the photo at the link below) is still almost intact and is possibly the best-preserved medieval keep in the country.
https://www.britainexpress.com/images/attractions/editor/Newark-Castle-3971.jpg
No, I did, because I wanted to.
Bureau of Land Management?