this music video is really Important because:
a. women reclaiming public space/space where harassment occurs
b. reappropriation of physical harassment thru the use of handprint imagery
c. reappropriation of masculine object (baseball bat) for self-defense by women
d. men shown performing physical labor as work/women shown performing physical labor for pleasure
e. deconstruction of ageism thru the inclusion of young & elderly women being complete badasses
f. centering around performance by women of color, which is refreshing when we as a culture just had to deal with the fucking white girl mafia
g. doooooope. beat. not going to pretend i don’t love this song (or rye rye in general)
(Source: ugly-feelings, via pieceofrainbow)
—Since it’s Friday, I thought I’d post up some of my favorite feminist / pro-feminist songs. Being a DJ as well as an anti-violence educator, I think we need to use all forms of media to address and dismantle systems of oppression.
Track list:
Beastie Boys - Song For The Man…
Lauren Zuniga - To the Oklahoma Lawmakers
This is not a song but a poem and it might have already been posted on Tumblr before but it’s extremely powerful so I wanted to share.
——“Rush Limbaugh Calls Sandra Fluke a Slut - Response Video”
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#winspo
#slutpride
Bad Romance: Women’s Suffrage Parody
Pretty entertaining. :)
This is beyond awesome.
this is SO EFFING BRILLIANT.
HOWEVER, just so that it’s pointed out:
this video does only seem to represent *one* group of women… as in white women who could stay home during the day, (though it is NEVER okay to say that ANY female’s place is in the home), but that’s kind of how it played out historically I guess. Doesn’t help to do the same thing now though. But, again AWESOME stuff happening. :)
This is depicting the National Woman’s Party which was a group of white middle/upper class women. Whoever created this has clearly seen Iron Jawed Angels.
(via lipstick-feminists)
—Momus - I Want You But I Don’t Need You (live cover by Amanda Palmer)
“I like you, and I’d like you to like me to like you
But I don’t need you
Don’t need you to want me to like you”
You can listen to the original here.
—The Ark - Beauty Is The Beast
“Now who can tell me how and where to begin
In a world who thinks of ugly as the cardinal sin
And constantly is talking about the beauty within
But locks up in the cellar everything that is grim”
—[Music Video: “Andrew in Drag” by The Magnetic Fields: features a man dressing up as a woman, and a woman dressing up as a man]
This is my favourite thing.
I came really close to typing that in capital letters and adding a SQUEE at the end.
Best song. Best video. Best everything. Just watch it.
Unless you are scared of nipples. DO NOT WATCH THIS IF YOU ARE SCARED OF NIPPLES. (This is because there are nipples in it.)