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The World Computer, Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism

"Deterritorialized factories (that is media companies) convert the horizontal expression of values into the hierarchical accumulation of value such that, as has been said, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism."

LISTEN: Colonialism and Gender Today

"Colonialism and its legacies have also influenced how feminists in the Global South and their counterparts in the Global North view and treat each other."

SlutWalk Toronto & Vancouver Dyke March Announce Official Partnership with Sex Trade Lobby

"Both Maggie’s and SWUAV have shown themselves to be working in the interests of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy in their efforts to normalize and expand the sex trade. They have also demonstrated opposition to feminists and women’s rights."

STATEMENT

"It has come to our attention that a respected leader of our small online enclave has betrayed the trust many people have instilled in him over the past years. We are stunned at these revelations like everyone else. It was with much internal debate and emotional pain that we decided as a group that we had to release the information to the community. "

WATCH: John Pilger: The Hijacking of Feminism

A brilliant lecture by John Pilger gives much needed reflection on the recent "Women's March on Washington."

Peru: Mass Feminist Victory Confronts Embedded Patriarchy..Ni Una Menos

"Feminists, far from being content with not being beaten, have sharpened their detection of everyday patriarchal practices and started talking about rebellion against capitalism, trans rights, and proclaiming what we have always known.. that the Pachamama is a feminist."

XSanFrancisco – White Men, Wealth, Neoliberalism and Tech Disruption, Part 1

"... some artists are now using elements of feminist and queer theory, using masks as a way of resisting this gaze and as a tool in the fight against surveillance and technology’s built in method of identifying and tracking consumers, a feature (often surreptitious) of how business has succeeded transferring control of the economy from the public to the private sector."

Real Men Don’t Prostitute Women

"In sheer numbers, it is the poor brown women of the world who pay with bruises, humiliation and deaths for this ignorant and hideous decision that has brought Amnesty International so low." -- Lee Lakeman, Canadian feminist

For All Those Who Were Indian In A Former Life

"Unfortunately, many white feminists do not want to take this time in their quest for instant spirituality. Profit-making often gets in the way of true sisterhood. However, white feminists should know that as long as they take part in Indian spiritual abuse, either by being consumers of it or by refusing to take a stand on it, Indian women will consider white "feminists" to be nothing more than agents in the genocide of their people."

How I Sanitized the Feminist Outrage over the Montreal Massacre

"Twenty-five years later, as I re-evaluate my stories and with the benefit of analysis of the coverage that massacre spawned, I see how journalists— male and female producers, news directors, reporters, anchors — subtly changed the meaning of the tragedy to one that the public would get behind, silencing so-called “angry feminists.” We were “social gatekeeping,” as filmmaker Maureen Bradley later asserted in her 1995 film, Reframing the Montreal Massacre: A media interrogation."