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Sportswashing ahoy:

As tennis (WTA) agrees to be hosted in Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi's deride 'outdated' depictions of their treatment of women, a feminist activist is jailed for eleven (!!) years effectively for wearing dungarees.

Some tennis players are outraged, others are taking the money; if you're taken in by the idea that this will encourage Saudis to reduce its repression of women, it may be time to stop & reflect on reality!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/05/saudi-topspin-tennis-fans-overlook-brutal-repression-of-women-catherine-bennett

"Chinese Vase with Flowers and Fruits," Giovanna Garzoni, c. 1641.

Garzoni (1600-1670) was known as "The Chaste Giovanna" because of a vow she reportedly made to remain a virgin; perhaps she just wanted to be free of worldly entanglements while working on her art?

She was one of the first women to be a still-life painter, although she also did religious and mythological works. Recent critics have found what they feel are references to female body parts in her works, and a few now hail her as an early feminist painter.

Her work was hugely popular, and one writer said that she could have asked any price she wanted. Her work was very inventive, mixing objects that normally weren't portrayed together. She never married, although some believe she was married briefly in her youth, but separated from her husband. Still, she was an independent lady making her own way in …

A Baroque still life. A flamboyant bouquet of flowers stands in a blue-and-white Chinese vase. The flowers include roses, tulips, and others, and a fig and bean pod sit on the tabletop by the vase.

This book is a collection of interviews with the coolest people you'll ever meet.

In his book "Get it Together" Fox News shitheel Jesse Waters interviews people who's life experiences have radicalized them against conservatism. He obliviously seems to think that this will make liberals look bad, but his smug commentary just makes their stories sound relatable.

Download for free here: https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=49D82F0FB81205BF8614E898CD6D5323

Book cover that says "GET IT TOGETHER, Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe, by Jesse Waters" It's just a picture of a slimeball with greasy hair and a shiteating grin in a blue suit set on a red background.
Book cover that says "GET IT TOGETHER, Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe, by Jesse Waters" It's just a picture of a slimeball with greasy hair and a shiteating grin in a blue suit set on a red background.

is shutting down for funding shortfalls. I can’t think of a more dire canary in the Silicon Valley coal mine than this. We can expect a social fascist turn in the IT industry from here out as the remaining jobs not taken by AI are rationed out to *men only*.

$4m is chump change for infotech capitalists, a few bucks tossed to a pan handler. That they won’t fund anymore isn’t an economic decision, but palpably a policy priority toward a hard social rightward turn.

Nina Burleigh on how Trump's election was driven by "furious backlash against women’s gains":

"The election of Trump in 2016 was many things, but first and foremost, it was a slap in the face to American women. It signaled the end of an era when women and girls could believe, based on statistics about women in the workforce and girls in college, that we were living in an era of progress."


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https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/the-worst-of-times-for-women

in 2012, I finished this painting of a black rhino and her baby as part of my book about the true diversity of natural behaviors. Black rhinos are an example of a species where single moms are the norm.

You can download the whole book for free: https://gwennseemel.com/shop/books/crime-against-nature/

painting of a rhino mom and her baby, their noses together

Prisons put survivors of sexual assault under the power of rapists who seek out jobs in prisons. Prisons account for almost as many sexual assaults as happen in the rest of the population outside prison, with most of those committed or enabled by prison officials. One prison down...now to abolish the rest

If you're someone who volunteers and works to help survivors or prevent sexual assault, abolishing prisons will dramatically reduce sexual assault.

https://apnews.com/article/federal-prison-dublin-california-sexual-abuse-bureau-of-prisons-17731ecb5d0a14adf6011e853bf7e05d