"Even as queer and trans Iranian asylum seekers and Afghan refugees who left Iran for Turkey do not fall under the same category according to the UNHCR’s criteria, they have something in common: they are economic refugees. Yet the UNHCR does not recognize economic marginalization as grounds for granting asylum. If it did, a large number of people in the world (including in the United States) who are affected by global capitalism’s economic violence (such as lack of access to universal health care in the United States) would be eligible for asylum."

― Sima Shakhsari in her article "What counts at violence?" in https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-cunning-of-gender-violence

h/t @danahilliot

“Politeness blunts the tongue of criticism, ridicule, satire or irony. On the other hand, radical rudeness breaks down the doors to the arsenal of verbal, literary, and linguistic devices available to launch a counterattack against corrupt militant brutes in government who use bullets, prison sentences, and mass graves to silence their opponents.“

~ Dr. Stella Nyanzi, 2022 in https://pen.org/the-pen-ten-an-interview-with-stella-nyanzi/ @supremacy

Building social-ecology under attacks in Rojava/North-East Syria: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-03-27/we-will-defend-this-life-we-will-resist-on-this-land/

Reification and objectification

"The notion of objectification concerns an interpersonal relationship, the individual action targeted by morality and law [...]. The notion of objectification, understood in this way, dispenses with a critical theory of society, which is central to the concept of reification. The emphasis is on individual responsibility, on the condemnation of singular acts, rather than on the social structures that demand, authorise or perpetuate these behaviours."

"In her book Dialectics of the Body, Lisa Yun Lee proposes an understanding of reification in Adorno based on the question of the body: the body forgotten by scientific modernity, the repressed body associated with nature and the feminine, the body mutilated by identity violence, and the commodity and spectacle body, instrumentalised for production (Yun Lee, 2004). "All reification is an oblivion": an oblivion of suffering, a collective anaesthesia to the effects of domination systematically organised and reproduced by reification."

Naït Ahmed, Salima ; Loslier-Simon, Marie : « Réification». Dictionnaire du genre en traduction / Dictionary of Gender in Translation / Diccionario del género en traducción. ISSN: 2967-3623. Mis en ligne le 09 Novembre 2023: https://worldgender.cnrs.fr/notices/reification/ @patriarchy

Here is a feminist opinion about #safety, #security, #masculinity, #whiteness, #liberals and #progressists.
It notably stated the need for a discourse incorporating sorrow and hope, on 9 November 2023:
(he) https://politicallycorret.co.il/morroco-smol-3/
(en) https://politicallycorret.co.il/morroccan-left-3-en/

Rojava: "The Democratic Union Party #PYD, the leading political party among Syrian Kurds, reflects on the establishment of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria #DAANES on its 10th anniversary amid ongoing struggles."

https://medyanews.net/autonomous-administration-of-ne-syria-celebrates-10-years-amid-ongoing-struggles/

"Drag dramatizes and makes explicit mundane, everyday gender rituals and, through this repetition of gendered actions, suggests that essentialist presumptions about correct or authentic genders can be reworked (#JudithButler , 1990, p.338)."

‘To choose to appear as “female” when one is male is always constructed… as a loss, as a choice worthy only of ridicule’ (#bellHooks, 1992, p.145).

https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/esharp/esharp/9/

“The repeated stylizations of the body—everyday acts and gestures—are themselves performatives, producing the gendered identity of which they are thought to be the expressions.”(Alberti, 2013, p. 95)

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-lgbtq-studies/chapter/intersectionality/ @history @histodons

"Many societies take pains to #gender individuals with objects, tasks, and food, yet we repeatedly see that gender is not as important in the very young and the very old, and that gender is often most strongly marked when people are of reproductive age (Gilchrist, 2007)"
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-lgbtq-studies/chapter/intersectionality/ @patriarchy