GENDER (and) REVOLUTIONS

This blog is a repository of thoughts (original and stumbled upon) and thought provoking material on the following topics - identity, feminism, international politics, social justice, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, communism, revolutions, Czech culture
... and other topics that prompt us to think about where the world has been and where it is going.

A long-lived relationship is about so many things. It is such a dense and complex process — always a process — and it’s not to be summed up. It’s not to be turned into some kind of vignette. If we are serious, we also have to recognize that even the longest and richest and densest relationship must end, and we see it around us. We see it in that inevitability of time’s power, if you will.

—Adrienne Rich, on relationships [the complete 1989 Fresh Air interview] (via nprfreshair)

The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.

—Bell Hooks (via feminishblog)

(via transqueery)

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Posters for the Human Rights film festival in Prague. The paint symbolizes the medium of speaking out against repressive government.