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On this day, 12 August 1887, pioneering Colombian socialist and women’s rights advocate María Cano, known as the “Flor del trabajo” (“Labour flower”), was born in Antioquia. At the time, women in Colombia could not hold most jobs, participate in elections, or even spend their own money.
Cano was from a middle-class family, but came into contact with lots of people regularly at her local library, and began to support people living in poor neighbourhoods. At the age of 38 she became a socialist, and a leading activist in the Socialist Revolutionary Party, which made her the first woman political leader in the country. She toured widely, wrote agitational texts and gave fiery speeches to huge crowds of mining, oil and banana workers. She was placed under police surveillance, repeatedly arrested and security forces occasionally opened fire to disperse her audiences.
Following a strike of banana workers in 1928 which was violently crushed that December, Cano was jailed for conspiracy, despite not having been present. She was subsequently purged from her Party as an “adventurist”, but she continued her outreach work and strike solidarity until the end of her life in 1967. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1499468326904979/?type=3
“The effort to identify the enemy as singular in form is a reverse-discourse that uncritically mimics the strategy of the oppressor instead of offering a different set of terms.”
— Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
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Here’s an Ex Libris sticker I designed as a perk for the hardcover version of my novel Hunger.
A Massachusetts City Decides to Recognize Polyamorous Relationships -
Oh my g-d??!!!!!!
Oh wow! That’s awesome!
It also recognizes domestic partnerships that aren’t romantic!!!
Recognizing and extending rights to people with multiple partners is wonderful news, and its not too long of an article so I definitely reccomend the read!
But if you’re curious, the end of the article is where it talks about recognizing non-romantic partnerships:
“Under the ordinance, domestic partners, whether in groupings of two or more, would not necessarily be romantic partners.
Miles Bratton, 47, said she would consider forming a domestic partnership with Anne-Marie Taylor, 43, whom she called her “platonic lifemate.”
The status would allow them to buy a house together and share benefits, like health insurance, but also to have outside romantic partners, or add a third “nesting partner” if they wished. Ms. Taylor said they had long held back from registering as domestic partners because the language her workplace used seemed to require that they be romantic partners.
“That has not felt right, so we haven’t done it,” she said. “Somerville is coming out and saying, ‘Hey, family can be a lot of other things, other than just two people.’”
This seems like huge news!
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HAMMER FILM
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Woman with magnetic data storage tapes, c. 1970s.
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