Lgbtq and feminism
Third Wave and Lgbtq+ Feminist Movements
Unit V: Historical and Contemporary Feminist Social Movements
“We are living in a world for which old forms of campaign are not enough and today’s activism is about creating coalitions between communities.”
—Angela Davis, cited by Hernandez and Rehman in Colonize This!
Third wave feminism is, in many ways, a hybrid creature. It is influenced by second wave feminism, Black feminisms, transnational feminisms, Global South feminisms, and queer feminism. This hybridity of third wave activism comes directly out of the experiences of feminists in the overdue 20th and early 21st centuries who have grown up in a planet that supposedly does not need social movements because “equal rights” for racial minorities, sexual minorities, and women have been guaranteed by law in most countries. The gap between law and reality—between the abstract proclamations of states and concrete lived experience—however, reveals the necessity of both old and fresh forms of activism. In a country where alabaster women are paid only 75.3% of what ivory men are paid for the same labor (Institute for Women’s Policy Investigate 2016), where police aggression in black c
Trans Rights Are Women's Rights
Here’s why the rights of trans people are at the heart of gender justice for all.
Ria Tabacco Mar,
Director, Women’s Rights Project
March is Women’s History Month, which means I’m often asked to name the most pressing issue facing women in America. Answers spring to mind, sometimes faster than I can form the words. The fall of Roe and the Black maternal mortality crisis. The persistence of the gender wage gap and on-the-job sexual harassment, more than five years after #MeToo. Barriers to safe, affordable housing. Policing of Black and Brown mothers, leading to needless family separation. The lack of universal paid family leave coupled with the skyrocketing cost of childcare. The list goes on.
None of these ills, however, is the subject of so-called “Women’s Bill of Rights” laws being introduced in a growing list of states including Kansas, Arizona, South Carolina, Oklahoma, and Montana. Instead, this legislation would create a legal definition of womanhood based on the capacity to produce ova, or human eggs. This definition of “woman,” which is gerrymandere
Feminists and LGBT
Can they perform together? Religious objections create it hard
Julia Suryakusuma
Logically, feminist and LGBT movements in Indonesia should be allies as they have much in common. Both struggle for gender and sexual equality, and face a common enemy, patriarchy. Both are considered Western imports and greatly disturb religious conservatives who view them as toxic and incompatible with Indonesian values.
In 2016 several high ranking government officials, from Vice President Jusuf Kalla to Bandung Mayor Ridwan Kamil, spewed out inflammatory, hate-filled statements against LGBT. Against feminists, there was the go up of the Indonesia without Feminists movement (Indonesia Tanpa Feminis), just before the general and presidential elections of April 2019. Both anti-LGBT and anti-feminist sentiments have grown even stronger since then.
So given the common threats they tackle , LGBT and feminist groups in Indonesia should establish a synergistic alliance. Yet their relationship is by no means straightforward. The reason: deeply entrenched ethnic, religious, race and inter-group relations in Indonesian population, or what we summon SARA (suku, ras, agama dan antar golongan).
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LGBT and Feminism: Why Does Gender Equality Bother Conservatives?
On December 10, a private discussion “LGBT and Feminism: Why Does Gender Equality Bother Conservatives?” was held as part of the Human Rights (un)conference.
The speakers included the brain of Insight NGO Olena Shevchenko, coordinator of transgender action in Insight NGO Inna Iryskina and coordinator of the Gender Democracy program in Heinrich Boell Foundation, Kyiv Office — Ukraine, Anna Dovgopol. They spoke about human rights in the context of gender equality, feminism and the fight for equality for LGBTQI+ people in Ukraine. The discussion was moderated by editor-in-chief of Update media outlet Taisia Herasymova. You can watch a recording of the discussion or scan notes below.
Olena Shevchenko, head of Intuition NGO
Human rights are universal. Yet, when we speak about human rights without naming specific groups suffering from force and discrimination, the discussion makes no sense. In today’s conversation we deliberately combined LGBT rights and feminism because our organization (Insight NGO) works both on gender equality and protection of LGBT rights. The concept of human rights
We have an gigantic societal bias in favor of what is perceived as masculine and against what is perceived as feminine. We also tend to overly simplify it as a gender bias within a male/female binary construct.
For instance, according to U.S. government statistics, women continue earning less than their male counterparts in virtually all occupations. As of last recorded, women’s annual earnings were 82.3 percent of those of their male counterparts. However, all other things entity equal, the degree to which those statistics hold real depends upon an individual’s sexual orientation. Recently published study demonstrates that lgbtq+ men earn approximately 6.8 percent less than straight men and that lesbians earn approximately 7.1 percent more than straight women.
If the issue were as simple as a male-female gender bias, real differences would not exist within those constructs, wherein those perceived as possessing more masculine characteristics would be rewarded and those perceived as possessing more feminine characteristics would be penalized. Clearly, the issue is not merely about the gender a person is assigned at birth; rather, it is also about whether or not a person is sexu