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dykekitschetagere · 2 years

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Rebel Dykes (2021) dir. Harri Shanahan & Sian Williams

#rebel dykes (2021)#rebel dykes #harri shanahan #sian williams #lust & politics #dykes on film #documentary #dyke kitsch etagere

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uncrossedrhyme · 2 years

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Meat and Eggs are Health Foods. Ignore Technocratic Misanthropy.

Since early 2020, cardiovascular disease has killed almost twice the amount of people as the SARS-Cov-2 virus, and poor cardiovascular health increases the chance of mortality from that virus by 10.5%. Cardiovascular disease is the #1 cause of death globally, killing almost 20 million people per year, and rates and resultant mortality continue to rise. We often associate “fatty foods”,…

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bratprincedyke · 1 year

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Watch the trailer here

“REBEL DYKES is a rabble-rousing documentary set in 1980s post-punk London. The unheard story of a community of dykes who met doing art, music, politics and sex, and how they went on to change their world.”

The film covers a whole host of women’s stories in a mix of animation, visuals from archives including never before seen personal archives and oral histories told by former Rebel Dykes themselves, from women’s peace camps at Greenham common to the BDSM nightlife at chain reaction, from sex toys to battling street violence, homelessness, homophobia and transphobia to section 28, the aids crisis, publishing and the feminist sex wars. Honestly it is a great accessible introduction to understanding how lesbian culture and politics has evolved since the 80’s.

Some of the Dykes features include Photographer Del La Grace Volcano, Drag King Karen Fisch, Writer Roz Kaveny and so many others

Directed by Harri Shanahan & Siân A. Williams, Produced by Siobhan Fahey

It is available to rent for £3.49 here (including Q&A) or here for £3.50

(It’s also available on Amazon prime but tbh I’m not gonna promote that I’d only buy it there as a last resort if nothing else works)

As a lot of work from marginalised dykes went into making this documentary it is not widely available for free, however keep an eye out for local viewings or any platforms showing it for free for a limited time (around pride month/lgbtq+ history month etc) I will update this if I find any!

I would also highly encourage sharing it with your friends if you do buy it! And reblogging this post!

#rebel dykes #dykes #I promised a post about this #leather dyke #lesbian #bisexual #lesbian history #sapphic #wlw #nblw #lesbian nsft #dyke nsft #butch #butch dyke #dyke #butch lesbian

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tea-cryptid · 1 year

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i'd like to congratulate sex for winning the war on sex

for those of you not researching lesbian history, let me introduce you to:

THE LESBIAN SEX WARS OF THE 1980S

Historian Lillian Faderman writes 'In the lesbian community, the 1970s was dominated by cultural feminists - especially lesbian-feminists [women who believed choosing to be a lesbian was the ultimate rejection of patriarchy] and middle-class lesbians - who generally shared a mistrust of masculine/feminine roles, sexual "violence" (whether real or in play), and pornography, which they saw as a manifestation of the misguided male sex drive.' (Faderman, 2012: 249). Lesbian sex in the feminist community was all about equality, and the slightest whiff of anything "masculine", which could be anything from buying a woman a drink to vaginal penetration, was decried as politically incorrect.

However, in the early 1980s a group of lesbians grew which wanted to liberate lesbian sex the same way gay men and heterosexuals had found freedom and fun in sexuality over the course of the "free love" era of the 60s and 70s. They argued that restricting sexual practices in the way that was required of the radical lesbian-feminist was oppressive, and that assertive sexuality when employed in a consensual environment between two women couldn't possibly be replicating patriarchal gendered violence, and that assertive sexuality was not inherently male.

It was a backlash against the biological essentialism prevalent in feminism at the time which encouraged women to embrace their "natural" feminine traits. Although this often involved destigmatising female bodily functions and sexuality, it also uncritically privileged 'women's biological, natural capabilities over an examination of cultural gender differences' (Dolan, 1987: 158), which raised red flags for many feminists of colour at the time who recognised a biological essentialism all too similar to the type used in racist doctrines.

'And so, when some lesbians at the end of the decade began to encourage lesbian interest in pornography and even strip shows and certain forms of violent (albeit consensual) sex, cultural feminists felt betrayed and furious. It was to them as though the enemy - male-identified perverts in dyke clothing - had all the while been living in their own camp and were now attempting to weaken the ranks by disseminating propaganda in support of everything the cultural feminists most despised: pornography, sexual role playing (including s/m "violence" and butch/femme relationships), and even public sex.' (Faderman, 2012: 250)

A large part of the lesbian reclamation of sexuality was rediscovering the butch/femme roles that had developed in the bar culture of the 50s and 60s, and which had been wholeheartedly rejected by lesbian-feminists in the early 70s as replicating patriarchal heterosexual relationship structures. These neo-butches and femmes felt that this strict binary way of thinking about gender was more restrictive than any kind of role-play engaged in by a sexual minority, and further argued that by having a female body taking in and claiming the "male" appearance and role, it further undermines the assumption that masculine power is solely the domain of the man, and therefore undermining the male/female binary that is the cornerstone of patriarchal oppression.

Sources:

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman (2012, New York: Columbia University Press)

'The Dynamics of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Pornography and Performance' by Jill Dolan (1987, Theatre Journal Issue 39 Vol. 2, pp. 156-174)

See also:

Rebel Dykes dir. Siân A. Williams & Harri Shanahan (2021) (documentary)

#lgbt history #queer history #lesbian history #lesbian #queer #academia #hannah rambles #queer tag

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variousqueerthings · 2 years

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there's something about Big Politics discussions that outs that we (and I include myself in that, I have also done this in the past and may do so again!) can get very exclusionary when we're trying to make big changes, for example when feminism was attempting to (and in places still does attempt to) exclude lesbians and black women and working class women and immigrants and trans people, etc. that's all very well documented, I don't think it's a hot take

or trans people being excluded from LGBT-acceptance laws both in the past and today (again, well documented), although I note that LGB people really stepped up in England and the UK to point out the double-standard of parliament and the prime minister trying to make conversion therapy illegal for everyone except trans people (and excepting religious conversion therapy, which, bleurgh, I see you government)

and the simplified argument for this is "well, now you're muddying the conversation, now you're making this Big Picture Thing too niche, too minority -- feminism isn't about issues that Black women face it's about issues that all women face," for example

if we acknowledge that there are minority groups within minority groups and marginalisation within marginalisation, then the risk is (one thinks) that nobody ends up getting anything, but we pinky promise that we'll get to you eventually, we've just got to get the Big Picture sorted first

and of course that never happens. marginalised people stay marginalised. the Big Picture doesn't include them

and so I think we have to be very careful when we talk about reproductive healthcare rights to include trans people and intersex people, because I'm seeing the same arguments again -- those groups are too niche, they're too minority, they're muddying the conversation, and I know exactly where it's coming from because it's happened before many times and it was never a thing then either

trans people and intersex people need just as much access to reproductive health and have far, far less, everywhere in the world

now that a Big Picture horrifying event has just gone down in America, it's important to not be so afraid for ones own and other cis perisex women's futures so as to not extend grace to others who are also heavily affected and often not allowed to talk about it at all, including in feminist spaces and other reproductive health political spaces

extending that grace does not take away your ability to fight for your rights. it gives you another set of allies, and a broader/more inclusive set of goals for the future

some sources: eat fire: my life as a lesbian avenger (kelly cogswell), trans history (susan stryker), rebel dykes (documentary, harri shanahan and sian williams), also google lavender menace lesbian group + the east london suffragettes (which there is also a book about that I haven't read yet), and this leslie feinberg speech and this angela davies speech

#politics #abortion rights #reproductive healthcare #women's rights #trans rights #intersex rights #book recs #documentary recs #it is important to lift up the voices of the unheard even and especially when you're afraid for yourself too #also does anyone else ever get a thrill at The angela davies #(I'm sure she'd not like that and I'm sorry I'm just... it's angela flipping davies! ok it's out of my system now I'm normal about it)#i wasnt sure id post anything about this but it's really been on my mind #so it will be just this

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sunaleisocial · 1 month

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Second round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and applications of generative AI

New Post has been published on https://sunalei.org/news/second-round-of-seed-grants-awarded-to-mit-scholars-studying-the-impact-and-applications-of-generative-ai/

Second round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and applications of generative AI

Last summer, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of generative AI.” The response to the call far exceeded expectations with 75 proposals submitted. Of those, 27 proposals were selected for seed funding.

In light of this enthusiastic response, Kornbluth and Barnhart announced a second call for proposals this fall.

“The groundswell of interest and the caliber of the ideas overall made clear that a second round was in order,” they said in their email to MIT’s research community this fall. This second call for proposals resulted in 53 submissions.

Following the second call, the faculty committee from the first round considered the proposals and selected 16 proposals to receive exploratory funding. Co-authored by interdisciplinary teams of faculty and researchers affiliated with all five of the Institute’s schools and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, the proposals offer insights and perspectives on the potential impact and applications of generative AI across a broad range of topics and disciplines.

Each selected research group will receive between $50,000 and $70,000 to create 10-page impact papers. Those papers will be shared widely via a publication venue managed and hosted by the MIT Press under the auspices of the MIT Open Publishing Services program.

As with the first round of papers, Thomas Tull, a member of the MIT School of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council and a former innovation scholar at the School of Engineering, contributed funding to support the effort.

The selected papers are:

“A Road-map for End-to-end Privacy and Verifiability in Generative AI,” led by Alex Pentland, Srini Devadas, Lalana Kagal, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan;

“A Virtuous Cycle: Generative AI and Discovery in the Physical Sciences,” led by Philip Harris and Phiala Shanahan;

“Artificial Cambrian Intelligence: Generating New Forms of Visual Intelligence,” led by Ramesh Raskar and Tomaso A. Poggio;

“Artificial Fictions and the Value of AI-Generated Art,” led by Justin Khoo;

“GenAI for Improving Human-to-human Interactions with a Focus on Negotiations,” led by Lawrence Susskind;

“Generative AI as a New Applications Platform and Ecosystem,” led by Michael Cusumano;

“Generative AI for Cities: A Civic Engagement Playbook,” led by Sarah Williams, Sara Beery, and Eden Medina;

“Generative AI for Textile Engineering: Advanced Materials from Heritage Lace Craft,” led by Svetlana V. Boriskina;

“Generative AI Impact for Biomedical Innovation and Drug Discovery,” led by Manolis Kellis, Brad Pentelute, and Marinka Zitnik;

“Impact of Generative AI on the Creative Economy,” led by Ashia Wilson and Dylan Hadfield-Menell;

“Redefining Virtuosity: The Role of Generative AI in Live Music Performances,” led by Joseph A. Paradiso and Eran Egozy;

“Reflection-based Learning with Generative AI,” led by Stefanie Mueller;

“Robust and Reliable Systems for Generative AI,” led by Shafi Goldwasser, Yael Kalai, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan;

“Supporting the Aging Population with Generative AI,” led by Pattie Maes;

“The Science of Language in the Era of Generative AI,” led by Danny Fox, Yoon Kim, and Roger Levy; and

“Visual Artists, Technological Shock, and Generative AI,” led by Caroline Jones and Huma Gupta.

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jcmarchi · 1 month

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Second round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and applications of generative AI

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/second-round-of-seed-grants-awarded-to-mit-scholars-studying-the-impact-and-applications-of-generative-ai/

Second round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and applications of generative AI