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butchbarbieagainstterfs · 1 year

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the church of england was literally started because henry viii, a man who cheated on his wife multiple times and had at least one child with one of the women he cheated on her with, wanted a divorce that the catholic church wouldn’t give him.

you are the last people who should be saying anything about the sanctity of marriage, you absolute clowns 💀💀💀

#the church of england #homophobia

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coochiequeens · 8 months

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Old article but worth sharing today for International Day of No Prostitution

October 5th is International Day of No Prostitution. In 2019 we are marking it by remembering the women who didn’t survive prostitution – including all the women whose disappearances and deaths were unmarked and unnoticed – as we resolve to not rest until the vicious system of prostitution is brought to an end.

Remembering the Void by Rebecca Mott

This is written to all the lost prostituted women, whether gone through death or disappearance. I write as one who was lucky enough to exit alive and relatively unscarred.

To write as an exited woman, is to be surrounded by ghosts and the knowledge of death being a norm. So if you choose to say “prostitution is just sex work,” never express that to exited women, most of whom have seen death in the raw, and know of many of our prostituted sisters who have been erased from existence.

To understand prostitution, we must look directly into this abyss and stop turning away from this genocide. Look with courage and fury into the void and show respect to our forgotten sisters by learning from their disappearances or deaths.

To start this journey, we must know and understand that the sex trade has had centuries to become experts at making the prostituted vanish.

The sex trade usually picks females they can easily isolate from family and friends. This may be because of previous abuse, because of being inside a natural or man-made disaster, or the isolation of poverty or racism. These are just the tips of the iceberg that isolates females.

An isolated female is easy to manipulate and gradually make into sexual goods. The main advantage of this isolation is that she becomes a non-human and from there it’s easy to turn her into sexual goods. Sexual goods that will be consumed and then thrown away.

This must be understood: that to be prostituted is to be made subhuman and throwaway. This cannot be stated enough, if we are to get hold of the scale of the deaths and disappearances of the prostituted.

It is claimed that at the minimum, prostituted women and girls are about 12 times more likely to die from male violence than other groups of females of a similar age and background. This will always be an estimate, for most disappearances or deaths of the prostituted are unrecorded.

When I was prostituted, it was common for punters to play at killing me – often saying:

“No-one will look for a dead whore.”

What other job is this normal in?

We get this message in all parts of the culture, such as the trope of murdering whores for crime novels, TV and film scripts. It is ingrained that the deaths or murders of the prostituted are so unimportant, that any serial killer will aim at the prostituted, knowing few will care.

The sex trade is expert at vanishing acts. Most of the disappeared prostituted females have been moved into other areas and more than likely more dangerous aspects of the sex trade. Internal or external trafficking are the main routes to control and silence the prostituted. Every prostitute lives with the threat of more sadism or death as their norm.

The sex trade has learnt over many centuries to clean up after punters kill the prostituted. These deaths are made invisible, for all that matters is more profit and making punters happy. The murdered prostituted are thrown away with no name, no past and no recognition that they were human.

So as we remember the deaths of murdered prostituted females, we will be surrounded by nameless and faceless ghosts crying out to be seen and known.

All the time there is moving remembrance of women murdered by male violence, especially domestic violence. But rarely does this include or even mention the silent genocide of the prostituted.

We let the sex trade win when we ignore these deaths and disappearances. We need to have memorials, marches, and constant reminders for those who lost their names and routes back to a non-prostituted life.

To end, something I wrote long ago:

To be murdered in prostitution is to go from being made sub-human in life to nothing in death.

Crossbones Graveyard

All of the images in this article are photos of Crossbones Graveyard, an un-consecrated plot of ground a short walk from the Globe Theatre in Southwark, where ‘outcasts’ were buried from the 12th century until its closure in 1853. The graveyard’s other name, the ‘single woman’s graveyard,’ hints at who these outcasts were – women not under the patronage of a named man.

The centuries following the late medieval period were a time of brutal disruption for ordinary people as the communal subsistence economy was transformed into a wage-based monetary one. The disruption affected women quite differently from men. The work that women had traditionally done in having and raising children, maintaining (and often also making) the family’s clothing and home environment, growing, gathering or purchasing the family’s food and preparing it, etc. was now defined as non-work and was not remunerated. Men’s work on the other hand was defined as work and was remunerated. As a result, women as a group were systematically deprived of independent means of supporting themselves. This drove women into deeper economic dependence on men.

If they didn’t have a father or husband who could or would support them, many women had little choice but to turn to prostitution. This made them outcasts from mainstream society and defined them as unfit to be buried in consecrated land – while the men who bought them for sexual use were deemed upstanding citizens fit to be buried in the churchyard.

But the hypocrisy didn’t stop there. The brothels in Southwark were licensed for centuries by the Bishops of Winchester who grew rich on the proceeds – which means that the wealth of the Church of England is based in part at least on pimping women.

The development of capitalism was predicated on stripping women of their previous relative economic independence and forcing their dependence on men – either individual men in the family or the free-for-all of prostitution, while the men were given (almost absolute) power over women in return for compliance with their wage masters. This is what Carole Pateman calls the sexual contract and it is the bedrock of the capitalist system

Neither women’s poverty nor prostitution are inevitable. They are a direct result of the deliberate disenfranchisement of women in the system of patriarchy, which slowly morphed into capitalism and now the terrifying no-holds-barred neoliberal capitalism, which threatens to destroy the entire ecosystem on which we all depend.

Crossbones Graveyard is now run by volunteers as a garden of remembrance. Women tie ribbons and mementos to the fence in remembrance of all the outcaste women who are buried there.

If you visit the garden and raise your eyes, you can see the Shard, that modern phallic monument to neoliberal folly and the brutal exploitation of women and colonised peoples everywhere.

Meme for International Day of No Prostitution 2019

#October 5th #International Day of No Prostitution #Rebecca Mott #Nordic Model Now #Rest in Peace Our Forgotten Sisters #Prostituted women are 12 times more likely to die from male violence #What other job is this normal in?#Internal or external trafficking are the main routes to control and silence the prostituted.#To be murdered in prostitution is to go from being made sub-human in life to nothing in death #Single women’s graveyard #The brothels in Southwark were licensed for centuries by the Bishops of Winchester who grew rich on the proceeds #The Church of England #Crossbones Cemetery

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gwydionmisha · 2 years

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#Reverend Richard Coles #The Church of England #LGBTQIA+ Rights #LGBTQIA+#News

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freecircassians · 18 days

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The ethnic cleansing of Free Circassian Nationalism

November 2016: Australia, the Anglican Church, the Catholic Church and Islam.

On November 2016, on Australian soil, the state of Victoria, in the city of Melbourne, the Church of England and the Catholic Church decided to ethnically cleanse Free Circassian Nationalists, a stateless minority, out of all lands they (the Churches) dominate, even though they (the Workers) were nothing but law-abiding hard-working Australian citizens.

The racist fascist totalitarian Churches joined forces and decided that they (the Free Circassian Workers) were to be covertly replaced with a less advanced, less civilized, less “subversive”, corrupt, but subservient version, Muslims of Circassian Caucasian origin, who, being hardline Islamists, were more than happy to collaborate.

Free Circassian Worker migrants were singled out and driven out of their jobs, places of residence, and the entire country of Australia.

#Circassians #Adyghe #Cherkess #EthnicCleansing #Australia #The Vatican #The Church of England #The Anglican Church #The Catholic Church #Christianity #Islam #Racism #Fascism #Human Rights #Minority Rights #Worker Rights

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marcella-delaney · 9 months

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I am aware that for a long time, without knowing it, I used my religion as an attempted escape from the ambiguities and anxieties which belong inevitably to being human in contradiction to the basic Christian belief that God took the fullness of humanity upon Himself.

H. A. Williams, Introduction, The True Wildnerness, pg. 13

#h. a. williams #the true wilderness #liberal christianity #the church of england #anglicanism #anglo-catholicism #christian existentialism

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ancientsstudies · 1 month

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Salisbury Cathedral by leevistal.

#anglican #salisbury cathedral #church #church architecture #church aesthetic #england #english literature #english #english art #alternative #aesthetic #dark academia #dark academic aesthetic #dark aesthetic #aestheitcs #dark #art #light acadamia aesthetic #light academia

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connorphilpphotography · 1 month

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A little bit of saturation

#flowers #nature #spring #pathway #explore #blossoms #photographer #photographers on tumblr #original photographers #landscape #england #britain #peak district #luds church

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violetteforevernever · 5 months

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sometimes I prayed to a god

#mine #digicam #american gothic #photography #ethel cain #small town gothic #once in december #americana #church #god loves you but not enough to save you #nobody comes here anymore #last great american beauty queen #massachusetts #new england gothic #photographers on tumblr

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fictionadventurer · 2 months

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Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.

#me reading any christian historical fiction set in england: why are none of these gentry anglican??#they ARE all anglican and if they are not it is extremely plot and character relevant you can't just have them using evangelical buzzwords #but i'm also thinking of this because i started another charlotte yonge book #that is by far my favorite of the things of hers that i've read #because it has characters who have different upbringings and religious opinions #instead of just 'here's a bunch of high church anglicans judging people who don't live up to their victorian standard'#you have the very high church anglican rector whose wife is worldly but still a very good person #the girl raised in a very strict protestant family who is more scrupulous than the anglicans but is still recognized as a good person #you have people who are trying to work out the nuances of different issues #and that makes it so much more realistic and so much easier to integrate into the story #(the politics though are hilarious)#(most of the classics that survive are the ones that were 'ahead of their time' in politics)#(so it's equally fascinating and refreshing and a bit infuriating to see one that is very very of its time with regards to women's rights)#('why did this woman get up at the meeting and explain her very good ideas for rebuilding after the fire? she should have had a man do it')#(meanwhile i'm just screaming 'why on earth SHOULDN'T she???')#(it's almost enough to make a feminist of me)

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anglocatholicboyo · 14 days

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The idea of being 'spiritual but not religious' strikes me as an excellent way to create a religion in one's own image

#anglican #anglocatholic #catholic #catholicism #christian #church of england #christianity #orthodox #orthodoxy

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vox-anglosphere · 3 months

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