#SOR abolition

[eroticcannibal]

Makes no sense to be pro prison abolition and against sex offenders registers (done properly, I think we can all agree that public pissers being on the list and publically accessible lists are bad)

Risks to the community have to be managed. SORs are a way of doing that while still allowing the offender to be within the community. You take away prisons and SORs, you are left with vigilante justice.

[geekandnerdboomxer]

A few protofeminists everyone should know about

This is just a few protofemininists (women who did actions to support the welfare of other women or wrote works that were pro women’s equality in some aspect)

Empress Komyo (701-60) - Japan- established a Buddhist temple that was a shelter for women escaping abusive marriages. This was in a Japan that was changing from a matrifocal egalitarian culture to a patriarchal culture. It’s the first known example of a women’s shelter in the world. (She also established hospitals for the poor in Buddhist temples). Her daughter Empress Koken Shotoku (718-770) last powerful Empress of Japan who ruled in her own right-fought against the court pressures to marry one of her Fujiwara family cousins. (the Fujiwara family was gradually gaining complete control of the court, and would succeed in doing so after her death. They also changed the law after her death, making it almost impossible for a woman to rule in her own right.) 

There is a 5 volume manga biography by feminist manga creator Machiko Satonaka about Empress Koken Shotoku called Jotei no Shuki (Notes of an Empress) - sorry, in Japanese only (first published in 1998, republished in 2015, so yes in print)

Helen of Anjou- (1236-1314) France/Serbia- Queen who established women’s schools

Dame Julian of Norwich (1342-1416) -England- Wrote about God as Mother, and that women and men are equal spiritually.

Christine de Pizan (1364-c.1431)-Italy/France- Not only her famous work  City of Ladies, and a companion book Treasure of the City of Ladies, but her letters arguing against the misogyny of “Romance of the Rose” and other literary works, letters about the misogyny of priests, and an elegy to Joan of Arc

Anne Askew (1521-1546)-England- protestant martyr who spoke out against the silencing of women and misogynist laws.

Isabella Whitney (c.1545-c.1578)- England- poet and essayist who wrote about the misogyny in relationships and also pioneered using gender neutral pronouns.

Modesta Pozzo/Moderata Fonte (1555-1592)- Italy-  poet and essayist. Her works tore down the misogynist images of women in the culture and defended women

Marie de Gournay (1565-1645)- France- Novelist and essayist, wrote in support of women’s equality and  against  the misogyny in the culture.

Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)- England- poet who wrote poems defending women, speaking out against the misogyny in the culture.

Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643)- England/America- female preacher who spoke and believed that women were equal to men spiritually, she was also a believer in free will and that rather than the harsh judgemental authoritarian God of the Puritans she believed in a compassionate God. For this the Puritans put her on trial and exiled her and her followers from the colony.

Aphra Behn (1640-1689)- England- playwrite, poet and spy- wrote in support of women’s equality and also early antislavery writer.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695)-Mexico-  poet, philosopher  nun, who wrote about the misogyny in the culture

Mary Astell (1666-1731)- England- wrote in support of equal education of women.

Abigail Adams (1744-1818)-  America- letter writer-  her most famous defense of women’s rights the “Remember the Ladies” exchange with her husband John Adams in 1776  and letter to her friend (and future first American historian) Mercy Otis Warren speaking about her disgust at her husband’s dismissal of her strong concerns about how they must include laws giving equal rights to women and laws to protect women from men’s abuses. Stating a wish to create a group devoted to women’s rights. The first known call for women’s rights activism. (Abigail and John preserved their letters to be published after their deaths as historical documents. They have the largest collection of preserved letters of any Revolutionary period people, so large that only recently was a near complete version published of their letters to each other. John,  despite his dismissal of her call for women’s equality to be stated in law, otherwise considered her his most trusted advisor and frequently told her she was far more intelligent than him, she also was in charge of all the family finances- and managed them quite well. Upon her death she willed some money to two unmarried nieces to start their own businesses if they wished to. One is known to have definitely done so.)

Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)- France- playwright and essayist, wrote on both women’s equality and abolition of slavery

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)- England- Her 1792 book Vindication of the Rights of Women would profoundly influence the first wave feminists in America. (It also known to have encouraged Abigail Adams in her later years. John Adams even addresses her in an 1790′s letter as “his Wollstonecraft”)

Frances Wright (1795- 1852)- Scotland/America- writer and public speaker, spoke on women’s equality, abolition of slavery, birth control, against the social control organized religion had on the culture. The first know female public speaker on these issues in America (1820′s)

[employeecamp]

https://ift.tt/2IZ6ewpNotification No. SOR-IV (S&GAD) 14-1/2017. Consequent upon abolition of the post of District Coordination Officer in the wake of the Punjab Civil Administration Ordinance, 2016, the PER Chart for District Monitoring Officer has been considered in the Inter-Departmental Committee (1.D.C) and a revised chart. duly approved by the said Committee , is hereby notified as Appendix. GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB SERVICES & GENERAL ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT (REGULATIONS WING) Dated Lahore the 23 January, 2017

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[aronarchy]

I am once again thinking back to this

About how I’ve hung around the SORA community for a while and their bigger orgs (i.e. NARSOL, Prostasia) and how frustrating it is (as a POC of certain other marginalizations that they claim to champion) that all of that crowd seems to have approached anti-registry activism from the POV of some sort of Rational Centrist own-the-wokesters thing rather than any sort of actual principled total opposition to authoritarian violence

→ most of the SORA discourse atm is dominated by white cishet liberals with garbage reformist takes who completely refuse any genuine engagement with race/class/queerness/deviance whatsoever, which is unfortunate, because those are the people who need abolition the most

+ none of them will get anywhere significant bc the entirety of their methods consists of “persuade skeptics thru Rational Argument for Destigmatization and vote for different laws”

Meanwhile “radicals” (i.e. the revolutionary socialist/anarchist crowd) who do observe the more common intersectionalities will nevertheless completely ignore the more hated non-normative identities, and do 180s on their principles when it comes to sexual offenders or sexual abuse

→ it’s extremely difficult for me to find my niche of principled radicals who will actually get meaningful shit done & in the meantime almost everyone is going to have at least one reactionary bad take

A lot of people here recently starting to radicalize about the SOR or other more controversial CSA-related political questions are well-meaning, but that must translate asap into support of taking action towards actual solutions that will actually work to get you where you want, & not just theoretical talk about ethics

I can try to pull up my recent Twitter thread(s?) rambling about it a bit more upon request, but will take more spoons bc it got sus’d a few days ago

Re: this is also what I ranted about on fedi yesterday, how the “rational evidence-based CSA prevention” community is unfortunately overwhelmingly liberal (but I’m too tired to crosspost that either rn)