Susan Sontag: A Complex Relationship with Women and Literature

Susan Sontag: A Complex Relationship with Women and Literature

Susan Sontag, the great American intellectual of the 20th century, had a complicated relationship with women. She loved women without coming out as a lesbian. She was with star photographer Annie Leibovitz from the late 1980s until her death in 2004, but they didn’t officially know each other. Sontag loved women but preferred to write … Read more

Why Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ Film is a Must-Watch: A Feminist Twist on a Classic Doll

Why Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ Film is a Must-Watch: A Feminist Twist on a Classic Doll

“Barbie” film in the cinema: That’s why it’s worth watching the film by Greta Gerwig I’ve never owned a barbie in my life. Neither do my siblings. However, I do not consider this absence to be an educational measure taken by my parents, who did not dismiss anthroposophy; I think I just had no interest … Read more

‘Cartas Vivas’ is growing, the project that recovers the voice of twentieth-century writers

‘Cartas Vivas’ is growing, the project that recovers the voice of twentieth-century writers

“This is the time of hype and bombs. Of automatism versus intelligence, of standardization versus differentiation, of advertising values, of serial thinking, of quantity versus quality. And half of humanity continues to devote itself to the exploitation of the other half. Everything is dehumanized. We live surrounded by countless madmen set up as heroes.” Anyone … Read more

Dorothy Pitman Hughes dies at 84 in US – NBC New York (47)

Dorothy Pitman Hughes dies at 84 in US – NBC New York (47)

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering black feminist, child care advocate and activist who co-founded Ms. Magazine with Gloria Steinem, with whom she formed a powerful speaking partnership and appeared with her in one of the most iconic photographs of the feminist movement. She was 84 years old. Hughes died Dec. 1 in Tampa, Florida, at … Read more

when it arrives to relou – Liberation

when it arrives to relou – Liberation

The struggle in the track (5/6) Report reserved for subscribers –Feminist anthems, rally songs… Overview of the songs that accompanied the struggles for women’s rights. Currently the Belgian singer’s strike versus sexist and sexual violence, produced all through the #MeToo motion.– “So permit me sing for you-eeeeeeeeee / To go fuck you inside … mmmmmmmm … Read more

Queer cinema archives in Hamburg: lavender against the male gaze

Queer cinema archives in Hamburg: lavender against the male gaze

Heide Schlüpmann and Karola Gramann are specialists in feminist, queer cinema. You are now staying in Hamburg for a week. Against Thatcher’s regime: Jenny Runacre in Derek Jarman’s punk film “Jubilee” (1978) Photo: Photo: Malavida Films HAMBURG taz | With over 5,800 analog film copies, the Kinemathek Hamburg has one of the largest such archives … Read more

About transgender and about freedom energies

About transgender and about freedom energies

Whole broadcast from 19.6.2022 – – – © Deutschlandradio – – Moderation: Catherine Newmark · June 19, 2022 at 1:05 p.m The Spanish philosopher Elizabeth Duval calls for more prudence and mutual understanding in the heated debates about trans identity. Also: With “freedom energies” Hegel would have meant something different than Christian Lindner. –

What separates the feminists of today and yesterday? – Politics

What separates the feminists of today and yesterday?  – Politics

Karin Howard fought with Alice Schwarzer for equal rights, a liberal abortion law – and shocked the men with it. Today she looks rather irritated at the struggle of young women and asks herself: What is it actually about? – Von Marlene Knobloch, Los Angeles How does it begin to become strangers? When they put … Read more