Blogging at The Establishment

Centering the Subjective is Reclaiming Power

The Establishment has an editorial staff that is entirely made up of women; most of the articles are written by woman and non-binary femmes as well. I was drawn into reading The Establishment because I’m a fan of the work that has been done by its Editor-at-Large, Ijeoma Oluo, a ...
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I Will Not…

Mi nombre es Marta Martínez, soy salvadoreña y llevo veintiocho años viviendo en Estados Unidos. Pertenezco a la cooperativa Golden Steps para el cuidado de ancianos, desde la cuál decimos “presente” al Paro Internacional de Mujeres. Trabajo con una señora de seteinta y tres años, la cuál es diabética, usa un ...
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I Will Not…

My name is Marta Martinez, I am from El Salvador and I have been living in the United States for twenty-eight years. I am a member of the Golden Steps cooperative for elder care and we say “present” to the International Women´s Strike. I work with a seventy three years old ...
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I Will Not…

I'm striking on March 8th to cast the light of collective action on the many feminized forms of labor on which we crucially depend but which are either devalued or not formally valued at all in our market economy. I'm striking on March 8th for the creation of a new grassroots ...
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I Will Not…

....Not shop at corporate or any stores controlled by men. I will go to our surviving lively & lovely women's bookstore, Antigone Books. I will wear purple. And a red scarf. I will keep wishing women I encounter a Happy International Women's Day, and a Happy March is Women's Herstory Month! I will tell our local "community" ...
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I Will Not…

I will not, however, keep this to myself. I will not admit I sometimes enjoy catcalls Because being a woman is tough and draining on my self esteem. I will not pretend I don't sometimes smile when I hear a stranger call me Beautiful. I will not stop dancing sexually or seductively and I will not ...
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I Will Not…

I will not feel guilty. I will not.   I will not feel guilty if my nails are not polished. I will not feel guilty if my nails are polished. I will not feel guilty if I put lipstick on. I will not feel guilty for not putting lipstick on.   I will not feel guilty if ...
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Sidra Kamran on her strike

Grassroots structures of representation like unions are key for this new feminist movement and for resistance to the Trump administration and the conditions that produced it. At the New School, graduate student workers have been fighting for our union for over two years. More than two years ago, over 70 percent ...
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I Will Not…

Cinzia Arruzza on her strike

I will stand in solidary with women from more than forty countries, against misogyny and gender violence, against war, against anti-immigrant and islamophobic policies, against the casualization of labor, wage inequality, the dismantlement of the welfare state, against white supremacy, and against the destruction of our environment. We heed the ...
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