ComicgateJan 4, 2025

NEUER BEITRAG: Währenddessen… (KW 1)

Zwei Filme: "Ammonite" und "Love". Christian lädt zum Doublefeature mit anschließender Diskussion.

https://comicgate.de/aktuelles/waehrenddessen-kw-1-9/

#Film #FrancesLee #GasparNoe #Jugendschutz #Sex #Zensur

Währenddessen… (KW 1)

Zwei Filme: Ammonite und Love. Christian lädt zum Doublefeature mit anschließender Diskussion. Film 1: Frances Lees „Ammonite“ Mary Anning, eine Frau des 19. Jahrhunderts, war eine berühmte Fossiliensammlerin und Paläonotologin. Als Autodidaktin bewegte sie sich außerhalb des wissenschaftlichen Elfenbeinturms, doch für ihre sorgfältige Arbeit wurde sie von der Wissenschaft geschätzt. Sie wohnte in Dorset am Südufer Englands, Fundort zahlreicher Fossilien, und kannte sich dort aus. Förderung erhielt sie von einem Fossiliensammler namens Thomas Birch. Bereits als Kind fand sie die Versteinerung eines Ichthyosaurus-Skeletts, das bald ans British Museum verkauft wurde. In Frances Lees Film Ammonite (2020) wird angedeutet, dass Mary ihr Finderruhm lange vorenthalten wurde, stattdessen wurde der Mann, der den Ichthyosaurus von ihr erwarb, als Finder ausgewiesen, ganz im Sinne der Annahme, dass die Frau – bzw. das Mädchen, die hochtalentierte Mary Anning war damals 11 – das Skelett eher zufällig gefunden habe, erst der Mann habe den Wert erkannt. Mary Anning wurde 1846, einige Monate vor ihrem frühen Tod durch Brustkrebs, zum ersten Ehrenmitglied des neuen Dorset Country Museum ernannt, ein regionales Museum …

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Show threadStrypeyJul 31, 2024

Also;

"...I have done my best to find my place in the movement, while educating myself on social justice issues to the best of my ability. But after witnessing countless people be ruthlessly torn apart in community for their mistakes and missteps, I started to fear my own comrades.

As a cultural studies scholar, I am interested in how that culture—as expressed through discourse and popular narratives—does the work of power."

#FrancesLee, 2017

https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2017/10/13/why-ive-started-to-fear-my-fellow-social-justice-activists

@toiletpaper

Why I’ve Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists

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Show threadStrypeyOct 1, 2019

@yojimbo
> I suspect that the outcome is probably justified when looking back at the long list of "offences".

This seems relevant:

"There is an underlying current of fear in my activist communities, and it is separate from the daily fear of police brutality, eviction, discrimination, and street harassment. It is the fear of appearing impure. Social death follows when being labeled a “bad” activist or simply “problematic” enough times."
- #FrancesLee
https://www.autostraddle.com/kin-aesthetics-excommunicate-me-from-the-church-of-social-justice-386640/

@lightweight @mike

Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice

"I’ve had countless hushed conversations with friends about this anxiety, and how it has led us to refrain from participation in activist events, conversations, and spaces because we feel inadequately radical."

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Show threadStrypeyJun 26, 2019
What's intriguing is how much this reminds me of #FrancesLee's writing about the cult-ish nature of some modern activism. This is hardly a new phenomena. When I first started getting involved in anarchist groups, I often came across criticisms of the culty habits of marxist groups. Years before this, the #MontyPython film 'The Life of Brian' satirized the dogmatism, sectarianism, and self-importance that revolutionist groups can fall into.
Show threadStrypeyMay 22, 2019

"To confront rigid radicalism effectively, we think, is not to pin it down and attack it, but to understand it so that we can learn to dissipate it. Because these tendencies are linked to fear, anxiety, shame—to our very desires and sense of who we are and what we are becoming—we think it is important to approach all of this with care and compassion."
https://joyfulmilitancy.com/2018/06/03/the-stifling-air-of-rigid-radicalism/

This reminds me of #FrancesLee's writing on the same subject.

The stifling air of rigid radicalism

A similar excerpt was first published in The New Inquiry in March 2018. Capitalism, colonialism and heteropatriarchy make us sick. Are our responses healing us? Are our actions generating wellbeing…

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Show threadStrypeyJan 19, 2019

@certifiedperson a lot of people are starting to talk about how to make our activism more compassionate, and less aggressive and bloody-minded:
http://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2013/04/10-key-points-becoming-more-compassionate-activist

I wrote a piece somewhat inspired by the excellent pieces #FrancesLee has written on this topic:.
https://libcom.org/forums/feedback-content/universal-friendship-radical-goal-09012019

10 key points for becoming a more compassionate activist | rabble.ca

We have been great friends for the last ten years. Judy comes from a history of left and feminist activism, Velcrow is an activist film maker who has focused on environmental and spiritual activism. Over these ten years, we have learned a lot from each other, leading to collaboration on each of our projects.

Show threadStrypeyJan 10, 2019
@LWFlouisa it was such a breath of fresh air to find #FrancesLee's writing and interviews on Safer Spaces Policing and how cultish it is. If I can bring their work to the attention of people who haven't seen it yet, I'll feel like I've contributed usefully.
Show threadStrypeyJan 9, 2019
#FrancesLee was interviewed by #TimWise on his #SpeakOut podcast. It's such a relief to hear people who clearly care passionately about social justice, critiquing the excesses of "call-out" culture, and emphasizing the importance of relationship-building to achieve lasting social change:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/speakoutwithtimwise/episodes/2017-11-21T07_49_01-08_00
Episode 10 - Frances Lee on Social Justice Activism, Call-Out Culture and the...

Fighting for a better world in a society beset by multiple injustices can be incredibly exciting and rewarding — and it’s obviously necessary. But can it also sometimes bring out the worst in people? Like a toxic quest for ideological purity? Or an overly judgmental tendency to call people out in divisive and dogmatic ways over even relatively small errors in judgment? In recent essays, “Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice,” and “Why I’m Starting to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists,” writer and activist Frances Lee explains why the answers to these questions are often yes, and why it matters. If we wish to build a strong and effective progressive left, we’ll need to find ways to support one another without striking a more-radical-than-thou pose; and we’ll need to re-focus our attention on structures and systems that maintain oppression, rather than attacking individuals when they make mistakes, inadvertently say the wrong thing, or fail to live up to the standards of some on the left.