Feminist Playlist Week 2
Here is week 2!
(If we need my raison d'etre, here is the link to week 1 post)
Day 8 - International Women's Day
Florence and the Machine - Everybody Scream
This album was full of women power and scream and rage. And sometimes we need to let it out.
Demi Lovato - Swine
A song supporting birthing people's rights. As I said last week, abortion rights are being completely eroded in the US. I don't think you can separate promoting womens rights and getting rid of abortion.
Emi Sunshine - Dead Men Can't Catcall
The second version of this song on this playlist, which suggest that perhaps it is a problem!
This one is a bit more playful than the Shiverettes
Yonaka - Seize the Power
A power anthem for the girlies
Also, Althusser teaches us that ideological state apparati (ISA) are as powerful as repressive state apparati and in fact, function as a form of oppression. ISAs include religion, philosophy, culture, and education while RSAs include things like the police, and the army. Feminism is shaped by ISAs--what are things we consider important for liberation--as is the backlash to feminism, which is what we are seeing with trad wife movement. Which is a function of the ISA to reshape women back into how the state sees their value. The rise of eating disorders again is a function of an ISA, pushed by influencers. (Excellent article here on Althusser and Foucault--the primary place of production is the body--and how that plays out on women's bodies)
Delilah Bon - I don't listen to you
She was on my list last year. She performs a lot of strong, assertive in you face feminist anthems. Saying no is powerful. Refusing to bow to ISAs and to the patriarchy is hard. Sometimes you need a power anthem to help.
Riot Grrl Sessions - Terror Girls
I can't do a women's history month playlist without Riot Grrls.
Cardi B, Meghan the Stallion - WAP
Did I have this on the list lat year? Yes I did, thanks for asking. But you know, its a banger. It's a celebration of bodies and pleasure.
This is also the part of the playlist where we are moving into more R&B stylings. I wish I had some of them earlier, but trying to find transitions between songs is hard. I still don't know if the transition here works but its what we got!
Other Stuff
I suppose I should include writing and reading, since this is about writing and reading ostensibly (can't separate those activities between being a woman and being able to do them. In a world where women's labor is devalued, where in the US women perform almost all the invisible home labor, finding time to read and write is a act of revolution)
Especially reading.
Reading has always been act of power. That's why they want you to use their little LLM to give up your ability to read and give up your power. No thank you.
I'm still on my Narnia kick and I got a copy of Michael War's Planet Narnia, the actual book of his theory, not his re-tread for popular audiences, The Narnia Code, which was so awful. The amount! of! exclamation! points! was driving me batty. The latter was supposed to be written for lay audiences, but I don't think lay people use that many exclamation points.
It's an interesting theory, about how Lewis, a medievalist, used a Pre-Copurnican model to structure the Narnia books. So each book represents a medieval thought about a planet. For example, Prince Caspian, a martial book, is about Mars. It is one of the more military books. I don't know if I'm convinced by the theory but its a compelling read. When there's not exclamation points everywhere.
I'm also in the middle of the Ashley Weaver lock picking WW2 cozy. I think its a cozy mystery. I'm on the third book, Playing it Safe (Book one is A Peculiar Combination) Ellie is a lock picker in service of the British govt during WW2. There is ostensibly a love triangle, but its a cozy, so I suspect I know the ending.
What are you reading or listening to?
