Feminists in Dublin

Your friendly, local, intersectional, inclusive feminists! Regular City centre Meetups: discussions fortnightly, Monthly Book Club. Find us on Meetup.

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

This is SUCH a thoughtful, considerate video made to break down the issues surrounding JK Rowling's recent controversy, particular to explain it to people who are not familiar with what both sides are saying. I highly recommend it to everyone.

[Jamie Raines 🦖🥔 @jammi_dodger94]

We made a response to JK Rowling’s essay.
https://t.co/euyCJztrXo

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

Really enjoying reading Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism, by Aja Barber

It's very enjoyable, and accessible, it doesn't focus on guilting the reader. It's so relevant and informative.

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

If we're going to talk about systemic misogyny. I have book recomendations.
Does anyone else have more?

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

Sitting down to hurriedly prep for this evenings Book Club about The Vanishing Half by @britrbennett and discovered there is a whole kit prepped for book clubs?!?!?
Need authors and publishers everywhere to know HOW MUCH this is appreciated, you absolute angels!!! 😁😁😍

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

If someone thinks Kim K dating a younger guy is some big "gotcha!" to feminism, they kind of missed the whole point.

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

I feel like Independent is might churning these weird petty attacks on feminism as clickbait.
Is this author mad I don't keep up with who Kim Kardashian is dating?

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

It IS creepy when childlike youthfulness, inexperience, and naivete is valued in women - especially when it is seen to make them more compliant, and therefore 'better' partners.
These traits are not valued in men.

[Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration @DeptJusticeIRL]

Thank you @SweetLikeAli for sharing your story at the new campaign launch to combat sharing of #IntimateImages without consent

🎥 Watch below & remember whatever your motivation, sharing intimate images without #consent is a crime.

☎️ Report at https://t.co/G3yXypAaDB

[@[email protected] 🏳️‍⚧️🖤🏳️‍🌈 @monthlycycles]

FYI, peeps! ℹ️

Our next Monthly Cycle is a bit sooner than usual, on 12 September, to coincide with Bike Week. 🚲

Details will be up on the website within days (or even hours!) 😀

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

I've been asked by a few people about a donation. So I've set up a ko-fi page. I spend a little chunk of time each month, preparing the slides for the bookclub, and This helps me cover the Meetup website fee's of around 60 euro a year.
https://t.co/My7lOI6FU5

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

We just finished our Virtual Book club for Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power, it was well received, and if you use Kindle, its only about a euro right now,
https://t.co/LVQg3EkURa

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

Our book club is currently reading Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America - by Ijeoma Oluo
https://t.co/bVlFqWOK5L

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

That's why feminism continues.
And it's why so many anti-feminist men will try and dismiss it by talking about "patriarchy".
Patriarchy is simply a way to describe the way historical male supremacy has shaped the society we all live in. One that skews towards male as default.

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

People often have a really bad understanding of waves of feminism. Often based on the assumption that each wave had a start and I had where it accomplished all it set out to do.
There are a shocking amount of people who think feminism should have ended with second wave.

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

The most ridiculous part of me, is that people assume that we can go through most of human history valuing women so little that these changes were necessary , and then suddenly social attitudes, expectations and norms will change overnight? They didn't.

[Feminists in Dublin @FemInDublin]

Child abduction is also very rare, but we teach kids 'stranger danger'. We're conscious kids have been taught to be wary of strangers and avoid putting them in an situation that they have been warned about.
We don't take it personally.
It's the exact same with women.