This post is for women commenters only.
Following up on the Women’s Day post a few weeks ago, here is another post for women, renamed Women’s Space.
The intention is to create women’s space as a positive environment for feminist and other politics that are important to women. You can read the background on this here.
This is a trust model. I’m asking this post be for cis women/biological women only, and that men and people who gender self-identify as women refrain from commenting. Everyone is welcome to read, and the usual Open Mike and Daily Review spaces are still there for a wide range of discussions as are any posts put up by authors.
I fully support all groups of people with their own politics to create space for their own discussions. This is about diversity and valuing many voices, that may also enhance when we come together in mixed and general debate.
Usual TS rules still apply.
This week I’m introducing a new feminist online space Women’s Liberation Aotearoa,
Women’s Liberation Aotearoa is a group for left wing feminist women who support organising democratically for women’s liberation in New Zealand and internationally.
Content includes blogging and long form writing from a range of feminists, and commenting is enabled. WLA are also on twitter. From their website, Principles of Women’s Liberation Aotearoa
Women’s Liberation Aotearoa recognises and acknowledges Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the founding document of Aotearoa/NZ. We aim to uphold the spirit of Tino Rangatiratanga and act in accordance with that aim in all our affairs. In particular, we uphold Mana Wahine.
Women’s Liberation Aotearoa is a participatory democratic organisation which asserts that:
- the full liberation of women is only possible in a society that is based on, and operates within, egalitarian and cooperative principles in all spheres;
- the liberation of all women is inextricably linked to the freedom of all people from economic exploitation and all forms of oppression that flow from and are used to enable that exploitation;
- women’s liberation will be progressed when women have full active democratic participation in society, and collectively take leading roles in social structures and decisions that affect our lives;
- given the biological reality of women’s role in child-bearing and the social reality of a greater role in child-rearing, the liberation of women improves the overall well-being of children.
Specifically, WLA believes all women must be :
- able to fully and freely participate in all avenues of life, political organising and decision making;
- guaranteed full pay equity, i.e. equal pay plus effective engagement with the principle of equal pay for work of equal value;
- economically independent through the mechanisms of a guaranteed living income and a raft of social support systems which reflect the value, to the wider economy, of domestic work and child care;
- free from all forms of patriarchal control;
- free from all forms of racism and associated unfair / unlawful discrimination;
- guaranteed the right of reproductive sovereignty;
- free from both the threat and fact of all forms of violence in the home, the workplace and in public, including physical violence, rape, sexual abuse, and emotional and psychological abuse;
- free to gather and to organise in sex-segregated spaces;
- free to express and assert same sex attraction without facing any forms of discrimination or harassment;
- free from prostitution, pornography, trafficking and all forms of commercial sexual exploitation, which children must be free from too;
- able to ensure they and their children have access to factual, unbiased information about such issues as medical consent, biological sex and the social construction of gender.
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