Library 186: South Londonderry Free Library Go to this library. It's small.

Rapid fire inventory of my 186th library in Vermont:

Taxidermy: no
Christmas cactus: yes
Waldo: yes
Library dog: yes
Queer feminist librarian: yes

What more can I say. It was perfect.

#knittinginlibraries #knitting #vermont #knitsky #booksky #publiclibrary #londonderry #queerfeminism

Queer-Feminism Against War and the Politics of Death “Woman, Life, Freedom” reimagines power beyond war, patriarchy, and the hierarchies that decide which lives matter. If war is understood not as an event but as a logic—a logic grounded in domination, erasure, and the devaluation of life—then the central question becomes: what can interrupt it? At a time when global powers once again frame war as a solution, from the Middle East to beyond, this question is no longer local. It is urgent and global. “Woman, Life, Freedom” emerges within this urgency as one of the most compelling attempts to break that cycle. War is often narrated as an exception—an eruption that disrupts order, only for “peace” to return. But from feminist and queer perspectives, war is not an anomaly. It is a continuation: an intensification of the same structures that already organize violence across bodies, genders, and everyday life. As Virginia Woolf argued in Three Guineas, war does not emerge from nowhere; it is rooted in systems that normalize hierarchy, exclusion, and the concentration of power.[1] From this vantage point, condemning a potential or ongoing war by Israel and the United States against Iran is not merely a geopolitical stance. It is an ethical imperative. Contemporary history, from Iraq to Afghanistan, has repeatedly shown that military intervention, even when framed through the language of “human rights” or “liberation,” often reproduces the very violence it claims to resolve. As Lila Abu-Lughod has argued, the rhetoric of “saving women” has long served to legitimize interventions that ultimately reinforce new forms of control rather than dismantle oppression.[2] This logic does not only objectify women; it also renders queer bodies as either targets of salvation or elimination. Yet any critique that looks only outward remains incomplete. Inside Iran, the Islamic Republic operates through deeply entrenched forms of structural violence: the regulation of women’s bodies, the criminalization of dissent, and the systemic persecution of queer people. In Frames of War, Judith Butler asks which lives are considered “grievable” and which are not.[3] This distinction is not abstract. It is political. Some lives are rendered so precarious, so devalued, that their loss barely registers as loss at all. For me, this is not only theoretical. War is something I have felt in the space of disconnection—when internet shutdowns turn communication with family into an anxious speculation: Are they still alive? In those moments, war is no longer geopolitical; it becomes intimate. It circulates through the body: in insomnia, in racing thoughts, in the exhaustion of imagining catastrophe. And for those already living under conditions of control—women, queer individuals, the marginalized—this experience is intensified, layered, and inescapable. Paris — March 8, 2026: Portrait of Asal Abasian, journalist and queer feminist activist | Photographer: François-Xavier Manceau Paris — March 8, 2026: Portrait of Asal Abasian, journalist and queer feminist activist | Photographer: François-Xavier Manceau Paris — March 8, 2026: Portrait of Asal Abasian, journalist and queer feminist activist | Photographer: François-Xavier Manceau Paris — March 8, 2026: Portrait of Asal Abasian, journalist and queer feminist activist | Photographer: François-Xavier Manceau It is within this context that “Woman, Life, Freedom” must be understood. Originating in the Kurdish feminist movement of Rojava as “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî,” and globally amplified after the killing of the young Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Jina Amini in 2022, the slogan is not merely a chant; it is a reordering of values. “Woman” here is not a fixed identity but a political position: a name for all those whose bodies have been sites of regulation and control. “Life” resists a politics organized around death. “Freedom” is not an abstract promise, but something that must be lived, materially and bodily. If, as Cynthia Enloe suggests, militarization extends into everyday life—shaping economies, cultures, and intimate relations—then “Woman, Life, Freedom” can be understood as a project of demilitarization.[4] It seeks to reclaim life from the logics of domination and to center care, interdependence, and dignity. Literature has long revealed what official narratives conceal. In The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich documents the experiences of Soviet women in World War II not as heroic myth, but as embodied memory: fear, hunger, grief, survival.[5] These testimonies dismantle the aesthetics of war and return us to its material reality: the production of suffering. Contemporary contexts echo this pattern. In Gaza, women face compounded vulnerabilities under siege conditions, with restricted access to healthcare, safety, and basic resources.[6] In Sudan, ongoing conflict has led to widespread sexual violence and the collapse of social infrastructures.[7] In Afghanistan, the Taliban’s return to power has once again rendered women’s bodies a primary site of control—excluding them from education, work, and public life, in what can only be understood as a form of systematic violence. In Nigeria, Boko Haram has abducted thousands of women and girls, subjecting them to forced labor and sexual slavery.[8] And in Rojava, experiments in women-led governance have attempted, however imperfectly, to reimagine political structures beyond patriarchal norms.[9] These are not exceptions. They are patterns. For this reason, any project that claims liberation while reproducing the logic of war risks reinstating the very structures it seeks to oppose. One cannot bomb a population into freedom, just as one cannot justify internal violence in the name of resistance. These are not opposing forces; they are variations of the same political grammar. “Woman, Life, Freedom” offers a break from that grammar. It is not merely reactive; it is propositional. It calls for a reordering of the world—one in which life is not instrumentalized, but centered. A world in which nobody is deemed disposable on the basis of gender, sexuality, or political position. To return to this horizon is not to retreat into idealism. It is to make a necessary ethical choice: to side with life over death, with care over domination, and with solidarity over erasure. At a time when war is once again presented as a solution, this return is not optional. It is urgent. If cycles of violence are to be broken—if life is to be reclaimed from beneath the weight of both war and authoritarianism—there is no alternative but this: a sustained commitment to the horizon that “Woman, Life, Freedom” has opened. References: * Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas. London: Hogarth Press, 1938. * Lila Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. * Judith Butler, Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? London: Verso, 2009. * Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. * Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War. Trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Random House, 2017. * UN Women, “Gender Alert: Gaza,” 2024. * United Nations, “Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Sudan,” 2023–2024 reports. * Amnesty International, Our Job is to Shoot, Slaughter and Kill, 2015. * Meredith Tax, A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State. New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2016.

Queer-Feminism Against War and the Politics of Death #QueerFeminism #WomanLifeFreedom

Yu’s journey demonstrates how gender and sexuality shape research, teaching, and activism alike. It reminds us of the importance of recognizing diverse contributions, supporting LGBTQ+ communities, and fostering inclusive spaces in higher education for all. #GenderEquality #QueerFeminism

Schau(hin)fensteraktion! 🎉

Danke an @catcallsofgraz für die wunderbare Arbeit!

Der Rest spricht für sich! 💜🖤

#radiohelsinki #schaufensteraktion #graz #stopcatcalling #queerfeminism #8m

Unser Spezialprogramm im März 🎙️

Queer-Feministische Kämpfe on Air 🖤💜

Weitere Infos unter: helsinki.at/news/der-sendeschwerpunkt-zum-frauenmaerz-2026/

#radiohelsinki #sendeschwerpunkt #queerfeminism #smashpatriarchy #8thofmarch

Stop blaming sex workers for the fact that your white luxury feminism isn't working! We take money from the patriarchy and use it to finance our lives independently of men. You help them oppress others and hope for a better position.
The only meaningful feminism is intersectional #queerfeminism!

10th Edition | Gender & Sexuality Studies Congress 2026
🗓 May 18–19, 2026 | Amsterdam

A global space for inclusive, intersectional & decolonized feminism.
Because feminism must include queer women.

🔗 genderstudycongress.com

#GenderStudies #QueerFeminism #LGBTQIA #Intersectionality #GenderEquality

Heute Abend geht's los 🥳🥳🥳

Eröffnung von QUEERTACTICS. 🎬Queer_Feminist_Film_Festival_Vienna.

20.30 Uhr im Stadtkino

Hier ein Vorgeschmack:
youtube.com/watch?v=sN26...

#queerfeminism
#queerfilm
#filmfestival
#queerfilmfestival

Heute Abend geht's los 🥳🥳🥳

Eröffnung von QUEERTACTICS. 🎬Queer_Feminist_Film_Festival_Vienna.

20.30 Uhr im Stadtkino

Hier ein Vorgeschmack:
youtube.com/watch

#queerfeminism
#queerfilm
#filmfestival
#queerfilmfestival

💥Announcement! Thursday 09.10.2025💥 ✨ Queerfeminist bar night at B-Lage ✨ Thursday, 09.10.2025 | 6 p.m. | B-Lage Mareschstraße 1, 12055 Berlin Arrival: S9, S41, S42, S45 Sonnenallee | Bus 171, M41 Mareschstraße 📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=13423 - @queer_feminist_bar_night #b0910 #Queerfeminism design your own bracelets, win prizes on the wheel of fortune and connect (if you want) with your local queers while listing to HitsHitsHits 🎶 An evening for queers and friends where we create a supportive, loving and considerate atmosphere in which there is no room for machismo and assaultive behavior! We want to connect, form gangs, recharge our batteries for our activism and recover from everyday sexism. We want to rag about heteronormative bullshit in peace and support each other. Our feminism is inclusive, so please no TERFs (Trans-Exclusionary Radical "Feminists") and no SWERFs (Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical "Feminists"). ✨ see you there xoxo ✨

💥Announcement! Thursday 09.10.2025💥

✨ Queerfeminist bar night at B-Lage ✨

Thursday, 09.10.2025 | 6 p.m. | B-Lage Mareschstraße 1, 12055 Berlin

Arrival: S9, S41, S42, S45 Sonnenallee | Bus 171, M41 Mareschstraße

📣 Call to action: asanb.noblogs.org?p=13423

#b0910 #Queerfeminism

💥Ankündigung! Donnerstag 09.10.2025💥 ✨ Queerfeministischer Kneipenabend in der B-Lage ✨ Donnerstag, 09.10.2025 | 18:00 Uhr | B-Lage Mareschstraße 1, 12055 Berlin Anreise: S9, S41, S42, S45 Sonnenallee | Bus 171, M41 Mareschstraße 📣 Aufruf: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=13423 - @queer_feminist_bar_night #b0910 #Queerfeminism Entwirf deine eigenen Armbänder, gewinne Preise am Glücksrad und knüpfe (wenn du möchtest) Kontakte zu anderen Queers aus deiner Umgebung, während du HitsHitsHits hörst 🎶 Ein Abend für Queers und friends an dem wir gemeinsam eine solidarische, liebe und rücksichtsvolle Atmosphäre schaffen, in der mackeriges und übergriffiges Verhalten keinen Platz hat! Wir wollen uns vernetzen, Banden bilden, Kraft tanken für unseren Aktivismus und uns Erholen vom Alltagssexismus. Wir wollen in Ruhe über heteronormative Kackscheiße ablästern und uns gegenseitig unterstützen. Unser Feminismus ist inklusiv, also bitte keine TERFs (Trans-Exclusionary Radical "Feminists") und keine SWERFs (Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical "Feminists"). ✨ Wir sehen uns dort, xoxo ✨

💥Ankündigung! Donnerstag 09.10.2025💥

✨ Queerfeministischer Kneipenabend in der B-Lage ✨

Donnerstag, 09.10.2025 | 18:00 Uhr | B-Lage Mareschstraße 1, 12055 Berlin

Anreise: S9, S41, S42, S45 Sonnenallee | Bus 171, M41 Mareschstraße

📣 Aufruf: asanb.noblogs.org?p=13423

#b0910 #Queerfeminism

💥Announcement! Tuesday 26.08.2025💥 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾Understand and dismantle anti-trans networks!✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Tuesday, 26 August 2025 | 7 p.m. | B-Lage Mareschstraße 1, 12055 Berlin Arrival: S9, S41, S42, S45 Sonnenallee | Bus 171, M41 Mareschstraße 📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=12814 - @il_berlin #b2608 #QueerFeminism From 11 to 14 September, the so-called ‘Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine’ (SEGM) plans to hold a conference in Berlin. SEGM is in reality a transphobic think tank and part of an international network that specifically lobbies against healthcare for trans children and young people. For years, doctors, therapists and scientists associated with it have been spreading misinformation about gender diversity and medical transition, as well as anti-feminist and conspiracy-ideological narratives. Under the guise of ‘science,’ transphobic positions are disguised as supposedly neutral facts in order to address a specialist audience from the fields of medicine, psychotherapy and science. The gender-critical attacks on healthcare for trans children and adolescents are now undermining hard-won medical standards in order to deliberately unsettle families and professionals. Join us this evening to learn about the strategies of the right-wing gender-critical movement and its attack on bodily autonomy, and discuss with our panel guests @mine_pleasure_bouvar and @fundiwatch how we can counter this. Afterwards, there will be another opportunity to get to know IL Berlin in a relaxed setting.

💥Announcement! Tuesday 26.08.2025💥

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾Understand and dismantle anti-trans networks!✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Tuesday, 26 August 2025 | 7 p.m. | B-Lage Mareschstraße 1, 12055 Berlin

Arrival: S9, S41, S42, S45 Sonnenallee | Bus 171, M41 Mareschstraße

📣 Call: asanb.noblogs.org?p=12814

#b2608 #QueerFeminism

Ausgestreckte Faust in der Mitte eines Kreises, der Hintergrund des Kreises ist in Regenbogenfarben. Um den Kreis ist in weißen Großbuchstaben. Sind wir zu bunt, bist du zu braun. Zwischen den beiden Aussagen sind jeweils 1 roter Stern. Der Hintergrund des Ganzen ist schwarz

"Sind wir zu bunt, bist du zu braun"
#againstfascism #againstracism #lgbtqiplus #queerfriendly #queer #queerfeminism #feminism #fightracism

#fip #queer #gay #schwul #schwulenhass #schwulenfeindlichkeit #transgender #trans #transrightsarehumanrights #LGBTQ
#QueerFeminism #NoMoreTERFs
#GenderEquality #Feminism
#IntersectionalFeminism #QueerVisibility
#StopHate #Pride
#LGBTQRights

Sa 19.07.2025
14-19h
Brust raus!
Für Freiheit, Sichtbarkeit & Gerechtigkeit!
Gegen Sexismus, Ableismus, Faschismus & das Patriarchat!
Gegen die rechtskonservative Politik #Merz & Co
#brandenburgertor #b1907 #smashpatriarchy #feminism #queerfeminism #siamotuttiantifascisti #brustraus

Charlene Carruthers, a Black queer feminist and founder of BYP100, unites racial, gender, and economic justice through grassroots labor solidarity. ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈

❤️💬 End Pride Month with power—like, comment & follow to keep building.

#AFGE #AFGEPRIDE #QueerFeminism #CharleneCarruthers #UnionPride #YouthPower

Audre Lorde’s poetry fuels my fight against Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies. Black queer women like her inspire us all. #AudreLorde #QueerFeminism #READ

“It’s Like Getting Someone Who’s Been Hit by a Car to Run a Speed Awareness Course”: How Young Activists in the UK Make Sense of Personal, Collective and Institutional Agency - Silvia Behrens, 2025 Current research into youth activism places emphasis on agency, but few empirical studies have looked into how the perception of agency impacts young people’s e...

New #openaccess publication in Youth & Society: Based on focus group research, this paper explores how young people politically active for #ClimateChange, the #BlackLivesMatter movement and #queerfeminism think about personal, collective and institutional agency.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Katrina Roen joins Intersex Insights as keynote speaker! Their work in queer, feminist psych and intersex care is unmissable.

🗓️ June 9–10 in Dublin (DCU @dublincityuni.bsky.social) or online
🎟️ dcu-snpch.zohobackstage.eu/IntersexInsi...
⏳ Register by May 19

#IntersexInsights #QueerFeminism

Morgen ist der 1. Mai, Arbeiter*innenkampftag, und schon heute Abend gehen wir als FLINTA* in Hamburg auf die Straße! Gegen Patriarchat und Kapital!

Take Back The Night, 30.04.
20 Uhr, S Bahn Sternschanze

#fightpatriarchy #queerfeminism #dielinke #queer #1.Mai

#protest after the #eviction of #liebig34 in #berlin .

#anarchism #1312 #anarchaqueerfeminism #anarchist #queer #feminism #queerfeminism #occupy #squat #gentrification #capitalism #anticapitalism

Haecksen Events - CFC25

LED decorations, soldering, PCB design, 3D printing, new computers made from old things -
What are your ideas?

events.haecksen.org/cfc25/index....
Submission deadline: Tomorrow, 14.04.2025 at 23:42

#queerFeminism #feminism #FLINTA #utopia #cfc25 #UtopiaTestEnvironment

Haecksen Events - CFC25

LED-Deko, Löten, Platinendesign, 3D-Druck, neue Rechner aus alten Sachen -
Was wären deine Ideen?

events.haecksen.org/cfc25/index....
Einreichungsfrist: Morgen, den 14.04.2025 um 23:42

#queerFeminism #feminism #FLINTA #utopia #cfc25 #UtopiaTestEnvironment

Haecksen Events - CFC25

Our issues need more visibility! It is so important that we FLINTAs give speeches, hold workshops, be role models for others and claim our spaces.

events.haecksen.org/cfc25/index....
Deadline: 14.04.2025 at 23:42

#queerFeminism #feminism #FLINTA #activism #cfc25 #UtopiaTestEnvironment

Haecksen Events - CFC25

Not sure if your topic fits the core topic Utopia? What should be better in a utopia? In what form could your idea exist in a utopia? Utopias also need the little things ☺️

events.haecksen.org/cfc25/index....
Deadline: 14.04.2025 at 23:42

#Queerfeminism #FLINTA #Utopia #cfc25 #UtopiaTestEnvironment

Haecksen Events - CFC25

You don’t feel like giving a lecture or holding a workshop? No problem, we also have other rooms for experimenting ;)
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Submission deadline: 14.04.2025 at 23:42

#queerFeminism #feminism #FLINTA #experiment #activism #cfc25 #UtopiaTestEnvironment

Haecksen Events - CFC25

Would you perhaps like to share your ideas about a utopia in discussion groups? Feel free to submit your panel here:
events.haecksen.org/cfc25/index....

Submission deadline: 14.04.2025 at 23:42

#queerFeminism #feminism #FLINTA #exchange #activism #cfc25 #UtopiaTestEnvironment

We all need clearer ideas about this. Exchange opinions - with like-minded people. At the CFC25 in July:

Submission deadline: 14.04.2025 at 23:42

#queerFeminism #feminism #FLINTA #exchange #networking #activism #cfc25 #UtopiaTestEnvironment

Haecksen Events - CFC25

Wouldn’t any of you like to discuss this? You could here:
events.haecksen.org/cfc25/index....

Submission deadline: 14.04.2025 at 23:42

#queerFeminism #feminism #FLINTA #marginalization #activism #cfc25 #UtopiaTestEnvironment

Haecksen Events - CFC25

Submission deadline: 14.04.2025 at 23:42

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#queerFeminism #feminism #FLINTA #marginalization #activism #cfc25 #UtopiaTestEnvironment