Activism

(UK) Demonstration next Saturday organised by Sheffield Against Sexism

(UK) Demonstration next Saturday organised by Sheffield Against Sexism

Sheffield Against Sexism has organised a march for the 28th April called ‘We will not calm down ‘dear’ We are an inclusive group from all backgrounds and faith groups trying to stand up against the detrimental effect of the cuts on the vulnerable and women. We want to save our local women’s services like Rape Crisis, Sure Start, Domestic Abuse Forum, Scoopaid, Young Women’s Refuge as well as many more being directly hit as well as saying that they cannot expect women to keep quiet about picking up the brunt of the cuts. Furthermore we want to protest the council decision to grant Spearmint Rhino’s their Sex Entertainment license, despite unprecedented complaints because sexism make ‘good economic sense’. This means the key of our...

STOP PORN CULTURE! conference and slideshow training

From June 16-19th San Diego will be the host city of the 4th Stop Porn Culture Conference. The four day event will be split into two blocks of two days with the first two providing training to those who are interested in using Stop Porn Culture’s slideshow training, followed by a two day conference entitled “Contemporary Radical Feminism in the Age of Porn”. The Stop Porn Culture Slideshow training will provide attendees with the experience, knowledge, and confidence to speak publicly against pornography in their community and will include in-depth presentations on topics such as: -the links between pornography and violence against women -First Amendment and other free speech issues -women in the industry -how to organize in your community Speakers include Gail Dines,...

ACTION SUCCESS: Typo promises to remove porn themed products from shops after petition

ACTION SUCCESS: Typo promises to remove porn themed products from shops after petition

Australian retail chain Cotton On’s stationery shop Typo was criticized last week for adding a product line which include a travel mug that says “Porn is my saviour” and an iPhone cover featuring a naked woman sitting provocatively in a cross-legged pose with the word “dirty” above her. These items are part of the chains’ “Back to School” sale. A notebook featuring a topless woman pouting in front of a bullseye is also for sale, while another appears to be trying to emulate the front of a porn magazine. Anti-child exploitation group Collective Shout spokeswoman Melissa Tankard-Reist said parents should boycott Typo and online petition which was started in response to the sell of these items calling for the withdrawal of the products from sale gathered more than 500...

ACTION: Support OBJECT and Turn Your Back On Page 3′s submission to the Leveson inquiry

ACTION: Support OBJECT and Turn Your Back On Page 3′s submission to the Leveson inquiry

Help address sexism in the UK media. OBJECT and Turn Your Back on Page 3 recently made a joint submission to the Leveson inquiry which provides a snapshot of ‘A Week In The Life Of’ The Sun, The Daily Star and The Sport’. It highlights the “Page 3″ phenomenon, the adverts for the porn and sex industries, and other innumerable ways in which women – and even crimes against women, such as rape and murder – are routinely trivialized and sexualised within the UK press. The submission calls on the Leveson Inquiry to address this relentless portrayal of women as sex objects as part of its remit to examine the culture and ethics of the press, and it provides recommendations to tackle the hyper-sexualisation and objectification of...

Challenging Porn Culture: Conference report

Challenging Porn Culture: Conference report

This is a write-up of the Challenging Porn Culture conference, organised by London Feminist Network, that took place in London on the 3rd of this month. Apologies for the lateness of the post. It felt like a privilege being at the Challenging Porn Conference in London on Saturday the 3rd. It was an interesting, moving and educational day. Prof. Gail Dines‘ opening presentation skilfully illustrated the aggression, sexism, racism and sexualisation of women and girls in advertising and pornography. It was the kind of media training and education I wish everyone would receive as survival skills in the image based world she described and deconstructed into words for us to digest. Dines said that while we have become familiar with reading and analysing print,...

Petition: Sexist and objectifying Ryanair ad

Petition: Sexist and objectifying Ryanair ad

Ghada, a member of an airline cabin crew, started a petition on Change.org after Ryanair ran yet another sexist ad in last week’s Guardian, this one featuring a woman in her underwear with a finger in her knickers, the slogan proclaims “Red hot fares & crew!” Women throughout the airline industry are furious at Ryanair’s attempt to cast female flight attendants in a predominantly sexual role, undoing years of work to change their image — and possibly encouraging harassment and advances by male customers. Ghada wants to make it clear that sexist representations of women in the airline industry will not be tolerated. A public outcry can get the ad banned — and send a clear message to other companies considering similar marketing ploys....

Clicktivism Success: Collective Shout vs Diva’s selling of Playboy products

Clicktivism Success: Collective Shout vs Diva’s selling of Playboy products

You may remember that we invited you to sign a petition on change.org a few weeks via our Facebook page to asking you to sign a petition requesting Australian jewellery retailer Diva to remove all Playboy product from sale. The petition was started by Collective Shout, a group passionate about fighting against the exploitation and objectification of women. In a month they managed to collect 6,800 signatures to take on a company that sells over 10 million accessories every year, from over 200 stores in 22 countries. Educator and adolescent psychotherapist Collett Smart and founder of 7Wonderlicious Ines Almeida tried to deliver the petition in Diva’s Pitt Street Sydney store at the end of October. A member of staff there initially accepted the petition...

FEM 11 conference in London this Saturday, November 12th

FEM 11 conference in London this Saturday, November 12th

This Saturday FEM 11 will take place at Friends House in London. FEM 11 is UK Feminista’s national conference to debate key issues facing women today and how to work towards a feminist future. The conference will feature workshops by leading feminist organisations including Fawcett Society, Abortion Rights, OBJECT, Southall Black Sisters, Women for Women International, End Violence Against Women coalition, Imkaan and Women for Refugee Women. Workshops at the conference will touch on various issues such as Strengthening black feminist voices in the 21st century, Ditching Dieting: Making peace with our bodies and how to eat happily ever after, The importance of women-only organising, Ending violence against women and girls and From rape to refusal: women and asylum. The event will be concluded by a pre-election debate with the candidates for...

‘The Playboy Club’ TV show gets cancelled

‘The Playboy Club’ TV show gets cancelled

NBC “Closed the Club” today as a result of dismal ratings and viewer outrage, cancelling a series that glorified the sexual exploitation of women and the Playboy philosophy that women are to be used, abused and then discarded. “It is great news that the ‘Playboy Club’ is cancelled after just three episodes. Clearly viewers are not interested in supporting the brand that normalized pornography and caused immeasurable harm to women, children and to the men who became addicted to porn,” said Dawn Hawkins, executive director of Morality in Media, organizer of the site www.ClosetheClubOnNBC.com. According to Hawkins, key NBC advertisers left the show after receiving more than 20,000 emails through Morality in Media’s site. “The efforts of Morality in Media, Parent’s Television Council, Gloria...

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