Marina Taques

Feminism was never meant to be a weapon wielded by the state. It was meant to dismantle the very structures that decide which women matter and which ones can be sacrificed.

Equality. That’s what feminism should be about.

No one should be excluded, no one should be overly protected. Feminism should never be used to justify racism, moral panic and reinforce state violence. It should promote unity. It should promote inclusion.

When feminism is twisted to justify borders, bans, surveillance, or moral panic, it stops protecting women and starts policing them. It doesn’t prevent harm. It redistributes it, pushing the risk further down the social hierarchy while congratulating itself for doing something.

Femonationalism; a word that describes the hijacking of feminist language to justify nationalist, racist, and authoritarian projects.

Politicians and commentators who have spent decades undermining women’s rights suddenly discover a deep concern for women only when that fear and concern can be blamed on migrants.

Not because chivalry has risen from the dead. But because fear is useful, and the feminist fight carries cultural weight.

This is nothing but propaganda wrapped in shiny... See more

Taking on the cause of violence against women, but associating it with migrant men, is a tactic that we've seen the far right using throughout time. So this is nothing new. Gender based violence is overwhelmingly perpetrated by people that the victim knows...The trope of Stranger Danger is really deployed to foment racist attitudes and beliefs...... See more

My dad always talks about life as if you’re cooking food: All the flames on your stovetop have to be on and everything has to be cooking. Because if not, if your love life goes out, you’re fucked. If your family life or your business life or your music life goes out, you’re fucked. So it’s really trying to play this balancing game, and that’s kind... See more

So for me, if you didn’t have a patch with some band that I liked on it, or if you didn’t have some of the markings of an outsider, I didn’t feel welcome. I never felt welcome. But we’re all human, and I think there are [more] things that we can relate to than things we don’t.

When we live outside ourselves, and by that I mean on external directives only rather than from our internal knowledge and needs, when we live away from those erotic guides from within ourselves, then our lives are limited by external and alien forms, and we conform to the needs of a structure that is not based on human need, let alone an... See more