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23 Oct, 2019
Excellent synthesis on the operative male mythologies and hierarchical violence of the global medical fertility industry.
Ms. Jacobs is an Indian immigrant American, raised in India. She brings both a personal and geopolitical lens to the topic of the medical fertility industry and female resource extraction.
This is an astonishing synthesis of colonial and neocolonial subjugation of women alongside nations - written with astute scholarly inquiry and personal compassion for the many facets of how the brutal hierarchy of Empire economics and caste/race all combine to keep women between a rock and a hard place, while at the same time elevating the male mythology of Madonna & child. All about asking the question "What kind of liberation is your choice when it is predicated upon your enslavement?".
Highly recommend for any student of feminism, religious studies, and economic justice. Also recommend to anyone horrified by the normalization of surrogacy by paid strangers who risk their lives and receive no long term life insurance or inheritance. What will the children gestated in "purchased wombs" of impoverished women think when they figure out that the woman who gestated them was basically paid and tossed aside, and could be dying in a ditch someplace.
Jacobs touches on many dimensions of colonialism and neocolonialism pertaining to the female body and female embodiment - and the pressing spiritual need to decolonize our hearts & minds from what is a highly exploitative modern global plantation of outsourcing that serves the most elite in western, global north countries.
An inquiry full of meaning and depth, on behalf of exposing a truth that sets us free - for the benefit of all beings.
31 Oct, 2021
Only one Harry Belafonte!
Harry Belafonte, on a Robert Glasper track, talks about how he was 'one of the ones who got over.' This body of work contains a wide range of songs, Belafonte's genius could sing anything. From beautiful crooning to shouting and traditional spirituals and entertaining the racist masses.
12 May, 2018
Biodegradeable and sleek size - yet surprisingly tough and good for scrubbing too!
Very pleased with these sponges. Biodegradeable is important - and the other ones I've tried are either nonabsorbent and expensive, or fall apart a bit more quickly than I'd like. These are winners!!! The sleek thinner size takes a little getting used to, but it actually helps more effective scrubbing and wiping.
Do yourself a favor and switch to these!