Ms Informed Podcast| Alice Weidel, Andrea Dworkin, and Right-Wing Women
The head of Germany's far-right anti-LGBTQIA+ party is a lesbian. Go figure.
Shownotes
Andrea Dworkin’s book Right-Wing Women
Writer Anne Helen Petersen writes about tradwife life for Elle Magazine
Das Sommer Interview mit Alice Weidel
SZ on why women vote for the AFD
Tagesschau on Alice Weidel and her contradictions
RBB poll on voters in Brandenburg
Natalie Wynn the witch trials of JK Rowling includes her summery of Andrea Dworking
Natalie Wynn on Jordan Peterson (includes her thoughts on the left)
This week’s distraction
This week’s distraction are floods in in Libya.
”Eight days after a 10-metre wall of water transformed a city of 100,000 people into a wasteland some people are still wearing the pyjamas they woke up in that terrible night. With loved ones lost, finding new clothes, washing, sleeping and eating are not priorities for the survivors of Derna.
Libyans from all over the country have rushed to help, and among them are rescue teams from the Libyan Red Crescent, some in crimson jackets, others in white hazmat suits, gloves and masks. Roads into Derna are filled with ambulances and trucks carrying food and water.
More than a week after the catastrophe they are still finding people alive, although the dead fill the mud-washed city of ruined buildings. One team reported on Sunday that they had rescued a family of five from a valley near the city.
At least 11,300 people have died in Derna and more than 10,000 are missing, according to the Libyan Red Crescent. More than 30,000 people from Derna are now homeless, UN agencies warn.
Residents say the threat to the city from the crumbling dams above it had been widely known. They also blame authorities for failing to evacuate people in time.
The extensive destruction of the city highlights the fragility of Libya’s situation, a country rich in oil but divided between two competing administrations, each backed by armed militias for nearly a decade. The conflicts have persisted since the 2011 Nato-backed Arab spring uprising that toppled the late leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Derna is in the east, and until 2019 was held by a succession of Islamist militant groups including branches of al-Qaida and Islamic State.”
Read more in the Guardian here.
This week Madhvi created
This week Madhvi created a new writing workshop that will take place in a quaint farmhouse in Brandenburg in October.
Spend some time writing in nature with me — open to experienced writers and those just starting out. Feel free to reach out if you have questions.
This week Rina read
This week Rina read “Almond” by Won-pyung Sohn. This story follows the life of a boy who has the inability to feel. Through a series of unfortunate events he meets an unlikely character that changes the trajectory of his life. I am only half way through but it is a simple, beautiful and somewhat odd novel.
This week’s inspiration
“Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.
She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich (LMU) with her brother, Hans. For her actions, she was executed by guillotine. Since the 1970s, Scholl has been extensively commemorated for her anti-Nazi resistance work.”
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