Midnight Biscuits

Showing and talking about Patriarchy Resources on the web: videos, articles, book excerpts

Videos on patriarchy, starting with this trilogy:

Patriarchies: systems of male domination
Patriarchal Law
Patriarchal Religion and Custom

Silencing Women's Speech

Tracking Systems of Domination

The Distaff and Female Power

Persecutory Cultures

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Israel carrying out ‘live-streamed genocide’ in Gaza, Amnesty says Amnesty accuses US President Donald Trump of committing a ‘multiplicity of assaults’ on human rights.

Israel is perpetrating a “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza, committing illegal acts with the “specific intent” of wiping out Palestinians, Amnesty International has said. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

Monochrome photograph featuring a Japanese woman standing at a podium to the left while behind her are a row of seated women and above their heads are long rectangular white banners with Japanese texts on each, all in an interior space

Banners carrying the names of influential women at a meeting ofJapanese women suffragists in Tokyo, 1928. In Japan weomen were granted the vote in 1945 #womensart

Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza. The full effects of that are not immediately clear, but the territory’s desalination plants receive power for producing drinking water.

Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza,the territory’s desalination plants receive power for producing drinking water.This announcement comes a week after Israel cut off all supplies of goods to the territory to over 2 million people. apnews.com/article/gaza...

YouTube video by Letters Live FKA Twigs and Minnie Driver read letters about the secret fury of 'nice' women

The response read by Mini Driver. #InternationalWomensDay
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Corporate rape is still rape.

Fuck. This hits kind of heavy in my bones. I am kind of like this.

ATTN: HHS EMPLOYEES If you work for HHS, read this BEFORE you open certain emails

#HHS firing email, get your work record Before You read it.
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Abstract photography collages. Portraits of urbanity with textured geometric elements. These three compositions are close to my heart and important to me as they were my first ever posts on a social network three and a half years ago.
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‘People go just to hear a kind word’ The rise of ‘witch hunts’ against healers and fortune tellers in Chechnya — Meduza In recent years, two parallel processes have been unfolding in Chechnya. On one hand, the local authorities have pushed for a revival of “Islamic values,” publicly displaying their religious devotion....

Witch hunt of diviners and folk healers in Chechnya, mostly targeting women: public humiliations, arrests, even abductions, interrogations, and "confessions" for things like collecting water and stones from sacred places, or leaving small bundles of salt in courtyards. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Painting of a Black male subject sitting on the intersection of green steel girders, wearing a white top, yellow-browm pants and a red cap, all against a bright blue background or sky

US painter Amy Sherald, "If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it,” 2019 #WomensArt

Trump is complicit in Gaza’s ethnic cleansing. Take to the streets on the 15th #London @pscupdates.bsky.social @stwc.bsky.social

#Art blue snail sketch.

#Art Future Faces that haunt as much as they smile.

If we don't fight the patriarchy within the machine now then we may not have the capacity to do so in the future.

‘Are we dating the same guy?’: Women turn to Facebook to uncover cheating and violence Experts say use of groups to warn others about dangerous men is indictment on governments’ failure to keep women safe

I was happy to speak to @hannahalothman.bsky.social about women using social media to check out whether men they are seeing are known by other women to be abusive. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A little creature 👽

The fact that this exists around us but we got stuck on this stupid planet with a bunch of man babies trying to work out their grievances is just so annoying.

Thinking about where sharing our stories of consciousness may lead us.

#Art Goodnight.

The elders gather to discuss what to do about MEGA MAGA. They conclude that the acronym will eventually collapse into the laps of the alphabet men. In the meantime, we plot in the shadows of time. Progress is slow and undefined.

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Day 27 #JanuArty2025 #JanuArty #Red

This was a collaborative work, based on a sketch Bill had done in coloured pencil. I liked it so much that I wanted to paint it. I added figures, cats, giraffes, monkeys aliens, and much texture.

It Takes a Village - 2019 #oilpainting #art #landscape #artist

#Art. From the back end of last year. Dinosaurs finding the light.

Target banks is a disgraceful term to obfuscate what they are doing in cataloguing human lives to kill at a later date.

Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft Since Oct. 7, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s staff embed with different units to support rollout, a join...

Leaked docs reveal Microsoft’s deep ties to the Israeli military. Since Oct. 7, sales of its cloud & AI services to the army have soared, with Microsoft embedded in major military infrastructures, aiding the Gaza slaughter. www.972mag.com/microsoft-az...

Isn't it strange that there are way more space images and science stuff on here opposed to X?

This Is Not A Nazi Salute There seems to be a common conviction among several commentators in and around the anti-woke sphere that Elon Musk’s ‘awkward gesture’ at Trump’s inauguration on Monday could not possibly have been a ...

So despite saying I wasn't going to start writing I got annoyed and started writing.

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Experts on fascist takeover say the first year is the window where they can be stopped. Otherwise, they will cause immense suffering before finally being overthrown.

Painting featuring a desert scene at early evening or morning with tall cacti silhouettes against a gold and purple mottled sky

'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #womensart

#Art. A rabbit looks into a white void while a cat sits on a boat.

The river is long and blue. Split but still flowing.

Funny how art can have a different meaning depending on your day.

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