actual spinster | two victorian classics, the 'new woman' & utopian socialism @actual-spinster | Uploaded July 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
alt title: "a ramble about niche victorian shit"??! #classicscommunity

links ~

fund black and indigenous GNC communities impacted by incarceration: https://chuffed.org/project/support-b...

here is a link that splits your donation to 70 different orgs including bail funds: secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd

phone top ups for asylum seekers & refugees in lockdown (glasgow based): chuffed.org/project/phone-top-ups-for-asylum-seekers-refugee-in-covid19-lock-down?fbclid=IwAR3IwxjdJUGuvFsqIzuHuU5tFoVG1J7LCd33xJ_hAApb1cFE-rBQeEvbM8w

here is a link to a new York based lgbtq emergency bail fund : emergencyreleasefund.com

[uk based] united families & friends fundraiser campaign: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/united-...

uk blm fundraiser: gofundme.com/f/ukblm-fund

& the uk qtibipoc hardship fund: gf.me/u/x3jqw9

sex worker advocacy and resistance movement hardship fund: swarmcollective.org/donate

black minds matter uk: gf.me/u/x59z4d

support k: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-k-...
dayo's top surgery fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/dayos-top-...

childcare workers solidarity fund - nanny-solidarity-network.netlify.app
community action on prison expansion: cape-campaign.org

** resources about prison [and police] abolition **
readings of are prisons obsolete?: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

here is a link to more info / resources on and around prison abolition: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a...

links for some videos:
an abolition 101 session facilitated by the uk based community action on prison expansion: facebook.com/capecampaignuk/videos/1101068206937175
& a discussion lead by Black feminists in the us about what the world might look like after police + prisons are gone: youtu.be/f4ofj__h7ss

some things mentioned in the video ~
i wrote some more about the women in the room here: instagram.com/p/CASxxdPg71O
the new woman: fiction and feminism at the fin de siecle by sally ledger
the chapter “free love, free print: sex radicalism, censorship, and the biopolitical turn” by elizabeth carolyn miller (from slow print: literary radicalism & late victorian print culture)
on the threshold by isabella ford
the girl from the farm by gertrude dix
the image breakers by getrude dix