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Date: 03/04/2025
Location: Waldheimstrasse, Bern

Intersectionality - one of the few terms [for now] that has not been taken over and thrown back at us as an insult. The most vulnerable people are affected by a multitude of discriminations. When a group of so called 'radical feminists' exclude Sex Workers [SWERF] or Transpeople [TERF] it also feels like a takeover of the term: feminism.


Photo description: A blooming tree on the left in front of a building, balconies of another building on the right. In the middle a round concrete silo with a feminist collage on top that reads: NO SWERFS NO TERFS NO BIGOTS


#Feminist #FeministStrike #Femicide #Feminicide #Feminizid #PatriarchyKills #Collage #FeministCollage #CollagesFeministes #Bern #Switzerland #Féminicide #MeToo #GreveFeministe #Sexism #WomanLifeFreedom #Revolution #NiUnaMenos
Draft: Date: 21/03/2025
Location: Lorrainebad, Bern

The Slogan: Macht aus dem Staat Gurkensalat (in its orginal Swiss German version: Machet usem Staat Gurkesalat) [Turn the state into cucumber salad] from the 80ies is transformed into a feminist message: Macht aus dem Patriarchat Gurkensalat [Turn the patriarchy into cucumber salad].

Patriarchy is still one of the fundamental structural problems in our societies. It remains the breeding ground for sexist thinking and the blueprint for power from the top down. We have not managed to smash it, yet already we see this massive anti-feminist backlash from without – and within like from the tiktoked hipsterification of tradwifes or TERFs or many other forms of "enemy feminisms" > Sophie Lewis newest book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2440-enemy-feminisms

Photo description: A wooden wall with some grafiti on the left with a pathway next to the river on the right is a feminist collage pasted that reads: MACHT AUS DEM PATRIARCHAT GURKENSALAT [translates to: Turn the patriarchy into cucumber salad]


#Feminist #FeministStrike #Femicide #Feminicide #Feminizid #PatriarchyKills #Collage #FeministCollage #CollagesFeministes #Bern #Switzerland #Féminicide #MeToo #GreveFeministe #Sexism #WomanLifeFreedom #Revolution #NiUnaMenos

"Today, March 8. International Women's Day, i upload this mix from 2019. If i would re-make this mix i would no longer include M.I.A (conspiracy) or Amanda Palmer (because of the Neil Gaiman sexual assault allegations). But hey."

pieceoplastic.com/2018/12/21/t
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mixcloud.com/pieceoplastic/the

Pieceoplastic · The Future Is Feminist – A Selectah J Mix
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Date: 05/03/2025
Location: Engehaldenstrasse, Bern

This collage* is an homage to the famous slogan from more than fifty years ago. During the uprising in May 1968 they wrote the following in the streets of Paris: « Sous les pavés, la plage ! », which translates to: «Under the cobblestones, the beach!». A shout out for freedom and liberation.

With the upcoming Women’s Day on march the eighth, the feeling of rage drives us as we speak out against all ongoing violence and murders/femicides.

* The slogan was first pasted in the streets of Paris in 2024. [CW Meta: https://www.instagram.com/collages_feminicides_paris/]

Photo description: The photo shows a wall with graffitis on the board of a river with the reflection on the water. Over a spray painted big R a feminist collage is pasted that reads: «SOUS NOS COLLAGES, LA RAGE» which translates to: «UNDERNEATH OUR COLLAGES, RAGE!»

#Feminist #FeministStrike #Femicide #Feminicide #Feminizid #PatriarchyKills #Collage #FeministCollage #CollagesFeministes #Bern #Switzerland #Féminicide #MeToo #GreveFeministe #Sexism #WomanLifeFreedom #Revolution #NiUnaMenos

8M Feminist march: Decolonial internationalist revolutionary feminist block

De Dam, Amsterdam, zaterdag 8 maart om 12:00 CET

Feministas en Holanda (source)

🚨 Calling our feminist comrades to take back the streets of Amsterdam this 8M! 🚨

❤️‍🔥 Join our decolonial, internationalist, revolutionary feminist block at the 8M Feminist march in Amsterdam! ❤️‍🔥

🔥 This 8M – International Working Women’s Day – we don’t celebrate, we strike! We rise, resist, and organize against fascism, Zionism, patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism, and war.

🍉 From the margins to the frontlines, our fight is collective, our resistance knows no borders. Our feminism is internationalist. Our struggle is for liberation.

✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼 We march as and for women, trans, non-binary people, queer, marikas and other gender-expansive folx, Black, Brown and Indigenous communities, students, undocumented immigrants & refugees, workers (including sex workers), Palestinian, Arab and Muslim siblings, siblings with disabilities, survivors of gender-based violence, the working class, abolitionist movements, neurodivergent and mad folks, land and environmental defenders. ALL those who refuse to be erased, silenced, or controlled by the fascist grip – us, who resist, who fight, and who dream of liberated futures!

💚💜 Share. Re-Post. Join us. Mobilize. Strike. The feminist struggle is collective. See you on 8M! 💚💜

🔻 Long live the feminist, queer & racialized workers’ struggle!

🔻 Long live international solidarity!

🔻 Long live the intifada!

🔻 Victory to resistance - until colonialism, zionism, capitalism, racism and cis-heteropatriarchy fall!

⛓️💥 Read the full call to action here.

🖼️ Art & Design by mire moschella

acties.todon.nl/event/8m-femin

Date: 21/02/2025
Location: Tiefenau, Bern

Does this sound shocking?! In the following article [in German], comparing the numbers of these last years, they found every third murder in switzerland to be a femicide: https://daslamm.ch/maenner-toeten-frauen-und-die-schweiz-nimmt-es-hin/

For the past years the total added up to one femicide every 2 weeks. So far the news in 2025 are pointing to a doubling of this sad and grim balance: There were 8 femicides in 8 weeks. How is this possible?!

Photo description: The photo shows the pilar of a bridge with graffitis on it and a feminist collage pasting that reads: «JEDER 3. MORD IN DER SCHWEIZ EIN FEMIZID» which translates to: EVERY THIRD MURDER IN SWITZERLAND IS A FEMICIDE

#Feminist #FeministStrike #Femicide #Feminicide #Feminizid #PatriarchyKills #Collage #FeministCollage #CollagesFeministes #Bern #Switzerland #Féminicide #MeToo #GreveFeministe #Sexism #WomanLifeFreedom #Revolution #NiUnaMenos
Date: 05/02/2025
Location: Fischermätteli, Bern

With the rise of fascism all over the world – accelerated by what is currently happening in the so called US – marginalised people will be the first to suffer. Abortion and trans rights are being denied. Racist attacks are on the rise. Essential medication gets refused. Aid to war zones are cut.

The way we read this pasting: if a feminist revolution is not antifascist, it does not deserve to call itself by that name.

Photo description: The photo shows a wooden shed with trees and bushes. On the wall of the shed a feminist collage pasting that reads: «LA REVOLUTION FEMINISTE EST ANTIFASCISTE» which translates to: The feminist revolution is antifascist.

#Feminist #FeministStrike #Femicide #Feminicide #Feminizid #PatriarchyKills #Collage #FeministCollage #CollagesFeministes #Bern #Switzerland #Féminicide #MeToo #GreveFeministe #Sexism #WomanLifeFreedom #Revolution #NiUnaMenos #Antifa
Date: 22/01/2025
Location: Bern West

It feels like in this collage, ‘rapist’ could easily be replaced with ‘fascist’/‘racist’/‘transphobe’/etc. It is beyond comprehension how a convicted felon and rapist could take office as the president of the so called United States – notably for the second time. If only the implications would be limited to his country. But we live in a troubled world with wars, genocide, climate catastrophes and a capitalist system that marginalises so many people. This has to be addressed on a global level. As much as the Nazi-Salute of Elon Musk at the inauguration sends a clear message to the far right, Trump being a rapist encourages all the Andrew Tates out there to act in impunity… these are really dark and difficult times.

Photo description: The photo shows the wall of an underpass on the left side with graffitis and a feminist collage that reads: «RAPIST IN THE WHITE HOUSE – RAPE CULTURE WORLDWIDE»

#Feminist #FeministStrike #Femicide #Feminicide #Feminizid #PatriarchyKills #Collage #FeministCollage #CollagesFeministes #Bern #Switzerland #Féminicide #MeToo #GreveFeministe #Sexism #WomanLifeFreedom #Revolution #NiUnaMenos
Date: 03/01/2025
Location: Bern, Murtenstrasse

In her statement after the rape trial in Avignon on December the 19th 2024, Gisèle Pelicot talks about the toll it has taken on her extended family and expresses how grateful she is for the support she has received from so many people. She also mentioned the many unknown victims remaining in the shadows! She wants them to know that they share the same fight.
Even though all 52 [?stimmt die Zahl?] abusers were sentenced, up to 20 years in case of her husband, some have announced that they will appeal the ruling.
With her brave stance to make her trial public – which is something she had to fight for – Gisèle Pelicot has truly shown how shame can change sides.

Photo description 1: The photo shows the wall of an underpass on the left side with graffitis and a feminist collage that reads: «SHAME CAN CHANGE SIDES - MERCI GISELE»

Photo description 2: The photo shows a round pillar of an underpass with the street in the background. On the pillar is a feminist pasted collage that reads: «#NIUNAMENOS»

#Feminist #FeministStrike #Femicide #Feminicide #Feminizid #PatriarchyKills #Collage #FeministCollage #CollagesFeministes #Bern #Switzerland #Féminicide #MeToo #GreveFeministe #Sexism #WomanLifeFreedom #Revolution #NiUnaMenos
Date: 27/11/2024 Location: Bern, Ladenwand-Passerelle. November 25th was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. #Femicides are the tip of the iceberg. Unlike domestic violence, they sometimes get covered in the media here in Switzerland. Even though media coverage did improve in recent years, a femicide too often gets framed as a 'family drama' or 'tragedy'. Call it what it is, murder. The power of the media and its use of language should never be underestimated in the trivialisation of femicide. Photo description: The photo shows a wall with posters in front of a train station. A feminist collage is pasted on it and reads: «FEMINIZIDE: • F̶A̶M̶I̶L̶I̶E̶N̶D̶R̶A̶M̶A̶ • MORD» which translates to «FEMINICIDE: • F̶A̶M̶I̶L̶Y̶D̶R̶A̶M̶A̶ • MURDER» #Feminist #FeministStrike #Femicide #Feminicide #Feminizid #PatriarchyKills #Collage #FeministCollage #CollagesFeministes #Bern #Switzerland #Féminicide #MeToo #GreveFeministe #Sexism #WomanLifeFreedom #Revolution #NiUnaMenos
Date: 13/11/2024
Location: Bern, Alpeneggstrasse

The slogan «Woman, Life, Freedom» has its origins in the women-led Kurdish movement (Jin, Jiyan, Azadî). It was picked up by the protests in Iran in 2022, following the death of Mahsa Amini, who was killed by the so called ‘morality’ police for not dressing up to their standards.

In October 2024 in a widely shared video on social media, we saw a woman in Teheran walking around in her underwear. It is reported that she acted in protest after being assaulted by campus security guards. The authorities on their part frame it as a mental breakdown. Another classic chess move in the sexist game of discrediting women, of denying their bodily autonomy and their right to protest against repressions.


Photo description: The photo shows a wall with graffitis in front of a house, a tree on the right and some plants hanging over the wall. A feminist collage is pasted on it and reads: «WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM».

#Feminist #FeministStrike #Femicide #Feminicide #Feminizid #PatriarchyKills #Collage #FeministCollage #CollagesFeministes #Bern #Switzerland #Féminicide #MeToo #GreveFeministe #Sexism #Revolution #NiUnaMenos #WomanLifeFreedom
Date: 24/10/2024
Location: Bern, Seftau



When the latest femicide in Switzerland was reported in a local newspaper, the author points out the foreign origins of the husband, who first killed his wife, and then himself. She was only 29 years old (source: https://www.stopfemizid.ch). Later on the author describes how in general terms there is a rise in femicides. We can only speculate about the journalists intention, but whether it was on purpose or out of naiveté, the media should know better and always consider a bad faith reading. As it is, it reads like a dog whistle for all the right wing racists, who will not shy away from saying the quiet part out loud. This will fuel their xenophobic anti-immigration politics.
Sexual violence against women does NOT have a Migration background.

Photo description: The photo shows a hydroelectric power station and a river in the foreground. On one part of the building a feminist collage is pasted with the slogan: «SEXUELLE GEWALT HAT KEINEN MIGRATIONSHINTERGRUND» which translates to «Sexual violence has no migration background»

#Feminist #FeministStrike #Femicide #Feminicide #Feminizid #PatriarchyKills #Collage #FeministCollage #CollagesFeministes #Bern #Switzerland #Féminicide #MeToo #GreveFeministe #Sexism #Revolution #NiUnaMenos