MeerderWörter’s Comments (group member since Jan 08, 2016)

MeerderWörter’s comments from the Our Shared Shelf group.

Griselda wrote: "MeerderWörter wrote: "Griselda wrote: "My library doesn't have this in its circulation :("

Maybe you can ask for an inter-library exchange. Also, I will try to convince my library to buy this book..."

Or you head over to Pay-It-Forward and ask someone if they can send it to you. Would also be an option.

Welcome on board Sarah! I hope you enjoy the time with all of us here! I always love to see when new members join us, the more voices we have, the more we can learn and the stronger we are!

So, I have written down and explained all the things that you need to navigate OurSharedShelf down below:



In the upper-right corner you have certain "links" that will get you somewhere specific.
"Group home": Will bring you to the main-page.
The main-page is useful when you want to have a quick look at all th books we have read already, just scroll down, and above the quotes are the books we've read.
"Invite People": Name says it all:)
"Bookshelf": Here you see all the suggested books for OSS. You can suggest books here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
"Photos": Here you can upload photos. Check it out, they are cool:)
"Members": Here you can go look for members... by name, number of comments...(yep, the one right on number 1 is me. I have no idea how I got there;))
"Discussions": looks like Group Home, just that it is the discussions only. Sometimes useful, especially because you have them all in one place...
"Polls": We only had one poll so far. But in case we have another one... they are all stored in here. Hey mods, I know Emma chooses the book and I have no problem with that, but what about another poll sometime this year?

The moderators can be found beneath that "box" on the main page. They keep everything tidy here.

The discussions are organised in folders(the larger sections such as "Feminism" or "Intersectionality"), and within the section every member who has their email verified (that's important, don't forget to do it) can "create a new topic" (upper right, below are all the existing topics). When you create a topic, you can link it to a certain book, but you don't have to, some discussions are not about a particular book, but just general discussions about an issue. When you have created your topic, it'll be on the very top, as the topics are ranked after date, with the newest one on the very top. You can edit your own topics, which you can do with the little "edit" button on the right side. There you can amend the title, delete the topic, among others.
One last thing: In the very upper-right corner, you have, from left to right:
"Notifications": You will get a notification when a new comment has been made in a topic where you have made a coment in(so you will see that I have made a comment, this one here), but this normally takes about 15 minutes. At least from my experience.
"Group discussions": Basically the same, just that it is for all your groups, not OSS alone.
"Mail": Your PMs(Private Messages), which are like emails.
"Friends": Self-explanatory
And finally your account settings.


I think that was it for now. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask me or a moderator, we will be able to help you out.

Alessandro wrote: "Hello everybody. I just joined this wonderful and positive community and I would love to learn more on problems like gender inequality and racism, per example. I can call myself a feminist because ..."

Hello Alessandro!
Welcome on board! Stay around, read threads... then you'll learn about feminism... that's one of the easiest ways... you'll improve your English as a matter of fact as well...
I wouldn't say the English is difficult to understand, but you better ask someone else as well, I am not the most reliable source on dishing out reading levels... But no, it wasn't super-difficult for me.

As I said, read threads on here, read the books to the threads... then you will learn a lot. It's what we all do here. We read and write. That's how we learn. And I have to say I have learned a lot here.

Being a feminist is hard work, you will ask yourself a lot of questions and question a lot if you read a lot of feminist works. You will star in disbelief at the books, and sometimes you might nod in total agreement. It all happens. Some you will say are crap, while others impress you very much. That's normal.

Being a feminist is hard work, but it is also really cool:)

Meelie wrote: "Yes, yes she did! Bloody brilliantly!"

*geez* Awesome!

And speaking of feminism:
https://twitter.com/jenyamato/status/...
If you remember, Shailene Woodley was with the water protectors at Standing Rock, ND; and was arrested along with 26 others:
http://time.com/4538557/shailene-wood...

Meelie wrote: ""

Did she really?

Lewis wrote: "MeerderWörter wrote: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f8S5...

I love how P!nk grilled him there."

I just listened that song and it's amazingly emotionnal.

It almost make me cry...

Thanks fo..."

I love it. It really is moving. It keeps me going...

Another one, that I really like, and that has many different versions is Sing Our Own Song. The one I always listen to is from Buffy Sainte Marie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpRp4...

Griselda wrote: "My library doesn't have this in its circulation :("

Maybe you can ask for an inter-library exchange. Also, I will try to convince my library to buy this book. (They did My Life on the Road, so chances are good:))

Agnes Szalkowska wrote: "Hello Girls and Boys my Dear Friends and Family !!

After short break. We come back with ours Oss Chats on Skype weekly base.

The closes will be in 06/01/2018. Saturday January 6 , 2018. We start..."

Topics are:
1. White feminism and black feminism: What are the differences between the two? General discussion about the two.
2. Disability: How is it important in the feminist discussion? How can feminists help disabled people? What is important to know about disabilities?
3. Free form discussion;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f8S5...

I love how P!nk grilled him there.

Sascha wrote: "I think this one is wonderful. Old one but still exciting. I guess this song has a message which is as feminist as it is pro-working class music. There is also a great movie by Ken Loach with the s..."

I never heard this in English before - wonderful song:)

Pam wrote: "Anytime. As soon as people have read the book, topics will pop up in the folder:)
I look forward to discuss this book with you all! ."

Or you can start a topic too.

This topic section "Announcem..."

The link doesn't seem to work:(
Okay, so:
Every book gets its folder. The folders are the big sections that you see when you scroll down the OSS start site. Now when you click at a folder, you see all the topics in it(not just the first 6), and you can create a new topic in the upper right corner, near the "Group Home", "Members", "Discussions" and so on...
And then a new site opens, where you can decide in which folder you want to put the new topic, the title of the topic, the opening comment and whether this topic is about a certain book (as in not all topics are related to specific books...)

That should do it at first:)

Chris wrote: "Happy new year, Emma! I'm joining for the first time and will be listening to the author's audiobook this coming week. Great choice.

I've been a supporter of Southern Poverty Law Center for a few ..."

Anytime. As soon as people have read the book, topics will pop up in the folder:)
I look forward to discuss this book with you all!

Debbie wrote: "Pam wrote: "MeerderWörter wrote: " .White feminism is not about one's skin colour, but about attitudes.
It is called white feminism since mostly white women have these attitudes. It does not mean t..."

It's actually more complicated than that. "Black feminism" as a term has its right to exist very much so.

We use cisgender and transgender, right? Because there are different experiences that go along with each of them. The same it is with feminism - "black feminism" very much has its right to exist as a term.

Stephanie wrote: "This will be my first book - i'm so excited. I have a lot happening as my Dad was given 3months to live last november (cancer). so this will be my happy control place."

Sorry to hear that, Stephanie.

Mégane wrote: "Hello everyone,
I'm not sure this is the place to post this but i don't see any other place to do so.

I wanted to talk about the Time's Up campaign currently going on.
Recently, 300 prominent ac..."

Of course it is an important initiative to share!

Ester wrote: "I want to say about you, all of you. Damn translator."

:)
We learn all from each other. Language- and other-wise:)

Ester wrote: "Hello our shared bookshelf. In these months at OSS I have started to open my eyes and see other realities I did not know. It is very sad for me to recognize it because I am already a middle-aged wo..."

Middle-aged or not, you learn. And that is the important thing.

McKenna wrote: "MeerderWörter wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Amnesty International made missing and murdered First Nations women a campaign in 2004. Here is a link to their report: https://www.amnesty.ca/sites/amnesty/..."
Sixth-or-so-great uncle? May I ask when he lived?


Elizabeth wrote: "Happy to share with everyone. Not many people know much about Indigenous peoples."

Yes, that is sadly true. They fight so many fights at once, not just #MMIW

Elizabeth wrote: "Amnesty International made missing and murdered First Nations women a campaign in 2004. Here is a link to their report: https://www.amnesty.ca/sites/amnesty/.... T..."

Native Americans don't have jurisdiction over Non-Natives on reserves. Sounds bizarre, right?

And thank you for all the links, very much appreciated!

Michaela wrote: "Gerade eben über einen interessanten Artikel gestoßen, der schön aufzeigt, warum Intersektionalität so wichtig ist. Wie rechte Parteien Sexismus nutzen, um Rassismus zu betreiben, um gleichzeitig S..."

Oh ja, sehr wichtig. Intersektionalität ist sehr wichtig. Denn wir alle sind aus verschiedenen Identitäten gemacht, wenn man das so nennen will. Wir sind cisgender, transgender, weiß, nicht-weiß und so weiter. Und wir werden nicht nur aufgrund unseres Geschlechts unterdrückt.
Die wirken alle zusammen, und so kann sich Diskriminierung aufbauen, oder zwischen den Identitäten gibt es Diskriminierung.

Es gibt viel zu tun.