I'm making a short film (poetry) on equality and I need YOUR help NOW

[svea]

Hi! I'm a 17-year old girl with a passion for filmmaking and I want to make a feminist short film (poetry slam) with the help of people from all over the world: YOU!

The video will be submitted to the German short film festival "Girls Go Movie" (A film festival for girls only). My goal is to raise awareness of still existing gender roles and especially discrimination against girls/women all over the world.
If I win the contest, 50% of the money will be donated to an organization helping girls worldwide.

I would like you to record your face (mouth only) in front of a white background saying the text. Keep it mind, it's to convince people, so please say it powerful and somewhat aggressive and pay attention to rhymes!
Send me the link to the uploaded sequence in the comments or to the following email-address: [email protected]
Include your name (if you want it to be shown in the film credits) and your country.

If there are any questions, feel free to contact me.
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Hi svea
You're very young, so I'll be gentle!
Your poem talks of being cisgendered and discusses 'gender' as the root of oppression.
These boards are full of feminists who reject 'gender' completely.
I believe that sex, not gender, is why women and girls are discriminated against.
And reading your poem -so do you!
In fact, your poem is great, everything you object to is gender - gender being the roles and stereotypes that we place on a SEX.

You are not cisgendered, because that word literally means "I'm ok with, aligned to, comfortable with the 'gender' expectations of my sex".

Gender is the stereotypes, and some people claim that most of us have those stereotypes in our brains, innately. I don't.
Sex is your biology.
Cis means same side.
Cis gendered means your sexed body, and your assigned package of stereotypes that are supposed to be innate to your ladybrain are 'matching'. Ladybrain in lady body = match, cisgendered.

No feminist is cisgendered, are they?

I'd advise you to do some reading on sex Vs gender and challenge yourself on what you believe.

Perhaps look at where in your poem you write gender, and whether what you are really saying is sex. And vice versa.

Good luck.

Thank you!
English is not my mother language, therefore I wasn't aware of the difference between gender and sex. In German they both translate to the same word, which I think is very unlucky.

I changed it to cis-girl, or should I just leave out the cis?
I also changed it to sex here: How are they supposed to understand, when they were killed before ever being alive because their sex would have needed to be male for them to survive?

I really want to make this short film, but somehow people just keep ignoring my post. Do you know where I could find a couple people to help me out? Would you record a video?

Thank you.

It must be difficult coming at this from another language.

I can't tell you what to do, but you really should take some time to understand the difference between gender and sex - the UK is currently in a time of huge legal turmoil because the two concepts are what our rights are hung upon, and many feminists are fighting to prevent sex based rights from being replaced with gender based rights.

In my opinion, noone is cis. There isn't a female who fully conforms to every stereotype without exception.
We all have a sex that cannot be changed.
None of us have a gender, it is something others want to impose upon us, as per all the examples in your poem.
Gender is harmful, because all it is is unfair expectations and stereotypes that society attached to a sex.

If you are happy with a bunch of stereotypes being applied to your sex, happy with the idea that there is a feminine mind, that girls don't play football, or are good at maths, and you believe that what MAKES girls female is all of those stereotypes and not their biology, then you might want to say you were cis.
Your whole poem tells me that you know what makes a person female is biology. And that you reject stereotypes being forced into females.
That is rejecting gender, and understanding that oppression is sex based.

I agree with that.

Sex is the target.
Gender is the weapon pointed at the target.

Gender is harmful.
Believing in gender is like asking "which weapon would you like to be shot with, the pink one or the blue?"
It doesn't allow the option to get rid of the weapons entirely. It validates the weapons. It doesn't allow the consideration that sex should not BE a target.

Terms like cis and trans relate only to the gender (stereotypes) that are chained to each sex, and whether you 'identify with' the stereotypes chained to your own sex ('cis') or whether you 'identify with' the stereotypes chained to the opposite sex ('trans')
Neither allows for the rejection of stereotypes. Gender, and gender identity, is claimed to be something we should celebrate.

It isn't.

Thank you! I understand what you're saying.

I really want to make this short film, but somehow people just keep ignoring my post. Do you know where I could find a couple people to help me out? Would you record a video?

You’d have to take out the ‘cis’ bits completely to make this a project that most women here would endorse, let alone participate in.

It’s quite a lot of work, so you’d have to be completely on board with the sentiment to allot the time to it!

While there are a few posters here who don’t object to the entire concept of ‘cis’, as a group we aren’t really your intended audience.

You’ll likely get a more productive response elsewhere, perhaps amongst younger women?

Good luck with the project!