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“Zlospiv” is a compound word literally meaning “evil-singing” (from “zlo” (evil/wicked) + “spiv” (singing)). While it’s not a standard dictionary term, and was, apparently, coined by the band to convey their rage into a song, it follows a tradition of other curse-poems, war-chants, and maledictions.

Single: Zlospiv Released: 2025 Written by: Serhii Ivanov, Ihor Roshenets, Daryna Borodiy

Wicked-Song

I stoked the fire and set it smoking with green wood Oh, I cannot go out into the light for my foes

I will drench that green wood And when the foes fall asleep, I'll go roaming

Oh, when some fell asleep, others woke up They’ve blackened my name, a young maiden, long ago

Oh, my foes, spread your lies, and let the dogs lie with you* May death take your fathers and your mothers Oh, my foes, spread your lies, and let the dogs lie with you May death take your fathers and your mothers

Where we roamed the valley, the earth quaked Our feet washed in dew, there is no turning back The wind drove the devils across the open field And we hunted them down Singing a wicked-song to strike fear into our foes.

Sandra Lee Bartky, on the Vanguard of Feminist Philosophy, Dies at 81

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Sandra Lee Bartky taught philosophy and gender and ladies’s research on the College of Illinois at Chicago. Credit score Roberta Dupuis-Devlin

Sandra Lee Bartky, an influential feminist thinker who argued that ladies have been subconsciously submitting to males by accepting an unnatural cultural commonplace for the best feminine…

Sandra Lee Bartky’s essay “Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power,” reflects Berger’s idea of “Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at” in the way she describes how women’s movements are self watching – there is a limited sphere of movements deemed appropriate for femininity. Foucault writes about ‘The Panopticon’, prisons that are designed for constant surveillance. Cells where back lit so everything inside could be seen, the building was designed to echo, so all noises could be heard. A central watch tower with blacked out windows meant that prisoners may or may not be being watched. There were also guard walk ways above the cells that couldn’t be seen from them. The idea was of self surveillance, the uncertainty of whether you were being watched or not suppressed the prisoner into order and obedience. Bartky applies this to the surveillance of women. Women are watched wherever they go, in every situation, and in order to succeed as a woman, they craft their movements to fit the feminine ideal.

  What is interesting in Bartky’s essay, and I think a fair criticism of it, is the lack of space for resistance. It is written about although every women adheres to these rules. This is needed as move women are subject to them than we like to admit. If there was room for exceptions, people would make exceptions of themselves so as not to victimized or to make what Bartky says irrelevant to them.