June 2012
Why Trans-feminism is Not Compatible with Radical...
academicsilence:
hedonisticparadise:
I’ve been thinking about making this post for a while, but today’s the first time I’ve had an opportunity to do so.
Women are socialised to always accommodate males; we are taught to pander to them and priortise their wants over our own needs. We are taught to be bleeding hearts, ready to help anyone before fighting for our own rights. Men, however, are...
“It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls –...”
– “I’m not like the other girls”, Claudia Gray (via ceedling)
dyksfunctional:
“Seems like women are receptacles for everyone else’s problems…their husbands, their guy friends, their children, other people’s children, their bosses, co-workers, etc. I guess the same applies to political movements. No one ever asks the gay rights movement to solve everyone else’s problems, nor do they ask immigrant rights activists or labor rights activists. Got a problem? Go...
“Their mind is twisted, or they’re like used,” said one man. “They’ve seen...”
– Men Who Buy Sex: Who They Buy and What They Know (via notexactlycosmo)
And yet these fuckers, I’m sure, have no qualms about “purchasing the services” of a prostitute. And of course they fail/refuse to see that it is *their* sex that demands for women, even children, to be prostituted, pimped and...
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker (via becapecax3)
“We often talk about the “school-to-prison pipeline” for boys —but for girls, it...”
– Yasmin Vafa, “Invisible Prisoners: Why Are So Many Girls Placed in Solitary Confinement?” (via politicsoflocation)
check the racial stats this conveniently fails to mention: its mostly black girls and latinas.
(via bad-dominicana)
Yep, & 60% of Black girls (I don’t know the stats offhand for...
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“I think of myself as a trans ally. But I also think allies call each other on...”
– a wise lesbian on wbw space. (via bugbrennan)
“Personally, I think they all suffer from plain old “being boring” oppression....”
– Pretending You’re Oppressed: The New Internet Fad (via mohandasgandhi)
unfortunately its not just on the internet. ive been friends with and even dated people who legitimately MADE SHIT UP to sound moar oppressededer than they actually were in order to, of course, feel better about their boring...
The Dragon Fortress: I support Cathy Brennan. →
notexactlycosmo:
hedonisticparadise:
magicpoppy:
malheureuxmarxist:
academicsilence:
constellationsoflight:
shameandcupcakes:
killyourenemies:
Because she supports FEMALES and not individuals delusional fantasies.
I support Cathy Brennan because she doesn’t let herself be intimidated by pervy…
I support Cathy Brennan because she is one of the few people who actually fight...
queerlitsuperhero:
it is never just a show
it is never just a book
it is never just a movie
it is never just a comic
The way we treat characters in media reflects the ideas we have about real people, and then our media goes on to enforce how we treat those real people.
I am all for enjoying the media I consume (and contrary to how it must look, I do enjoy a lot of media) but I am critical...
dyksfunctional:
کچرا کنڈی: Early and Forced Marriage and Its Detrimental Effects on Children
apgap:
A forced marriage is one where the bride, groom or both do not want to get married but are forced to by others, usually their families. (Arranged marriages differ in that the spouses have free choice to accept or decline the marriage.)
Forced marriages are typically the result of gender...
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Curb sex trafficking by targeting demand,...
theunsexyfeminist:
After a while, it became routine.
Police would arrest Traci Flowers-Ned for prostitution, in city after city, and send her clients home, warning them not to come back.
Flowers-Ned, now a clinician at a San Francisco organization that helps victims of sex trafficking, shared her own history as a trafficking victim at a Capitol Hill briefing on Wednesday.
“If there’s a way to...
a personal blog: "101 Assaults in the War on... →
theniftiestnomad:
“Personally I’d like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a ‘surgical procedure’. If it’s not a life it shouldn’t matter, if it doesn’t harm a woman then she shouldn’t care, and don’t we want more transparency and education…
“When we confidently compare the “female mind” and the “male...”
– Cordelia Fine in Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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Dun Dun Dun... →
“It took a special kind of guts to be a fuckup as a woman, I thought. To say to...”
– Rachel Shukert, on Courtney Love (via eredit)
I read a piece once called “In Praise of The Hot Mess” or something similar. It was about Lana Del Rey specifically, but (of course) praised all hot messes. I was simultaneously infuriated and … kind of pleased to be (what society thinks is) a hot...
“isn’t [the fact that women who do gain social/political power often do little to...”
– sendforbromina (here)
This quote deserves a post of its own.
(via sento-bishojo)
“How is not wanting to hump a medical problem? Why are women required to take...”
– Nine Deuce “I don’t feel like humping, call 911!!” (via starlingswarm)
“There are several problems with the “you’re a prude!” approach when presented as...”
– Nine Deuce: Porn Part 9: The Opposite of Dudishness Is Prudishness
(via starlingswarm)
“Without doubt, the porn question has, since the 1970s, been the most...”
– Gail Dines (via starlingswarm)
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“One of the only studies of contemporary pornographic content found that the...”
– Gail Dines (via starlingswarm)
female-only spaces
expatriat:
females deserve female-only spaces because of material oppression that is aimed at female women outside of gender roles, which clearly vary from society to society. gender roles for women differ greatly no matter where you are or what background you come from, but females are generally oppressed worldwide because of their sex, not their gender. gender itself, meanwhile, is generally...
prey upon the weak: If you can't see the hypocrisy... →
academicsilence:
i-do-not-want-this:
…you’re probably radscum, or just oblivious.
It’s hypocrisy because you’re going against your own “don’t judge me based on my genitalia/functions” policy.
It’s transmisogyny because it implies that you’re “not a real woman” unless you’re proud of your womanly functions, and by extension, implies…
Okay, I’m giggling at this.
The craft-with-period-blood...
“‘Chloe liked Olivia,’ I read. And then it struck me how immense a change was...”
– Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own” (via gerutha)
roseverbena:
the origin of radscum
sendforbromina:
i’ve been seeing a lot of hostile posts about how evil radical feminists are, we should all die, we’re scum, etc. that’s fine, and you’re entitled to your opinion, but i do think i should at least explain to you how futile this all is. (hope my sisters in evil don’t mind that i’m revealing our secret backstory)
in the way far reaches of our...
whatispatriarchy:
Stop Patriarchy: “50 Shades of Grey”: Bad for Women! Bad for Sex!
stoppatriarchy:
Discussion… Tuesday, June 26 at Revolution Books in NYC 7-9:30 pm 146 West 26th Street, NYC
hosted by Sunsara Taylor and the project to End Pornography and Patriarchy: The Enslavement & Degradation of Women
50 Shades of Grey: Bad for Women! Bad for Sex!
50 Shades of Grey...
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Graphic Sexual Horror - BDSM, Pornography and...
theunsexyfeminist:
I re-watched Graphic Sexual Horror, a documentary about Brent Scott’s BDSM porn company called Insex, in order to write something on the subject soon. I find it truly amazing that most reviewers see this film as “fun” for those interested or involved with the BDSM scene, given its content. Here are the notes I made:
[Graphic sexual acts, including sexual and physical torture,...
Audre Lorde on BDSM and choice
Leigh: What about the doctrine of “live and let live” and civil liberties issues?
Audre: I don’t see that as the point. I’m not questioning anyone’s right to live. I’m saying we must observe the courses and implications of our lives. If we are talking about feminism then the personal is political and we can subject everything in our lives to scrutiny. We have been nurtured in a sick, abnormal society, and we should be in the process of reclaiming ourselves, not the terms of that society. This is complex. I speak not about condemnation but about recognizing what is happening and questioning what it means. I’m not willing to regiment anyone’s life. If we are to scrutinize our human relationships, we must be willing to scrutinize all aspects of those relationships. The subject of revolution is ourselves, is our lives.
Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially and economically.
Sadomasochism feeds the belief that domination is inevitable. It can be compared to the phenomenon of worshipping a godhead with two faces, and worshipping only the white part on the full moon and the black part on the dark of the moon, as if totally separate. But you cannot corral any aspect within your life, divorce its implications, whether it’s what you eat for breakfast or how you say goodbye. This is what integrity means.
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lolliguncula:
The Dragon Fortress: The Best of Meghan Murphy
malheureuxmarxist:
malheureuxmarxist:
Since Meghan Murphy has been chased away from being an author on feminisms.org, here’s some of my favorite essays of hers. She has been one of my biggest influences, and I’ve used her essays many times to explain issues better than I ever could. Please add your favorites to this
Why does the...
“Something about me being so fat and ugly your kids probably should commit...”
– Greece, N.Y. bus monitor Karen Klein • Discussing her anger with the students who relentlessly berated her in a hard-to-watch video that went viral yesterday. (Particularly with how they said her kids should kill themselves; her son had committed suicide ten years prior.) Despite her anger, she held...
Fati's story....obstetric fistula surgery
bugbrennan:
Sunday, 13 May 2012
Fati’s story….obstetric fistula surgery
Fati’s story
Fati has 4 children. All were born without any problems, but her fifth child was different. He got stuck. Slowly, painfully, she laboured for 4 days. Her husband found someone to help take her to the nearest hospital, several hours drive from their village. But the hospital turned them away. Fati and her...
