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intersectional feminism♀️and lesbian ⚢ literature, history, and analysis
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Two feminist collectives - made up of Iranians, Hazaras and Kurds (one is Iranians only I think, the other all three) - have released important statements about this Israel/USA vs Iran war, that you should read and share.
Feminist Liberation Group: shorter.me/l5cPo
Roja: rb.gy/udstk1
Feminist Liberation Group: shorter.me/l5cPo
Roja: rb.gy/udstk1
June 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Two feminist collectives - made up of Iranians, Hazaras and Kurds (one is Iranians only I think, the other all three) - have released important statements about this Israel/USA vs Iran war, that you should read and share.
Feminist Liberation Group: shorter.me/l5cPo
Roja: rb.gy/udstk1
Feminist Liberation Group: shorter.me/l5cPo
Roja: rb.gy/udstk1
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Crenshaw "different marginalisations can combine in constructive ways to produce oppressions greater than the sum of their parts"
Every idiot who wants a nice word for being an antifeminist:
"This means that almost no men hold patriarchal power".
Every idiot who wants a nice word for being an antifeminist:
"This means that almost no men hold patriarchal power".
blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/wp-content/u...
Here is Crenshaw's essay for any idiot who thinks it says "intersectionalism is when you dismiss all intersections and act as if people marginalised on one axis cannot oppress on another". Try and find the section that says so.
Here is Crenshaw's essay for any idiot who thinks it says "intersectionalism is when you dismiss all intersections and act as if people marginalised on one axis cannot oppress on another". Try and find the section that says so.
blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu
June 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Crenshaw "different marginalisations can combine in constructive ways to produce oppressions greater than the sum of their parts"
Every idiot who wants a nice word for being an antifeminist:
"This means that almost no men hold patriarchal power".
Every idiot who wants a nice word for being an antifeminist:
"This means that almost no men hold patriarchal power".
Making your “feminism” about hating men is still…centering men.
June 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Making your “feminism” about hating men is still…centering men.
Calling rape “non consensual sex” is like calling stealing “non authorized borrowing”.
Call it what it is. Expose the harm.
Call it what it is. Expose the harm.
June 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Calling rape “non consensual sex” is like calling stealing “non authorized borrowing”.
Call it what it is. Expose the harm.
Call it what it is. Expose the harm.
“…across the world, there is a woman just like me. with the same abilities and the same desires, same work ethic and love for her family, who would most likely make better films and better speeches. only she sits in a refugee camp, and she has no voice.”
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie
June 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
“…across the world, there is a woman just like me. with the same abilities and the same desires, same work ethic and love for her family, who would most likely make better films and better speeches. only she sits in a refugee camp, and she has no voice.”
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie
Calling rape “non consensual sex” is like calling stealing “non authorized borrowing”.
Call it what it is. Use language that exposes the harm, not sugarcoats it.
Call it what it is. Use language that exposes the harm, not sugarcoats it.
June 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Calling rape “non consensual sex” is like calling stealing “non authorized borrowing”.
Call it what it is. Use language that exposes the harm, not sugarcoats it.
Call it what it is. Use language that exposes the harm, not sugarcoats it.
“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
― Adrienne Rich
― Adrienne Rich
June 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
― Adrienne Rich
― Adrienne Rich
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"Is BDSM an abusive, patriarchal, misogynistic practice or is it an enlightened sacrament resting on an incorruptible foundation of communication and consent?"
Well, neither.
It's Sex LARP.
Well, neither.
It's Sex LARP.
June 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"Is BDSM an abusive, patriarchal, misogynistic practice or is it an enlightened sacrament resting on an incorruptible foundation of communication and consent?"
Well, neither.
It's Sex LARP.
Well, neither.
It's Sex LARP.
What are your thoughts on sexuality — hetero, bi/pan, lesbian/gay, and everything else? Are these choices? Are they innate? Are they a combination, something in between?
June 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
What are your thoughts on sexuality — hetero, bi/pan, lesbian/gay, and everything else? Are these choices? Are they innate? Are they a combination, something in between?
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iF tHe StOnEwAlL rIoTs HaPpEnEd ToDaY.
June 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
iF tHe StOnEwAlL rIoTs HaPpEnEd ToDaY.
I should like to remind the women present here that no group, no community, no country, has ever got rid of its disability by the generosity of the oppressor.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
…as quoted in my essay ‘Beyond the West: The Centuries-Old Feminisms of India’
— Jawaharlal Nehru
…as quoted in my essay ‘Beyond the West: The Centuries-Old Feminisms of India’
June 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I should like to remind the women present here that no group, no community, no country, has ever got rid of its disability by the generosity of the oppressor.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
…as quoted in my essay ‘Beyond the West: The Centuries-Old Feminisms of India’
— Jawaharlal Nehru
…as quoted in my essay ‘Beyond the West: The Centuries-Old Feminisms of India’
I should like to remind the women present here that no group, no community, no country, has ever got rid of its disability by the generosity of the oppressor.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
…as quoted in my essay ‘Beyond the West: The Centuries-Old Feminisms of India’
— Jawaharlal Nehru
…as quoted in my essay ‘Beyond the West: The Centuries-Old Feminisms of India’
June 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I should like to remind the women present here that no group, no community, no country, has ever got rid of its disability by the generosity of the oppressor.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
…as quoted in my essay ‘Beyond the West: The Centuries-Old Feminisms of India’
— Jawaharlal Nehru
…as quoted in my essay ‘Beyond the West: The Centuries-Old Feminisms of India’
“I don't think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it's only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.”
― Angela Y. Davis
― Angela Y. Davis
June 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“I don't think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it's only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.”
― Angela Y. Davis
― Angela Y. Davis
“…Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
— Ursula K. Le Guin
— Ursula K. Le Guin
June 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“…Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
— Ursula K. Le Guin
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Maybe at some point we ought to examine how uncritical consumption of corporate IPs tuned to mass-market appeals and childhood nostalgia forms the core of a reactionary politics, because people would rather be cozy and cute and inoffensive than disturb the 'peace' of an unjust status quo.
apparently people on tumblr are doing a "hogwarts legacy pride week" (where they're sharing LGBTQ-themed hogwarts legacy content) how about you not do that let's stop trying to pretend like it is possible to make pro-LGBTQ content out of that franchise
June 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Maybe at some point we ought to examine how uncritical consumption of corporate IPs tuned to mass-market appeals and childhood nostalgia forms the core of a reactionary politics, because people would rather be cozy and cute and inoffensive than disturb the 'peace' of an unjust status quo.
About white women teaching antiracism exclusively to other white women.
June 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
About white women teaching antiracism exclusively to other white women.
In what can only be described as a protest against accountability, Pornhub just shut down entirely in France, refusing to implement safeguards required by law.
The laws are age verification laws, to protect children and underaged minors. 🤮
The laws are age verification laws, to protect children and underaged minors. 🤮
June 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In what can only be described as a protest against accountability, Pornhub just shut down entirely in France, refusing to implement safeguards required by law.
The laws are age verification laws, to protect children and underaged minors. 🤮
The laws are age verification laws, to protect children and underaged minors. 🤮
A few days ago, seventeen year old Sana Yousef was killed by a man who wouldn’t take her ‘no’ for answer.
June 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
A few days ago, seventeen year old Sana Yousef was killed by a man who wouldn’t take her ‘no’ for answer.
On the second day of pride month, American gay, indigenous actor Jonathan Joss was murdered.
He was shot dead, in what his husband called a homophobic hate crime. Joss’ newlywed husband said Joss' alleged killer called him & his husband "jotos," a Spanish slur for gay people.
This is a tragedy.
He was shot dead, in what his husband called a homophobic hate crime. Joss’ newlywed husband said Joss' alleged killer called him & his husband "jotos," a Spanish slur for gay people.
This is a tragedy.
June 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
On the second day of pride month, American gay, indigenous actor Jonathan Joss was murdered.
He was shot dead, in what his husband called a homophobic hate crime. Joss’ newlywed husband said Joss' alleged killer called him & his husband "jotos," a Spanish slur for gay people.
This is a tragedy.
He was shot dead, in what his husband called a homophobic hate crime. Joss’ newlywed husband said Joss' alleged killer called him & his husband "jotos," a Spanish slur for gay people.
This is a tragedy.
"lesbian is my gender"
June 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"lesbian is my gender"
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I am so over the "Western binary". I am so over how people consistently, ignorantly, and frankly embarrassingly insist that the "gender binary" is so particularly Western and colonial and recent.
It's a complete failure to juxtapose rhetoric on gender with how it actually, materially operates.
It's a complete failure to juxtapose rhetoric on gender with how it actually, materially operates.
June 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I am so over the "Western binary". I am so over how people consistently, ignorantly, and frankly embarrassingly insist that the "gender binary" is so particularly Western and colonial and recent.
It's a complete failure to juxtapose rhetoric on gender with how it actually, materially operates.
It's a complete failure to juxtapose rhetoric on gender with how it actually, materially operates.
This is a favorite essay of my own. Link in comment
June 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is a favorite essay of my own. Link in comment
Members of the Kitchen Table Press, an active feminist press.
The women who started the press - Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Barbara & Beverly Smith, did so because "as feminist and lesbian of color writers, we knew that we had no options for getting published..."
The women who started the press - Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Barbara & Beverly Smith, did so because "as feminist and lesbian of color writers, we knew that we had no options for getting published..."
June 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Members of the Kitchen Table Press, an active feminist press.
The women who started the press - Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Barbara & Beverly Smith, did so because "as feminist and lesbian of color writers, we knew that we had no options for getting published..."
The women who started the press - Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Barbara & Beverly Smith, did so because "as feminist and lesbian of color writers, we knew that we had no options for getting published..."
Feminism requires precisely what the patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power.
— Andrea Dworkin
— Andrea Dworkin
June 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Feminism requires precisely what the patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power.
— Andrea Dworkin
— Andrea Dworkin
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White billionaire from her yacht cites Audre Lorde in defence of a white writer for a Far Right newspaper complaining about the criticism she got for her bigoted attack on a woman of colour.
What times!
What times!
May 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
White billionaire from her yacht cites Audre Lorde in defence of a white writer for a Far Right newspaper complaining about the criticism she got for her bigoted attack on a woman of colour.
What times!
What times!