one nature, my female nature

everyone deserves a radfem alter ego so my conception is i’m hiding out in a donut house

[femalenature]

said this in a comment, and i want to say it here lol

i only advocate for cis women. that’s not problematic. females/cis/women are even more oppressed than males who dress up like women, wear women’s clothes, take hormones, and mutilate their dicks

[itdoobielikethat]

Before you start patting Hunter Biden on the back for making twitter quips, let's remember that he is a john who spent hundreds of thousands of his ex-wife's money on raping prostituted women, while he was still married to her. Raping prostituted women is not a symptom of drug addiction, and isn't something that female addicts do. He made that choice himself.

[kittyit]

haters will be mad bc you said women and didn’t mean men

[misguidedinsect]

(un)kind by victoria smith

[theconcealedweapon]

[femalenature]

or maybe people’s impressions of gay people are not improving because they have to deal with the mentally ill and extremely loud group talking over all the gay people

[girlfishes]

Do you remember the response to when the UK required adult pornography sites to require ID as age verification? The horror when men had to cope with the fact that the pornography they watch may be linked to their own identity, that the illusion of anonymity online was being suddenly pulled apart? They fear the slightest chance that what they watch, things perverted, disgusting, violent, horrifying, may affect how others see them.

There’s a weird balance to it, when one considered the human beings, and oftentimes women, who are at the receiving end of objectification for the camera. The more vulnerable they are, the more abused, the more their body is exposed and the more their “self” or ego is degraded for viewing pleasure, the more anonymous and protected the to the outside world the viewer needs himself to be.

These men claim that their privacy is a human right. And it’s that privacy they use to enjoy the complete removal of privacy from others. A net-conservation of privacy, if you will, is a more accurate description of what they demand. And you’re not supposed to ask about who falls, no, who is pushed onto either side of this equation, you sex-hating puritan.

[rabidwolf2point0]

[chemtra1ls-deactivated20210901]

You. Cannot. Tell.

[redfemmayy]

But then what will men use to blame women for the violence of men ?

[shinhati]

i love naming the elephant in the room (porn) in conversation because you're not supposed to do that and people are shocked but then they always agree with me. "teen boys are a menace these days" -> it's because of porn. "that's not normal behaviour" -> it's porn addiction. "does that imagery make anyone else uncomfortable" -> it's inspired by porn. "the way women are characterized" -> it's porn mythology. like ladies we are allowed to stay this stuff out loud

[crapmedia]

[neptuniumochi]

friendly reminder that sexism applies to men too

[femalenature]

another reminder, no it’s doesn’t 💜

[lesbian-books]

Lesbian Nonfiction

200 books about lesbians and female homosexuality: histories, memoirs, biographies, essays, and more

History

– The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renée Vivien by Karla Jay – Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger – Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850-1780 A.D. by Samar Habib – Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65 by Cameron Duder – Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall by Marie Cartier – Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy – Britannia’s Glory: A History of Twentieth-Century Lesbians by Emily Hamer – Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves – Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich by Claudia Schoppmann – Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement by Marcia M. Gallo – The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China by Tze-Lan D. Sang – Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures by Bonnie Zimmerman – Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture by Laura Doan – Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations by Samar Habib – The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt – Her Husband Was a Woman!: Women’s Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture by Alison Oram – Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 by Martha Vicinus – A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500 by Rebecca Jennings – The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780 to 1970 by Alison Oram – Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities by Francesca Stella – Lesbian Origins by Susan Cavin – The Lesbian Premodern by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt – Lesbians in Early Modern Spain by Sherry Velasco – The Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward by D. Merilee Clunis – Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism by Bernadette J. Brooten – Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community Across Canada, 1964-84 by Liz Millward – Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History, 1840-1985 by Lesbian History Group – Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman – Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 by Emma Donoghue – The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England by Valerie Traub – Sakhiyani: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India by Giti Thadani – Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages by Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn – Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J. Rupp – Scotch Verdict by Lillian Faderman – The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 by Susan S. Lanser – Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes by Lisa L. Moore – Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States by Trisha Franzen – Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman – To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America by Lillian Faderman – Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71 by Rebecca Jennings – Unnamed Desires: A Sydney Lesbian History by Rebecca Jennings – Women Like Us by Suzanne Neild

Biography and Memoir

– Active Voice The Comic Collection: The Real Life Adventures of an Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist and Her Friends! by P. Kristen Enos – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein – Barbara Gittings: Gay Pioneer by Tracy Baim – Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa – Black Bull, Ancestors, and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma by Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde – Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell – Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu – Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger by Kelly J. Cogswell – Elsa: I Come With My Songs by Elsa Gidlow – Facing the Music: My Story by Jennifer Knapp – Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel – Gluck: 1895-1978 : Her Biography by Diana Souhami – Hear Me OUT!: A Dose of Lesbian Humor for The Whole Human Race by Laura Jimenez – Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash – I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro – In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner – Journey into My Underworld: An Autobiography of a Lesbian Journey by Jo Alexander – Kicking the Habit: A Lesbian Nun Story: An Autobiographical Novel by Jeanne Córdova – Lion Woman’s Legacy: An Armenian-American Memoir by Arlene Voski Avakian – My Butch Career: A Memoir by Esther Newton – My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata – Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer by Chely Wright – My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement by Alix Dobkin – Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Lillian Faderman – Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga – Once Upon a Convent: A Memoir of a Lesbian Nun by Orice Klaas – The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin – Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert – Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey by Jackie Kay – Riding Fury Home: A Memoir by Chana Wilson – The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister by Anne Lister – Seriously…I’m Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres – Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia’s Sappho by Diana Lewis Burgin – A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage by Loretta Smith – Spectacles by Sue Perkins – Spinning by Tillie Walden – Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road – Straight Walk: A Supermodel’s Journey to Finding Her Truth by Patricia Velásquez – Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation by Karla Jay – The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami – The Truth Is…:My Life in Love and Music by Melissa Etheridge – Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison – A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby – Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi – When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Jeanne Córdova – Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson – A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor – Women Prefer Women by Elula Perrin – You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol E. Anderson

Culture and Everyday Life

– The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture by Terry Castle – Cats (And Their Dykes): An Anthology by Irene Reti – Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life by Denise Tse-Shang Tang – The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris – Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women’s Music Festivals by Bonnie J. Morris – Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan by Sharon Chalmers – Faces and Phases by Zanele Muholi – Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam – Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening by Irene Reti – Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists by Maria Dolores Costa – Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History by Harmony Hammond – Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet by Esther D. Rothblum – Lesbian Culture: An Anthology: The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present by Julia Penelope – Lesbian Land by Joyce Cheney – Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other by JoAnn Loulan – A Lesbian Photo Album: The Lives of Seven Lesbian Feminists by Cathy Cade – Lesbian Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Alison Laurie – Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India by Maya Sharma – The New Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book by Ginny Vida – Out and About: Sydney’s Lesbian Social Scene, 1960s-1980s by Rebecca Jennings – The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader by Joan Nestle – Witches Heal: Lesbian Herbal Self-Sufficiency by Billie Potts – Women in Love: Portraits of Lesbian Mothers & Their Families by Barbara Seyda

Literature and Media

– Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary by Fran Martin – Chinese Lesbian Cinema: Mirror Rubbing, Lala, and Les by Liang Shi – Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Lillian Faderman – Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama by Denise Walen – Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures by Sahar Amer – Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel by Lisa L. Moore – The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica: 1920-1940 by Victoria A. Brownworth – Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identities and Cultural Space by Sally R. Munt – Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue – Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France by Nicole Albert – Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho by Jane McIntosh Snyder – Lesbian Detective Fiction: Woman as Author, Subject and Reader by Phyllis M. Betz – The Lesbian Fantastic by Phyllis M. Betz – The Lesbian in Literature: A Bibliography by Barbara Grier – Lesbian Menace by Sherrie A. Inness – Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965 by Katherine V. Forrest – Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis by Phyllis M. Betz – Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions by Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow – Lesbian Voices from Latin America by Elena M. Martinez – The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall by Terry Castle – New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings by Sally R. Munt – Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition by Rebecca T. Alpert – Out on the Shelves: Lesbian Books Into Libraries by Jane Allen – The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance by Hannah Roche – Performing La Mestiza: Textual Representations of Lesbians of Color and the Negotiation of Identities by Ellen Gil-Gomez – The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman – Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 by Harriette Andreadis – Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism by Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope – Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 by Jaye Zimet – (Un)Familiar Femininities: Studies in Contemporary Lesbian South Asian Texts by Aneeta Rajendran – Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema by Andrea Weiss – What Lesbians Do In Books by Elaine Hobby and Chris White – With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians by Catriona Rueda Esquibel

Feminism and Academia

– All the Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism by Lynne Harne and Elaine Miller – Brazen Hussies: A Herstory of Radical Activism in the Women’s Liberation Movement in Victoria 1970–1979 by Jean Taylor – Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory by Julia Penelope – Country Lesbians: The Story of the WomanShare Collective by Sue Deevy – Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes by Irena Klepfisz – Dykes Loving Dykes: Dyke Separatist Politics for Lesbians Only by Bev Jo – For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology by Sarah Lucia Hoagland – The House That Jill Built: A Lesbian Nation in Formation by Becki Ross – Lesbian Ethics by Sarah Lucia Hoagland – Lesbian Feminism in Turn-of-the-Century Germany by Lillian Faderman and Brigitte Eriksson – The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs by Estelle B. Freedman, Barbara C. Gelpi, and Susan L. Johnson – Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures by Jeffner Allen – Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations by Jeffner Allen – The Lesbian Postmodern by Laura Doan – The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon by Jaime Harker – Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon – Lesbians Ignite!: In Victoria in the 1990s by Jean Taylor – Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom by Beth Mintz and Esther D. Rothblum – Love & Politics: Radical Feminist & Lesbian Theories by Carol Anne Douglas – The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century by Bonnie Zimmerman – Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love – Separatism and Women’s Community by Dana R. Shugar – Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz: Selected Works by Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz – The Straight Mind: And Other Essays by Monique Wittig – Stroppy Dykes: Radical Lesbian Feminist Activism in Victoria During the 1980s by Jean Taylor – This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century by Kris Kleindienst – The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji – Unleashing Feminism: A Critique of Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties by Irene Reti – Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Essays in Lesbian Feminist Studies by Suzanne Raitt

Anthologies: Lives and Relationships

– Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing by Catherine E. McKinley – Beginnings: Lesbians Talk About the First Time They Met Their Long-Term Partner by Lindsey Elder – Between the Lines: An Anthology by Pacific-Asian Lesbians of Santa Cruz, California by Cristy Chung – Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About by Carla Trujillo – Compañeras: Latina Lesbians: An Anthology by Juanita Ramos – Does Your Mama Know? : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories by Lisa C. Moore – Dyke Life: From Growing Up to Growing Old, a Celebration of the Lesbian Experience by Karla Jay – The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian Writing from Australia and New Zealand by Cathie Dunsford – Facing the Mirror: Lesbian Writing from India by Ashwini Sukthankar – Finding the Lesbians: Personal Accounts from Around the World by Julia Penelope – First Bloom: Stories of Blossoming Black Lesbian Love by Saydeah E. Howard – Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence by Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan – Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation by Rebecca T. Alpert, Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson – Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience by Carol Lynda Hall – Lesbians Speak Out by Carol Wilson – Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology by Evelyn Torton Beck – The Original Coming Out Stories by Julia Penelope – Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak by Julia Penelope – Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology by Makeda Silvera – Reclaiming the L-Word: Sappho’s Daughters Out in Africa by Alleyn Diesel – Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability by Victoria A. Brownworth and Susan Raffo – Talking Black: African, Caribbean, and Asian Lesbians Speak Out by Valerie Mason-John – They Will Know Me By My Teeth: Stories and Poems of Lesbian Struggle, Celebration, And Survival by Elana Dykewomon – Write from the Heart: Lesbian Healing from Heartache by Anita L. Pace

[erynthriel]

“Farm women in Africa (and India) are the most overworked humans in the world, working ten to fifteen hours a day at a host of jobs. A typical Zimbabwean woman’s day begins at 3:00 AM. Every day she goes to the river for water, weeds the fields (breast-feeding her baby as she works), chases animals away from the crops, pounds grain into flour, prepares meals, and gathers wood (steadily walking farther with these heavy loads because drought and over-cutting have depleted fuel wood). She helps her husband cultivate cash crops, processes food (threshes, dries, grinds), and carries it to market. She has weekly tasks like laundering. In the Ivory Coast, adult women’s workload is twice men’s; in Burkina Faso, women do all household work and still spend 82 percent more time on farm work than men. A Tanzanian man complained, “Water is a big problem for women. We can sit here all day waiting for food because there is no woman at home. Always they are going to fetch water.” (Emphasis added.)

Women’s traditional right to hold land varies from one to another African society, but in practice most women need living husbands to get access to land. Men hold such tight control of land that a woman who cultivates land owned by a husband who works in the city is not allowed to decide what crops to plant. Most Lesotho men work in South African mines, yet their wives need their permission to start a farming operation, hire a share-cropper, or get a loan from a credit union. Because they lack land rights, women cannot get credit. In many places, they cannot even join cooperatives that control credit, transport, and marketing. Nor do they have the right to the income from cash crops, even if they raise them.

Producing cash crops often raises family income, yet studies of projects that give men new technology to raise cash crops show that despite increased income, the family eats less and poorer food. Women’s and children’s nutritional levels fall because the income belongs to the men, who use it to throw “prestige feasts” or buy transistor radios. Men in Cameroon at least pay their children’s school fees, but in Kenya, writes Irene Tinker, men gamble, buy liquor, and rent prostitutes, while their families starve – women can no longer raise food for the family because their work and the family land are given over to the men’s cash crops. In India, researchers estimate, men spend about 80 percent of their earnings on themselves: motorcycles, radios, watches, television sets, movies, alcohol, and prostitutes. African migrant workers send home a mere 10 percent of their earnings on average; women residents in the hostels in Cape Town roll their eyes at the men’s “toys,” as they call them – cars in various states of disrepair that clutter up the space around the hostel. In the United States, too, huge numbers of men desert wives and the children they have fathered, spending more on themselves while the family is forced onto welfare.

Studies also show that when women have resources or earn income at all, children’s nutritional levels and well-being improve. Indian women, for example, consistently spend 95 percent of their earnings on their children. Indians have a saying: “A penny to a woman is a penny for the family; a penny to a man is a penny for the man.” Yet when Zambian tax code was amended in 1986 to give women half of the child allowance that had formerly gone to men, Zambian men complained women would waste it on “perming their hair, buying makeup and expensive dresses.” Yet most Zambian men earn little and appropriate their wives’ wages as their property, and most male employers exclude women from wage labor. Such lopsided systems increase male dominance and make it hard for women to negotiate or demand what they need to support themselves and their children. Because men rarely take responsibility for children, the children of the world are at risk.

The most blatantly exploitive form of development is what is called sexploitation or sex-tourism, a new business, tours for men to Third World countries to visit brothels created specifically for them, womaned by virtual slaves – girls, often just children, sold into bondage by poor peasant fathers. Sex-tourism was proposed as a development strategy by international aid agencies. Maria Mies writes that the sex industry was first planned and supported by the World Bank, the IMF, and the United States Agency for International Development. Thailand, the Philippines, and South Korea are the present centers of Asian sex-tourism. Parties of Japanese businessmen are flown to one of these centers by their companies as a reward. American workers at a construction site in Saudi Arabia, totally fenced off from the culture around them, were flown to Bangkok every two weeks to be serviced by Thai women working in massage parlors. Another part of the sex industry is marriage brokerage: private companies, most in what used to be West Germany, sell Asian or Latin American women as wives, openly advertising them as “submissive, nonemancipated, and docile”. Both industries are maintained by a support network of multinational tourist enterprises, hotel chains, airlines, and their subsidiary industries and services.

The global accounting system reveals the profundity of male contempt for the necessary in human life, treating not just women’s work but the environment as insignificant. In a damning indictment, Waring describes international environmental policies that directly affect all of us. Consider: economic statistics calculate the value of “undeveloped” rain forest in Brazil at $0. A standing tree offers shade and coolness, prevents erosion, and returns oxygen to the atmosphere. But it has no value in the GDP until it is cut down. Industry has polluted the earth irrevocably; many of us or our children will die from cancers caused by environmental poisoning, or will suffer miscarriage, stillbirth, blindness, organ damage, or insanity. But unless such poisonings become widely known, as at Love Canal or Three Mile Island, such illness is invisible to the UNSNA.

In fact, while common sense dictates that illness should be listed as a debit in national income accounting, medical care and medicines are given positive value. Economists say market prices (of medical treatment, in this case) are reflections of actual wants, but there is no way quantitatively to express wants for clean air, safe water, or standing forests. Nor is permanent damage to water, air, or ecosystems included in the accounting. The only item subtracted from the GNP is depreciation on the stock of capital goods – the cost of maintaining stock like nuclear bombs. The cost of cleaning up an ecological disaster is considered an expression of society’s “preferences”.

The most devastating indication of our values is that while producing and raising children, maintaining families, and preserving the environment count for nothing in global economic accounting, war is treated as productive and valuable. In 1988, the nations of the world spent over $110 for each man, woman, and child on military expenses – overwhelmingly more than on food, water, shelter, health, education, or protecting the ecosystem. Waring explains that militarization can be measured nationally as the share of the GDP devoted to the production of military goods and services or as the military share of a nation’s budget. It is measured globally by the military share of global production and the share of international trade occupied by armaments. From 1980 to 1984, world military spending grew from $564 billion to $649 billion (in 1980 prices), a growth rate of over 3.5 percent. Over 5 percent of the production of the world, 27 times more than was spent on overseas development, was spent on the military in 1983, most by industrialized countries. Global military expenditures in 1985 were $900 billion, more than the income of half the human race. Military expenditures surpassed the combined GDP of China, India, and all of sub-Saharan Africa – a sum comparable to the combined GNP of all of Africa and Latin America.

Waring cites an estimate of over 70 million people engaged, directly or indirectly, in military work, work counted as contributing to the GDP of their countries. Military work is counted as a valuable contribution to society; raising children is not. Nor do we value keeping them alive. In the twentieth century alone, the world has fought at least 207 wars that killed 78 million people. And while states glorify the soldiers who fight the wars, most of those killed in them are women and children. In each minute that passes, thirty children die from want of food or inexpensive vaccines; in that same minute, the world’s governments spend $1.3 million of wealth produced by the public (between two-thirds and three-quarters of it by women) on military expenditures. This, Waring asserts, is the real war.” - excerpt from The War Against Women, Marilyn French, 1992

[genderisareligion]

So many people right now are convinced misogyny is just “men being sexist to women on an individual level in certain contexts”

Misogyny is lethal global terrorism and needs to be stopped right now

[caintooth]

you have to love trans women more than you hate transmisogyny, you have to love jews more than you hate antisemitism, you have to love Black people more than you hate white supremacy, you have to love Indigenous people more than you hate colonialism, you have to love the disabled and mentally ill more than you hate ableism, you have to love. you have to love.

[femalenature]

you have to love women more than you hate men/transwomen tbh guys

[ms-revived-frogs]

TRAs literally can’t be real…

1. The implications that women “whose only experience with being marginalised was being women” are not qualified to talk about women’s issues is hilarious. “You’re a woman and experience misogyny, but don’t experience forms of oppression other than misogyny? Well, you’re not qualified to talk about misogyny then!”

2. The implications that women of colour were, and are to this day, not the driving force of radical feminism. Meanwhile, radical feminism is becoming the most popular form of feminism across Latin America and African gender-critical radical feminists are being targeted by TRAs. Radical feminist topics, like menstrual stigma, surrogacy, and prostitution, are also fundamental within feminist activism in the East. Some of the core radical feminists were women who were poor and marginalised outside of being women as well. If that even matters. Andrea Dworkin was Jewish, Angela Davis was black.

TRAs like hadeantaiga only know to lie. Lie and lie and lie. To women and about women. 

[genderisareligion]

Audre Lorde, Barbara and Beverly Smith, bell hooks (not a radfem in her own words but considered a contemporary to Audre), Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Morraga and the rest of the Black, Latina, Asian and Indigenous women who wrote in This Bridge Called My Back

Kimberle Crenshaw inventing intersectionality during this very same period means nothing to these people when you actually ask them about history. They’re doing the very same thing these women were criticizing at the time: erasing the words and achievements of women of color in favor of white women’s

[bushpropaganda]

erasing women of color from a branch of feminism they literally helped create so that it’s socially acceptable to treat radfems like absolute shit is not very progressive of them. aren’t these people supposed to hate racism? endless projection.

[harrypotterfuryroad]

tim: jk rowling is a pedophile because someone asked someone who worked for a theater for tickets to a play she cowrote

everyone: yeah that's reasonable

tim: i’m a pedophile

everyone: now look she may have said she’s a pedophile but that doesn’t mean she’s ever hurt anyone and boxing her out because of it is tantamount to murder, do you really want her blood on your hands? we need to be careful about how we interpret things because what she actually meant was she had an ex who was into ageplay or used to be a child or something and you should really not kinkshame members of literally the most vulnerable minority on the planet. plus the kid probably wanted it

[naturalhairhow101]

[sartorialadventure]

Laetitia Ky is an Ivorian feminist artist who creates elaborate sculptures using her own hair, wire, and thread to convey powerful messages about feminism, body positivity, Black beauty, and African heritage. Her intricate hair art, which can take the form of animals, objects, or abstract shapes, is influenced by traditional African hairstyles and serves as a platform for her activism and advocacy for women's rights. 

[lasalegarce]

Laetitia Ky is an extreme TERF who buddied up with Marguerite Stern, and with whom I had the displeasure to "talk" about gender theory (read: I tried to ask her about how she could reconcile afrofeminism and exclusion of our trans sisters, and she just insulted me).

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

You asked her to include men in her feminism, I’m not surprised she insulted you

[lenalenouilleisblogging]

FRENCH, SPANISH, AND ITALIAN SPEAKING RADFEMS !

I'm currently making a drive folder to share on my blog so everyone can download the movies i recommended in my retrospective. I'm having trouble finding a digital copy of Bye Bye Tiberiade (that i reviewed in this post) but i just realised it is fully available via arte tv!

It's in french here, in spanish here and in italian here. The first is on the arte website, the other two is on their youtube. I don't know how long it will remain available on youtube so if you don't watch it soon i strongly suggest you use a software such as 4k video downloader to keep it as a mp4 file.

It's a really beautiful, poetic and moving documentary about palestinian🇵🇸 women, from the point of view of a woman retracing the steps of her mother and grandmother. It was my favourite documentary of last year. If that sounds like your cup of tea, i hope you enjoy!

[lenalenouilleisblogging]

For those of you who can't have access to a computer (to use 4k video downloader) the android app newpipe (that I personally use for my music) also allows you to download YouTube videos as MP4!

[iwanttolisten-deactivated202607]

"male socialization isn't real" -person who is so male socialized he literally cannot or refuses to perceive that his experiences are different to that of the opposite sex