Built to be burned. Refused to die.

The admin of this blog has been called a nasty TERF more times than she can count

[hersideoftheguillotine]

🧷 RADFEM PUNK MINDSET AND GATEKEEPING 🧷

1.This is for WOMEN.

Born female, raised female, suffer and survive as female. No exceptions. No tourists. No LARPing.

2.We support women, but we don’t have to like them.

Solidarity over sisterhood. I’ll fight for your rights and still block your number.

3.Always point the finger back at the men.

Who made the system? Who benefits? Who’s still pulling the strings? It’s not Karen down the street. Keep your eye on the prize (or the prick).

4.Reject mainstream beauty culture.

Shave your head, grow out your pit hair whatever makes you feel real. Just don’t feed the industries that hate us.

5.Know your riot grrrls and punk godmothers.

Listen to Bikini Kill, L7, X-Ray Spex, Babes in Toyland, Bratmobile, The Slits, Big Joanie, Dream Wife,lunachick,the Distellers

6.Hate all forms of government.

The left sold us out. The right never cared. Smash it all. We were never meant to be ruled.

7.Be loud, annoying, cringe, and yourself.

Cry too hard. Laugh too loud. Post shit takes. Make ugly art. Be “too much” and not enough, all at once.Believe in your worth like a man believes in his podcast be unhinged.

7.No Moids in the Moshpit

Don’t bring your boyfriend, don’t bring your "male feminist" roommate, keep them far away from here, but you are still welcomed.

8.Surviving the System Doesn’t Make You Less Punk

Got a job? Pay bills? Use what you have to survive? That’s not selling out remember you can’t burn it all down if you’re dead.Work the system from the inside? good, Make it rot.

This isn’t that sad, performative male punk bullshit, the kind that smashes windows just to hear the sound. We’re not here to destroy for destruction’s sake. We’re here to burn it all down so something better can rise from the ash. Not for men and not for aesthetics. For women and for a world where we don’t have to beg for safety, shrink ourselves to be loved, or cosplay as tradwives just to feel seen. This is a movement of reclamation, not regression.

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[kerink]

i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out

brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad

[themythicalcodfish]

OP this is EXCELLENT

[whatbigotspost]

Now THAT’S a self care resource! If you’ve gotten distracted by capitalism’s appropriation of “self-care” and watering the meaning down to nothing this is a super helpful guide to cut through the bullshit.

[ballistic-goat]

When I was a little girl, I thought I should've been a boy. I didn't fit in with the other girls I knew and I didn't fit in with what I was told a girl was supposed to be like. Eventually, when I was 10 or so, I started thinking that I was a girl because I had the body of a girl. And as such, the other things people told me were clearly unnecessary to be a girl - they were all made up BS. That line of thought helped me with accepting myself for a very long time. But back then, I only knew of mainstream feminism, and as it's narrative quickly began to change around gender, I found myself trying to reconcile that old thinking with this new one about identification. I didn't want to be hateful or anything. I knew after all, how bad it was to feel like you couldn't be yourself due to your gender. But that old lightbulb moment I had as a kid, it stuck with me. I'd talk to an enby friend who explained it to me like, "I am nonbinary because I like feminine and masculine things", and all I could think was, "that is the most misogynistic thing I have ever heard". I'd read trans people talk about how stereotypes were good, actually. I saw a kids book about how a tomboy girl was actually a boy. All of that, while they still claimed that gender roles were bad. It was like I was going crazy. When I found radical feminism, and they viewed things in that same way, it was freeing. I didn't feel like I was doublethinking no more. I want to destroy gender roles, destroy gender itself. That doesn't mean biological sex will vanish. But the rest, the other "made up bullshit", it must go. (also I used my own boots to make this picture. It's one of my favorites I have made so far)

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

This post is my attempt to track what’s going on with US politics. This post is constantly being updated so if you see this on your dash, check my blog (this post will be pinned) to see the latest version. If there’s anything I miss that you think should be included on this list, please let me know.

January-September 2025

October 2025

Trump says US is in ‘armed conflict’ with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the Caribbean [x]

Trump freezes $2.1B for Chicago transit projects in latest ‘punishment’ of blue states [x]

Trump authorizes deployment of 300 National Guard troops to Chicago [x]

NIH issues autism research grants [x]

Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump in N.Y., is indicted on one count of bank fraud [x]

[paleo-violet]

Fuck the tradwife "fantasy"

art by me

clockwise from top left: welder in the US army, WW2; workers in a 1600s European field; a shopkeeper in the Qin dynasty; a cryptographer in the US Navy, WW2; an automechanic in 1918; a blacksmith in medieval times (yes, women blacksmiths are documented!); a woman weaving wool in an 1800s factory; a modern-day cabbage farmer in Ukraine; a medieval scribe.

[fluttershyfem]

radical feminists have all kinds of interests. we're everywhere!

(idea from @thoughtscout, check her blog out!)

[radfemart]

YOOOOOOO !!!

THIS IS THE SICKEST SHIT EVER !!!

[radfemart]

[tearsofmen2]

Isn't it's just fucked up how men are UPSET about fact that games with rape and incest and pedophilia are taken down now in steam by feminists. It's just makes me more depressed, more aware of how men are truly like. How can you know if your brother doesn't play those games? Your son? Your dad? Your uncle, your friend?

[generallemarc]

"Isn't it just fucked up that people are mad about censorship? How can you not be paranoid that every man in your life isn't evil?"-normal thoughts from a normal person

[tearsofmen2]

actually fear of men are very normal reaction to male violence if you ever experienced one. almost like, women are still experiencing sex-based opression.

[generallemarc]

"Actually, fearing all members of a demographic is a normal reaction to if a single one of them hurt you." Go into the inner city and start telling people that's your opinion, see where that gets you. Fuck it, forget that and just say it about any demographic that isn't men and see where it gets you.

[tearsofmen2]

um yeah thanks for repeating what I said. it's still normal reaction to fear what's hurt you before, it's doesn't makes you crazy, it's basic psychology. Should I go to city and say that im scared of men? well, many women will agree and some be even mad at me. many men will be mad at me. end. Also it's stupid using "opinion" to fear of men. Id understand if you'd said it about my 'misandry' (which is still natural reaction to misogyny) but fear from something is something you can't choose. I didn't choose to fear men, it's men who did it to me and to other women who are scared. and it's not our fault. Why would I say it about any other demographic? the question is, is other demographic do opress me the same way men do? ))

[generallemarc]

I didn't choose to fear men, it's men who did it to me

And you chose to judge an entire demographic by the actions of a bare handful of its members. That's on you for being a bigot. And don't bother trying to pull trauma as an excuse, because if this is trauma-related then you're clearly doing the exact opposite of what you need to do, which is work at getting better to the point where trauma no longer forces your mind to fear an entire demographic.

it's still normal reaction to fear what's hurt you before, it's doesn't makes you crazy, it's basic psychology

Ok, so if I'm beaten up and robbed by a black guy, it's a "normal reaction" to be afraid of all black people? It's on them for "doing it to me", for daring to share the immutable traits of the single individual who did me harm?

[skulki-d]

"They did it" said the collectivist.

This sort of person will never understand that they think exactly the same way the Klan does.

[tearsofmen2]

imagine comparing "misandrist" who came out as a result from male opression, to fucking ku klux klan member. Y'all really hate women's and doesn't want to admit women are opressed group based on sex by men. IM thinking the way victim of patriarchy does, im thinking the way women are murdered by men they know most of times, im thinking the way men threw female newborns to trashcan, im thinking the way how 71% victims of trafficking are girls and women. You hate women. You hate women comparing their justifiable reaction for opression they experienced for DECADES, to fucking racism. Women are not privileged group over men. White people are privileged group over poc. You're comparing INCOMPARABLE.

[spyrothesquish-0006]

You're still thinking like a Nazi. Go read a history book and actually learn something.

[hersideoftheguillotine]

Oh my fucking god. Comparing feminism to nazis is the most brainrotted, immature, and historically illiterate shit you could possibly spew. Do you even own a history book? Or a library card? Or are you just rotting in your little Tumblr echo chamber recycling the same tired “feminists = feminazi” line you read in some incel meme post from 2012?

Like seriously, wahhhh everyone I don’t like is a nazi. You’ve probably never even seen a real nazi in your life, never seen the hate in their eyes, never watched what that ideology does to real people. But here you are, stamping your little buzzword over and over again like a toddler who learned a new sound.

It doesn’t make you sound smart. It doesn’t make you sound edgy. It just makes you sound like an immature, whiny little brat who can’t form an actual argument without screaming “NAZI” at everything that makes you insecure. Grow the fuck up and maybe actually read something that wasn’t regurgitated by your fellow crybabies online.

Have you ever cracked open a Jewish memoir from the Holocaust? Ever read Anne Frank? Ever sat in a classroom with a survivor who came to talk about what they went through about their family being murdered, about living in terror,

How dare you trivialize one of the most gut-wrenching tragedies in human history by comparing it to a feminist saying “biological sex is the axis of oppression.” Do you not realize how grotesque that is? Feminists aren’t rounding up families, they aren’t sending people to death camps, they aren’t committing genocide, they are identifying the system that patriarchy rests on. And you think that’s comparable to nazism?

No. What you’re doing is cheap. You are dragging real human suffering, millions dead into your little online tantrum because you don’t have the spine or the reading comprehension to argue in good faith. It’s insulting, it’s dishonest, and it’s so deeply immature it makes me wonder if you’ve ever once stepped outside your echo chamber.

Stop disrespecting history. Stop disrespecting survivors. And stop fucking crying “nazi” every time you want attention.

Oh, but I know exactly what you’re going to do. You’ll cough up one half-digested little “nazi!!!” response and call it a day. Wah wah wah. Because you can’t articulate a real argument against feminism, so you just retreat back into the laziest, most inconsiderate, most cookie-cutter take on the planet.

It’s pathetic. It’s not radical, it’s not clever, it’s not even offensive at this point, it’s just tired. You can’t debate. You can’t discuss. You just hide behind your buzzword like it’s a shield and expect people to take you seriously while you stomp your feet and scream “wah feminists bad!! wah nazis!! wah wah wah!!”

Meanwhile, actual grown-ups are reading, learning, engaging with history, and understanding what oppression actually looks like while you’re still crying into your keyboard because you can’t string together a coherent counterpoint without embarrassing yourself.

[joshpeck]

why do you and others like vaccines so much?

not dying of preventable diseases is actually one of my favorite hobbies

[hersideoftheguillotine]

Prison is slavery. Not a metaphor literal slave labor.

But here’s another not-so-fun fact they don’t teach in school: if you're a woman locked up, you get a set number of pads for your period. Run out? Too bad. Bleed through? That's your fault. And if blood stains your jumpsuit? That’s a disciplinary mark. Rack up enough of those, and they can extend your sentence.

Yeah. You heard that right. Bleeding can make your time longer.Now ask yourself, do men have to deal with any of that? Do they get punished for their biology? For bleeding? No, they don't cause men dont have periods!

Women are being punished in a system that already chews them up and spits them out. Most women in prison are there for nonviolent crimes, fraud, petty theft, survival shit. Not murder or rape. And yet they’re given barely enough pads to get by, then written up if they bleed through.

This is why you can’t say women’s and men’s prisons are the same. Women's biology is weaponized against them. Their bodies used as tools of control. The system doesn't just exploit them it re-traumatizes them, over and over, for being women.

Prison doesn’t rehabilitate. It punishes the poor, the vulnerable, the already-abused and it punishes women differently in ways no man will ever know.

[hersideoftheguillotine]

well for starters, i heard this fact from a woman who was actually incarcerated, so yeah, it’s a fact that happened. you really think the united states prison system is out here following their own rules?menstrual products only became free in 2018, by the way. this woman was in jail in the early 2000s. so yeah, she had to pay for them, and even then it varying state by state

infractions are literally called ‘shots’, it’s a write-up for a violation. and guess what? a dirty uniform counts as a shot. so no, don’t believe everything you read, and maybe try using your brain for two seconds about the very obvious ways prisons work around their own rules.

also not you out here defending the prison system, like ‘actually they have enough integrity to follow their rules and not punish women.’ yeah, and male guards aren’t allowed to assault women either, so i guess that must not happen, right?

[webandofsisters]

Who said the "men are only leftists from waist up"?

I think she was Spanish.

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

[hjellacott]

Here it is. Antonia García: “los hombres son comunistas, socialistas o anarquistas de cintura para arriba” (men are communists, socialists or anarchists from the waist up). https://ventanadigital.com/mujeres-libres-merida/

[sichorean]

Leaving the house to get your Temu parcel from the mailbox and wallowing in porn is not actually fighting fascism so jot that down

[iinsectwoman]

these are the same people that will call you a fascist for saying "vote blue"

[fuckassbobfem-deactivated202507]

this kinda shit is what made me transition from a liberal to a leftist because ultimately their idea of “fighting fascism” frequently supports capitalism in ways that are unnecessary.

and i know i know no ethical consumption under capitalism but like…. you’re watching porn and that’s your idea of resistance? one of the most exploitative industries ever? okay 😐

but genuinely and i’m being dead serious, in terms of “small acts of resistance” the best one is frugality. capitalism exploits all of us and is constantly pushing stuff for us to buy to give us temporary joy.

refuse to buy the stuff. save your money. buy stuff that lasts for life. learn to fix the stuff that doesn’t. buy secondhand if you must. that’s far more of an act of resistance than holding hands with your bro or watching porn ever will.

[hersideoftheguillotine]

The real reason CEOs are letting Gen Z go, or “quiet firing” them, isn’t about “poor performance” or “culture fit.” It’s about control. It’s about keeping you in line. They see you standing there, wagging your finger, saying “No. No to burnout. No to killing myself for a paycheck. No to putting the company before my own damn life.” And that scares them.

They don’t want you healthy. They don’t want you balanced. They want you tired, insecure, and too afraid to walk away—because then you’ll take whatever scraps they throw you.

Boomers? Almost out of the workforce.

Gen X? Now the older generation running the office.

Millennials? They already fought this fight and got hammered down so hard that now most of them just quietly take it.

And Gen Z? We are next in line for the hammer.

So here’s my advice: don’t break your back for a job that will toss you aside without a second thought. CEOs will always need workers so they can sit on their asses and pretend they’re “creating value” when all they’re doing is cashing in.

They treat you poorly because they’re abusive. They want to make you doubt your worth so you’ll settle for less. Don’t. Stay strong. Stay loud. Don’t give them the satisfaction of grinding you down.

And let’s be real office culture is just fake. Most “work friends” aren’t your friends. The second they clock out, it’s like you don’t exist. Most of these jobs could be remote, but CEOs blew millions on ugly glass office buildings and refuse to turn them into affordable housing. They’re clinging to an outdated business model because they know commuting, dress codes, and water cooler small talk make you tired, grumpy, and more willing to settle.

[libertineangel]

Another fascinating moral dilemma from the philosophers of r/punk

[hersideoftheguillotine]

A punk asking if it's okay to burn a CD… what timeline am I in??.

Y'all, they used to dub cassettes in the school bathroom and sell them outta our backpacks

Like tbh... most musicians make their money from merch tables at shows or direct support online anyway....Good lord.

Long live piracy, long live DIY, and long live the ladies who share music like it’s sacred.

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

This post is my attempt to track what’s going on with US politics. This post is constantly being updated so if you see this on your dash, check my blog (this post will be pinned) to see the latest version. If there’s anything I miss that you think should be included on this list, please let me know.

January-June 2025

July 2025

Trump is putting 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea [x]

Trump threatens 50% tariffs on Brazil [x]

A federal judge has issued a new nationwide injunction against Trump [x]

Trump is putting 35% tariffs on Canada [x]

Trump is considering revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship [x]

A California farm worker has died after an immigration raid [x]

Congress has passed a law to cut $9 billion from public broadcasting and foreign aid [x]

The US Olympic & Paralympic Committees will comply with Trump’s ban on transgender athletes [x]

US to burn $9.7 million worth of USAID-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas [x]

The EPA proposes gutting its rules about greenhouse gases [x]

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report [x]

[naxalbari1967]

How Liberals Kill Revolutions

Snitching is how they kill revolutions. That’s not paranoia. That’s history. And the fact that you have to explain to supposed leftists that snitching is deadly to organizing shows just how gutted and pacified modern political culture has become. These people don’t come from a place of struggle. They come from forums and campus politics and Reddit threads and think that because they read one book or went to one protest they understand power. But they don’t. If they did they would know what happens when you open the door to state surveillance even a little. They would know what COINTELPRO was. They would know that Fred Hampton was murdered because someone close to him gave the FBI a layout of his apartment. They would know that the reason the Panthers were destroyed was not because the state was powerful but because the state had eyes and ears inside every chapter. They would know that in every revolution from the Paris Commune to the Chinese Civil War the turning points came when comrades were betrayed by people who smiled in meetings and whispered to the police later. And they would know that snitching online is no different from snitching in person because there is no boundary anymore between digital and physical surveillance.

But instead of learning that they laugh it off. They act confused. Why are you so dramatic? What’s the big deal? Why not cooperate with CSIS or the CIA if you’ve got nothing to hide? Why are you paranoid? The same script every time. And when you point out what the state actually does with that information they accuse you of being foreign. They say you have an agenda. They say you’re dividing the movement. But the movement they speak of isn’t even alive. It’s a corpse propped up by NGOs and Instagram pages and activist clout. They don’t want revolution. They want funding. They want jobs. They want to be respectable enough to get into the rooms of power. So when you tell them that protecting comrades is more important than currying favor with state institutions they look at you like you’re the problem. Like you’re the outsider. Like you’re the radical that’s going to ruin their little career pathway through activism.

And they don’t just ignore the past. They help erase it. They call it conspiracy when you name the ways CSIS and the CIA have murdered leftist movements all over the world. They don’t want to hear about how Canadian intelligence helped break indigenous resistance through infiltration. They don’t want to talk about how the CIA trained torturers across Latin America using files gathered from leftist organizations. They pretend like these are relics of the Cold War. But the Cold War never ended. The CIA still funds counterinsurgency in Colombia. It still runs destabilization ops in Cuba. It still gives Israel the backing to slaughter Palestinians. And in Canada and the US it still monitors dissent online and offline. They work with tech companies. They use backdoors. They watch who organizes where. And when they decide to shut it down they don’t send a letter. They send riot cops. They send grand juries. They send indictments for conspiracy and domestic terrorism. You think you’re safe because you’re just a student or an artist or a poster? You’re not. If you pose even a symbolic threat to empire they’ll come for you.

This is why the old left always had rules. No talking about operational details online. No talking to the media. No bringing phones into meetings. No working with cops even if you’re promised immunity. No cooperating with intelligence even under threat. Because they knew what happens when you let that in. One weak link and the whole chain snaps. And it’s always the loudest, most visible radicals who get buried first. The ones who said the most but took no precautions. The ones who wanted attention but not discipline. And they’re the same ones who will turn you in the second they feel scared. The second the cops knock. The second they’re offered a deal. And if you warn about that, suddenly you’re the one being divisive. Not the rat. Not the collaborator. You.

The liberalization of the left has turned survival instincts into paranoia and political discipline into drama. The people who would have broken under the first wave of state repression are now teaching workshops. The people who would have cracked under one night in jail are now acting like they’re leaders. And when someone reminds them what actual state violence looks like they act like it’s aggression. But revolutionary spaces are not therapy groups. They are not safe spaces for ego. They are war rooms. And if you don’t treat them that way you lose. Not metaphorically. Literally. You get people killed. You get movements collapsed. And when that happens there are no second chances. The state doesn’t give you a do over. It just buries what’s left and calls it history.

So yes. You do have to say things like don’t be a snitch. Because the people around you are not ready. Because they’ve been taught that the enemy is only the obvious fascist not the liberal state that funds genocide. Because they think police and intelligence are just tools you can work with if you’re clever enough. Because they think snitching is just gossip. And because the last generation that actually lived through repression is either dead or discredited or ignored. You say it not because you want to but because no one else will. Because they’ve forgotten what the word comrade means. Because they think solidarity is aesthetic. Because they would rather hand over a list of names to CSIS than admit that sometimes silence is the only protection we have.

You don’t owe anyone an explanation for why you protect your own. You owe it to the ones who came before you and the ones who might come after. You owe it to the ones who can’t speak anymore because someone snitched. You owe it to the ones who died with their mouths closed and their fists raised. They knew what time it was. If others don’t, that’s on them. But never forget it. And never stop saying it. Even if you’re the last one left saying it.

[theangryblackfem]

Andrea dworkin & Valerie Solanas reaction pics for whenever I hear something based