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Radical Feminist Reading Masterpost

This is a list of books I want to read on the subject of radical feminism. It’s definitely a long journey since many of these books can be difficult to make it through, but I wanted to share this list for anyone else interested.

Let me know if there are any broken links.

#radical feminism #radical feminist #radical feminist literature #radfem reading list

autistic-af

One of my favourite pop culture useless pieces of information that I know is the fact that trends in horror movies can tell you about the general fears of the world at any given time in cinematic history.

autistic-af

Sorta!

1940s - You have people still alive that remember Jack the Ripper, you have the Axeman of New Orleans and two world wars. The classics are being made for shock escapism and dark stalkers are also popular (usually trusting people turning out to be the enemy).

1950s - post-nuclear bomb. Giant monsters, or unknown blobs are the trend.

1970s/1980s - modern era begins, and serial killers are becoming known and prominent. Slasher films are the trend. The Cold War also drives the fear of invasion, so a few alien films come out in this time.

1990s - a horror movie lull, and lull in wars and disturbances.

2000s - fear of invasions and biological warfare. Zombie movies become the trend.

autistic-af

Here you go! It's just a random article, but it's a fun starting point. It outlines the ideas better than what I did above. Fears, politics etc all play a role.

Film has always been a reflection of our society. When world events occur or certain beliefs become widespread, they naturally shape our per

boogerwookiesugarcookie

I literally did a 100k PhD thesis on this. I can recommend you a different scholarly book for every decade of American horror.

You gotta love tumblr for releasing merch that no one was asking for, with either the shittiest designs or jokes that are a decade out of date 😂

nansheonearth

Would you publish this as a call to other OCD radfems, similar to the ADHD or Autistic ask? I’d love to hear similar perspective on the beauty industry and rituals, and intrusive thoughts and comphet.

Hey OCD radfems! Please reblog

imethimwheniwasavirgin

I finally got diagnosed with OCD a few years back when I was able to admit to my therapist that I pick at my skin and my hair, due to believing that any perceived ugliness or unsatisfactory textures have to be removed. Which it is apparently not normal when I keep doing it until my skin blisters and bleeds. ✌🏻

guerrillatech

wakingfromthewater

OK the only people I have known who have a garage fridge are Korean and use it for kimchi because they make enough of it they need a Designated Kimchi Fridge, so I get that.

But can my fellow white Americans please explain what you put in the second fridge?

pointnclick

hot dogs

jelloapocalypse

Ours was exclusively a storage unit for perishable but long-lasting extras from parties, like soda. We also ended up putting a lot of unhealthy snacks in there to de-incentivize going out and eating them because the garage had to be accessed from outside and Illinois weather is consistently awful.

magnetictapedatastorage

if we made a lot of food for a party the next day, it went in the garage fridge. also it’s where all the soda and beer goes. the freezer on top is for all the meat in the house.

imethimwheniwasavirgin

Not exactly a fridge story but freezer.

Okay my family is Jewish and has seven people in it. The Jewish part is important because we kept kosher and kosher meat is expensive so whenever it went on sale my parents would LOAD up on meat and chicken and all my friends were weirded out why we had so much raw meat and chicken in our freezer.

excentricat1

I keep seeing the idea that the Supreme Court is un-impeachable and it’s NOT TRUE. Supreme court justices can be impeached, and have. Samuel Chase was impeached in 1809. Abe Fortas resigned rather than be impeached in 1969. Fourteen other federal judges (also lifetime appointments) have also been impeached.

And there is grounds for impeachment for several of them. Lying to the Senate during your confirmation hearing is Federal Perjury. They have comitted public crimes.

Call your congresspeople. Let them know you want these criminals removed from their authority. They are not untouchable.

Contacting Congress

Contact Congress U.S. House of Representatives: * Telephone: 202-225-3121 * Website: http://www.house.gov/ U.S. Senate: * Telephone: 202

CONGRESSIONAL INSTITUTE

thingsisaidweredumb

I quick reblogged this while I was on a work call, but now that I’m off...

You need to bring up specifics. Ask your congress people for specific actions.

So we need to:

Impeach Justice Thomas for the many times he failed to recuse himself (including this one) when he had financial motivation to vote in a specific manner AND for his wife’s role in January 6 and his leveraging of his position for her benefit.

Impeach Justice Kavannaugh for his misleading words to the Senate during his confirmation hearings regarding his stance on Roe v Wade.

Impeach Justice Gorsugh for his misleading words to the Senate during his confirmation hearings regarding his stance on Roe v Wade.

Focus on Thomas because he has the most evidence and most compelling case.

Example script:

I am __ and I am a constituent of ___. I am calling concerning what I believe to be gross misconduct and “Bad Behavior” from (a) member(s) of the Supreme Court. It has come to my attention that Justice Thomas received financial incentive that may have informed his vote in the recent case that overturned Roe v. Wade and others. I think his conduct requires congressional review an I think it is right for ___ call for his impeachment. Furthermore, I have heard various Senators express they were mislead and lied to by Justices Kavannaugh and Gorsuch during their confirmation hearings. I believe this to be “Bad Behavior” worthy of impeachment and congressional review as well. Thank you.

“Bad behavior” is important because it is the language used in the Constitution.

Be specific and pass it on!

ukrfeminism

6th July 2022: Maya Forstater, who took a claim for belief discrimination against her former employer, the Center for Global Development…

Maya Forstater, who took a claim for belief discrimination against her former employer, the Center for Global Development, has been vindicated by a ruling that she was unlawfully discriminated against by her former employer on the basis of her protected belief.

This follows a ruling at an Employment Tribunal in June 2021 when Ms Forstater successfully established a binding legal precedent that gender-critical beliefs were in principle protected by the Equality Act.

Following that appeal, her case continued at the Employment Tribunal, to determine whether she was unlawfully discriminated against by her former employer on the basis of her protected belief.

The Tribunal unanimously found that, as acts of unlawful discrimination on the basis of Ms Forstater’s beliefs, CGD: 1. Did not offer her an employment contract; 2. Did not renew her visiting fellowship; and 3. Removed her from its website.

Among the findings in the judgment are that Ms Forstater’s tweets and comments, which formed the basis of CGD’s treatment of her, were statements of her protected gender-critical beliefs. The negative consequences which flowed from them were therefore unlawfully discriminatory.

“My case matters for everyone who believes in the importance of truth and free speech. “We are all free to believe whatever we wish. What we are not free to do is compel others to believe the same thing, to silence those who disagree with us or to force others to deny reality. “Human beings cannot change sex. It is not hateful to say that; in fact it is important in order to treat everyone fairly and safely. It shouldn’t take courage to say this, and no one should lose their job for doing so. “I am pleased that the Tribunal has allowed me to put on record what happened to me at the Center for Global Development. The tribunal has found that I was a victim of discrimination because I stated that biological sex is real and important, a view shared by the vast majority of people in this country. I hope employers will take note of the judgment. “I would like to thank my family, who have gone through this with me over the past three years, and my legal team: barristers Ben Cooper QC and Anya Palmer, and my solicitor Peter Daly. Above all I want to thank the thousands of women and men who sent me their support, and in particular JK Rowling for standing by me in the darkest of days. “To hear that my case has helped other people to speak up against unfair and discriminatory practices at work makes the hardship of the last three years easier to bear. All those who are fighting similar battles — and there are many such people now — have my solidarity and support. “I also want to thank all the brilliant organisations fighting to protect sex-based rights. They will make the world a safer, fairer place for women and girls. They are stepping into the democratic space that well-funded organisations like CGD have vacated through cowardice. “CGD’s unfair treatment of me, and prejudice against people who believe that sex is real, changed my life. If the organisation hadn’t ended my employment, I would never have co-founded Sex Matters. I would never have had the opportunity to be part of the amazing movement in the UK to re-assert the importance of sex-based rights. We have had enough of being sidelined in language, law, policy and public spaces. This judgment is further evidence that the tide is turning.”

cletusthurstonbeauregard-deacti

kennedy-the-genderfluid-punk

@catgirl-catastrophy tell ‘em babe

catgirl-catastrophy

Oh my God it's like the internet never learns. Allow me to copy-paste from the last time I saw something like this:

"I've said it before and I'll say it again - the trick to disabling shit like this is to make your bogus calls indistinguishable from real ones. Don't do cursed images and memes, do fake names and classes that never existed. Force them to waste ten minutes for every call you make, hunting down something that sounds real but ultimately yields no fruit. A cursed image takes two seconds to close, but a well-constructed phoney tip can take quite some time - time that is in turn taken away from pursuing actual tipoffs. Get enough people doing that, and suddenly they either burn their whole day chasing people who don't exist, or they start to ignore legit tips in case they're also bogus. And THAT'S how you kill a tip line."

Also, a relevant excerpt from 2600

shingekisms

Will forever be thankful that I didn’t think to consult even the progressive areas of the internet about my abortion, because so many liberal “pro-choice” activists are so judgmental and disgusting when you get into the meat of it.

You tell them that you just want an abortion because you’re simply not ready for a child and they go haywire. Why exactly don’t you want that baby? What happens if you look back in 9 months and regret it and wish you DID have a baby? Are you financially stable, and if you are why not just go through with it? You know there are plenty of couples desperate to adopt a baby right? Why did you have sex if you knew you didn’t want a child?

All of a sudden they aren’t so pro-choice anymore when faced with the reality that some women really do get abortions simply because they don’t want to be pregnant.

shingekisms

Also this is all not to mention the fact that if you tell them that you’re choosing abortion because your child will be disabled, they will accuse you of eugenics. Because it’s not “woke” to understand that disabilities can lead to lifelong mental and financial stress for all parties involved.

radkindoffeminist

It’s so sad that so many people think this way. Pro-choice should be about unrestricted abortion access to anyone who wants it, not some abortion access for those who are in a bad enough state for a person to be able to justify it.

They’ve bought into the forced birther rhetoric but just not enough to be fully forced birther. They’ve heard all the arguments about denying abortions to minors and women who were raped and women who can’t afford children and decided that really those are the women who deserve access to abortions. Not every single woman who wants one but a slightly wider number than most pro life people. And when they picture unrestricted abortion access (or restricted to 12-24 weeks as standard in many countries), they think every woman who goes in meets their idea of the desperate and abused woman who has no other choice but to go through an abortion. A woman who’s had to come to terms with the idea of killing the growing life because she has literally no other choice but will likely suffer in silence for the rest of her life because of it. Because that’s what they really think of abortion at the end of the day: the last resort for desperate, deprived, and abused women that we tolerate but don’t truly accept.

This is why responding to pro life arguments with ‘what about minors/women who are raped/etc’ is so harmful. Abortion access is not just for those who have been raped. It’s for every woman without question. Arguing that the poor woman, the rape victim, the minor, or any other specific circumstance being forced through a pregnancy is wrong doesn’t change people’s minds on abortion. It doesn’t make them realise that abortion is good and necessary for so many women. It just slightly widens the group of women they believe should have abortion access.

magnetictapedatastorage

you absolutely hit the nail on the head!!!!!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

luncheon-aspic

On demand

and

Without apology

memehumor

Where do these idiots come from?

imethimwheniwasavirgin

Punishing men who impregnate a woman who doesn’t want the baby by sentencing the men to death would ALSO cut abortions. Hmmm, I wonder why THAT’S not the solution?

🤔

#feminism #roe vs. wade #abortion #abortion is a human right #abortion rights #radfem #radical feminism #radfems do touch #radfems do interact #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do touch #radical feminists please interact

crafty-butch

wonder how many people are going to be put off from donating to planned parenthood and end up accidentally donating to their local crisis pregnancy center instead. like i'm sorry but if you think planned parenthood is doing just fine, research is clearly not your forte

crafty-butch

ok i was being snarky, but it occurs to me that people genuinely might not know this: crisis pregnancy centers are not real, licensed health clinics.

they exist primarily to discourage people from getting abortions. they are usually anti-contraceptive in addition to being anti-abortion. and, most importantly, they lie.

they lie about the risks of abortion. they lie about whether their "patients" are too far along for a legal abortion. they lie about contraceptives. they usually set up shop next to legitimate health clinics so they can steer people away from the places they might actually get help.

here is a map of cpc's in the US (note that this is not necessarily comprehensive). and here are some articles to help avoid them. there are lots of tells, but often the biggest clue is in the name. take a really skeptical look at any organizations calling themselves:

pregnancy resource center

pregnancy care center

pregnancy support center

pregnancy help center

pregnancy center

women’s health center

women’s resource center

abortion alternative center

life choices center

options clinic

leguin

Taking back the right to abortion requires some terrifying religious zealotry.

We now have all the exposure of life pre-Roe but none of the paternalistic protections: Women are now seen as fully autonomous moral agents, which means that they will be legally on the hook for endangering the babies they carry, but they will also be punishable as autonomous adults. Women thus remain children for purposes of pregnancy and giving birth, but have become adults for purposes of criminal liability.

It’s easy to lull yourself into the false belief that a reversion to life pre-Roe would simply mean that the reproductive freedom movement needs to redouble efforts to fund and transport persons needing abortions to more hospitable states. That would be awful, we think, but maybe not that catastrophically bad. But as Goldberg warned in 2019, “the past can prove inadequate to understanding the depredations of the present.” We are not in fact moving “backward” to life before Roe. We are more likely moving sideways into a fundamentalist religious regime in which life pre-Roe will come to look like a vastly less terrifying option than a world in which women are subject to revanchist religious claims—claims with no support whatsoever in the Constitution—about the lives they may carry, the unknown crimes they may commit, and the choices they are no longer permitted to make.

marvelstudios

The future begins with her

Ms. Marvel, an Original series from Marvel Studios, is now streaming on Disney+. Art by Patience Lekien

imethimwheniwasavirgin

Um isn’t Ms Marvel supposed to be a teen? Why did they draw her waist to ass ratio to emphasize her ass like that?

#msmarvel #marvel #marvel studios #radfem #radical feminist

blackfemmejeanvaljean

I’m about 90% sure the economy is never gonna “improve”

this is capitalism in it’s final form

this is it honey

wumblr

except, you know, those companies that do a charitable thing for every thing they sell

that’s kinda new and interesting. benevolent capitalism

blackfemmejeanvaljean

lmao

wumblr

Pay attention, class: This is what it looks like when one is unwilling to consider new information.

alexandra-erin

It’s not new information, though. It’s misinformation.

First, it’s not that new.

Did you know that there was a time in U.S. history—which is by definition recent history—when a corporation was generally intended to have some sort of public interest that they served? I mean, that’s the whole point of allowing corporations to form. Corporations are recognized by the commonwealth or state, and this recognition is not a right but a privilege, in exchange for which the state (representing the people) is allowed to ask, “So what does this do for everyone else?”

The way the economy is now is a direct result of a shift away from this thinking and to one where a corporation is an entity unto itself whose first, last, and only concern is an ever-increasing stream of profits. What you’re calling “benevolent capitalism” isn’t benevolent at all. It’s a pure profit/loss calculation designed to distract from—not even paper over or stick a band-aid on—the problems capitalism creates. And the fact that you’re here championing it as “benevolent capitalism” is a sign of how ell it’s working.

Let’s take Toms, as one example. The shoe that’s a cause. Buy a pair of trendy shoes, and a pair of trendy shoes will be given away to someone somewhere in the world who can’t afford them.

That’s not genuine benevolence. That’s selling you, the consumer, on the idea that you can be benevolent by buying shoes, that the act of purchasing these shoes is an act of charity. The reality is that their model is an inefficient means of addressing the problems on the ground that shoelessness represents, and severely disrupts the local economies of the locations selected for benevolence.

(Imagine what it does to the local shoemakers, for instance.)

The supposed act of charity is just a value add to convince you to spend your money on these shoes instead of some other shoes. It’s no different than putting a prize in a box of cereal.

Heck, you want to see how malevolent this is?

Go ask a multinational corporation that makes shoes or other garments to double the wages of their workers. They’ll tell you they can’t afford it, that it’s not possible, that consumers won’t stand for it, that you’ll drive them out of business and then no one will have wages.

But the fact that a company can give away one item for every item sold shows you what a lie this is. A one-for-one giving model represents double the cost of labor and materials for each unit that is sold for revenue. Doubling wages would only double the labor.

So why are companies willing to give their products away (and throw them away, destroy unused industry with bleach and razors to render them unsalvageable, et cetera) but they’re not willing to pay their workers more?

Because capitalism is the opposite of benevolence.

“Charity” is by definition exemplary, above and beyond, extraordinary, extra. “Charity” is not something that people are entitled to. You give people a shirt or shoes or some food and call it charity, and you’re setting up an expectation that you can and will control the stream of largesse in the future, and anything and everything you give should be considered a boon from on high.

On the other hand, once you start paying your workers a higher wage, you’re creating an expectation. You’re admitting that their labor is more valuable to you than you were previously willing to admit, and it’s hard to walk that back.

Plus, when people have enough money for their basic needs, they’re smarter and stronger and warier and more comfortable with pushing back instead of being steamrolled over. They have time and money to pursue education. They can save money up and maybe move away. They can escape from the system that depends on a steady flow of forced or near-forced labor.

So companies will do charitable “buy one, give one” and marketing “buy one, get one” even though these things by definition double the overhead per unit, but they won’t do anything that makes a lasting difference in the standard of living for the people.

Capitalism has redefined the world so that the baseline of ethics is “How much money can we make?” and every little good deed over and above that is saintly.

But there’s nothing benevolent about throwing a scrap of bread to someone who’s starving in a ditch because you ran them out of their home in the first place.

left-reminders

This is one of the best anti-capitalist posts on the entire site.

nansheonearth

I will say one of the reasons why some radfems on tumblr feel isolated is because they don't know how to use tumblr.

There's a post going around with about 1k radfems who are looking for women in their area. There are many issues with it I've found when following up on it.

Some women will add their location and that's it! They'll yell into the void and hope the void yells back.

A very large portion of these women have their messages set so no one can contact them or so no one can contact them unless they are already following that user. Hint: if you're following them, you probably don't need to reach out right?

Other than a few women running regional blogs (blessed angels) no one is checking the notes! Someone will say "well there's probably no radfems in [wherever city]" and there will be like 10 women in the notes saying the same thing! (Not that it would make much of a difference given the last bullet but yeah)

Don't even get me started on the women who reblog it and put the location in the tags instead of just adding a comment/reply (only you, and maybe me, will see the tag. Not everyone has the version of tumblr that shows tags. Meaning few women will know you added a location)

Tumblr, like other social media, and like space lol, is a bunch of orbits. You have to reblog posts to get them into other orbits. Say a woman adds her location to that post, it will only be seen by a fraction of her followers. Me and some of those regional blogs and some other dope women do reblog it sometimes, boosting it into our orbits. But it would help if others did to.

And this applies to all kinds of radfem posts on tumblr. Likes are cool I guess but reblogging is where things start moving. Libfems and anti feminists seem to have figured it out. I see so many great radfem posts and discussion die out because they have little interaction. More exposure will increase the interaction and that leads to women connecting.

I hope this will inspire you to change your settings, reblog radfem posts, and interact with each other.

imethimwheniwasavirgin

Would anyone be open to starting a radfem book club for reading and analyzing books on queer theory and gender identity? I’d like to be able to know what the other side is saying in order to be able to refute it but I’m reluctant to read said books alone without anyone one to critically examine their problematic nature with and decompress after the discomfort/distress that these books are sure to bring me.

imethimwheniwasavirgin

Okay so I see a nice chunk of interest in this, so let’s make this happen!

A friend of mine suggested using a Discord server for hosting conversation and also that there’s a video chat/conference call function. So we could meet virtually to discuss and have the option of turning video cameras on or off. As it is, I’m not super savvy with Discord so I don’t know if there’s already a radfem group there we could join so for now I’ve just set up a Discord link here: https://discord.gg/D2SFj3E5zN

Check out the Radblr BookClub: Gender Politics and Liberal Feminism community on Discord - hang out with 1 other members and enjoy free voic

It’s pretty easy to set up a Discord account if you don’t have one, I just made one with my Radblr username so it’s easy to identify mine (still looking for my icon image to match it). Feel free to drop in!

#radfem #radical feminism #radical feminist #radfem book club #radical feminist book club #radical feminist literature #radfems do touch #radfems do interact #radfems please interact #radfems please touch #radical feminists do touch #radical feminists do interact

Not so hot take:

Art is associated with women but artists are associated with men because women are seen as passive objects to be looked at whereas men are seen as active individuals that do the looking

#radfem #radical feminism #radical feminist community #radical feminists please touch #radfems do interact #radfems please interact #radical feminist #radfem community #radfems please touch #misogyny in art

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