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by Osheen Siva

faeryeee

thank you, marjane satrapi!

i was so sad to hear about her passing yesterday, she truly changed so many girls everywhere. rest in peace you beautiful woman

gendiebrainrotreceipts

So we started at ‘the future is female’, then we decentered women with ‘the future is inclusive’ and now we’ve just completely erased women with ‘the future is men pretending to be women’ 🫠

girlsolstice

the future is still female

femconstellation

‘do you have a source’ and its just the lived female experience.

shadowlhunters-deactivated20200

You know how 1st world feminists get told that they don’t need feminism? They’re told that they should be glad they’re not “really oppressed” like the women in 3rd world countries. That things could always be worse.

You know what my mother tells me? She says I don’t need feminism because I should be glad I’m born in an urban city of Pakistan. She says, at least I wasn’t born in a rural area where girls are married off to men twice their age. That things could always be worse.

And our house maid, Shabana, who was married to her uncle at 15 and, at 18, has 2 children, she doesn’t even know what feminism is. She was told by her father that she should be glad her husband doesn’t beat her and hasn’t thrown tehzaab (acid) at her. That things could always be worse.

Am I the only one seeing a very disturbing pattern here?

jdjwnrkevn-deactivated20240711

Can we all band together and hold hands and smite all the weirdo catholic orbiters that keep trying to call themselves feminists

average-exxistence

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maureenjohnsonbooks

This graphic is fabulous. It represents a tiny crash course in rhetoric. Learn these things. Put them on your wall. Whisper them into the breeze. These are THINGS TO KNOW.

monsteralias-deactivated2024012

You know what could actually help lots of women in the global south? Especially if you're American? Stop consuming drugs. I find it kinda funny how betrayed everyone seems when you can't even give up weed.

If you're American and you consume illegal drugs, you are two steps from consuming porn to me.

flowerlygirls

im guessing this has to do with not supporting drugs traffickers thus not supporting gangs who then therefore have less money and influence to hurt women and children? or is there also another reason? because i always thought men were the primary ones dying due to gang violence

monsteralias-deactivated2024012

Gang violence in LatinoAmerica is huge. And I mean HUGE. Every city under the USA border has its own relationship with drug cartels. You really really don't know how is to live in a country where the drug cartels dictate everything. There have been entire cities destroyed by them. Vacated. Some of them serve as mercenaries for transnational companies, to enslave men for manual labor and women for manual and sexual labor. One of the worst femicide crisis in recent history in Mexico was fueled by drug cartels, just search Dead women of Ciudad Juárez. The drug cartels own human trafficking rings across the country. They kidnap and traffick migrant women, local women and children. They are known for closing highways and cut food and supplies from towns where they think they need control over. There have cases of towns where drug cartels close highways and try to kidnap all the women and girls in there. They kill indigenous people and farmers who refuse to cultivate their crops. Mexico is in shambles because of the narco. We couldn't even send data to the investigation on black holes because the drug cartels wanted money to open a highway that went up a hill where a telescope was. With this I am trying to say that pretty much every aspect of civilian life, especially outside big cities, is dictated by drug cartels.

And this is just México. Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and other countries have their own problems with drug cartels. This is not gang violence anymore. Some of us are living in what it resembles a narco state. A state where the drug cartels control almost every aspect of politics.

ungrandeur

I did a free walking tour in Medellin, Colombia and the tour guide spent at least an hour talking about how much he hates foreigners who come to colombia to do cocaine and do pablo escobar tours and another hour talking about how fucked up it is that europeans, americans, and australians consume most the illegal drugs but see none of the violence. he went hard before huge group of people, many of them there to probably just party and do drugs. I could've listened to him talk for ages. mad respect.

I can't believe how many people turn a blind eye to the violence.

pothead-paisan

The majority of weed smoked in the states where it’s most popular is grown in the US, not in the global south. I can see this argument being valid for things like cocaine, but claiming people who smoke weed that’s grown in their legal state are contributing to violence and trafficking in South America isn’t remotely accurate.

monsteralias-deactivated2024012

I specified illegal drugs you fucking stoner. I said weed because of people who aren't willing to even switch to a legal source. If you source it legally then why tf are you on my post.

According to the DEA, one third of the illegal drugs trafficked from Mexico to the USA is weed so... Who tf is smoking that illegal pot?

strugglebot

Okay even if it’s weed. Let’s talk about it. How do you really know where it comes from? Okay let’s say you buy it from a storefront. Seems legit. But a lot of them are not legally obligated to buy their supply from gov regulated producers. So they are selling product most likely from illegal grow-ops, often with falsified labels. Let’s say the product / supply chain is legit. The store front also acts as a money laundering front. The store owner is also a human trafficker and/or a dealer for illegal substances. This is just his “legal” business.

Like unless you’re buying your weed directly from the gov’s website, you do not and cannot know 1) where your supply is really from 2) if the money spent is being used to fund illegal activity.

monsteralias-deactivated2024012

It's also legal for Nestlé to sell and guess what? They use child slave labor.

icefemsanonymous

This applies to Europe too. The Netherlands are famous for having legalized marijuana, but a lot of the (completely legal!) marijuana in the Netherlands is supplied by dangerous cartels. And of almost all of the cocaine in Europe comes from South America, so from the same woman killing cartels. Europeans who do cocaine are also funding the enslavement and murder of women in Latin America. To boot a lot of the cocaine in Europe is trafficked through Africa, where drug cartels there also hurt and murder women, so cocaine in Europe often has the blood of both Latin American and African women on it.

I advise people to only smoke weed that they either grew themselves or that they know for a fact beyond any doubt that it was grown locally and ethically and it wasn't produced or imported by cartels.

balkanradfem

what are some good resources for someone just getting into being a radfem?

Here's a link to the radfem reading list! Link

I personally would recommend:

'Who Cooked the Last Supper' PDF link

'Invisible Women' PDF link

'The Second Shift' PDF link

'Loving to Survive' PDF link

I also recommend all the works from Andrea Dworkin but those go very deep into the violence and trauma, the ones I listed are very good entry points that deal with statistics and data!