radfemdarling

Artemis. 21+ homosexual female. rejoining radblr after a long hiatus and peaked about three times on one day. and here I am.

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A radical feminist’s reading list-

Classic

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 by Adrienne Rich

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

Fiction

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin

The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Gate to Woman’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper

History

Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici

The Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women’s History of the World by Rosalind Miles

Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them by Dale Spender

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World by Rachel Swaby

Intersectional

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

It’s Not About the Burqa by Mariam Khan (editor)

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga (editor) and Gloria Anzaldúa (editor)

Lesbian

Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective by Sheila Jeffreys

The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris

Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism by Suzanne Pharr

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich

Liberal vs. radical

Female Erasure: What You Need to Know about Gender Politics’ War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights by Ruth Barrett (editor)

End of Equality by Beatrix Campbell

Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap

Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 by Alice Echols

Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism by Sheila Jeffreys

Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism by Miranda Kiraly (editor) and Meagan Tyler (editor)

The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism by Dorchen Leidholdt (editor) and Janice G. Raymond (editor)

The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male by Janice G. Raymond

We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler

Pornography, prostitution, surrogacy & rape

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller

Slavery Inc.: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking by Lydia Cacho

Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality by Gail Dines

Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self by Kajsa Ekis Ekman

The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade by Sheila Jeffreys

Only Words by Catharine A. Mackinnon

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade by Janice G. Raymond

Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle Over Women’s Freedom by Janice G. Raymond

Psychology & trauma

Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Lewis Herman

Toward a New Psychology of Women by Jean Baker Miller

Theory

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism by Mary Daly

Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin by Andrea Dworkin, Johanna Fateman (editor) and Amy Scholder (editor

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for a Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks

Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis by Robin Ruth Linden (editor), Darlene R. Pagano (editor), Diana E. H. Russell (editor) and Susan Leigh Star (editor)

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine A. Mackinnon

The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman

Other

Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown

Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women’s Oppression by Christine Delphy

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery

Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West by Sheila Jeffreys

Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. Mackinnon

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection by Janice G. Raymond

How to Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ

Man Made Language by Dale Spender

Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth by Marilyn Waring

[shinhati]

bisexual women are not a sexual resource for trans people or anyone else. "the solution to lonely trans people is bi folks!" no it isn't. kill yourself

[shinhati]

actually im gonna list attitudes/stereotypes that contribute to this

bi women don't have sexual boundaries

bi women are freaky and hypersexual

others are entitled to bi women's sexuality

bisexuals have a responsibility to defer/cater to the rest of the LGBT

[betelguwuse]

THANK YOU

Bi people may be more likely to consider you as a partner, but we owe you nothing

[thefemaleterrorist]

*makes a logical and objectively correct statement*

“hmm but you’re a terf and a radfem you’re wrong actually!!”

?? LMFAO

[b4tf3m-deactivated20250316]

it's all they have

[boymiffy]

we are not made to endure alone! we are not made to endure alone.

[prettyaveragewhiteshark]

When everything everywhere all at once said: “I’m useless alone.” and then answered: “everyone is useless alone. Good thing we are not alone.”

[womens-voices]

Gender exists to restrict and oppress women; women who defy gender do not have male brains, they are simply demanding to be fully human.

[ihatemenandtherearereasons]

Exhibit 2104

[b4tf3m-deactivated20250316]

[marmorada]

[ms-revived-frogs]

Are the trans people genocides by detransitioners in the room with us right now?

[transphobia-is]

Transphobia is being detrans

[8675309123456oliviaaa]

A majority of Americans in the 80s and 90s: AIDS is the gay cancer. God is punishing faggots.

Gender studies majors on Tumblr in our year of the lord 2017: the focus on gay men in the context of AIDS is gay privilege and it erases my identity as a queer heteroflexible AFAB

[transphobia-is]

Transphobia is talking about the AIDS crisis

[they-called-me-terfy-deactivate]

man in dress gets triggered by actual women and decides to drink and drive about it

[bungirl--incorporated-deactivat]

terfs see trans woman struggling with mental health issues likely due to her dysphoria and decide to publicly shame her online instead of promoting mental health resources for situations like this.

[they-called-me-terfy-deactivate]

I don’t give a shit about his mental health. He’s a misogynistic piece of shit who is willing to harm other people because he got triggered by women existing. The world would be better off without him and you’re an idiot if you think otherwise.

[transphobia-is]

Transphobia is publicly shaming a misogynist that self admitted their own fucked up misogynistic behaviors without any shame 😐

[sunb1eeder]

worlds only valid psychologist

[transphobia-is]

Transphobia is a psychiatrist doing her job

[sunn-bunny]

[feral-radfem]

Troon Commentary to the video that states "no flesh colored straps":

See this type of shit right here? This type of shit is the reason why I say cis lesbians are terfs.

Oh Saoirse, I hate when they weren't talking about natural strap. [Mocking tone]

Think for fucking 5 seconds (hits camera).

What would be the reason that you don't want one that's flesh colored? I read through the comments on that video and they made me fucking sick.

The flesh colored ones traumatize me. They look too much like the real thing. [Mocking tone]

Lesbians in your community have the real thing. That girl at the end of the bar has the real thing. And you're going to be just the girl who think she's all that. One of you are going to haul her ass until you learn that she has the real thing.

It's just a video about strap-ons. Don't make it a big deal they probably weren't even thinking about trans people.[Mocking tone]

Us not coming into your consideration is transphobia. So I'm glad y'all are having fun making a cute little video, but frankly I'm a little tired of being part of a community where I consistently see comment sections that are pages of pages describing exactly and how and why bodies like mine are disgusting.

I eat breathe and sleep as a lesbian. And I every bit as much as you deserve to feel a part of this community. And not feel like my body is disgusting. You might think that I'm being dramatic, but this really hit on my lived experiences in the past 3 weeks i, and no uncertain terms, have been ghosted for being trans four times.

Cis lesbians you got to do better. You're starting to look like the cis gay men. And honestly, I think it's worse because you were supposed to understand misogyny.

So, just the basic male entitlement to lesbians and trying to guilt us and shame us out of our innate sexual orientation. I just thought this may be easier to read for y'all.

He has so much male entitlement to women's sexuality that he doesn't even believe you should get to have a preference of color of sex toy. That flesh tone should be okay with you because you're expected to be okay with dick anyways. Male-centered completely.

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@terfstillmeanslesbian

[terfstillmeanslesbian]

the constant put down of males sexually should be a big fucking clue to this heterosexual that he's not part of the lesbian community. but yes pls note he's just calling all lesbians terfs not bc of their gender beliefs or their brand of feminism, but bc we're lesbians. bc we won't fuck him. that's it. they hate us bc they can't be us. bc the charade only goes so far.

[femaleloggedon]

[transphobia-is]

Transphobia is lesbians not liking penis

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[blautitlewave]

God it’s so fucking embarrassing that [that] is the feminism I’m supposed to be subscribed to by default.

[cocksmasher69]

Yeah feminism about reproductive rights of actual women is soooo embarrassing

[larpsandtherealgirl]

libfem concerns: lobbying for fringe groups to be portrayed as sexually attractive in the media

supposedly “white” feminist concerns: literal reproductive rights

guess which one of these things almost exclusively benefits white people

guess which one of these things has a greater impact on woc globally

[uumans]

yeah tell us more about how white reproductive rights are again

[radicalkittenkaboodle]

Libfems/gendershits: -use woc of a ‘gotcha’ card any chance they can get to prop up their shitty ideology-

Also libfems/gendershits: -demonize focusing on issues that would most benefit woc-

[xx-fadingaway-xx]

i dont get it. only white women have uteri?? 

[rad-itzel]

Of course, @sad-rad-siren. Don’t you know that before our white saviors came to illuminate us in our caves, we brown, black & Asian people did not know how bodies work, according to genderists?

Knowing biology makes you a big bad white feminist, even if you are a WOC.

[radfemdarling]

Okay who else is so repulsed by transwomen presenting themselves as "uwu cute pastel cuddly shy pwincess"?

It's so disgusting.

The core statement is "I'm harmless, I just want to cuddle and share physical intimacy nothing wrong with that" but when you actually listen closely it's them just being the usual creepy predator chasing vulnerable young girls and especially lesbians. Because forcing intimacy on them when it's "just cuddles uwu 💕✨" is absolutely not harmful or equally traumatising.

🤢🤮

[radfemdarling]

This is my legacy.

[kronkk]

But what if the children LIKED to eat lead paint. That's their CHOICE.

[kronkk]

The child says they will kill themselves unless we give them a lobotomy. We must obviously give the lobotomy. Or they will order an ice pick online with cutesy anime girl packaging.

[kronkk]

[bimboid]

[lesbianfairie-deactivated202212]

🌱✨🌸.

[louisedolanart]

by Louise Dolan

[radfemdarling]

Met a bisexual woman who said she wouldn't ever have another relationship with a woman because of the "bitching."

Umm, honey, men literally kill women every day because they think of us as property, but you're afraid of another woman being on her period and then "bitch"?

Ouch.