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Selected PDFs

Ain’t I A Woman? - bell hooks

Combating Cult Mind Control - Steven Hassan

Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine

Gyn/ecology - Mary Daly

Intercourse - Andrea Dworkin

Loving to Survive - Dee L. R. Graham 

Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them - Joan Torres and Susan Forward

Pornography - Andrea Dworkin

Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg

The Creation of Patriarchy - Gerda Lerner

The Dialectic of Sex - Shulamith Firestone

Why Does He Do That? - Lundy Bancroft

Zami, Sister Outsider and Undersong - Audre Lorde

[radfemblack]

Ohhhh!

[antilla-dean]

Now that The Land is in safe hands, what's next? I don't know if anything like Michfest could survive in today's volatile political enviorment

THIS IS A LONG POST.  A BIT ANGRY.  A BIT ACCUSATORY.  OPEN TO FEEDBACK AND REACTIONS, BUT PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS FIRST.

So…Michigan ended two years ago.  TWO YEARS.  So that was “today’s political environment.”   And two years ago?  I worked with @redressalert (it was her idea) to make sure that young women would come to that last Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival to EXPERIENCE THAT WORLD.  To know that women’s spaces are here and are life saving.  So that, in a later time, they would remember, to paraphrase Sappho.  And at least one hundred came.  I met @shamelesslyunladylike and many others and it was amazing.

Michigan survived as long as it did because women vehemently said no.  They said no.  They said it loudly and over and over and over again.  In the face of unrelenting pressure and haterade.  But we fought to hold our line despite the shaming.

The Land may be in “safe hands” (i’m not even sure what that means), but women are still battling to keep it.  The not-for-profit that bought it owes 1.2 million dollars on it.  So now?  It may be in “safe hands” but a steadfast group of amazing amazons are BATTLING TO KEEP IT.  Every day.  Without PAID STAFF.

When I was in my 20s?  We were facing AIDS as our normal (and I mean skeletal, lesion covered people dying on the street from AIDS, AIDS) and a rampant cultural homophobia.  And then women started the Lesbian Avengers and fought dyke phobia–which was thick.  Thick.  Everywhere.  In spite of that, we loved ourselves and each other.  We showed up and out against the bullshit we got from gay men and straight men and from folks trying to shame lesbians in so many ways.  It was scary and sometimes dangerous, but we looked each other in the eye, and gathered in a room every Tuesday at 6 and we organized and created and were public and fought.  Even if there were only 10 of us.

So let me ask this…

How many young women have signed up to be on WWTLC’s mailing list?  How many young women have banned together to create in person (NOT ONLINE) fundraisers to keep the Land?  how many young women have submitted applications to hold events for young feminists on the Land?  how many young women have donated 5 dollars?  two dollars?  How many have proactively done something to make that Land available to young women and girls forever?  

One of the problems I am seeing is that a lot of YOUNGER WOMEN aren’t fighting for themselves as dykes.  Not against anyone:  other rad fems and trans folks, I am not seeing young women fighting for THEMSELVES as lesbians.  They aren’t acknowledging themselves as worthy and powerful and sexy.  I don’t see young women starting their own dyke-based things.  I don’t see you coming together as a voice for each other.  All the under 30s in my life are calling themselves queer.  All of the under 30s aren’t saying they want to be with BUTCHES, not trans guys.  All of the under 30s in my life are not shouting about the power of the pussy.  I don’t see young women coming forward to fight for their own SPACES the way we fought for ours in the early 90s (google the Clit Club).  I don’t see young women at the forefront saying this is BULLSHIT and nope.  I don’t see young women organizing in person, face to face, on the ground, creating new ground troops on this.  

I know y’all are going THROUGH IT.  I know that.  I see that.  I am not ignoring that.  But every generation has gone through some serious shit.  Every generation.  You aren’t new or different.  For real.  The question is how did you stand up to fight it?  We’ve been told that no one gives a shit about women and dykes.  What are we doing to stand up for being a DYKE?  When do you stop caring about what other people think and stand for what you are?  So here’s some super passive things you can do to fight for women’s space (actual women’s space):

Join WWTLC’s FB group (look up we want the land coalition)

Join WWTLC’s mailing list

On “Giving Tuesday,” that’s November 28, starting at 8 AM, the Gates Foundation is giving away $2,000,000 by MATCHING individual fundraisers on Facebook (up to $50,000 per organization) until that $2,000,000 runs out.  It is a race for funding.  If every woman on here who follows me held a $1,000 fundraiser and raised it from family and friends (that is 100 people giving 10 bucks each) starting at 8 am, you could collectively raise $100,000 for WWTLC which would basically make it possible for them to meet their April land payment of $180,000.  You want women’s space?  Here’s how you can help fight to get it:

• CREATE YOUR OWN FACEBOOK FUNDRAISER ON NOVEMBER 28— go to https://www.facebook.com/fundraisers/— click on Raise Money; — type in “Purple,” — choose “Purple—Human Services, Lansing MI” (the fiscal sponsor for WWTLC)— fill out the form— Tell your friends why women’s space on The Land is important to you

• SHARE WITH ALL YOUR FRIENDS!

All donations to Facebook fundraisers for Purple can be matched• on GIVING TUESDAY, NOV. 28, beginning at 8 a.m. EST (this is important! it is a race and people need to start giving at 8 am ON THE NOSE)• up to $1000 per fundraiser• up to $50,000 total for Purple/WWLTC• until $2M in matching funds from the Gates’ is claimed

And if you are in Brooklyn or near it?  On December 3, come to a fundraiser for WWTLC.  Come be in women’s space.  Dance.  Listen to female musicians and poets and comics lay it DOWN (this one and this one and this one and this one).  Make sure your deaf friends know it is going to be ASL interpreted.  That the space is accessible for those in wheelchairs.  Can’t afford the expensive ticket?  Pay $20 for the DJ at 9. Can’t afford that?  Ask on the FB page if there are any other options to attend.  

But fight.  Not each other.  No matter how annoying.  Don’t punch sideways and down.  Please.  Open your throats up and punch UP.  You may lose people in your life, but are they really your tribe?  Are they the people who hold you?  Who you love?  Who love you?  Bad and good?  You may lose, but you will gain others who are here for YOU.  Who love women.  Who love women’s community.  Who are dyke-based and dyke-focused.  But you can’t have it unless you don’t make the space for her to emerge.  You have to struggle to earn something good.

A 19-year old started a dyke festival in 1976, when those words were ABSURD and women still needed their husband’s permission to get a credit card.  Yes, y’all have it hard, but it has always been thus.  

The question is what are you going to do now.  

[neurosciencestuff]

Neuroscientists shed light on causes of postpartum depression using new research model

Postpartum depression strikes nearly one in five new mothers, who may experience anxiety, severe fatigue, inability to bond with their children and suicidal thoughts. Such depression has also been associated with infants’ developmental difficulties. Although stress has been identified as a significant risk factor for postpartum depression, this complex disorder is still poorly understood. Now neuroscientists at Tufts University School of Medicine have generated a novel preclinical model of postpartum depression and demonstrated involvement of the neuroendocrine system that mediates physiological response to stress, called the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which is normally suppressed during and after pregnancy. The findings in mice provide the first empirical evidence that disruption of this system engenders behaviors that mimic postpartum depression in humans.

This study, which was published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, provides a much-needed research model for further investigation into the causes of and treatment for postpartum depression, which has largely relied on correlational studies in humans because of the scarcity of animal models.

Stress is known to activate the HPA axis, which triggers the fight or flight response seen in many species. During and after pregnancy such activation is normally blunted – helping to insulate developing offspring from stress – and dysregulation of the HPA axis has been suggested as playing a role in the physiology of postpartum depression.

The effects of stress on postpartum behavior are thought to be mediated by stress hormones because animal experiments show that stress and exogenous stress hormones can induce abnormal postpartum behaviors. However, clinical data on stress hormones in women with postpartum depression has been inconsistent. To date, research has not directly demonstrated a role for corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) – the main driver of the stress response, which is primarily secreted by a cluster of neurons in the hypothalamus called the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) – or for inappropriate activation of the HPA axis in postpartum depression.

“Some clinical studies show a relationship between CRH, HPA axis function and postpartum depression, but others fail to replicate these findings. Direct investigation into this relationship has been hindered due to the lack of useful animal models of such a complex disorder,” said Jamie Maguire, Ph.D., corresponding author on the new study, assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine, and a member of the Neuroscience and Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics program faculties at Tufts’ Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.

“Using a mouse model that we developed, our new study provides the first empirical evidence supporting the clinical observations of HPA axis dysfunction in patients with postpartum depression and shows for the first time that dysregulation of the HPA axis and a specific protein in the brain, KCC2, can be enough to induce postpartum depression-like behaviors and deficits in maternal care,” she continued.

Maguire’s lab had previously shown a critical role for KCC2 in regulating CRH neurons and the physiological response to stress. The recent study investigated the specific role of KCC2 in regulating the HPA axis during and after pregnancy. Maguire and her colleagues assessed KCC2 expression in the PVN in virgin, pregnant and postpartum mice. They observed suppression (downregulation) of KCC2 in virgin mice exposed to stress but not in pregnant or postpartum mice. They propose that this contributes to the protective HPA hypofunction prior to birth, which is consistent with lower glucocorticoid levels observed in pregnant and postpartum mice and similar to findings in humans.

To further test the role of KCC2, the researchers developed mice that completely lacked KCC2 in CRH neurons and compared HPA axis function in these “knockout” mice with their normal (wildtype) littermates. Knockout mice demonstrated significantly more stress reactivity during the peripartum period, did not show the reduced anxiety typical of the postpartum period, and exhibited abnormal maternal care compared with postpartum wildtype mice. Utilizing novel chemogenetic strategies to specifically activate or silence the CRH neurons in the PVN, researchers were able to pinpoint these abnormal behaviors to the activity of these specific neurons, which govern the HPA axis.

Identifying molecular targets and biological markers for postpartum depression

“Pregnancy obviously involves great changes to a woman’s body, but we’re only now beginning to understand the significant unseen adaptations occurring at the neurochemical and circuitry level that may be important to maintaining mental health and maternal behavior in the first few weeks to months following delivery,” said Laverne Camille Melón, Ph.D., first author on the paper and postdoctoral fellow in the Maguire laboratory. “By uncovering the role for stability of KCC2 in the regulation of CRH neurons, the postpartum stress axis, and maternal behavior, we hope we have identified a potential molecular target for the development of a new class of compounds that are more effective for women suffering from postpartum depression and anxiety.”

Melón and Maguire do not believe that HPA axis dysfunction is the only pathological mechanism at work. “Many psychiatric and neurological disorders are a constellation of symptoms and represent an unfortunate synergy of heterogeneous maladaptations. The mechanisms underlying one woman’s postpartum depression may differ from another’s,” said Melón.

The researchers hope that continued work will enable them to identify a biological marker that characterizes women who may be vulnerable to postpartum depression because of dysregulation of the stress axis, potentially leading to new treatment options.  

“There is much more we need to learn,” said Maguire, “but we believe our model will be useful for testing novel therapeutic compounds for postpartum depression. Such studies could also be relevant to other conditions in which KCC2 deficits are implicated, such as epilepsy, chronic pain and autism, and to other stress and anxiety related disorders.”

[trannosphere]

Hope Giselle

Trans women are NOT FEMALE

[hoeflo-deactivated20180428]

Aren’t we suppose to listen when the oppressed speak? Because this is actually the first time I’ve heard an actual Black Transwoman speak on this subject & now because she isn’t agreeing with the sjw/tras who use her demographic as a prop, she’s being labelled a bigot & told to stay silent. Fascinating…

[karlmarxthedictator-deactivated]

TWOCs are perfect flawless goddesses until they disagree with you I guess 

[the-transwomen-record]

The trans women and male crossdresser record.

Transwomen (MtT) and crossdressing males have a record of raping and molesting women and children. There are no known recorded cases of cis women or labelled “terfs” raping and molesting transgender people.

Crossdresser cabbie convicted of rape

Cross-dresser jailed for raping bondage partner 

It was in 1975, at the age of 47, that Cook was sentenced to life in prison at Norwich Crown Court for raping six women, wounding two more and committing an act of gross indecency on a ninth 

Hunt for the man in the black bikini 

The Comeback Pig: Marv Albert, And How To Survive Any Sex Scandal 

POLICE investigating complaints of a man dressed in women’s clothes being sexually suggestive to children on a school bus saw a 49-year-old motorist in a purple leotard, blonde wig and high heeled boots.

Man posing as woman solicits child to commit a lewd act

Transwoman raping and killing six year old girls

And twelve year old boys

Man, Dressed as Woman, Charged With Sexually Assaulting of Boy 

They say a man, aged somewhere between mid-20s and early 30s, has committed indecent or intimidating acts on each occasion. Each time he was dressed in women’s clothing.

California: Male rapist claiming “transgender” status placed in CA WOMEN’S prison:

David Megarry (“Sandy Jo Battista”), a convicted sex offender who has molested girls, expects tax payers to pay for his feminizing hormones.

Sex offender sentenced after dressing as a woman and going in women’s locker room

Man dressed as woman arrested for sexual assault

Transvestite arrested for groping women while seeking “fashion tips”

Cross-dressing suspect arrested for raping woman

Cross-dressing child molester will serve 15 years in prison

Cross-dressing fake nurse targets the elderly

Man dressed as a woman solicits child for sex

A transsexual killer who tried to rape a woman must be moved to a female prison because holding her with men breaches her rights, a judge has ruled.

Founder of the “TERF TRACKER” outed as a violent sexual offender

Transwoman rapes 13 yr old boy, is identified in press as a woman

Transwoman sex offender arrested for not registering as a sex offender after befriending and moving in with a woman with young child

A cross dresser and sex offender sneak in elementary school

Cross dresser arrested for being a serial child rapist

Male child sex predator identifies as a woman in prison and is allowed to change name

Child rapist is arrested and found to be living as “a woman”

Convicted sex offender sues over sex change operation

Plymouth transgender sex offender jailed after coming into contact with child

Dothan Man Sentenced for Child Pornography

Christopher Hambrook, who claimed to be a woman in order to gain entrance to a woman’s shelter, where he raped two homeless women. 

Purdue police investigate report of man taking photographs in women’s restroom

Police: Man in bra and wig found in women’s bathroom - admitted to other offense where he showered in the girls’ locker room for sexual gratification

Police: Sex offender posed as woman, went into women’s locker room 

Police: Predatory Sex Offender Entered Girls Locker Room …

Man dressed as woman arrested in Central stabbing …

Australia - Registered sex offender dressed as woman busted …

Predator who claimed to be transgender declared dangerous offender…

Transsexual wife killer who was granted tax-payer funded sex change will also have his legal fees paid, judge rules

James Joseph Allard Registered Sex Offender

Nastasia Laura Bilyk is a Man serving a life sentence for murdering a Woman in 1987. He decided he was a Woman in 2008, and now wants to be transferred to a Women’s prison in Canada.

Name (and gender) change for convicted pedophile. In April 2010, corrections officials were concerned the convicted pedophile might re-offend and put special monitoring provisions on the convict, who has a history of befriending parents to sexually prey on their children.

Sex-change suit by California inmate Philip Rosati (convicted of murder) OKd by court

James Hundley, who is serving time for child abuse and sexual assault, is serving a life sentence. He lost his lawsuit for hormones while incarcerated.

Duchesne County prosecutors have charged Susan Elizabeth Rye, 60, with three counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a second-degree felony. Rye is accused of sexually abusing a 5-year-old girl on three occasions in 1989 and 1990. Born Randall Donald Rye, court records show Rye had his name legally changed in January 2009.

Janet Mock celebrated a man who decapitated his wife getting getting approved for a “sex change” while imprisoned for life as a victory for trans rights.

Crossdressing Suspect Arrested For Raping Woman

Bad, Barbie! Man dressed as doll tried to sexually assault woman in San Diego restroom: cops

The murder of Rita Powers and a male transgenderist’s narcissistic rage

 Edmonds Tennent Brown IV, a man who identifies as a woman named Katheryn Brown, is seeking state-funded hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery (“SRS”) while serving a life sentence without parole in a South Carolina prison for the rape and murder of Mary Lynn Witherspoon. Although Brown pled guilty, he now claims he did so “under duress during an emotionally difficult time…likened to PMS.

”Transwoman attempts to set fire to “sex change” clinic.

Repeat Transgender Bathroom Offender Charged With Battery

Cross-dressing Russell Williams, a highly decorated Canadian Air Force colonel, was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for 88 sex crimes including 2 counts of murder and 2 counts of sexual assault. After each of these crimes, he photographed himself in his victims’ underwear and bras. One victim who survived was subjected to a three and half hour sexual assault.

University of Toronto reduces the number of gender-neutral bathrooms after two different voyeurism reports

Man who portrayed himself as ‘cross dresser’ arrested for alleged role in sexual assault, state police say 

Bar owner who saw trans patron attack woman who questioned his presence in the bathroom thinks MTFs with penises belong in unisex/men’s rooms; protests ensue 

Clare Lawton & Peter Steel – transgender rapists jailed 

Unnamed transvestite rapes dog 

Transwoman Activist Cherno Biko confesses to Raping a Transman

Transwoman murders woman therapist for not signing medical papers okaying him for SRS. Trans activist Gwen Smith, founder of Transgender Day Of Remembrance, writes sympathetic eulogy to the murderer

Some of the many violent Transwomen (MtT) Offenders Seeking or Granted Sex Reassignment Surgery. 

James Randall Smith – kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl

Luis Morales/Synthia China-Blast – rape and murder of a teen girl:

Wolfgang “Beate” Schmidt – serial rapist and murderer

Rodney Quine/Shiloh Quine – murder, kidnapping and robbery

Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy/Michelle-Lael Norsworthy – murder

Steve “Nikkas” Alamillo – murder

Lyralisa Stevens – killing a San Bernardino County woman with a shotgun in a dispute over clothes

Noel Crompton/Maddison Hall – murder of a 28 year old hitchhiker, charged with rape after he was moved to a women’s facility

Michelle Kosilek – killed his wife by nearly decapitating her with a piano wire

Dillon Andrew Shadle/Riley Nicole Shadle – sexual assault of a child

Peter Laing/Paris Green – beat, tortured and murdered a man, moved to another women’s prison after having sexual relations with female inmates

Vance Egglestone/Shauna Taylor – serial rapist

James Elliot Wolfe/Jessica Elaine Wolfe – child rapist

Mark Brooks/Jessica Brooks – murder 

Man stabs woman to death for mocking him, is allowed to become a “woman” in prison

Transwomen (MtT) and crossdressing males have a record of other violent attacks and homicide against women, men, and children. Cis men, but not women, have no record of violent attacks and homicide against transwomen or male crossdressers:

Report: Knife-wielding man in dress, high heels arrested

Man dressed as woman beats up mother-in-law

Man dressed as a woman jailed for beating real estate agent

STAMFORD, Conn. – A dispute early Monday that began when a woman insulted a man who identifies as a woman and ended with his arrest and her headed to the hospital with facial injuries, Stamford police said.

Boyd “Fallon Fox” Burton is a violent autogynephilic psychopath who gets his jollies from beating the shit out of women

Transwomen (MtT) and crossdressing males have a record of intimidating others by exposing their genitals to them and masturbating in public places. Cis women or those labelled “terfs” have no record of intimidating transgender people by exposing their genitals to them and masturbating in public places.

Houma Police are on the lookout for 49-year-old thong-wearing man who may be repeatedly exposing himself to residents of the Mulberry area. 

Off-duty constable Peter Karras, 51, of Green Valley, was found sitting in a dark and secluded Punchbowl street putting on women’s clothing while touching himself, the Herald Sun reported 

Jason Bray, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga was found masturbating in the park wearing only a pair of pink high heels. Mr. Bray said he was on his way home from work in Pasadena when he decided to stop at the park with an urge to masturbate. 

Male transgender exposes his genitals in a maternity store

Male transgender exposes his genitals to women and children

Male trannsgender exposes his genitals to students

Cross-dressing man arrested for exposure at Walmart

Man dressed in women’s clothes flashes children

Even more alarming, in 2012, in Olympia, Washington, female high-school students sharing a college campus swimming pool were shocked to see a naked, 45-year-old male student who identifies as “Colleen” sitting in their sauna. (The police report stated that “she” was exposing “her male genitalia.”)The girls were traumatized and the parents outraged, but college officials said they could not do anything because of state policies against gender-identity discrimination: “‘The college has to follow state law,’ Evergreen spokesman Jason Wettstein told ABC News affiliate KOMO. ‘The college cannot discriminate based on the basis of gender identity. Gender identity is one of the protected things in discrimination law in this state.’”Adding to the insanity is the fact that it was subsequently discovered online that Colleen also identifies as a lesbian and is strongly attracted to women, in other words, just like most heterosexual males. Yet it is perfectly legal for Colleen to sit in a sauna with naked teenage girls.

Transwomen (MtT) and crossdressing males spy and record women and girls in restrooms and locker-rooms. No known record exists of cis women or those labelled as “terfs” spying or recording transwomen in restrooms or locker-rooms. 

Student wore a female rubber mask and wig to spy on women in public toilets 

Man disguised as a woman takes pictures in women’s locker room

Male transgender spies on women in university restrooms

Cross-dressing man allegedly videotaped women in restroom

Man dressed as a woman peeps on women in bathroom at Wal-Mart 

Cross-dressing man arrested for filming Alabama woman in public bathroom

California Man Dressed as Woman Busted for Videoing in Ladies Bathroom (4/01/2016)

Man Dressed As A Woman Was Busted While Allegedly Trying To Take Pictures In A Female Dorm

Idaho Transwoman caught filming teen girls in Target dressing room

Transgender MtF’s use status as “women” to try and receive lighter sentences on crimes committed; avoid registration as sex offenders:

Suspected Transgender Serial Killer Donna Perry Defense Says She Shouldn’t Be Punished For Alleged Crimes Committed As A Man

Philadelphia man who dressed as woman to scam bank …

FBI investigating two Monday bank robberies in Oak Park

Cleveland Heights fraudster who sought leniency for being transgender gets 14 years

Jayke Baldwin – avoids jail because of transgender status

Transwomen (MtT) and crossdressing men attempt to ban feminist and lesbian books. No known record of “terfs” attempting to organize and ban transwomen books or speeches :

Female Erasure : What You Need To Know About Gender Politics’ War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights

Petition to stop “Gender Hurts” by Sheila Jeffreys to be published.

Germaine Greer gives university lecture despite campaign to silence her

Transwomen silence women at press conference.

No platform: my exclusion proves this is an anti-feminist crusade Julie Bindel

Transwomen hate-crimes and conflicts with the LGB communities and women’s groups:

Transwoman burns rainbow flag in protest of increased trans visibility resulting in him getting increasingly clocked as male

Manhood Has Limits For Transmen Who Prefer Women’s Facilities

Milwaukee Pride Parade strips Veteran Lesbian Activist Miriam Ben-Shalom of Grand Marshall Honors

Georgia ACLU Director resigns over the organization’s failure to balance transgender rights with women’s rights

Transgenderism is the new therapy for homosexuality: Forced transitions

Georgia ACLU Director resigns over the organization’s failure to balance transgender rights with women’s rights

Women’s Groups Protest Transgender Conference: Demand

Representation in Debates over ‘Transgender Equality’

Sexual Assault Victims Speak Out Against Washington’s Transgender Bathroom Policies

Baby’s First Dildo -courtesy of the Transgender Movement

“It would appear this project has some affiliation with Gender Spectrum, the organization involved in public school programming to elementary school children. See for yourself.” 

Male transgenders (MtF) are 18 times more likely than biological females to be convicted of violent crime. In essence, MtF trans are just as likely as biological males to be convicted of violent crimes.

Stories of Re-transition and sex-change regret:

FtM Transgender: Why I Quit Testosterone

Rethinking “Trans” : Transgender detransition / retransition and alternative narratives to standard Trans talking points

MtF de-transitioning after 5 mo HRT, you radfems saved my ass - Reddit

Wish I Had Been Told About These Risks Before I Had Gender Surgery

Wow! A dentransitioned woman exists!

[cherubvalkyrie]

@appropriately-inappropriate

[chwhore]

ok

[it-broke-again-deactivated20180]

https://www.dailywire.com/news/29300/pride-parade-bans-drag-queens-over-fears-theyll-emily-zanotti — here’s the article

[joanofrad]

From the article: (…) the traditional Glasgow LGBT pride events, is taking drastic steps to prevent the oppression of marginalized peoples, banning drag queens from its annual parade.

Because drag queens (aka gay men) are apparently not a marginalised group anymore. I mean, think about it: Gay men (together with lesbians) founded the gay rights movement, organised Pride parades and now in the ~*~oh so progressive 21st century~*~, we’re being pushed out of our own spaces, so to not hurt the feelings of “queer gender specials”.

[girlsfrommars]

I thought they wanted to abolish gender… But they are really just saying that men are not allowed to be feminine

[cecaeliawitch]

I’m not gonna claim that there isn’t any female violence, bc there certainly is. But do you know what sets it apart from male violence? It’s not pandemic! It’s literally an actual rarity!! You cannot compare the entire bloody history of men raping and pillaging and murdering and enslaving women (not to mention the violence they inflicted and continue to inflict on each other) to the minor blips on the scale that is female violence.

[neikcs]

also note that female violence is almost always a reaction to male violence while male violence is almost always unprovoked.

[eeveepng]

lmao what even

[cecaeliawitch]

Males represented 77% of homicide victims and nearly 90% of offenders. The victimization rate for males (11.6 per 100,000) was 3 times higher than the rate for females (3.4 per 100,000). The offending rate for males (15.1 per 100,000) was almost 9 times higher than the rate for females (1.7 per 100,000).

Males constituted 98.0% of those arrested for forcible rape

Males constituted 89.0% of those arrested for robbery

Males constituted 85.0% of those arrested for burglary

Males constituted 83.0% of those arrested for arson.  

Males constituted 81.5% of those arrested for motor-vehicle theft  

Males constituted 81.7% of those arrested for stolen property.

Males constituted 81.7% of those arrested for vandalism

Males constituted 79.7% of those arrested for offenses against family and children

Males constituted 77.8% of those arrested for aggravated assault x

This is not even going into the violations committed against women throughout history

[kittiesatemypronouns]

Yeah, the “equalists” don’t look at systems or do class analysis, because it betrays their false equivalencies.

[justanoldacc]

you have to read this ruling. a trans identifying male pitched a fit about an article that took facts from fair play for women. but the ruling is in the newspapers favour.

[kittiesatemypronouns]

That was an interesting ruling to read. They were very thorough about looking into all aspects and implications of the article complained about!

[radicalheartland]

Highlights:

The complainant also challenged the newspaper’s interpretation of the report by Fair Play for Women. She said that the research had found that 41% of trans women in prison are sex offenders; the only reference to the “up to half” statistic in the research had been its conclusion that half of all trans women in prison are convicted sex offenders or dangerous Category A prisoners. The complainant said that the article’s headline had distorted these statistics, by failing to make clear that the “up to half” claim comprised of both 41% of sex offenders, and 9% of category A prisoners. 

The headline did not state, as fact, that half of trans inmates were sex offenders; it had appropriately presented this claim as an estimate, given the absence of official figures on the matter. The article had acknowledged the imprecision of its source material, which, the article had claimed could mean that the “true number of transgender sex offenders could be higher than 46”. In that context, the headline’s claim was not a misleading characterisation of the findings of the research, particularly where the body of the article had included the Fair Play for Women report’s finding that 41% of transwomen in prison are convicted sex offenders. 

The claim that eight prisons were “sex offender only”, was based on the report from Fair Play for Women. Where the imprecision of the number of trans women prisoners had been explicitly noted, reporting this claim did not represent a failure to take care over the accuracy of the article. The Committee noted that the complainant had said that 2% of inmates in one of the prisons had not been convicted for sex offences. This did not provide a significant basis on which to challenge the information contained in the article. 

[phalloid-destroyer-deactivated2]

I’m tired of seeing “brain sex argument” brought up in trans arguments.

Humans are sexually dimorphic. We physically evolved differently because 6.000.000 years ago nature chose “sexual reproduction” for us humans, then the original X mutated into Y to seperate reproduction, as we evolved, we did it differently. Morphology-wise. It built an SRY “master-switch” gene and stuffed it with the Y chromosome and men evolved to aid reproduction. After men evolved from women, they also changed. Women and men have different fat distrubution, different skeletal structures etc. but the biggest reason for the genital difference is because of sexual reproduction and nothing more. It’s a much faster way to adopt and evolve than asexual reproduction. Our brains are our cores to functioning.

There are obviously physiological differences in female and male brains. Such as men’s brains being around 1% bigger to be physically proportionate.

Here’s one of the biggest findings on “brain sex”

 http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/04/04/123729.full.pdf

^ You can find the study here.

“The majority of the brains were a mosaic of male and female structures, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Depending on whether the researchers looked at gray matter, white matter, or the diffusion tensor imaging data, between 23% and 53% of brains contained a mix of regions that fell on the male-end and female-end of the spectrum. Very few of the brains—between 0% and 8%—contained all male or all female structures. “There is no one type of male brain or female brain”

“There is no sense in talking about male nature and female nature, there is no one person that has all the male characteristics and another person that has all the female characteristics. Or if they exist they are really, really rare to find.”

(X)

The idea that people have either a “female” or “male” brain is an old one, says Daphna Joel at Tel Aviv University in Israel. “The theory goes that once a fetus develops testicles, they secrete testosterone which masculinises the brain,” she says. “If that were true, there would be two types of brain.”

To test the theory, Joel and her colleagues looked for differences in brain scans taken from 1400 people aged between 13 and 85. The team looked for variations in the size of brain regions as well as the connections between them. In total, the group identified 29 brain regions that generally seem to be different sizes in self-identified males and females. These include the hippocampus, which is involved in memory, and the inferior frontal gyrus, which is thought to play a role in risk aversion.

“There are not two types of brain”

When the group looked at each individual brain scan, however, they found that very few people had all of the brain features they might be expected to have, based on their sex. Across the sample, between 0 and 8 per cent of people had “all-male” or “all-female” brains, depending on the definition. “Most people are in the middle,” says Joel.

This means that, averaged across many people, sex differences in brain structure do exist, but an individual brain is likely to be just that: individual, with a mix of features. “There are not two types of brain,” says Joel.

(X)

Highlights

•Behavioral sex differences have suggested that the hippocampus is sexually dimorphic.

Meta-analysis demonstrates that raw hippocampal volume averages 0.4 cm3 larger in males.However, this sex difference was eliminated in meta-analyses of studies that correct for overall brain volume.

Abstract

Hippocampal atrophy is found in many psychiatric disorders that are more prevalent in women. Sex differences in memory and spatial skills further suggest that males and females differ in hippocampal structure and function. We conducted the first meta-analysis of male–female difference in hippocampal volume (HCV) based on published MRI studies of healthy participants of all ages, to test whether the structure is reliably sexually dimorphic. Using four search strategies, we collected 68 matched samples of males’ and females’ uncorrected HCVs (in 4418 total participants), and 36 samples of male and female HCVs (2183 participants) that were corrected for individual differences in total brain volume (TBV) or intracranial volume (ICV). Pooled effect sizes were calculated using a random-effects model for left, right, and bilateral uncorrected HCVs and for left and right HCVs corrected for TBV or ICV. We found that uncorrected HCV was reliably larger in males, with Hedges’ g values of 0.545 for left hippocampus, 0.526 for right hippocampus, and 0.557 for bilateral hippocampus. Meta-regression revealed no effect of age on the sex difference in left, right, or bilateral HCV. In the subset of studies that reported it, both TBV (g = 1.085) and ICV (g = 1.272) were considerably larger in males. Accordingly, studies reporting HCVs corrected for individual differences in TBV or ICV revealed no significant sex differences in left and right HCVs (Hedges’ g ranging from + 0.011 to − 0.206). In summary, we found that human males of all ages exhibit a larger HCV than females, but adjusting for individual differences in TBV or ICV results in no reliable sex difference. The frequent claim that women have a disproportionately larger hippocampus than men was not supported.

 (X)

Only 8% of brains are segregated as

|♂️MALE♂️|♀️FEMALE♀️|

apart from that, This only shows brain structure. Literally that. Nothing more. Everything else is classified as gender. Your “female brain” does not come with an innate desire to shave your legs. Brain mapping does not equal behaviour. It’s gender, socially constructed and varies between time periods and cultures. Not only that, but y'all literally ask me to just eat the bullshit you try to sell me? Female and male brain aka: brains who belong to people. nothing more. If you’re a female you have a female brain. if you’re a male you have a male brain. By looking to the statistics, a “"cis”“ woman could have a "most” male brain, does this make her a man? No, because it’s HER brain. Simple. This is the ultimate truth and there’s nothing beyond it. Your “birds have Z chromosomes so a man in an dress is a woman” argument is factually wrong.

Let’s see more dimorphism: Fat tissue:

more dimorphism: Skulls

women and men are built differently. humans differ in bodies, not so much in the biological cores aka brains. My point is, gender itself is a pointless binary that keeps you back from existing as yourself.

Simply saying “biological sex is a social construct but gender is innate” is really a pathetic way start your conversation. Literally, one of the first things you learn in psychology and sociology is that gender is a societal construct and it is different from biological sex. Gender is the result of gender roles and stereotypes. Every single thing segregated by gender-roles IS the gender itself. Go learn some fucking sociology and psychology before typing an inarticulate word vomit to me.

[gothhabiba]

I’ve finally started reading Why Does He Do That and honestly I’d recommend it to anyone who is or has been in a relationship (romantic or otherwise) with an abusive or controlling person, even if you’re already out of that situation, because it’s been validating and enlightening to me to see my experiences corroborated

here’s a pdf I uploaded to my google drive

[gothhabiba]

some miserable pathetic volunteer cop who I hope can sleep at night filed a DMCA claim about this & got it taken down lmfao so here it is again

anyone else who thinks that the author would care more about his royalties & “intellectual property” than the safety of abused women is also free to try me

[somedumbduck]

as serious and real as trans people frustration is with terfs is. Whatever danger terfs seem to think they pose to them isn’t. Trans people aren’t going to harm terfs on any real level and all this “Kill terfs” is a essentially a joke in the same way “down with cis” was, used to vent frustration against a group actively oppressing a group unable to do anything about it. Those threats aren’t real. What is real is the dangers terf’s ideologies put transwomen in on a daily basis, and  the mistrust it instills in feminism in every transwoman whose’s ever been harmed by those ideologies.

[cocksmasher69]

“Men threatening to rape and murder women they disagree with isn’t actually dangerous, no, womens’ words are what is truly dangerous!!” nice deflection but the trannies are wrong yet again

[darkfemalley]

“Those threats aren’t real” and yet they were when y'all beat up and stole from a 60 yr old woman for just saying gender should be abolished.

Give me ONE example of a “terf” actually harming a trans person. Michfest has a ton of examples of trans women harming women, and we have video proof if someone hurting a woman because they viewed her as a “terf.”

And also, fuck you. Men HATE radfems more than they hate trans people, don’t shift the blame of male violence on women that are hated by men. You’re an idiot.

[rad-and-i-dont-stop]

Gaslighting and DARVO. Nice

[daisydeadhead]

Transgender Activist Dana Rivers Arrested for Brutal Murder of Lesbian Couple and Their Son

Did you say something?

[respectthefemalebody]

Women harmed by rape in bathrooms by Males:

Woman raped in Vermont courthouse bathroom | Local News 

Phoenix man raped woman in park bathroom - AZCentral.com

Woman Raped in Downtown Annapolis Restroom: Police … 

Cross-dresser arrested in bath house 

Stranger Grabs Woman by Throat, Rapes Her in Bathroom … 

Woman Was Raped In Flatiron District Bar Restroom, Police … 

Woman Raped in Bathroom of Gramercy Bar, Police Say … 

Man arrested in bathroom stall assault at Circle Centre Mall … 

Union Square Park bathroom rape attempt on woman, 63 … 

Police Warn of Attempted Rapes in Downtown LA Restrooms 

Sexual predator jailed after claiming to be ‘transgender’ to assault women in shelter

Women get raped in public toilets in shopping malls. - Belle … 

Man Hiding In Bar Bathroom Rapes Woman - Huffington Post 

Woman, 23, raped in busy Manhattan sports bar restroom … 

Cross-dressing Peeper Infiltrates Cal Women’s Locker Room 

Police: Cross-Dressing Peeping Tom Arrested Again 

Woman (50) raped in toilet at her work in Chloorkop … 

Man at-large who lured 12 year old into CVS bathroom … 

12-Year-old Raped By Stranger in Public Bathroom - Jezebel 

Texas police hunt man who lured a girl into a restroom and …

10-Year-Old Girl Raped in Restroom of California Denny’s … 

The Threat to Women and Girls Presented by Bathroom Bills  The story of biological male sexual predators who used nondiscrimination laws protecting gender identity to sexually assault women.

Here is a site documenting 250 cases regarding transwomen harming women and girls over a five year time span. 

And here’s some more:

A transwomen rapes and kills a six year old girl.

Man, Dressed as Woman, Charged With Sexually Assaulting of Boy | NBC 10 Philadelphia. 

Crossdresser cabbie convicted of rape 

The ‘Cambridge Rapist’ is dead 

Transgender Woman: Convictions Irrelevant to Citation 

California: Male rapist claiming “transgender” status placed in CA WOMEN’S prison: 

David Megarry (“Sandy Jo Battista”), a convicted sex offender who has molested girls, expects tax payers to pay for his feminizing hormones. 

Male-to-Female transgenders are 18 times more likely than women to be convicted of violent crime

Regarding any crime, male-to-females had a significantly increased risk for crime compared to female controls (aHR 6.6; 95% CI 4.1–10.8) but not compared to males (aHR 0.8; 95% CI 0.5–1.2). This indicates that they retained a male pattern regarding criminality. The same was true regarding violent crime. 

In other words, MtF’s were seven times more likely to be convicted of violent crimes than women, and just as likely as “cis” males to be convicted of a violent crime.

Trans-women violence against females and children:

Sex offender sentenced after dressing as a woman and going in women’s locker room Cross-dressing cab driver convicted of rape Man dressed as woman beats up mother-in-law Man dressed in women’s clothes flashes children Man dressed as woman arrested for sexual assault

Transvestite arrested for groping women while seeking “fashion tips”

Cross-dressing suspect arrested for raping woman

Cross-dressing child molester will serve 15 years in prison

Cross-dressing fake nurse targets the elderly

Man disguised as a woman takes pictures in women’s locker room

Male transgender exposes his genitals in a maternity store

Man dressed as a woman solicits child for sex

Man wearing female mask & wig spies on women in public toilets

Male transgender exposes his genitals to women and children

Male trannsgender exposes his genitals to students

Male transgender spies on women in university restroom

A transsexual killer who tried to rape a woman must be moved to a female prison because holding her with men breaches her rights, a judge has ruled.

Transwoman rapes 13 yr old boy, is identified in press as a woman 

Transwoman sex offender arrested for not registering as a sex offender after befriending and moving in with a woman with young child

A cross dresser and sex offender sneak in elementary school

Cross dresser arrested for being a serial child rapist

Male child sex predator identifies as a woman in prison and is allowed to change name

Child rapist is arrested and found to be living as “a woman”

Convicted sex offender sues over sex change operation 

Plymouth transgender sex offender jailed after coming into contact with child 

Dothan Man Sentenced for Child Pornography

Christopher Hambrook, who claimed to be a woman in order to gain entrance to a woman’s shelter, where he raped two homeless women.

Cross-dressing man arrested for exposure at Walmart 

Purdue police investigate report of man taking photographs in women’s restroom 

Police: Man in bra and wig found in women’s bathroom - admitted to other offense where he showered in the girls’ locker room for sexual gratification 

Police: Sex offender posed as woman, went into women’s locker room 

Cross-dressing man allegedly videotaped women in restroom 

Police: Predatory Sex Offender Entered Girls Locker Room …

Man dressed as woman arrested in Central stabbing …

Australia - Registered sex offender dressed as woman busted …

Predator who claimed to be transgender declared dangerous offender…

There is research documenting shame and narcissistic rage in autogynephilic MtF transgenders.

The few studies that have examined personality disorders among transsexuals usually have found that these disorders in general—and disorders in Cluster B, which includes Narcissistic Personality Disorder (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2000), in particular—are more common in transsexuals than in nontranssexuals 

Founder of the “TERF TRACKER” outed as a violent sexual offender

Transgender MtF’s use status as “women” to try and receive lighter sentences on crimes committed; avoid registration as sex offenders:

Suspected Transgender Serial Killer Donna Perry Defense Says She Shouldn’t Be Punished For Alleged Crimes Committed As A Man

Philadelphia man who dressed as woman to scam bank …

FBI investigating two Monday bank robberies in Oak Park

Cleveland Heights fraudster who sought leniency for being transgender gets 14 years 

One In Six Sex Offenders Change Names To Avoid Registration: Study

Child sex offenders who secretly change their names to try and hide their past face five years in jail 

Dodging Google? Convicted rapist Jeffrey Kitze’s name change draws attention of victims rights advocates 

Thousands come off sex offender list months after new law 

Convicted of sex crimes, man gets pardon, changes name to …

Sex Offenders Employ Simple Techniques to Change Identity 

Violent Offenders Seeking or Granted Sex Reassignment Surgery:

James Randall Smith – kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl

Luis Morales/Synthia China-Blast – rape and murder of a teen girl: 

Wolfgang “Beate” Schmidt – serial rapist and murderer

Rodney Quine/Shiloh Quine – murder, kidnapping and robbery

Jeffrey Bryan Norsworthy/Michelle-Lael Norsworthy – murder

Steve “Nikkas” Alamillo – murder 

Lyralisa Stevens – killing a San Bernardino County woman with a shotgun in a dispute over clothes 

Noel Crompton/Maddison Hall – murder of a 28 year old hitchhiker, charged with rape after he was moved to a women’s facility

Michelle Kosilek – killed his wife by nearly decapitating her with a piano wire

Dillon Andrew Shadle/Riley Nicole Shadle – sexual assault of a child 

Peter Laing/Paris Green – beat, tortured and murdered a man, moved to another women’s prison after having sexual relations with female inmates

Vance Egglestone/Shauna Taylor – serial rapist 

James Elliot Wolfe/Jessica Elaine Wolfe – child rapist 

Mark Brooks/Jessica Brooks – murder 

Violent Offender’s and Women’s prison (expressed interest in or already moved):

Tania Veilleux – sexually assaulting a young girl for 4 years: 

Luis Morales/Synthia China-Blast – rape and murder of a teen girl

David Wesley Birrell/Bella-Christina Birrell – murder

Michelle Kosilek – killed his wife by nearly decapitating her with a piano wire

Christopher “Kitty” Grey – molested a child for 5 years

Phillip “Sabrina” Trujillo – stabbed a man, theft and robbery

Pre-op placement:

Cheyenne Lamson – privacy complaints due to pre-op status

Noel Crompton/Maddison Hall – murder of a 28 year old hitchhiker, charged with rape after he was moved to a women’s facility

Peter Laing/Paris Green – beat, tortured and murdered a man, moved to another women’s prison after having sexual relations with female inmates

Tara Hudson – assault

Jaris Lovado/Bianca Sawyer – robbery, possession of stolen property and fraud

Stuart Kelly/Katelyn Findlay – robbery and assault, registered sex offender

Richard Chaperon/Richard Kavanagh/Synthia Kavanagh – brutally murdered his ex roommate, a transsexual male prostitute, with a knife and hammer

Jade Follett – stabbed a man who stalked and threatened after they met through a dating website

Post-op placement (includes prison transition and self-castration):

Peter Rogers/Debbie Vincent – ex-military animal rights extremist charged with intimidation, threats, placing car bombs, arson, disturbance of personal remains and theft of ashes:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10772486/Debbie-Vincent-Former-soldier-turned-animal-rights-extremist-jailed-for-six-years.html

Melissa Young – killed neighbor by stabbing him 29 times over rejecting a gift:https://archive.is/C3QK8

Robert Hilton/Rebecca Hilton – murder: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/jailed-as-a-man-released-as-a-woman-robert-hilton-becomes-rebecca-hilton-in-prison-8496049.html

Richard Masbruch – serial rapist: https://archive.is/0MpQX#selection-1223.0-1223.16

Douglas Wakefield/Tai Pilley Wakefield – strangled his uncle, beat him with a hammer and stabbed him 48 times with a garden fork. While incarcerated, he strangled, stabbed, beat and killed an inmate, held prison officers hostage twice and attempted to kill one of them:http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/293991/Sex-swap-lag-s-wedding-chop

Glenn Nelson/Leslie Ann Nelson – killed a police officer and investigator with an AK-47 assault rifle: http://www.njpen.com/20-years-after-leslie-nelson-shooting-haddon-heights-police-grieve-reflect-rededicate-themselves/

Granted surgery, awaiting placement:

Rodney Quine/Shiloh Quine – murder, kidnapping and robbery:http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-inmate-transgender-20150810-story.html

David Cross/Kelly Denise Richards – armed robbery: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/armed-robber-has-sex-change-1.1110904

Alan Baker/Sarah Baker – kidnapped and tortured his step-mother’s brother, attempted to kill another inmate: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383992/Violent-inmate-Alan-Baker-given-10-000-sex-change-NHS.html

[lesmercy-deactivated20190205]

But sure anon it’s just an internet thing

[butchdarry-deactivated20180612]

the greatest skill a woman can learn for herself is self reliance

[butchdarry-deactivated20180612]

to clarify … so many strong women in my life rely on men. that dependence is dangerous. ladies here are some good ref resources I’ve found helpful on my journey towards self reliance

automobile

changing coolant

changing oil

changing tire

jumping a car

plumbing

toilet running

basement flooding

replace a faucet

clogged drain

electrical

replacing light switches

blew a fuse

installing overhead light

earth vs. neutral vs. live wires

home

patching drywall

finding studs

this list is in no way comprehensive feel free to add on

[humblekitten]

Marsha P. Johnson was not a trans woman. He was in a documentary two days before he died where he said “I’m a man”. In the 60s and 70s, he identified as a “gay transvestite”. His close friends used both male and female pronouns and he didn’t take offense to either. He didn’t even live as “Marsha” all of the time, he went back and forth between living as Malcolm and living as “Marsha”.

Sylvia Rivera wasn’t a trans woman either. In 1971 he called himself a “transvestite” and a “half-sister”. He wrote an essay titled “Transvestites: Your Half Sisters and Half Brothers of the Revolution” where he says that “Transvestites are homosexual men and women who dress in clothes of the opposite sex.” In an interview in 1995 with Randy Wicker and in a 2002 essay titled “Queens In Exile, The Forgotten Ones”, he variously calls himself a “gay man”, a “gay girl” (probably in the “gurl” sense, not the female sense), and a “drag queen.” He knew he was male…“The early 60s was not a good time for drag queens, effeminate boys or boys that wore makeup like we did. Back then we were beat up by the police, by everybody. I didn’t really come out as a drag queen until the late 60s.” He did not identify with the word transgender…“People now want to call me a lesbian because I’m with Julia [his mtf partner], and I say, “No. I’m just me. I’m not a lesbian.” I’m tired of being labeled. I don’t even like the label transgender. I’m tired of living with labels. I just want to be who I am.”

Lastly, Marsha Johnson has alleged that Sylvia Rivera lied about being at the Stonewall riots, Rivera might not have been there at all. This is backed up by Stonewall historian David Carter who says that Rivera’s claim to have been at the riot was a “fabrication” and that Rivera’s various tellings of the story were riddled with inconsistencies. The true story, backed up by Marsha’s roommate Randy Wicker and gay activist Doric Wilson, is that Rivera had fallen asleep in a public park after taking heroin and he only learned about the riots after Marsha Johnson found him, woke him up, and recounted the events. According to Carter, no credible witness has ever been found who saw Rivera at Stonewall during the riots.

Marsha P Johnson documentary

Silvia Rivera documentary

[men-sik-isleyarin]

Hey y’all

So the reason I’ve been MIA from tumblr forever now (aside from school starting again) is I’ve been busy making a…

Radical Feminist Online Academic Library!

It’s basically a collection of 900+ up-to-date, quality, peer-reviewed academic journal articles and books (updated as of August 2016) on a whole bunch of subjects relevant to radical feminism. I’ve attached it here as a 325 MB ZIP file for now until I can find a suitable host for all of them, but there’s a READ ME pdf I’ve created that gives an abstract of each article along with tags/keywords so you can easily search for what subjects you’re looking for (plus a link in the pdf to open each file instead of searching for it in the folder!).

Feel free to signal boost and reblog this as much as possible, and send to your friends! This way we can improve the library for future versions :)

[vanillaandproud]

LITTTTT

[shamelesslyunladylike]

For the anons who were asking me for books.

[old-school-butch]

The overall homicide rate of transgender individuals was likely to be less than that of cisgender individuals, with 8 of 12 RR estimates below 1.0. However, the homicide rates of young transfeminine Black and Latina residents were almost certainly higher than were those of cisfeminine comparators, with all RR estimates above 1.0 for Blacks and all above 1.0 for Latinas.

It’s about race, poverty and gender non-conformity, folks.

[tygressofaera]

And when the numbers of trans people are brought to parity with cis people we’re murdered at much faster rates.

Your angle never ever reflects the truth.

[old-school-butch]

‘Brought to parity’? What do you mean? This is a per capita rate that accounts population sizes. The data simply does not support your view.

[tygressofaera]

Trans people are 0.5% of the population. Raise us to the same levels as the rest of the population our deaths will raise past others in your example. You cannot say our results, our deaths are skewed the way you’re trying when you look at the vast sized difference in communities.

[old-school-butch]

I don’t think you understand what a murder ‘rate’ is, it’s calculated in proportion to the size of the population. Even oversimplified math will tell you - average 25 murder per year of trans people in the U.S. at .05% of the population, scaled up to the size of the total population would look like 5000 murders per year.

Actual annual murders in the U.S. are 15,000-16,000. (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm) But men are murdered at 3 times the rate of women, so since there are literally too few trans men being murdered to make decent statistics, the victims are primarily trans women, and we only compare their deaths to much lower murder rate to women. And it’s comparable. The sole at-risk population is low-income, trans women of color who appear to be significantly exposed to prostitution. Getting detailed statistics on that population can be difficult, but the risks of prostitution are known to be very high.

In countries with lower crime rates, like the U.K. the average number of trans deaths is less than 1 per year. This year, there were zero.

So considering that trans women are men they’ve actually done a great job at not getting murdered - I mean, women have generally removed themselves from violent activities and basically face murder risks largely as a result of their partners killing them and trans women must be doing the same thing. Did you want me to expand on the rates at which trans women commit murders and rapes though? Expanded to the full population? Because in that behavior they seem to fully retain the male pattern of violence.

[tygressofaera]

See the trick you’ve been using is in that key word “seem”.

You go right ahead as that’s the usual for this discussion in any rate.

As long as you put up like wise stats or gathered stories of men killing and of women killing go for it. Because y’know the trans women murderess thing is a strawman. It’s gathered stories that sure tell horrifying stuff but not one of you posts stats of women killers or stories of women killers.

Look if you bring trans murder victims to equal numbers in percentages with cis folks in any study or survey when you bring our measley .5% to the population up to your numbers we’re getting slaughtered. 

Go ahead it’ll literally never turn out differently.

LOL you don’t think trans women don’t stop doing things for fear of death, rape, sexual assault? 

You’re pulling a numbers skew gag like many others because you can’t bear to realize we’re literally dying faster than you. And you don’t want to face that reality, the narrative of that reality because of your politics.

[old-school-butch]

The original link in this thread is a study (which I’m guessing you just don’t like to read) analyzing data trends *and showing no elevated risk.*

But yes, let’s talk about trans people who commit crime. There is a longitudinal study based on actual behavior of every person who underwent gender surgery in Sweden. Their data (from http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885), is not based on surveys and self-reports but actual population tracking that showed that trans-identified males retained a male pattern of criminality, and trans-identified females showed an increase in criminality when compared to other females. Specifically, it says, “regarding any crime, male-to-females had a significantly increased risk for crime compared to female controls (aHR 6.6; 95% CI 4.1–10.8) but not compared to males (aHR 0.8; 95% CI 0.5–1.2). This indicates that they retained a male pattern regarding criminality. The same was true regarding violent crime. By contrast, female-to-males had higher crime rates than female controls (aHR 4.1; 95% CI 2.5–6.9) but did not differ from male controls. This indicates a shift to a male pattern regarding criminality and that sex reassignment is coupled to increased crime rate in female-to-males. The same was true regarding violent crime.“ Please note, they’re not saying  - am neither am I - that TIMs pose a higher risk than men in general. Just not significantly lower.

So that’s a broad spectrum population risk.

Let’s try another accounting based on data we have available in the U.K..

The 3-4 people in the UK who were murdered this year by a trans person is far outpacing the 0 trans people who were murdered (although the annual average risk for trans people is a little under 1 per year).

Nonetheless, we can compare to female murderers as a group. The UK has 27 females indicted for homicide in 2016 out of a total of 571 homicides. The trans rate should be almost non-existent if they followed female homicide patterns. Instead .6% of the population is committing 11% of the ‘female’ homicides, roughly 20x the expected rate. Let’s be generous and assume 1% of the population is trans. If all women murdered at the same rate TIMs did, we’d have killed AT LEAST 300-400 people last year, in a country with a total of 571 annual homicides. Using the more conservative 0.6% population estimate of trans people, that would lead us to expect that women would kill 667 people annually - which is more than the number of actual murders that took place. How’s that for ‘bringing it to parity’? Again, we see that TIMs have a male criminal homicide pattern.  

But the homicide numbers are small, so let’s compare sex offenses. This transcrime UK website (http://transcrimeuk.com/) documents 18 sex offenses committed by TIMs. UK total data of sex offenses committed by women is 264 female sex offenders last year (1.8% of all sex offenses.) That number includes transwomen, so remove 18 of those crimes from sex offenses committed by actual women. We now compare 246 women to 18 (TIM) offenses. Using the same population estimate of .6% that was used in the victim statistics for TIMs, if they committing sex offenses at the same rate as women, we would expect to see 1.4 sex offenses being committed by TIMs. So TIMs are committing sex offenses at roughly 13 times the frequency that women do. Let’s try the parity argument again - if women committed sex offenses at the same rate TIMs did, we would log 3000 offenses annually instead of 246. Again, we can conclude that trans sex offenses follow a male pattern, not a female one.  

This analysis is made possible because the UK gov. publishes all their crime data here: http://cps.gov.uk/data/index.html Annual homicides: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/compendium/focusonviolentcrimeandsexualoffences/yearendingmarch2016/homicide

[cyborgsmanifesto]

dealing with the worst case scenario

your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

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                    Discover Radical Feminism                  

Radical Feminism:

Authors, Theorists, Ideologues:

Sheila Jeffreys

Janice Raymond

Gail Dines

Catharine MacKinnon

Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin has a lot of gender critical and anti-porn books. Bell Hooks is also a black woman who has written a lot of books, and her book Ain’t I A Woman deals specifically with the intersections of misogyny and racism. This page (http://radfemresource.tumblr.com/resources) also has numerous sources.

Hope this helps!

On systematic male against female violence:

Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing (Anthology) , http://www.dianarussell.com/f/femicde%28small%29.pdf

THE ORIGIN AND IMPORTANCE OF THE TERM FEMICIDE

December 2011, written by Diana E.H Russell, Ph.D

Femicide – The Power of a Name

The Rise of Femicide: Can Naming a Deadly Crime Help Prevent It?, by  Aaron Schulman. The New Republic. December 29, 2010

On the issues that pornography presents feminists and ways we can challenge them:

Making Violence Sexy (Anthology), http://www.dianarussell.com/f/makingviolencesexy%28smaller%29.pdf

On the psychological and behavioral consequences of pornography consumption:

Ph.D Diana E. H. Russell, “Pornography & Rape: A Causal Model”. Vol. 9, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), Published by: International Society of Political Psychology.

Exposure to Pornography As a Cause of Child Sexual Victimization

Stolen Innocence: The Damaging Effects of Child Pornography- On and Off the Internet

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/VAW02/mod2-6b.htm

The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and Relationships (2007/2008), http://www.antipornography.org/Price_of_Pleasure_doc.html (Warning: censored nudity but some of the content remains graphic and disturbing. Potentially triggering).

Pornography FAQ (http://catwa.org.au/?q=node/67 ):

How is pornography related to prostitution?

Pornography and prostitution are often thought of as completely separate entities. In many parts of the world, this is even reflected in law where pornography and prostitution hold very different positions; pornography is often privileged as a form of ‘representation’. Pornography, however, is filmed prostitution. Both pornography and prostitution involve the sexual use of women in exchange for money. Often, the only difference between the two is the presence of a camera. Pornography can also be seen to increase the legitimacy of prostitution, by depicting the commercial sexual exploitation of women as entertaining, glamorous and acceptable. In addition, pornography is frequently used by pimps to ‘season’ or train women for prostitution and in a rather cyclical relationship, women used in prostitution are often also used in pornography.

Shouldn’t pornography be protected as free speech?

It is important to note that pornography is not speech but rather filmed acts of prostitution. Pornography is not merely the representation of sex acts, but involves the filming of real sex acts, performed by real people. Arguing that pornography is speech, ignores the realities of how pornography is actually produced and also ignores the harm to women that pornography both generates and reinforces.

Read: Only Words, by Catharine MacKinnon Isn’t porn just harmless sex?

There is no such thing as harmless pornography. Many people believe pornography to simply be sex between ‘consenting adults’ rather than understanding pornography as a multi-billion dollar industry. Pornography is not ‘just sex’, it is a particular construction of sex which involves the commercial sexual exploitation of women for the purpose of men’s sexual pleasure. Pornography harms both the women who are directly abused in the making of it, and also women as a group more generally. It promotes a model of sexuality which is incompatible with women’s equality.“[P]ornography plays an important part in contributing to sexual violence against women and to sex discrimination and sex inequality” - Catherine Itzin Pornography: Women violence and civil liberties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 (p. 1).

Isn’t pornography a good sexual outlet for men?

The idea that pornography creates a useful sexual release for men, assumes that men have uncontrollable sexual ‘urges’ which require an outlet. It also assumes that pornography use is acceptable and healthy. Neither is the case. Pornography use is harmful to the women used in creating it, and pornography creates and reinforces harmful ideas about women, sex and sexuality; for example, that women enjoy or welcome unwanted sexual contact and sexual assault. Rather than reducing the likelihood that men will act out, it creates a culture in which women are increasingly objectified and viewed as commodities. Such a culture helps to fuel, rather than prevent, acts of sexual violence.

Doesn’t opposing pornography make you a prude?

Many people assume that the only reason to oppose pornography is because you find it personally ‘offensive’ or are ‘anti-sex’. Opposing pornography means that you oppose abusive sexual practices that harm women, not that you must oppose all sex. Nor does opposing pornography have to be about arguing that its content personally offends you. From a feminist perspective, it is not necessarily explicitness or the depiction of sex which is the problem with pornography. It is not about offence and decency, but about harm. “What is objectionable about pornography…is its abusive and degrading portrayal of females and female sexuality, not its sexual content or explicitness” – Diana Russell Dangerous relationships: Pornography, misogyny, and rape. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998 (p. 5).

What is pornification?

Pornification, sometimes referred to as pornographication or ‘raunch culture’ is the increasing distribution and acceptance of pornography as well as the fragmenting and blurring of pornography and pornographic imagery into popular culture. Pornography and pornographic imagery are infiltrating popular music videos, outdoor advertising, fashion and art to name but a few. While pornographication is sometimes viewed as simply the increasing acceptance of sexual themes in media, it is actually the promotion of a particular model of sex which is harmful to women. The mainstreaming of this type of pornographic sexuality which fundamentally objectifies women, is already harming the development of young women and girls. The American Psychological Association, for example, has linked the rise of this unhealthy model of sexuality to increases in mental health problems such as eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression. See: Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (2007). Available from:http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/sexualization.

Legalisation of Prostitution

Brothels without Walls: The Escort Sector as a Problem for the Legalization of Prostitution, bySheila Jeffreys 2010

What Happens When Prostitution Becomes Work? An Update on Legalisation of Prostitution in Australia. A paper by Mary Sullivan, 2005  (CATWA)  

Submission to New Zealand Parliament, CATWA 2003

Prostitution Culture: Legalised Brothel Prostitution in Victoria, Australia  Sheila Jeffreys 2002. Talk given at Swedish Ministry of Gender Equality Seminar on the Effect of Legalisation of Prostitution. Stockholm, 6 November 2002.

The Legalisation of Prostitution: A failed social experiment, by Sheila Jeffreys

Legalising Prostitution is not the Answer: The example of Victoria, Australia by Mary Sullivan and Sheila Jeffreys

Trafficking

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (2000) (Known as the Palermo Protocol)

A Guide to the UN Trafficking Protocol (2001)

Sex Trafficking and Human Rights

Marriage Trafficking  

Pornography and Pornification  

The global industry of pornography is growing rapidly. The business of pornography is now worth in excess of $57 billion worldwide. More than $10 billion is generated in the United States alone. Pornography is an industry which, like prostitution, makes its ever increasing profits from the sexual exploitation of women and girls. Women in both the pornography and prostitution industries suffer abuse and violence. Despite this grim reality, tolerance for pornography is increasing in Australia and many other Western nations. Through the ‘mainstreaming of pornography’ or ‘pornification,’ pornographic imagery and even pornography itself are gaining legitimacy and a degree of glamour and cultural chic. Porn stars are becoming household names, advertising mimics pornographic conventions and poses, and Playboy is not just a magazine but a global brand that markets everything from clothing to stationery. The mainstreaming of pornography is also changing our conceptions of sexuality. Women are increasingly becoming required to perform sex acts straight from pornography in their everyday heterosexual relationships, and the pornographic model of sexuality is harming girls’ and women’s concepts of self. As pornography continues to become more prominent and pornographic imagery becomes more ‘mainstreamed’ we become accustomed to living in a pornified world in which it is acceptable that women and girls can be bought and sold.

Boyle, Karen (ed). (2010). Everyday Pornography. Oxford: Routledge.

Dines, Gail. (2010). Pornland: How Porn has Highjacked our Sexuality. Melbourne: Spinifex Press.

Dines, Gail & Jensen, Robert & Russo, Ann. (1998). Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality. New York: Routledge.

Dworkin, Andrea. (1979) Men Possessing Women. New York: Pedigree Books.

Long, Julia. (2012). Anti-Porn: The resurgence of Anti-Pornography Feminism. Zed Books.

Tankard Reist, Melinda & Bray, Abigail (eds) (2011). Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry. Melbourne: Spinifex Press.

Tyler, Meagan (2011). Selling Sex Short: The Pornographic and Sexological Construction of Women’s Sexuality in the West. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Strip Clubs

Read CATWA’s indepth report on strip clubs in Victoria (2010).

The sex industry and business practice: An obstacle to women’s equality, by Sheila Jeffreys 2010

Jul 2014: Business women suffer discrimination because of the male executive culture of strip club visits.

Jul 2014: Executive director of UN Women Australia calls for zero tolerance of strip club visits

Dec 2010: ABC radio interview with Sheila Jeffreys on ’Why strip clubs are harmful to women and the community’. Includes transcript

Dec 2010: Corporate functions and Christmas parties at strip clubs

On the feminist activist struggles against woman-battering, rape, misogyny (Right Wing and Left Wing), gendered oppression, hatred of lesbians, prostitution, pornography, societal stockholm syndrome, female-only spaces and more.:

Letters from a War Zone, by Andrea Dworkin

Our Blood, by Andrea Dworkin

Right-Wing Women, by Andrea Dworkin

Pornography: Andrea Dworkin (1991) - Documentary

Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by Andrea Dworkin

http://radfem.org/dworkin/

Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller

Femininity, by Susan Brownmiller

Rape In Marriage, Diana Russell

Women-Only Spaces: An Alternative To Patriarchy, by Jennie Ruby

Exploring the Value of Women-Only Space, by Kya Ogyn

Women, Health and the Politics of Fat, Amy Winter, in Rain And Thunder, Autumn Equinox 2003,   No. 20

Free Space: A Perspective on the Small Group in Women’s Liberation by Pamela Allen 1970 Download PDF

Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence, and Women’s Lives by Dee Graham, Roberta Rigsby, Edna Rawlings 1995 Download PDF

Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism by Somer Brodribb 1992 Download PDF

A deafening silence: Hidden violence against women and children by Patrizia Romito (translation by Janet Eastwood) 2008 Download PDF

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis 2003 Download PDF

Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice by John Stoltenberg 2000 2nd Ed. Download PDF

I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde ed by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall 2011 Download PDF

Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation ed by Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Angela Davis 2005 Download PDF

Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West by Sheila Jeffreys 2005 Download PDF

The Spinster and Her Enemies by Sheila Jeffreys 1997 Download PDF

The Lesbian Heresy by Sheila Jeffreys 1993 Download PDF

The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade by Sheila Jeffreys 2008 Download PDF

The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism Edited by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond. 1990 Download Full PDF (5MB)

Liberalism and the Death of Feminism, Catharine A. MacKinnon (PDF)

Sexology and Antifeminism, Sheila Jeffreys (PDF)

Woman-Hating Right and Left, Andrea Dworkin (PDF)

Taking Our Eyes Off the Guys, Sonia Johnson (PDF)

Family Matters, Ann Jones (PDF)

Confronting the Liberal Lies About Prostitution, Evelina Giobbe (PDF)

The New Reproductive Technologies, Gena Corea (PDF)

Mothers on Trial: Custody and the “Baby M” Case, Phyllis Chesler (PDF)

Sexual and Reproductive Liberalism, Janice G. Raymond (PDF)

In the Best Interest of the Sperm: The Pregnancy of Judge Sorkow, Pauline B. Bart (PDF)

Abortion and Pornography: The Sexual Liberals’ “Gotcha” Against Women’s Equality, Twiss Butler (PDF)

When Women Defend Pornography, Dorchen Leidholdt (PDF)

Eroticizing Women’s Subordination, Sheila Jeffreys (PDF)

Resistance, Andrea Dworkin (PDF)

Sex Resistance in Heterosexual Arrangements, A Southern Women’s Writing Collective (PDF)

Toward a Feminist Praxis of Sexuality, Wendy Stock (PDF)

Sexual Liberalism and Survivors of Sexual Abuse, Valerie Heller (PDF)

The Many Faces of Backlash, Florence Rush (PDF)

Liberals, Libertarianism, and the Liberal Arts Establishment, Susanne Kappeler (PDF)

You Can’t Fight Homophobia and Protect the Pornographers at the Same Time—An Analysis of What Went Wrong in Hardwick, John Stoltenberg (PDF)

A View from Another Country, Susan G. Cole (PDF)

Women and Civil Liberties, Kathleen A. Lahey (PDF)

Be-Witching: Re-Calling the Archimagical Powers of Women, Mary Daly (PDF)

Not a Sentimental Journey: Women’s Friendships, Janice G. Raymond (PDF)

Femicide Fetishize female vulnerability Handmaidens of the patriarchy Harm reduction/refusal to name the agent Joke’s on women Male bonding over misogyny Male entitlement Mansplaining/women’s perspective is wrong Necrophilia Normalize abuse/neglect Normalize porn/prostitution PIV-centric narrative — Goal is to “land a man” — Normalize exaggerated/simulated female pleasure — Normalize reproductive stress and pain — Pathologize menstruation — Pathologize older women and menopause/fetishize female youth — Rape and rape culture Pornify girl children/infantilize adult women Primacy of the nuclear family Reversal Support patriarchal institutions (medicine/religion/law) Woman as “useful object”

Crimes Against Women: The Proceedings of the International Tribunal

On the feminist analysis of beauty standards and oppressive femininity: Beauty & Misogyny, by Sheila Jeffreys

On the feminist analysis of queer theory:

Gender Hurts, by Sheila Jeffreys

Unpacking Queer Politics Download PDF,

LibFem vs. RadFem views on Gender

On the feminist analysis of the sex industrial complex:

The Industrial Vagina Download PDF,

Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry. (Anthology),

Accounting for Pornography, Prostitution, and Patriarchy. by Pala Molisa, PhD student,

Women, Lesbians, and Prostitution: A Workingclass Dyke Speaks Out Against Buying Women for Sex, by Toby Summer, in Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe,  eds

Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, Christine   Stark and Rebecca Whisnant, eds.

Sex critical & Kink critical text:

Against Sadomasochism (Anthology)

Ten Lies About Sadomasochism, by Melissa Farley

Unleashing Feminism: Critiquing  Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties, by Irene Reti, ed.

How Orgasm Politics Has Hijacked the Women’s Movement, by Sheila Jeffreys

Intercourse, by Andrea Dworkin

Theological feminist criticism:

Beyond God The Father, by Mary Daly (1974)

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

The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, Marija Gimbutas

Woman, Church and State, Matilda Joslyn Gage

The Women’s Bible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Pure Lust, Mary Daly

On the feminist criticism of sexual liberalism:

“The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism” Anthology, (1987, edited 1990), http://radfem.org/the-sexual-liberals/

Incest: The Great Incest War: Introduction to The Secret Trauma

Making an Issue of Incest, Louise Armstrong (PDF)

Activism:

Lone Radical Feminist Actions

Best Strategies to Advance the Global Struggle Against Femicide

Feminists Threaten Larry Flynt: My Personal Contribution

Bin the Bunny. This is an anti-pornography campaign from London. It began in response the opening of a Playboy shop in 2007.

Object. A UK group committed to challenging the objectification of women.

No Porn Northampton. This site, based in USA, contains information about campaigns and many papers and resources relating to pornography.

Routes Out. This is a Glasgow based organisation founded to help women exit prostitution.

Turn Off the Red Light An Irish organisation working for an end to prostitution and sex trafficking in Ireland. It advocates the adoption of the Nordic Model.

Feminist Coalition Against Prostitution A UK coalition who believe that prostitution is male violence against women and are working to achieve Swedish style legislation. The site contains many useful links and resources.

Abolicion de la Prostitucion. This web site, in Spanish, was set up by a group of 77 women’s organisations to fight prostitution in that country.

Centre for Women’s Human Rights. This Korean feminist organistion was established in 2005.

The Polaris Project. Anti Trafficking organisation with a focus in Japan and USA

Websites with other resources (video clips, documentaries, quotes, articles, essays, interviews, graphics, etc): http://www.antipornography.org http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/ https://radicalhubarchives.wordpress.com/radfem-101/ http://www.feminist-reprise.org/fembib.html

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