Radical Facts

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Radical Files is a free access online feminist archive/library. It hosts mostly books (available in pdf and epub atm), but also articles, essays, fact sheets, flyers, pictures, graphics and so on, as well as now also audio & video content (full audiobooks, podcast episodes, interviews, documentaries, short clips etc.) and everything else I can gather together.

I'm constantly adding new materials, so just stop by now and then and have a look or get your upload-info through the info channels on Telegram and/or WhatsApp; invitation links are listed at the very end of the post.

Feel free to read, download* and share further; hopefully there will be something new & interesting for everyone of you!

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* all contents are able to be downloaded; to read later offline or in a more convenient ebook reader/audio-video player. Please "take" as much as you like!

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... thank you for reading all this and hopefully we'll see each there too! Take care & have a wonderful day!

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#female reality

Marriage, Illness and (Dis-)Loyalty

When faced with a life-altering - or even life-threatening - diagnosis like cancer, studies show that married women are up to 6 times (+600%) more likely to get abandoned and divorced by their male partner.

The divorce or separation rate when the woman was the patient was 20.8%, compared to 2.9% when the man was the patient.

Being female has been identified as the strongest predictor of separation or divorce in studies examining patients with serious medical illnesses, including cancer.

Data via PubMed; NIH; Science Daily

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#medical misogyny

Misogyny in the ER

Women visiting the ER with visited emergency departments with chest pain waited 29 percent longer than men to be evaluated for possible heart attacks.

Women are also 25% less likely than men to recieve effective pain treatment - and, as well, have to wait on average 30 minutes longer to recieve any pain relief treatment than male patients.

Women's pain also gets judged as less intense and less serious than men's - with according results for female patients.

Especially in gynecolgical treatments, women's pain tends to be dismissed to exist at all with many invasive treatments regularly being performed without any numbing or pain relief at all.

Women are also more likely to wait longer for a health diagnosis in general and to be told it’s ‘all in their heads’/psychological. That can be lethal: diagnostic errors cause 40,000-80,000 deaths in the US alone - with women being up to 30% more likely than men to get misdiagnosed.

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Women's Visibility Day 10.10.24

xx 10/10

Wear red in solidarity against female erasure, exploitation and male-supremacist colonization. XX. 10 10.

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WhatsApp & Telegram - Radical Files Community Update | Personal Info:

(Posted this text also in the groups - but just in case...!)

.... *ugh!*. It just has to always be like that, doesn't it?!

I'm so sorry for all of you patient souls who had the interest - and as mentioned, patience! - to be a part of our new community & news-channel on WhatsApp and/or Telegram.

Just had set it up and started, all looking pretty good and neat.... but then my usual luck just had to strike, it seems - which ended with me having to reside in hospital for a while, once more.😮‍💨😒

(It's a chronic health squabble I have going on, partly caused by an accident I had at 16 yo and some other chronic stuff that came along with it somewhere on the way... 😑)

But no worries, I'm good and still standing. Not the first nose-dive and surely not the last, but we'll just scramble up once more like always, don't we? 😅🫠

Long story short - I'm so sorry for all of you proably being pretty confused and just hanging in there without hearing anything...

A big, big thank you for all your patience!!

Anyways, I'm finally back and now I'll see to make up for the time lost & to fill our community with some life...

... thank you all for being here. Ya'll are just awesome!

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.... and for all who may want to join too, despite it having an "a bit" weird, chaotic admin, below are the links to the WhatsApp & Telegram Groups/Channels and their discussion boards. You are always welcome!

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RADICAL FILES on Telegram / WhatsApp

I'm running an feminist archive/library for some time now (the initial "project and reason for this blog also) & recently added two info-channels. There you would get notified about the newest additions (books, essays, articles, zines and more). I'm also planning on adding other, additional content which would also be published on those channels.

Each Channel also has a community space added - so you too could share info & resources, make suggestions, ask questions or just to chat :)

Since they're among the most common and accessible messenger apps that allow channels & communities/groups, I've decided on using Telegram & WhatsApp.

You'll find the invitation-links to join below, as well as QR Codes containing the same info/link.

I hope - despite just sharing resources & information to make them more widespread and accessible - to create a safe, open minded space away from the big mainstream social media platforms and their ever growing censorship of feminist thought & female erasure.

Hope to see some of you there soon!

Thanks for your time & take care.

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#patriarchy

Representation & Rights

Half the world's population is still being treated as a minority and has to fight for representation - and with it the power for change.

Of 195 recognized states worldwide, women serve as Heads of State and/or Government in only 31 countries.

Globally, less than one in four Cabinet Ministers is a woman (22.8 per cent).

In 2013, women accounted for only 8% of all national leaders and 2% of all presidential posts.

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#systemic misogyny

Artificial Inequality

Biases held by people are getting taken over into automated systems, such as AI, and thus further promoting and upholding these - with misogyny being by far the most prevalent and most severe.

An analysis of 133 artificial intelligence (AI) systems across industries since 1988 found that 44.2% demonstrate gender bias, with 25.7% exhibiting both gender and racial bias.

Another study concerning the use of AI found that 96% of deepfakes generated with it are of non-consensual sexual nature, and of those, 99% are made of women.

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#systemic oppression

286 Years Until Equality

According to the newest UN report, at the current rate of progress, it may take another 286 years for women to have the same legal rights and protections as men.

The report estimates that it will take up to 286 years to close gaps in legal protection and remove discriminatory laws, 140 years for women to be represented equally in positions of power and leadership in the workplace, and at least 40 years to achieve equal representation in national parliaments. To eradicate child marriage by 2030, progress must be 17 times faster than progress of the last decade, with girls from the poorest rural households and in conflict-affected areas expected to suffer the most.

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#systemic misogyny

Rape Conviction-Rates

Out of 1'000 reported rapes, 975 perpetrators will walk free. A conviction rate of only 2.5%. 97.5% of all persecuted(!) rapists never see even a day in jail.

Rape is the most underreported violent crime - with estimated only around 30% (or even less) reported cases.

This puts the actual conviction rate for rape at around 0.7% and lower.

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#patriarchy

Encoded into Law

Discrimination, oppression and exploitation of women and girls is still firmly encoded into law in countries all across the globe. These are just a few examples of many more:

• 113 countries do not have laws to ensure equal pay for equal work among men and women

• 104 countries make certain jobs off-limits for women

• 39 countries have laws that mean a daughter cannot inherit the same proportion of assets as a son

• 36 countries limit what wives can inherit from their husbands

• 29 countries restrict the hours women can work

• 18 countries allow men to prohibit their wives from working

• 17 countries limit when and how women can travel outside the home

Systemic oppression and exploitation of women and girls are still encoded into law worldwide - and with it also into culture and everyday social life, creating and upholding an androcratic hierarchic system - patriarchy.

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#mvaw

The #1 Risk During Pregnancy - Homicide

Homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the US.

Women who are pregnant or who have recently given birth are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes; with their own male partners being the overwhelming majority of perpetrators.

For women in general, IPV (Intimate Partner Violence) is an acute and likely danger, with one in three women experiencing IPV in their lifetime.

Up to 75% women experiencing IPV before pregnancy will also suffer from abuse during pregnancy and postpartum.

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#medical misogyny

Misdiagnosed & Mistreated - Misogyny & Androcentrism in Medicine

Although it is a well established scientific fact that the female body acts and reacts medically often very different than the male body, these differences get widely ignored. This widespread misogyny and androcentrism in medicine frequently gets women misdiagnosed and mistreated, which often proves deadly.

Studies found that females presenting with a heart attack were more likely to die when a male doctor treated them, compared with a female doctor.

Women are also 50% more likely to get their heart attack misdiagnosed - for their (typical to females) symptoms get seen as atypical and often dismissed; based upon only male symptoms getting seen as typical and indicative.

Female patients are also less likely to be prescribed preventative treatment after an initial attack.

Women are half as likely as men to receive pain killers after surgery.

When getting surgery, women have a 32% higher risk of dying - when operated on by a male surgeon.

They also have to wait longer to receive pain management medication in emergency rooms as well as often simply getting sedated instead of recieving pain management. No such effect is seen in male patients.

Female patients generally have to wait for significantly longer timespans to get a diagnosis. Per example, it takes typically 2.5 more years for a woman to be diagnosed with cancer and 4.5 more years for a diabetes diagnosis compared with men. In total, women were found to get diagnosed much later in more than 700 diseases compared to men.

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#patriarchy

Forced Marriage & Child Brides

Forced marriage is still a very prevalent violation of human rights worldwide, especially for women and girls. 88% of victims were women and girls.

37% of victims were under 18 at the time of the marriage. Of these, 44% were under 15 at the time of the marriage.

Each year, 12 million girls under 18 are getting married off. Most of these scenarios consist of the girl getting married off to a much older - adult - man.

The UN report (linked below) states that globally, in 2021, nearly 1 in 5 women aged 20-24 were married before turning 18.

(UN - Report "Gender Snapshot 2022"; general report on women's rights & equality worldwide)

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IX1ACXnDuSAdv_aWYD3kFdPkd8zyhLk5

Here's the link to my online archive of feminist resources - books, essays, articles, flyers and everything else I can gather together :)

Feel free to read, download & share!

(It gets constantly extended / more uploads getting added; just sort to "date" to see what's new in there.)

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Pinning it on this blog here too for as much visibility as possible.

Please feel free to browse and read, save and download, as well as to - of course! - share and reblog as much as you like!

The more knowledge, facts and solid data backing them up we have, the more we are able to find our voice and to stand our ground.

Knowledge is Power :)

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#anti sex industry

Human Trafficking & the Sex Industry

Human trafficking is the second largest and fastest growing criminal industry in the world, second only to drug trafficking.

Human trafficking earns global profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, $99 billion of which comes from commercial sexual exploitation.

Globally, an estimated 71% of enslaved people are women and girls, while men and boys account for 29%. This encompasses all forms of human trafficking, of which the two most common forms are forced labour trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Concerning sex trafficking specifically, over 94% of victims are female.

If we add all child victims - girls and boys - to the number of sex trafficked women, we get over 99% of all victims in sexual slavery.

Studies suggest that only about 0.04% survivors of human trafficking cases get ever identified, meaning that the vast majority of cases of human trafficking go undetected. 

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#medical misogyny

Systemic Misogyny in Medicine - Misogyny kills

Women needing surgery face an increased risk of 32% to die if they get operated on by a male surgeon

Overall, female patients also had a 16% greater risk of complications and an 11% greater risk of readmission and were 20% more likely to have to stay in hospital longer when treated by male surgeons, compared to female surgeons.