Radix Sagae

FEBFem 💜 – woman-loving harpy – my pronouns are up/yours

[electricsircuit-deactivated2024]

Basically the problem with radblr is everyone thinks they’re saving feminism by being a brat on the internet and no one has so much as donated five dollars to help women

[woman-for-women]

If anyone reading this wants to do more to help women, I suggest starting by doing some feminist goal setting:

The What: Pick a feminist issue or issues that you are passionate about and are willing to invest your time and energy into.

The How: Based on your interests, you can research groups you can volunteer for or donate money/supplies to (local women's shelters are a great place to start), brainstorm and design stickers or flyers, or pick out books or documentaries on the topic and post on Tumblr/Reddit/Ovarit/Twitter/Substack a summary, review, analysis, or interesting facts. This is obviously not a comprehensive list! Suggestions are always welcome. Pick something that aligns with your strengths and abilities. If you spend a lot of time online, then join (or make) a (regional) feminist discord. If you enjoy writing or design, submit to Ugly Truths Publishing Collective or the Radical Feminist Zine. You can even make and publish your own zine!

The Plan: After doing some research, pick a few actions, then set goals. The way I set goals/actions is based on timelines: I pick daily actions, weekly actions, monthly actions, yearly actions, and even lifetime goals. You can break up your goals/actions however you see fit. (For example, my daily action is spending a few minutes a day on Tumblr writing responses and queueing some posts, my weekly goal is printing and mailing out stickers for stickering, my monthly goal is trying to read 1 - 2 feminist books, doing some volunteering for a women's organization, and designing a few infographics on feminist/LGB topics. My goal for this year is to make a spending plan so I can do recurring monthly/yearly donations to my favorite organizations by next year and to see if I can land a job at an organization I have my eye on where I can help women).

Then do it!

Some resources to help you get started right now:

Here is my guide on how to make your own stickers (hundreds of them!) for under $10 so you can start stickering. The guide is budget friendly.

Here is my Gumroad where I sell feminist stickers, if you want to buy you own. The stickers are FREE (you just pay for shipping)! You can also download artwork for flyering/stickering/whatever, also for FREE!

Here is my guide for how to sticker safely and effectively.

Here is my guide on how I make my own feminist infographics/quotes/posts through Canva (which is FREE!)

Here is a masterdoc (300+ pages) I compiled of studies and sources of interest! Feel free to peruse it and use it for whatever:

Radical Feminism - Studies/Sources Masterdoc Project

RADICAL FEMINIST INFOGRAPHICS BY @woman-for-women HERE Feminist Studies/Sources – Masterdoc Introduction 0 Acknowledgments 0 Document Revis

If you want to donate, here are some suggestions:

You can set up recurring monthly donations of small amounts (think like $1), kind of like a subscription. If you don't want to sign up for recurring donations, you can note down a day every month in your calendar to donate to your favorite organization(s). Some of the organizations on the list are non-profits and the donations may be tax-deductible depending on the tax laws in your country. (This is not an endorsement of the groups below, please do your own research!)

Anti-Trafficking/Prostitution Groups

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 

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

Nordic Model Now

LGB/Gender-Critical Groups

Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine

Fair Play for Women

LGB Alliance

Lesbian Strength

Ovarit

If you feel stuck or if your feminism is limited to reading and reblogging Tumblr posts, I highly recommend setting goals and making plans for actions you can do to better help women and girls around you.

[woman-for-women]

Yes, that's why I included actions that cost 0 dollars, like borrowing a feminist book from your public library and reading it. Organizing with other women, reading feminist literature, listening to feminist podcasts, consuming women's art/books/music, shopping women-owned businesses, prioritizing & uplifting the women in your life, discussing feminist topics with others, abstaining from beauty rituals/performing femininity (and encouraging other women and girls to as well), boycotting sexist brands, rejecting male idolism, speaking up when you see sexism, mentoring women & girls, volunteering at a women's shelter, attending protests, and signing petitions are all examples of actions that don't cost money (and again, this is not a comprehensive list). I included my cheap stickering guide for cheap DIY stickers and a free download of my sticker artwork so you can sticker or flyer for <$10 as well.

If you consider yourself a feminist but don't want to spend your time, effort, or money on feminist actions, why call yourself a feminist? If you believe in women's equality or liberation, at least some of the actions you take should reflect that.

For additional feminist action suggestions you can do right now:

Here is an updated list of charities/organizations you can consider donating to (if you have the means. If you know of an organization you want to donate to but currently can't or whose work you like, sign up for their newsletter with your email or phone number and commit to signing any petitions forwarded

Do you have bras in your drawer that you don't wear anymore but are in good condition? Free the Girls is a charity where you can donate gently-used bras to help women leaving the sex industry! You can drop off used bras at an Aerie store near you for FREE, or mail them in

Set a date in your calendar for one or twice a month. Call or write to your (local) legislator(s) about a feminist issues

Call or write to companies/organizations about issues that you care about

Go through your music streaming platform/YouTube/Twitch follow list and note how many women you follow vs. how many men. Are there any (sexist) men whose art or voices you would be better off not listening to? Drop them (and find more women to follow!)

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[thesinisterspinster]

Never forget women built the first computers by hand and were kicked out of the industry when it became profitable

[violet-lavender-fem]

the actual pride month rundown

- marsha p. johnson repeatedly identified as a gay man and drag queen and survived into an era where the language did already exist if he chose to identify as transsexual. he explicitly stated that he was not transsexual and claimed that all transsexual people were also homosexual.

- sylvia rivera did identify as a transsexual woman (and made disparaging speeches about lesbians). she was not an ally to lesbians. lesbians and transwomen have not always been allies.

- neither of them were there when the stonewall riots began, according to marsha’s own testimony. sylvia was sleeping off a drug trip on a park bench, and by the time marsha arrived at stonewall, the riots were already in full swing.

- storme delarverie, a mixed black gender-nonconforming lesbian and drag king, may have been the one who incited the stonewall riots. she never identified as a transman despite surviving into an an era where the language was made accessible to do so. accounts differ as to who started the riots.

- stonewall was not a special haven for trans people and drag artists, it was just some bar where gay people met up. by all accounts, it wasn’t even a good bar.

- pride as a festival and parade was invented by gay men, lesbians, and bisexual people. fred sergeant is one of those gay men, and he has been beaten (in recent years, as an elderly man) by trans people and their allies due to his views on medical transition. non-homosexual trans people were unheard of in this era.

- this is just united states history, and not even the beginning of gay rights activism in the united states alone. the rest of the world didn’t necessarily base its gay rights activism on stonewall.

[virginymphomaniac]

Their God is male

Their phrophets are male

Their apostles are male

Their books tell periods are dirty

Their thinkers are misogynistic

Their saints would call you a whore

Don't defend your oppression

[femratical]

The lack of self awareness is astounding. These are all trans women dude you ARE the men trying to make feminism about themselves

[its-terf-or-nothin]

They’re blatantly stealing our words. Absolutely infuriating.

[doingitatmybirthdaydinner]

on a video of 2 older gay men discussing how they feel that being called queer is equally as bad as being called a fag.

there’s a difference between these slurs being occasionally used WITHIN the gay or lesbian community often in a joking way like dykes on bikes for example, and the word being used as a descriptor for the whole community with no way to opt out. not only that, but straight people and mega-corporations have gotten in on the slur fun and are now proudly referring to the entire community of same sex attracted people as “queer” or even college courses and college degrees calling homosexuals and bisexuals “queer”. no other “slur reclamation” has occurred so quickly and has included the majority, the in-group who originally USED the slur against the minority and the out-group. by the way, it’s not like most straight people just started using “queer” when it became politically correct, they NEVER STOPPED referring to same sex attraction as “queer”!!!!! trust me, when you hear southern catholic conservatives use the word “queer”, it doesn’t sound so reclaimed and freeing or all-inclusive or whatever.

it’s insane to me that 2 older gay men are like “hey I don’t like the slur queer and I also don’t like the slur fag” and people have the nerve to be MAD and CONDESCENDING??? what??? “hey we don’t like being called a slur” and people are like “umm WE reclaimed it though and I don’t mind being called it so get over it”

this whole slur reclamation thing should be on an individual level and on an opt-in basis, we shouldn’t be seeing slurs on billboards or advertisements or coming out of straight people’s mouths.

[kkoffin]

talkin about FGM and i get a notification “as a trans woman…” literally shut the fuck up we r talking about prepubescent african girls being mutilated to the point of chronic pain, i seriously don’t give a fuck about ur middle-class american white male ass opinion. you wearing makeup and putting on a dress doesn’t give you some enlightenment regarding the complete removal of a girl’s clit and labia without anaesthetic. go fuck urself

btw, as we all expected, he was saying circumcision is the same thing as FGM. shocker. i don’t even know how being trans has anything to do w ur foreskin or lackthereof but whatever. what fucking ever.

[repotting]

unpopular lesbian opinion

fat butch women aren’t ‘a stereotype to avoid’, they’re a wildly under- and misrepresented demographic inordinately targeted by the ‘predatory lesbian’ trope

and they deserve better

[quinntheestallion]

This.

All the "young people are having less sex" panic is similar to the "less babies" panic. When women have more choice and education, they choose to not lay under or spread their legs for dumbass men.

Millennial women had a whole bunch of unsatisfying sex with men who hated their guts because they were groomed into it and didn't know better.

Millennial girls were being roofied at parties and were being told they're a tease or were "asking for it" if they go back to a guy's place alone. So they felt pressured to perform.

Millennial girls were told sex is empowering but there was no support and empowerment to deal with the emptiness after they offered their bodies to men who have zero regard for them.

Millennial girls funded their own abortions and Plan B pills and gyno visits post-sex and undertook all the risk and expense of promiscuous sex on their own- when the guy they did it with disappeared or ghosted.

Millennial girls were given speeches about how: 1.Orgasms are not the point of sex.

2. Love isn't the point of sex.

3.Trust, care and mutual respect is not the point of sex.

4. Intimacy isn't the point of sex.

5. Reproduction isn't the point of sex.

So left GenZ girls are wondering what the fuck is the point of sex with these men. And thank God they are.

Millennial girls were told "fun" is the point of sex.

GenZ girls realized that paying $300 of your own money for an abortion for a fuck you didnt even enjoy with a misogynist who hates you doesn't sound that fun. And, as a millennial myself, theyre right- it isn't.

[mala-santa-radfem]

my most misandrist opinion is that i dont trust men reviewing anything made by women (art/music/movies/etc). i don't trust they're logical and unbiased enough to have an opinion that's not tainted by misogyny.

[immortalremnantriver]

[anjomecanico]

100% of the time I saw people criticizing radfems it was just this

[anjomecanico]

Makeup can be an art form, subcultures often use it as such, but you and I know that most of the time makeup is not used as art but as a form of "covering imperfections". Stop playing dumb when women rightfully call makeup a tool of oppression under patriarchy.

If people went with artistic makeup to a regular job they would 100% be fired. You know exactly what kind of makeup feminists complain about, don't be purposefully obtuse.

[sichorean]

"So how are you gonna stop us?? Genital inspections??"

Oh I'm sorry when women weren't allowed to vote did they have a fucking guy checking for dick outside the voting booths? NO.

Turns out it's pretty fucking easy to segregate the sexes when it's done by the oppressor, it only becomes impossible when requested by the oppressed!

[westasianblues]

words alone cannot express my utter loathing for Hasan Piker

[blackcatdoomer]

"70s bush." bush is eternal. there was bush before your oldest traceable ancestor. there was bush at the dawn of humanity and bush will persist until long after your genetic line dies out.

[pure]

what has happened on (white) trans twitter in the past couple of days is almost a mirror image of what happened to zeroambit on here, in 2014. only oldheads remember but it’s not difficult to find out what her friends did to her. same defenses of bdsm and kink, the downplaying of sexual violence, protecting the reputation of a sexual abuser based on optics, and suggesting that a social group is incapable of rape.

a couple days ago, a sexual abuse victim posted images of her injuries and directly accused a trans woman. the friend group of the accused, and even unrelated people who just share an identity with the accused, have dismissed the injuries as mere evidence of kink. this is called the “rough sex defense”—any physical evidence of intimate partner violence can be dismissed as kink, and sexual violence is permissible if it is consensual. they accused the victim of sending anonymous messages that indicate misbehavior, or not acting like a “real victim,” so she couldn’t have been victimized. since the victim is a cis woman, they have also accused her of being a terf, which is an attempt to paint her accusation as simple bigotry that should be ignored. they are posting quotes from “hot allostatic load” to bolster their attempts to DARVO the victim. it’s quite grim.

there is much more public opposition to this behavior now than when i saw it happen to zeroambit. but, honestly, it’s hard to be optimistic, because i’m seeing more support for the rapist too. trans victims of this kind of violence receive the manipulative message that exposing sexual abusers within the in-group is worse than the sexual abuse itself, and this often enforces their silence. they are the primary targets of this kind of intracommunity violence and we seldom hear about it. many of the people defending the current rapist in question are into kink, adhere to BDSM ideology, and are just plainly taking cues out of the misogynist playbook by portraying the victim as hysterical and untrustworthy because she is not being submissive and gentle like they demand. just like zeroambit’s abusers from back in the day. they accused her of being mentally unwell and “anti-bdsm” to discredit her claim of sexual abuse.

this is also the same attitude many online queers had during the first round of neil gaiman’s accusers who came forward. the victims were dismissed because they were thought to have consented to bdsm, and the victims were initially seen as suspicious because the only outlet that gave them a platform to speak against a wealthy male author was accused of being a terf website. they only changed their tune due to optics, per usual.

until misogyny and bdsm ideology are suppressed and purged from society, this form of rape culture and abuse will persist. this is also liberal identity politics and cultural relativism taken to their most sinister end point.

i’m putting screenshots under the read-more so people can witness the kind of tactics and rhetoric people use to harbor abusers. there is a LOT of appeal to the rough sex defense and identity politics in these images. don’t fall for the ideology of BDSM. sexual violence is still sexual violence even if the victim consents. take note, and be vigilant as you navigate relationships. anyone can be a rapist, and anyone can be a rape victim. all rapists must be socially isolated and detained at minimum, regardless of identity. warnings for physically abusive imagery underneath.

[theierette]

this shit is literally indistinguishable from normal MRA talking points. please do tell me what the difference is between "men get convicted for rape just for talking to women bro false accusations ruin men's lives and we can't even say hi without some feminazi whore bitch accusing us of rape" and "everything is rape now.... never touch anyone or even talk to them... jerk off to anime girls instead". because i'd really love to know.

[lenalenouilleisblogging]

This is revolting in every possible way, I'm feeling nauseous just reading all that (That one guy talking about being jury in a trial? Holy shit). If all the well adjusted and reasonable transfems want their community to not have such a reputation, they should fucking DO SOMETHING. The bare minimum would be to speak up against these big, extreme cases.

👆👆 This is a great example of why we can't relinquish any language, even a little bit. I was very polite and affirming for a long time, i used to say things like "the word woman is not what makes someone a woman, i can use it for transwomen and still know they're biological males." But the truth is that it's always going to end up with shit like this. The user in these screenshots is a male defending a male rapist in the name of... feminism. This makes my blood boil.