Raito

radical feminist ex muslim

[raitoisnotalwaysright]

Here again to rant

I'm tunisian and as some of you know, it is not the best place to be a lesbian/gay/bisexual person ... same sex attraction is still very taboo and although the upcoming generation ( what americans call gen z) seems more open minded and tolerant about lgb issues they are still not representative of what most tunisians think or feel about lgb people.

However i cannot help but notice an appearent rise in identifying as trans or non binary among those gen z allies.

Just the other day, while participating in an MUN event, a friend of mine ( 16 year old male) told me he was trans and that he wanted to live abroad in order to have access to HRT. He was feeling disphoric about his voice and his body hair and he wanted to present in a more feminine way and that was evidence for him that he was born in the wrong body and that he needed hormones to feel better. He also had the audacity to tell me he was a lesbian which to be completely honest felt really offensive to me as an actual lesbian.

An activist in an another organisation also identifies as a trans woman and people around him use the opposite sex pronouns.

Two girls i met in the same MUN event identified as non binary for one and as a trans man for the other and used some cringey english names instead of their actual names.

While it is true that these are only a few people in my entourage, i can't just sit there and act indifferent while teens and young adults are identifying their way in and out of oppression.

I think social media and representation did make people more sympathetic to lgb people and their struggles, but it also made gender ideology more prominent and more accepted among human rights activist and youth organisations.

It is just weird to me that these people pretend destroying the gender binary while reinforcing it at the same time

It is not even ironic anymore.

[laurierrose]

women taking about how they hate men are like “yeah i just would rather like be alone and focus on growing flowers and organic vegetables than be around men, who have physically harmed me personally in the past” and men talking about how they hate women are like “i can’t wait to set a woman on fire because she didn’t make sexy enough eye contact with me”

[letters-from-x-deactivated20260]

A radical feminist’s reading list-

Classic

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

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

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

Fiction

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin

The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

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

History

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

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

The Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

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

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

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

Intersectional

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

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

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

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

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

Lesbian

Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective by Sheila Jeffreys

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

Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism by Suzanne Pharr

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich

Liberal vs. radical

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

End of Equality by Beatrix Campbell

Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pornography, prostitution, surrogacy & rape

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

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

Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality by Gail Dines

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

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

Only Words by Catharine A. Mackinnon

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

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

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

Psychology & trauma

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

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

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

Toward a New Psychology of Women by Jean Baker Miller

Theory

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

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

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

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks

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

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

The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman

Other

Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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

How to Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ

Man Made Language by Dale Spender

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

[cikero]

tiktok plastic surgeons and botox/derm spa technicians when women’s faces show signs of having lived a life and have distinct facial features

[incorrigiblegirl]

I love Rage Against the Machine but this is insulting. At least say women AND birth givers if you’re gonna say that.

[oh-good]

This is exactly what I look like when I open this webbed site and read ya'lls posts

[mama-panther-deactivated2013102]

Because Karl Marx was problematic, we’ll have to abandon his work. Because everyone is problematic, we’ll have to abandon everything. Just reblog memes, describe your privileges, sign petitions you don’t understand for countries you’ll never live in and make sure you continue jacking off to liberal identity politics. Revolutionary work.

[sick-sad-world-revolution-now]

Let’s focus a few second on the fact that this person deactivated their account in 2013, so I will just say : that post was too real, too ahead of its time. A minute of silence for this unknown heroine. Liberal identity politics was never a good idea yet people to this day continue to be believers.

[terfmida]

oh, user mama panther, we’re really in it right now

[dirtylittlebookworm]

[doctordragon]

In light of recent events, I would like to remind everyone that the correct pro choice talking point that will actually pull people to our side is NOT whether a fetus is human or not because you'll never win. The correct argument is how the state should never have the power to force you to give up physical autonomy for the sake of any other being.

[roach-works]

if the state can't force you to be an organ donor after your death, it shouldn't be able to force you to be an organ donor before your death. if you can't be forced to give even a pint of blood for half an hour, you shouldn't be forced to give up your uterus for nine months. if your alcoholic father can't demand you give him half your liver, if the red cross can't just demand your blood, if those wig making companies can't demand your hair, no one should be able to demand your reproductive system.

even if a fertilized egg is exactly as much of a person as a twenty one year old citizen, no one else in the world should have a legal right to make use of your body parts without your express consent.

[kittyit]

19-year-old dies after brain damage from breast implant surgery, Colorado family says

“Emmalyn’s parents and siblings are heartbroken.”

every single cosmetic surgeons is deciding this an acceptable risk when doing any cosmetic surgery on any woman. labiaplasty - acceptable risk of death. breast implants - acceptable risk of death. nose job - acceptable risk of death. it’s one thing for a woman to say, okay, i feel so ugly i don’t care if i die on that table, and another thing for the doctor making an incredible amount of money holding the scapel to agree and put her under.

[destroyyourbinder]

The nurse anesthetist was sued previously for causing the death of another woman during breast implant surgery in 2007. This article about both cases makes it clear in the 2019 case not just the surgeon and anesthetist but an entire team of assistants and staff collaborated in refusing/failing to seek proper medical care (didn’t call 911 for five and a half hours after she had two cardiac arrests) and misleading the young woman’s parents about her state. The total apathy the doctors displayed towards her life is so sickening that I struggle to make sense of it through the outrage I feel. The sobering truth is not only that many cosmetic surgeons (and those who work in their teams) deem death and permanent disability an acceptable risk through their everyday practice in the pursuit of their own status, power, and livelihood, but that they deem it acceptable because they frankly do not care.

[burndownpornhub]

This is what feminists call porn culture. What else do you call it when a 19 year old can go to board-certified “legitimate” doctor for a breast enlargement surgery? Incidentally, breast implants were popularized by pornography- creating a lucrative industry validated by institutions which promise well-trained doctors. Doctors trained not in how to stop Endo, PCOS, breast cancer, or even mitigate the pain of childbirth, but doctors trained in creating perfect breasts in women. Porn Culture in one tragic news-story. I hope her family gets justice.

[joeyclaire]

i hope he dies

[joeyclaire]

didn't say a name but he popped into your head didn't he <3

[parliamentaryinquiry]

[the-rainbow-lesbian]

when you’re dying because of an unsafe pregnancy no amount of wealth, class, race, or being able-bodied will save you. you don’t have to add identifiers before “women” in order to care about abortion, ALL women are in danger because of roe v wade being overturned I am sick to death of the privileged woman boogeyman, it’s a distraction.

[finalgrrrl]

donate to an abortion fund rn <33

[finalgrrrl]

USA

a list of state-specific funds

national network of abortion funds

indigenous women rising; abortion fund

national abortion federation 

women’s reproductive rights assistance project 

INTERNATIONAL

international planned parenthood federation

partners for reproductive justice (africa, asia, the americas)

fondo de aborto para la justicia social (mexico)

mabia (ghana)

bangladesh women’s health coalition

abortion without borders (poland, uk, the netherlands, germany)

women help women (based in the netherlands, buts works internationally in europe)

abortion dream team (poland)

[finalgrrrl]

bringing this back :////

[maryfitzroy]

“marginalized bodies” “black and brown bodies” “fat bodies” “bodies with uteruses” shut the fuck uppppppp

[sapphos-catpanions]

a woman’s experience after having her healthy breasts amputated at the Crane Center for Transgender Surgery. hematomas are often deadly. she could have died.

instead, she lived to throw their NDA offer in the trash and tell her story.

[girlsmoonsandstars]

jesus any doctor who can say "i don't see what's wrong here" should immediately have their license revoked

[ikickmen]

THIS IS WHY WE ARE AGAINST IT

[woolfem]

[nuclearhearts]

onlyfans has really rotted men’s minds into believing its ok to ask any woman for nudes as long as you offer financial compensation in return. the world is not your brothel