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asexual radfem . middle eastern . intersectional feminist . gender abolitionist . No gendies or brainwashed liberal feminist western crap. Arab\ eastern European/African /asian radfems follow me !!!

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Franz Kafka, from “Letters to Milena.”

[weltenwellen]

Franny Choi, Soft Science

[leonardospoetry]

I hope you have  the courage to forgive all the people  that never asked for  forgiveness.

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[guerrillatech]

[hekatontarch]

[queertail]

The site is '12ft Ladder' found here:

12ft – Hop any paywall

Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.

[sola-whumping]

Reblogging this on ALL my blogs because holy shit is it useful

[dark-romantics]

[dark-romantics]

"If reincarnation is real I wonder how many people stare at their own art in museums, listen to their own music they made in a different life and read books they don't remember writing"

~ Unknown

[metamorphesque]

Deborah Landau, "September"

[civilizationkills]

maybe its bc i live in a place where forestry is one of the dominant industries but like tree planting rly isnt good. like the majority of the time its done by forestry companies to “offset” what they’ve cut down, and they almost always just plant fir & spruce monocrops and then they prevent the rest of the forest from naturally regenerating by spraying glyphosate, because they want to kill off the hardwoods that grow back since softwoods are worth more to the pulp industry… anything a company does that is supposedly “green” never is.

[daggers-drawn]

They aren’t actually replanting the forest, they’re building lumber farms in the middle of it and trying to pass them off as the same thing to people who think a forest is just trees because they live in a world mediated by images and have never been in an actual forest long enough to be able to tell healthy diverse growth from a struggling monocrop.

[bogleech]

And unfortunately even choosing all the right trees and plants would not actually help either. Some naturalists I recall coined the term “ghost forest” to refer originally to “replanted” rainforests, in the same sense as “ghost town,” because it never brings back the same rich diversity of life or the healthy microbiome that took centuries to form.

And the average person doesn’t think about that at all, they don’t care that the layers of rotten leaves and insect colonies and mycelia are as much “the forest” as the presence of trees, and in fact the whole existence of that understory *is the actual benefit of the trees,* the actual reason the trees are important to all that wildlife. Companies are glad people don’t care about this, and as long as “replanting” is seen as a valid compromise, it means environmental regulations will continue to be lax and let them kill the majority of life in those habitats.

It’s the ecological equivalent of Weekend at Bernies. They made a corpse look alive enough that they aren’t being held accountable.

[metamorphesque]

the unbearable heaviness of girlhood / Su Xinyu / Lucie Brock-Broido

[duplexide]

I think the reason conservatives hate environmentalism so much is that all the terminology is too friendly and lame sounding to take seriously. I purpose we change the following terms to get these people on our side.

Solar powered -> Plasma charged

Wind power -> Vortex energy

Electric vehicle -> Lightning machine

Renewable resource -> Infinity asset

Greenhouse gasses -> Death Clouds

Global warming -> Property devaluation

Environmentalists -> Wilderness cops

For example, saying you're a wilderness cop that drives a lightning machine powered by infinity assets to reduce death clouds and increase your property value sounds 100x more macho than the alternative.

[bogleech]

Genuinely though, conservatives will overwhelmingly support something with a different name. I’ve seen it hundreds of times. They’re like babies this way.

[faustandfurious]

The inherent homoeroticism of killing your enemy and immediately regretting it

[faustandfurious]

It’s about rage, it’s about obsession, it’s about making that two-person war your entire raison d’être. It’s about loving and mistaking it for hatred and loving and loving and loving to the point of destruction. His or yours, it doesn’t matter. And you think seeing him dead at your feet will make you feel better, but all you feel is a whole lot of nothing.

[pilferingapples]

[desisapphic]

you claim to love angry unapologetic women but only if they're angry at men. when they're angry at other women for oppressing them or harming them you immediately demonize their anger and paint marginalized women as crazy dramatic shit starters and you the victims. you're never the problem. you're never to blame. you never need to self-reflect. you deny being oppressors to other women. feminism isn't about denying the intersections of privilege and oppression, denying the accountability of women and always pointing your fingers at men. you can't keep pulling the tactics men do on marginalized women then whine at us for being sick of your shit and you consistent utter lack of empathy for less privileged vulnerable women.

[cuecaradical-deactivated2023100]

these tags are everything. western white (mostly) straight women really truly believe they are the blueprint of misogyny and can't even wrap their head around how misogyny aggravates when you live on the fences of other marginalized group

[kiefbowl]

one of the things cosmetic surgeons don't market but definitely bank on is once you get one (1) you have such a high chance of being a patient for life. you're sold this idea that with "one small fix" you can have the nose of your dreams, the ass you deserve, the skinniness that will complete you!! - but turns out these surgeries have a ton of complications, a ton of upkeep, and patients are rarely satisfied. not to mention the fact that even if you have 100% success rate, you still age, and it shouldn't be surprising that so many patients who seek out these surgeries are going to have a hard time accepting how their "new" x-body part is still not static and won't be how it looks 6-months post op forever. that's why there are so many plastic surgery "lifers."

[wvterways]

source

[ponku-po]

- Althea Davis

[acti-veg]

This is apparently a way more controversial opinion than it should be, but guilt is absolutely the appropriate response to causing harm when it is within your capacity to stop. Advocating that people change their behaviour in order to facilitate the liberation of an oppressed group is not ‘shaming’ people.

I’m sorry, but if I share information about the harm caused by the animal products you choose to consume, whether it is on the environment, the workers traumatised to provide it or the animals who suffer to produce it, and this makes you feel guilty, that is your problem to address, not mine.

It isn’t up to advocates to shield you from the consequences of your own freely chosen decisions; it is up to you to reflect on why learning the truth about the products you choose to buy makes you feel so ashamed. More than that, it’s up to you to consider whether you can continue to justify it.

[vegance]

and feeling that guilt is not the same as being oppressed

[weltenwellen]

Jenny Xie, from "Zuihitsu",  Eye Level