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leaving this side of tumblr ✌️

having to be exposed to the recent racism, lesbian poll discourse, and spirituality discourse constantly despite my repeated culling in my list of people i follow is enough to ward me off from being here. i'd honestly rather do stuff with women i trust than waste my time with a group who care more about non-issues and arguing online and don't give a fuck about other women. this community is so disgustingly white, heterosexual, and male reformist that as a brown lesbian i wonder why i ever came back to this hellhole. so many people here are conservatives in thinly veiled disguises and i'm done allowing myself to be surrounded by this. i can't believe how many people have shown their true colors but it's a blessing in disguise because now i know not to waste my time here any longer. i really hope my nonwhite and lesbian sisters wake up too and depart from this shitshow, instead of trying to painstakingly carve a niche out for themselves in an environment that doesn't welcome or care about them.

i'm going to keep working on the site because i know other women and actual feminists deserve a hub, that hasn't changed. but it won't be shared here. thanks to the women who showed interest, if we've dm'd i'll keep talking to you about it but i'm no longer posting. bye

rad-relationships

‘Why I never want babies’

An increasing number of South Korean women are choosing not to marry, not to have children, and not even to have relationships with men. With the lowest fertility rate in the world, the country’s population will start shrinking unless something changes.

“I have no plans to have children, ever,” says 24-year-old Jang Yun-hwa, as we chat in a hipsterish cafe in the middle of Seoul.

“I don’t want the physical pain of childbirth. And it would be detrimental to my career.”

Like many young adults in South Korea’s hyper-competitive job market, Yun-hwa, a web comic artist, has worked hard to get where she is and isn’t ready to let all that hard graft go to waste.

“Rather than be part of a family, I’d like to be independent and live alone and achieve my dreams,” she says.

…

When I put it to her that if she and her contemporaries don’t have children her country’s culture will die, she tells me that it’s time for the male-dominated culture to go.

“Must die,” she says, breaking into English. “Must die!”

#6b4t

fetusdeletustotalus

From Manhattan luncheonette Mother Courage’s solidarity with local farmers, to the protest sign-up sheet outside Berkeley's Brick Hut Cafe,

lesbiantenets

Studying these spaces combats the erasure of feminist and lesbian feminist culture and underscores the contributions founders of feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses made to debates around food politics, community organizing, and labor rights, which continue today.

I was able to visit Bloodroot in February 2020. The food was incredible. Some of my favorite dishes are from their vegan cookbook. These spaces aren't relics of a previous movement. They're still here! We still need them!

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womansart

Peer Jongeling

terfbangs

wow, terf 😳🙄

lesbian-lizards

i do believe this artist is gender critical, yes

krisabobbi

there-are-4-lights

She has a semi-autobiogtaphical graphic novel in German (and recently released in French) and if you want you can also vote for it in this german comics award!

(and if you’re in a place where your library buys books and comics in those languages you can request it at your library!)

#women

owls-garden-deactivated20231123

So let me get things in order….trans men are “privileged” if they pass, because of ‘cis’ or ‘male’ privilege…but…trans men are “privileged” if they don’t pass because of ‘tme privilege’ or ‘female privilege’. Interesting interesting. And trans women are supposedly oppressed no matter how they look male/female? Ah.

noirefem

MRAs have evolved.

counttofour

somehow biological sex is just a social construct that doesn't have any bearing on your life but also if you're TME (female) you have privilege over everyone TMA (male). Well isn't that so convenient and not at all a complete denial of the lived reality of 51% of the population? Cognitive dissonance.

lovershaus-deactivated20240519

Started in late 1993, and early 1994, Women in the Life, LLC., an events management company, carved out safe spaces for Black lesbians to interact through dance parties, concerts, and open mic poetry sessions. Long before social media existed, Women in the Life connected Black lesbians in D.C., across the northeast corridor, across the United States, and ultimately around the world. Women in the Life magazine started out as a four-page newsletter and evolved over a ten-year period into a 26-page glossy cover magazine that was saddle-stitched and printed on heavy stock paper. If it affected Black lesbians the magazine covered it: art, politics, literature, history, relationships, family, and sexuality. Black culture. Black pride. Black life. https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora:254140

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capybarad

been meaning to share a mini project of mine: Cards Against the Patriarchy! some suggestions (and the plays above) by the FeLiNe gang <3

bonus:

#lol

this place is exhausting but where else do you find online lesbian community... genuinely?? where are they

#personal #like just to be friends. i have a girlfriend

forwomenbiwomen

Sometimes it just makes me deeply, helplessly angry that we don't even have a word for women that doesn't originate from "wife man". And then I get into a spiral of realising over again just how powerful language is, and how immensely saturated it is with both subtle and overt misogyny. And THEN I get into a spiral of how unbelievably long "women" have been subjected to misogyny that we literally don't have a word for women that doesn't position us as property of men.

witchesbeangry

The word woman means female person. The word man means just person. The reason why we use "man" to refer to male people is probably because males are seen as the default people. Still sexist, but woman doesn't mean wife man.

In Latin languages the word for man always come from Homo, meaning person/human: hombre, homem, homme, uomo. The words for women have different origins. In Italian, donna, comes from domina, meaning lady of the house (domus) as opposed dominus (male home owner). In french femme, from Latin femina (female). Mujer and mulher (Spanish and Portuguese respectively) are of unknown origin.

translation: It is documented in the forms of the Latin mulier, muliēris, with an indeterminate origin beyond which two associations are usually forced that act as a play on words, on the one hand regarding the term mollis, for mole in the sense of weak or soft, and on the other hand, the verb molĕre, which refers to grinding which implies the idea of a strong figure, however none have technical arguments, being pushed by the culture of patriarchy and in opposition to it respectively.

#the original post always bothered me because i had the feeling it was misinfo #and now it's confirmed #this is so lol

napeedgesandhighcheekbonez1

westafricanbaby

Awwwww😂😂😂

blackwomenunited

"Then how do you say aisle?" 😂😂🤣

glumshoe

I think about this video every time I cut a tomato.

#women #LMAO

normielesbian

I will never be able to fully express how being a lesbian is not considered cool and sexy to average people, who aren't terminally online. It considered especially disgusting to people when you're a woman who doesn't look like a super model or actress. People are shocked and appalled at the thought you want to eat the pussy of an ordinary girl whose like a waitress or something. People are grossed out that two women who might be fat, masc with stretch marks/scars or without makeup etc find each other completely attractive and have completely fulfilling sex for themselves. Lesbianism that is devoid of the male gaze repulses people. It's why lesbians are rarely fully represented in media. It's not sexy anymore if it's not two straight thin decorated actresses directed by a man. They so mad when we want each other and don't care to meet their beauty standards or need their approval.

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weightedblanketappreciation

If women all around the United States turned off their television sets for an extended period of time and purchased no products other than the very basic necessities to protest exploitation of women ... these actions would have significant political and economic consequences. Since women are not thoroughly organised and are daily manipulated by ruling male groups who profit from sexism and female consumerism, we have never exercised this power. Most women do not understand the forms of power they could exercise. They need political education for critical consciousness.

bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (2000), p.94

#action #feminist action #activism