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Florida radfems!!! I have created a new server for irl meetups: Florida Greenfems.

Requirements:

Be a radical feminist woman (no minors)

Be one of the greenfem types: stonerfem, vegfem, or ecofem.

This server is ideal for you if you're interested in meeting up with other radfems to smoke with, find other vegan or vegetarian radfems to share food/eat out with, and/or other radfems that care about the environment. There is a verification requirement to gain full access to the server.

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Create female only servers and sites. Men shouldn’t have access to everything women do online.

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I'm starting a radical feminist literature podcast!!

It's called "Radical Feminist Reads" and there are currently two episodes available on Spotify! In the future I hope to be available on more platforms, but since I have literally no experience with podcasting and started this yesterday, that's still a work in progress. You can find the first episode here!

The first work I'm reading is Dworkin's Right-Wing Women. I'm hoping to finish that in the next few days before moving to a weekly upload schedule - probably every Sunday or Monday. After RWW, I'll be reading Pornland by Gail Dines, and then - we'll see!! I'll put a poll at the bottom with some popular texts to see if there's any preference.

Also - I feel it's important to mention that I am absolutely not profiting off of this in any way. It's just something I wanted to do to increase accessibility to feminist texts!

If anyone has any advice, suggestions on which pieces to read, or anything - don't hesitate to tell me!

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Hi I am sorry to ask for help but I am currently at risk of eviction as I am trying to catch up on late bills after being let go from my previous job. I have a new job but I catching up is taking me time. If you anything to spare it would be appreciated. I owe $1400 and hope to pay some with my paycheck on Thursday but I will not cover the entire amount. If you can help then please DM for my paypal/cashpp/venmo. Thank you.

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❗️DEMO STREAM FOR HEARTBEAT SEQUEL HAPPENING @ 5 PM EST NEXT MONDAY 6/11❗️

if you are unfamiliar with the terven controversy surrounding this game you can brush up here

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Hey! You! Maybe familiarize yourself with my views and what I mean by the words I use before getting into it with me 🤯 I have no interest in continually repeating the same things and having to refute pointless strawman arguments. Some useful & relevant links below ✨️

Note: Chill dysphoric people are welcome here regardless of identity; I just don't tolerate misogyny, homophobia, or racism, so if you do subscribe to an ideology or identify yourself as something you aren't in a way that is harmful to oppressed groups, you can expect me to say something about it.

1. About my elective (yes, elective) mastectomy aka top surgery, which I do not have any regrets about // my takes on dysphoria, dysmorphia, and medical transition: Here.

2a. "Why do radfems team up with conservatives?" (spoiler: we really don't) Also included in this post is an actual definition of bioessentialism, since yall cannot ever get it correct. ALSO also it includes my most fundamental qualms with gender ideology and the question YOU, dear reader, can answer to CHANGE MY MIND!

2b. Defining woman, circular definitions explained, and why sex is immutable and not a spectrum: Here. And a bonus: a well-done comic on why "woman = adult human female" is not reducing women to their genitals.

3. Read this before defending porn. If you aren't convinced after that, read this. Still a fan of porn? I have plenty more, just ask. Oh, and don't forget about the missing 15-year-old girl who was fucking verified on Pornhub with at least 58 videos of her uploaded. The man who kidnapped her raped her, impregnated her, and forced her to have an abortion. Again, she was FIFTEEN and she was VERIFIED on Pornhub.

4. Sex-based oppression (and why transwomen do not experience all the same things women & girls do): Here, here, here, here. Additionally and very importantly, what will happen if the category of sex is removed from the census: Here. Let me know if you would like more. I have many, many more.

5. Rant: We are not the ones advocating for and committing violence against people who are facing/fighting their oppression. That's you! Let me know if you would like to see any number of the genuinely uncountable receipts I've saved.

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I haven't seen anyone mention it on here, most likely because English language news sources are reporting them as friends, but a man murdered a lesbian couple in Hong Kong last week.

(Twitter thread includes more sources and proof of the two victims being in a relationship. However, video of the attack exists online and some of the photos in Chinese news articles are graphic/disturbing. Please proceed with caution.)

Fang Xiaotong (26 years old) and Liu Jixi (22 years old) were stabbed to death by a 39 year old man in a targeted attack in a shopping mall. Allegedly, he purchased the knife only after seeing the visibly gay couple, then attacked Fang Xiaotong, who was a Tom, which has a similar meaning to a butch or stud or masc lesbian. Liu Jixi attempted to intervene to save her girlfriend, but the perpetrator stabbed her also. Bystanders and mall security did not intervene, although eventually chefs who worked at the mall heard screams and armed themselves with stools before attempting to stop the attacker. The perpetrator then waited calmly for the police, and both women were pronounced dead at the hospital. While Western sources are painting this as a result of mental illness, the video and local news stories make it clear that this was likely a hate crime.

(Nb. I've also seen their names given as Fong Hiu-tung and Lau Kai-hei, and also that they may have used the nicknames "Daniel" and "Amber". I can't know which names they would have preferred to be used, hence why I'm including all of them here but using Fang Xiaotong and Liu Jixi throughout the post for consistency and clarity.)

From Naomi Wu, whose twitter thread I've linked above, an explanation of the sometimes deadly hostilities Toms and other lesbians face in China and Hong Kong:

When men attack Toms (butches), they think a lot of things- sometimes in Chinese we say "one lesbian steals two men's wives"- herself and her partner. And for bitter middle-aged, unmarried men like this attacker, they've been told their whole life they are owed a wife to wait on them hand and foot- and they feel robbed and wronged by a young handsome Tom taking what's "theirs". They are angry, entitled, jealous- they want to teach her a lesson. They want to punish her for having what is rightfully theirs when they don't. Then it's "Oh, if you want to act like a man, I'll treat you like one". Most need to justify it to themselves to get started. Of course, the femme/Dee/P is always next, because we will fight to save our Tom, and once we do, they can justify turning their violence on us next. In their twisted head, they decide their unprovoked attack was "fighting 1-on-1" and it's our fault for getting involved. All Toms know the deal, they cannot win, all Toms tell their girls again and again "if something happens, just run, I can take it". When the time comes, all Toms try to buy their girl time to get away- even as they go down under fists and boots...or knives They want to buy us time, but no femmes can bear to leave them, so it never works. But they always go for our Toms first, then us. Every time.

Fang Xiaotong was a waiter in a high-end restaurant. She loved small animals and children and had lived with her mother and step-sister prior to moving in with Liu Jixi one to two months before the attack. Liu Jixi was a hair stylist and also worked part-time at a bar, which is apparently where she and Fang Xiaotong met. On the day of the attack, both women were planning to meet up with Fang Xiaotong's family to celebrate her grandfather's birthday.

Rest in peace 🫶 your courage will not be forgotten.

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Amanda is a producer for National Public Radio’s show 1A and tomorrow’s is about lesbian bars. They’re doing an open call for audience input (they share and discuss voicemails during the show). Feel free to send to folks you know!

Tomorrow’s show:

In the 1980's there were roughly 200 lesbian bars. Today, there are less than 30. We sit down with Krista Burton the author of "Moby Dyke" who journeyed around the U-S to visit all of them and find out why they're disappearing. If you frequent a lesbian bar in your town, we'd love to hear what this space means to you. Or, if you don't have a lesbian bar in your area, how does the lack of space affect the way you connect with your community?

Call us: 8-5-5, 2-3-6, 1-2-1-2.

How do you think spaces for lesbians and queer women have changed over time?

Leave us a voicemail: 8-5-5, 2-3-6, 1-2-1-2 or a message with our app, 1A Vox Pop. And we’ll get to your stories tomorrow on 1-A.

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It's concerning that this is now an LGB and women's issue now, but I really encourage people to begin purchasing USB drives or external hard drives and saving digital research on things such as gay & lesbian history, screenshots of tweets that might be important, homosexual and bisexual research, women's history, radical feminist books or PDFs, and really just anything that is at risk of being "corrected" by gender ideology or made inaccessible by academic publishers.

We need to save these things in a hard copy format as opposed to just using internet archive or taking Sci-hub for granted, because these organizations are experiencing heavy lawsuits. Additionally, it's becoming common for LGB and gender nonconformity history and research to be "rewritten" by gender ideologists. Actually, this is even true for past research and history on transvestism and transsexualism, too, in addition to things such as sex dysphoria, etc.

I bought three 64GB USBs for just $25. If you can't afford an external hardrive, buy some different colored USBs and start building your own library. We need to preserve this information and decentralize it as much as possible. It's worrisome enough that we rely on digital archives this much just generally, especially with the advent of AI and government and corporate attempts to eliminate data privacy and control.

This is a women's rights issue and an LGB issue now.

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Men’s mental health month is coming up in June!

Reminder: Men don’t deserve advocacy from women. Men do not care about women’s issues. Men do not speak up against male violence against women.

“It’s mens mental health month and I see no women speaking out” Don’t look at women. Men created the system men are suffering in.

Another reminder: The male suicide rates are only higher than women’s because men are more likely to chose violent methods, their attempts have a higher success rate. Women attempt far more. (Four times the rate of men) When women attempt and fail, it is because they chose a method that is less likely to traumatize those they are leaving behind, and because women have been conditioned to care about how they look, they still wish to look pretty in death. (Women usually attempt by using drugs or carbon monoxide poisoning, meanwhile for males, it is usually a firearm or hanging)

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We all need closeness and comfort in our life! Laura Savry-Cattan’s dreamy paintings are witnesses of magical connections and moments shaped by the beauty of accepting vulnerability and holding another human being.

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#beautifulbizarre #laurasavrycattan #gouache #painting #art #artist #contemporaryart #creativity #newcontemporary #human #artcommunity #inspiration

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if you’re in the invisible secondary closet, the one for homosexuals existing in the profoundly homophobic “genitals dont matter and you deserve to die for not fucking the opposite sex” alphabet soup community, i don’t know what to say. i can’t blame you for being afraid to face the biggest backlash against gay rights in at least a decade. but at the same time, please consider doing something, anything, anonymously or otherwise, to let others know that they are not alone. donate to an LGB chapter. leave an email or private message expressing solidarity with someone if you see vitriol against them for being gay. 

i can’t imagine the moral conflict you’re facing, not to mention the incredible amount of (very reasonable) fear of consequences. this is a horrific time for gay people. we can hope that it will get better. but we don’t know when.

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NEWEST UPDATE: I need help buying the meds for this June. I have been able to support my mom’s situation thanks to everyone’s generosity but we are back to being broke and having to buy a few pills at a time. I am often (& CURRENTLY) stuck with empty packages as pictured down below. Please share this post if you can. I still can't believe and express the amount of gratitude you all have helped in getting her the meds for the last few months. I have been so so thankful especially because this is the last month I will need to ask for help with this, and if it wasn’t for everything she wouldn’t be here anymore. Thank you for helping her heal, and stay alive. This is the last month, and then we can relax.

This June, we will need 500$- If anyone can help, share this or donate, it all helps with giving me hope that things will be fine in the end. I just can't wait until she won't need these pills come the end of this month, as she only needs them for one year and the treatment for this med is close to being done.

MY KOFI (donate here)

⬆️ photo of the medication with my username, this is often what I am left dealing with mentally, and I care very deeply for my mom as she has been a huge support for me so this is undeniably stressful

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23. Juni in Berlin, 16:30 Uhr auf dem Savignyplatz. Sei dabei! //

June 23, Berlin. 4:30pm at Savignyplatz. Be there or be square!

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anti pornography feminist protests