#Intersectionality

[ftmtftm]

Radical Feminist theory has no home in Intersectional theory. Radical Feminism is practically innately antithetical to Intersectional Feminism. The ideas and criticism that would create the framework of Intersectional Feminism pre-Kimberlé Crenshaw came to be as a near direct result of questioning Radical Feminist practices and ideology.

Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Angela Y. Davis, Judith Butler, Leslie Feinberg, all wrote/have written in ways that challenge and defy the core principles of Radical Feminist dogma. Kimberlé Crenshaw created terminology, Intersectionality, that ended up enveloping it all. People like Patricia Hill Collins, Mikki Kendall, Roxane Gay, Kate Bornstein, Leah Thomas, and Emi Koyama continue to write in ways that challenge Radical Feminist ideology - half the time purely by the nature of their framework.

You don't need Radical Feminism. Radical Feminism is not your friend. It will never be your friend. There is better Feminism out there - I promise you.

[davidjordanphoenix]

Everyone has the capacity for every type of hate.

The thinking that you can't possibly be hateful towards your own demographic is dangerous, dangerous ignorance.

These are the blind spots that feed our own oppression. You are never exempt from being the oppressor in any given dynamic, and the thing standing between you being the ally versus the oppressor is NOT your identity, but your capacity for compassion, awareness, and introspection.

Kindness requires effort. Ignorance is free.

“women don’t have the capacity for misogyny” have you ever met a mother

[carapaced]

how did we lose the plot so hard with feminism and activism like seriously… are we forgetting that being kind and loving to the men and boys in your life, teaching them as kids if you are a parent to be kind respectful humans, and showing them how to be emotionally vulnerable and making a society in which it is safe to do so was like…. A huge part of feminism, dismantling patriarchal values, and creating a generation of loving men who are held accountable for their actions?

Why is it “kill all men yes even the trans ones and if you say otherwise you’re an MRA” and not “let’s maybe create a world that encourages good men.” Did we forget that feminism was supposed to be good for everyone and that the patriarchy harms men and boys as well?

Like maybe we should care about male loneliness and the male suicide rate BECAUSE MAYBE WED HAVE LESS SOCIETAL PROBLEMS if 100% of the population wasn’t traumatized by gendered expectations and not being taught decent communication skills/how to be emotionally vulnerable. And definitely we would if fucking redpill echo chambers weren’t the places most willing to accept and nurture (groom into hateful ideology) young men.

The problem has never been men, cis or trans, being uniquely capable of evil the problem has always been the fact that cishet patriarchal culture encourages and rewards shitty behavior that makes everyone involved bitter and miserable and calls it masculinity.

[ithelpstodream]

[guardianspirits13]

Decided to redraw my Candle Girls from last holiday season, and a new friend of theirs that someone suggested I include- Kwanzaa!

Once again, happy candle month to all who celebrate!

[transmasc-punpun]

to those who say they are intersectional feminists and trans-inclusive (particularly cis ones): please please please be careful of how you talk about (cis) men. it can start to lead into bioessentialism, whether you know/mean it or not. it comes off as how conservatives talk about men and women, just with a progressive twist.

men aren't a different species. marginalized men exist. don't leave us out of your intersectional feminism simply because we are men. our masculinity/manhood doesn't negate any other marginalized identities we might have. remember that.

[ash-the-fluffy-cat]

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say black lives matter

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say disabled lives matter

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say First Nations lives matter

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say neurodivergent lives matter

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say women’s health matters

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say ANY other marginalized communities’ lives matter

Intersectional identities are here and won’t go away

[intersexcat-tboy]

Y'all are not ready for the men who wear dresses to express their masculinity, y'all can barely even (if that) handle cultures (particularly BIPOC) not considering long hair on men to be feminine

[prototypesteve]

As an aromantic & asexual person, I move through a world filled with sexuality and romanticism that I know I understand how wonderful those things are supposed to be, even though I’ve never felt either the way nearly everyone else does. But I’m fine with that. I’m like, “This is who I am and it’s different, but not broken. I’m happy for you, because I have my own sources for aroace joy.”

As a left-handed person, I live in a world where fountain pens have become a novelty luxury, but still… when I see articles like this, I feel the scratching sensation burnt into my memory from countless failed experiments, and I’m like, “Fuck all of you and your amazing world that I’m forever cursed to never truly feel, with my nib-demolishing, ink-magnet hell-claw that forces me to settle for my iPad which performs beautifully but just isn’t the same filling and cleaning experience.”

Ngl i prefer the 2016 version purple on the right.

[imawitchywitch]

Buying copies of banned books is awesome, but I also want to put this out there. If anyone is in college and/or has access to peer reviewed academic journals PLEASE do the following:

Buy USB drives

Download as many articles from academic journals in the coming months as you can about topics under attack, such as gender variance, DEI, critical race theory, racism, reproductive rights, climate change, and so on. Maybe pick one or two journals and topics to focus on per month! (There may be pay walls or limits on how many you can freely download)

Keep them organized on your USB’s by topic or journal

We don’t really know what will happen, what will get erased or censored from the web, but they’re already taking websites down related to DEI and reproductive rights. We need to work together to save the research and literature that we have!

[discoursedamaged]

and it is similarly bizarre to try and separate trans men's experiences into a trans part and a man part. That's not how people experience the world. There's not a trans part that gets sexually assaulted and a man part that gets refused an abortion, there's one undivided person experiencing both. To ask trans men to defer to some baseline trans-exclusionary concept of manhood in interpreting their experience as trans men is just cruel. They should get to speak as full people.

[smilepilled]

if your (trans-)feminism inherently excludes any minority group on the basis that one of their immutable traits makes them inherently evil, you are not a transfeminist. you are LARPing as one, but you aren't doing jack shit that has to do with feminism.

this includes trans people, nonbinary individuals, trans guys and transmascs, trans gals and transfems, intersex people (with or without any trans identity), gnc individuals, black trans people, brown trans people, asian trans people, indigenous trans people— and any combination of these.

if you exclude any group of people from your transfeminism or activism, you are not an activist. you are trying to seem like a good person while clinging desperately to your own hateful, putrid ideals. get better and over yourself

[titantornado]

Thinking about the time a british radfem transmasc told me to stop talking about transmasc problems because their own personal life hadn’t been that bad. Which like, congratulations!! Good for you!!! I’m SO glad you got lucky and can’t relate!!

But also, if you’re a paperwhite queer person growing up in one of the most comfortable nations in the world, please don’t tell a latino queer person that you know what their life looks like based on shared queerness alone. YOU DON’T KNOW, YOU CAN’T.

White queers don’t know what it’s like to be the only racially intersectional person in a “queer/progressive/lefty” friend group. To be the only person of a diff race in the room, and also the only socially excluded person in the room, and wondering if it’s possible that your best friends, who seem idealistic on the surface, may secretly or subconsciously be racist. When they’re planning shit right in front of you and inviting everyone BUT you. Not letting you in on ANYTHING and not even hiding it. Being unwilling to have your back when you express discomfort just because they don’t want a target on theirs. When they’re allowing, enabling, or even encouraging one guy who harrasses ONLY you, then defending him and backing each other up and spitting you out of the group when you take issue.

It’s just wild to me. And I’m jincho! I’m a pale latino, I’ve not seen half of the shit that brown latinos or afro-latinos do. So anyway, don’t let me catch you scolding racially intersectional trans people for advocating for themselves or I’m taking off my earrings and we’re sorting this out in the parking lot

[taranosaurus-rex]

My city decided, from about 2021-2023, to not only allow but officially designate most public parks and common green space areas as encampment sites for the unhoused. Tents, makeshift dwellings, and other belongings took over the entirety of these spaces and in many cases there were complaints of litter (incl. needles, broken bottles etc), fires, fights, and other dangers scaring anyone else away from using these spaces. Instead of actually providing adequate shelter resources or addressing root causes of homelessness, what they did was take away access to free outdoor spaces for working class people who don't have their own private yards like the wealthy politicians and the people who'd accuse others of being anti-homeless for complaining about it. Both the housing crisis and the lack of free third spaces / equitable access to outdoor activities can be important issues.

I wish there were a better way to talk about some hot button issues without pushing the hot button.

[sunbeamedskies]

You are not inherently an antisemite for criticizing Netanyahu or actions of the Israeli government.

You ARE inherently an antisemite if you excuse/justify/celebrate when random Israeli civilians are murdered.

Israel contains half the world’s Jews- you can’t celebrate half the world’s Jewish population dying without being an antisemite.

Watch how some so-called “activists” react to the antisemitic DC murders. If you don’t hear Jews crying out about what happened, you either follow no Jews or only tokens.