#intersectionality

[z0mbiel0v3rr]

You can't be a radfem and intersectional feminist. Theyre opposites. Though tbf youre a dumb 17 year old. So its not like you understsnd anything.

Wikipedia defines radical feminism as: a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical re-ordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts, while recognizing that women's experiences are also affected by other social divisions such as in race, class, and sexual orientation.

dipshit lmao, you'll all jump at the chance to degrade young girls instead of just educating yourselves. Also your phrasing leads me to believe you are an adult, this is super embarrassing for you that my words got you this worked up, another win for me though

[rosejuicewonderdrunk]

—Excerpt from Andrea Gibson, “Lord of the Butterflies”.

[vagathathegreat]

Always remember who started to fight back first. Intersectionalty is so important!

[dhddmods]

If a person is intending to get pregnant, they should be intending to have any type of child. That's just what choosing to be a parent means. If you aren't ready to have kids that are different from your biological expectations, then you shouldn't have kids. Hell, you shouldn't even HAVE biological expectations for children.

If a person is not intending to get pregnant, abortion is obviously up to them ultimately. But that's not what this post is about. This post is about people who are choosing to start families.

Selective abortion is not the same as aborting because you weren't planning to have kids/aren't ready to have kids. Selective abortion is choosing to have a child but going "oh, no, actually, I don't want a kid who is like that, so let's get rid of this one and try again!" It's eugenicism. There's no other way to put it. That's literally what eugenicism is.

Don't have kids if you want to customize them. You don't get a customized screen, these aren't fictional beings, these are fetuses that will grow into real life people whom you cannot choose how they look, feel, or develop.

If you are pro-choice you also need to make sure you aren't pro-eugencism.

This means you have to support the idea that, while everyone can choose whether or not they want to have children, if they decide to have a child, they need to be willing to have a disabled child or an intersex child.

Selective abortion is a huge problem amongst the disabled and intersex communities, and it promotes the erasure of their existence.

If a person chooses they want to go through with a pregnancy, they need to be willing to have ANY baby.

If you can't handle having a disabled or intersex baby, you aren't prepared to have a child at all.

A child could develop a disability at any time, or be revealed to be disabled at any time.

A child could develop intersex hormonal variations during puberty, or have undetected intersex genital traits, intersex reproductive traits, or intersex chromosomal variations.

If you can't handle the idea that your child may not be able-bodied, able-minded, or perisex, then you can't handle parenthood.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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!

[z0mbiel0v3rr]

I think Ethel Cain fans too often use her trans identity as a shield from criticism, I don't dispute that she will be met with transphobia or that people will show dislike towards her solely because of her transness but I think its fair to say that she would not be as fiercely protected if she weren't trans or queer. This is not an attack on trans people but a valid outrage and condemnation of a person who happens to be trans. Instead of immediately rushing to her defense and weaponizing trans based discrimination, lets take into account the feelings of victims of incest and the Black and Hispanic people her racism was targeted towards

[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

[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.

[hyacinthsgrimoire]

[slicedcheesegremlin]

Suddenly being hit with a massive wave of hate against trans men for some reason. I'm MtF, but if you hate trans men or have some bad take about them then just block me right now. idc how many followers i lose over this, it's awful as fuck. i'm literally dating one and he's nothing like anything u ppl are saying

[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.