This also.. isn’t ANYTHING NEW. The 80s metal bands were breaking more “gender roles” than any of these pop artists have.
Not to mention, David Bowie or Prince?? Idk why people think men in makeup is some new, gender breaking concept???
Also we know who did it better
They think they’re new and groundbreaking because Gen Z has to revise and ignore history in order to feel like they’re being original and transcendent. Their predecessors walked so they could crawl
Harry Styles applied the first eyeshadow at stonewall
like did these people just black out for the existence of the 1970s or
Well yanno the olds are stupid and boring. Nothing to learn or see here. There is a real benefit to certain groups in historical amnesia (and it’s not females, PoC and working class people).
Been re-reading Dworkin (her books are realllllly hard to find and that is because her arguments are extremely radical) and every day I find things that knock me on my ass.
A woman was interested to know how many inmates in Washington state
identify as transgender, and how many of those transgender identified
inmates have been given transfers to go from men’s prison to women’s
prison, and the reverse. To get this information, she filed a Freedom on
Information Act request. Instead of getting the information she
requested, she got sued by the ACLU.
To be clear, at no point had this woman
contacted the ACLU to tell them she was filing a FOIA. She had used ACLU
resources to figure out how to file a FOIA, but that was freely
available on their website. The state of Washington is under no
obligation to let the ACLU know about every FOIA request they receive,
so it remains entirely unclear as to how the ACLU became aware of this
woman’s FOIA in the first place.
Nonetheless,
instead of receiving the information she requested, she received an
injunction. The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against a private citizen for
requesting public records from the Washington State Department of
Corrections on the number of inmates in state custody who identify as
transgender and the number of male inmates who are housed in women’s
facilities.
The woman, who
didn’t want to be named given the sensitive nature of this peculiar
situation, submitted her public records request on March 18, 2021.
The Washington Public Records Act
guarantees that citizens have the right to access public records, and
requires the government to respond to requests within five days. Only
personal student or patient information, employee files, and some
investigative records are exempt.
Yet
by April 8, instead of the information she requested, she received an
email that the ACLU of Washington Foundation and Disability Rights
Washington, along with their clients “who are current and former
transgender, non-binary, and intersex inmates and in the custody of
Washington Department of Corrections,” had personally named her in a
lawsuit to prevent the information she requested from being released. …
This isn’t as cut and dry—good and bad. And the post millennial summary isn’t great.
The right wing orgs wanted the actual names of actual incarcerated people names. That implicates privacy rights and that isn’t supposed to be released under most FOIA requests. The woman represented by WOLF, however, did not. So why the ACLU is tryna shut her down makes me think there is information there they don’t want folks to know about trans women in women’s prisons.
“Enemies of women, those who are determined to deny us freedom and dignity, use the word lesbian to provoke a hatred of women who do not conform. This hatred rumbles everywhere. This hatred is sustained and expressed by virtually every institution. When male power is challenged, this hatred can be intensified and inflamed so that it is volatile, palpable. The threat is that this hatred will explode into violence. The threat is omnipresent because violence against women is culturally applauded. And so the word lesbian, hurled or whispered as accusation, is used to focus male hostility on women who dare to rebel, and it is also used to frighten and bully women who have not yet rebelled.”
– Andrea Dworkin
Hey, if you can get a ticket for this documentary about the Furies, a lesbian separatist collective in the 1970s. Plus, the funds go to a great cause.
What does antilla mean? Thank you for being awesome
It’s the name of one of my recent ancestors.
Yo. Just saying hi because it is fucking crazy for all you beautiful dykes out there. Just a reminder that we are still here. You have a community. Loving pussy and loving females is awesome and good.
The heart knows what it wants—don’t explain, rationalize, or think hard about it. Just know it and stand firm.
We still here, sis. We still here.
Oh my god be still my giant pounding negro heart. Look at and hear these beautiful butches!
if you’re a lesbian who’s a radical feminist (or at least leans that
way) who’s looking for a lesbian-only space, this just might be the
place for you!
Themyscira, named after the infamous women-only island, is a discord server created after the latest separatism-is-evil discourse in radfemblr a little while back, when the homophobia really jumped out. I made it for those of us who wanted a space where we could discuss both political and not topics without having to deal with homophobia, or general hetero bullshittery.
this blog is new and specifically made to advertise, as my personal blogs are all “stealth” and would be impossible to advertise on, but I’ve been a part of radfemblr for a good 10 years now. users such as:
we have all kinds of channels all nicely organized for your convenience!
we have:
recommendation channels: for all your fave movies/books/anime/TV shows/ext
nerdy channels: D&D, gayming, sci-fi, even a bot for catching Pokémon!
labor of love channels: crafting, art, writing, language learning, even cooking!
after dark channels: adult(18+ only), spooky, and plenty of spilled Tea~
(note: you do not have to be 18+ to join, all 18+ channels are locked for those under 18)
we do have some ground rules.
first, when you join you’ll automatically be placed in arrival, where you will wait for ether myself or one of my mods to approve you. simply let us know who you are and who gave you the invite link so we can ether approve you there or confirm you’ve already been approved.
once you’ve been given the member role you’ll be able to see the rest of the server and officially join us!
the rules themselves are pretty straightforward.
*rad-leaning actual homosexual women only. you don’t have to actually consider yourself a radical feminist. many of us don’t after dealing with a large amount of homophobia from radical feminists, with things like “political lesbianism” being seen/treated as a core belief, separatism treated as an evil ploy by vindictive lesbians out to make hetero women miserable, ext. I stopped identifying as a radical feminist a while ago, but this channel is for actual homosexual women who recognize biological sex, oppression based on sex, ext, and you don’t have to actively consider yourself a radfem to know these things.
*no abuse. all debates, should you have them, need to be kept civil and friendly. we are free to agree to disagree, but if you feel a belief or opinion of another member is beyond that, inform a mod or myself. personal insults, harassment, and Mean Girls-esque cliques are prohibited. we’re all friends here.
*no slurs. it’s one thing to refer to yourself with a slur you’ve reclaimed, but do not do so for someone else without their permission. this also includes the use of words such as tr*nny and f*ggot. these words have a history of bloodshed and oppression and regardless of modern politics should be avoided. modern words such as “troon” have no such history and pretty well only refer to modern bullshittery and therefor, for now, are acceptable. if you feel a word may be questionable, ask ahead of time.
rule of thumb: if you replace the comment with the slur with another minority group, if it sounds like something someone on fox news or the 700 club would say (ex: “the tr*nnies are targeting our children!” -> “the f*ggots/q*eers are targeting our children!”) you need to rephrase it. your point may be valid and entirely factual, but if your wording is hateful it will get you nowhere. if it is truly valid and factual and without hate, it can be reworded to reflect that. if it can’t, it may not be as factual and accurate as you think it is.
*no bigotry. things like racism, ableism, ext are not acceptable. and yes, that does include actual transphobia. many may think that’s obvious, but as we tend to see in radfemblr, it isn’t always so obvious, so I gotta say it anyway. treat your sisters the way you’d like to be treated; do no harm but taking no shit. and if you see some shit, flag down a mod or myself. flame wars help no one. don’t waste your time once you realize what you’re dealing with.
*for these reasons, users such as toppdyke and those who associate with her or act in a similar manor will not be accepted. ya’ll are absolute drama lamas at best and I’m not having that shit in my server. sorry not sorry.
if you’d like to join us just like/reblog this post (if only advertising/signal boosting please say so in your tags) or send me a message, along with any questions you might have!
I hope to see you there!
I am so interested! Please send an invite when the queue opens up.
