#women centered

[marinamothh]

radfem youtubers

a list of small radfem/lesbian/feminist adjacent & anti sw youtubers/content creators, rb with additions if you have more!:

🦋 Grace Adetoro (african radfem commentator/video responses)

🖤 feminist vhs archive (a hidden gem, old 80s-90s feminist content reuploader, andrea dworkin & radfem/edits memes!)

🦋 Elly Arrow (focuses on anti porn/prostitution content, video essays, commentary)

🖤 Lisa Michele (active steamer, fitness content, commentator, vlogger, childfree radfem!)

🦋 amy. (terf memes, songs & edits)

🖤 Radical Ramblings (video essays, presentations, livestreams)

#radblr #radical feminism #female separatism #misandry #misogyny #women's content #women centered #radical feminist community #radical feminist safe

[xxconnection]

from Country Lesbians: The Story of Womanshare Collective

text:

Tasha, long black sensuous animal fur creature. All her paws extending in a seductive stretch Yellow-green eyes that always meet mine Lying on my chest, fur cheek pressed on mine In my dreams, symbol of my independence All she is to me, she has no idea or does she?

#lesbian poetry #black cat #kitty cat #tasha #women's land #lesbian #lesbian history #women centered

[nansheonearth]

Sending as an ask cause I know you have more followers/reach. Has anyone attended lezapalooza in the past few years? I have a non-rad leaning friend that wants to go, but I'm not super keen on spending my weekend with more TIMs than women

I'm thinking about going one of these years and would love to join your crew if you go!

Lads, anyone been to Lezapslooza in New Jersey?

#lezapalooza #theravefemme #new jersey #women's festivals #lesbian centered #women centered #radfem #ask #reply #o

[lesbian-archives]

Goddess Shrew, 1977

#text #matriarchy #feminism #women #female #70s #women centered

[vexingwoman]

I saw a post about how “people” are ruining ai by using it to make child pornography.

why not be a little more specific? 99.3% of child pornography offenders are men and it’s still spoken about as something people do, not something men do. whats that one quote? men love male-as-default language until it’s used to describe pedophiles and murderers.

#terfsafe #terfblr #radical feminism #radblr #gender critical #radical feminist safe #misogny #sexism #female centered #female separatism #let women speak

[faelapis]

crazy seeing rightwing people calling the barbie movie anti-men considering i’m pretty sure the “i’m just ken” song did more good for men’s mental health than any number of their shitty little incel forums combined

#not su / #genuine banger telling men not to define their worth by having a gf or trying to dominate others #and they still can’t handle the movie quipping about the state of gender relations by saying kens will one day be as important in society #as women today (which is an excellent prompt for people to realize how unequal the world still is and be unsettled but people still don’t #get it) and it’s just. So revealing that you can’t handle being treated like you’re not the center of the world for 5 seconds #barbie movie #barbie #barbie 2023

[clonerightsagenda]

"what if you had a mutual aid network that occasionally told interdimensional monsters to fuck off": Discworld witches as a concept

#so much of the Tiffany books in particular are about day to day community support #doing the chores... checking in on the elders who don't have family.... sitting up with the dead #it takes the quiet often uncelebrated everyday work of living and dying #and sets it right up against slaying vampires or vanquishing monsters #and maybe that's another reason why they aren't as popular #beyond yknow. centering women #but man maybe we need more books celebrating the heroism of clipping a lonely 90 year old man's toenails for him #discworld #perpetual perpetual ladies night #why this

[ingoodjesst]

one thing i really like about the apothecary diaries is how fluidly maomao moves between high- and low-class society, between the rear palace and the pleasure district, allowing us to see the parallels in the power dynamics. in both settings, we see women trying to make the most of their relative stations with whatever tools available to them, which are often shared. much of the politics of the series centers women and the ways they try to navigate the world through seduction, marriage, beauty, fashion, manipulation, etc, because these are the things they're valued for. their appearance, their social graces, their "purity", their marriageability, their ability to bear children, and beyond - these all lend political, economic, and social leverage to themselves and their families regardless of class.

the mystery angle in particular enables the story to closely examine what tools and motives are available to women in the apothecary diaries in a way that's contextualized and humanized. it's also how the series highlights said women operating with a keen awareness of society's expectations and systems. whether that's applying deathly white powder to maintain impractical beauty standards, faking illnesses to deter certain visitors, using parlor tricks to subtly punish callous men, or wearing ostentatious outfits to hide a certain truth, each mystery we encounter reveals more about what it means to navigate the world of the apothecary diaries as a woman in addition to revealing their cleverness (or lack thereof) in doing so.

maomao is no exception to the rule, often weighing similar questions of propriety and power before she acts - although she does engage from a unique position. she's a literate woman from the lower class with special circumstances surrounding her birth, versed as an apothecary, and favored by highly ranked members of the court. this, plus her marked lack of ambition beyond medicine, gives her a lot of mobility between and (relatively) unbiased insight into both the high- and low-ranked parts of society. in turn, we readers are given a fantastic protagonist to explore what i consider a core draw of the series: seeing how maomao chooses to move through the world, highly conscious of her own social positioning as well as that of all the other women around her

#the apothecary diaries #kusuriya no hitorigoto #maomao #my jessays #anime analysis #there's extremely light hints at content beyond the anime and even manga but i tried to be careful #kusuriya analysis #idr how to tag this for myself lmao i think tad stinks as an acronym frankly #anyway i love how much women are centered in the apothecary diaries it's truly delightful and i love seeing maomao connect with other women

[zombiegirldean]

being a woman in Supernatural world is so fucking horrifying. don't wear white, you will get fridged. don't be blonde, you will get fridged. Jessica Moore was forcibly stenciled into Mary Winchester's shape to turn the narrative engine of righteous violence. she's the inciting incident for the entire epic and we know literally nothing about her. bc why would we need to. the wife is the sister is the daughter is the mother and they're all dead, and they're all used as instruments to give men an excuse to cry. you can love a man and take him into your home for a year but you'll still never get close enough to touch him bc he's keeping you in a pristine little box of unsullied domesticity. he's keeping you SAFE and CLEAN. he's making arrangements for you. and when the narrative machine beckons he will set you gently back down and return to his real and important work. don't be a virgin, virgins get fridged. don't be a hellbitch, here comes the fridge. do NOT put on that white nightgown, that is the uniform of the fridge, but it's too late, you're already bleeding out on the ceiling, maybe you always have been.

#supernatural #spn #lisa braeden #jessica moore #mary winchester #ruby supernatural #jo harvelle #that post that's like. doomed by the narrative bc the writer is a misogynist. literally #sam and dean's occasional convictions that they cant get close to women bc their lives are too Dark and Serious & theyll put them in Danger #would be neurotic and self centered except they are literally right. they ARE cursed. #ellen's conviction that jo will die young if she hunts and dean's condescension towards her. would be misogynistic. #but theyre right. jo will get fridged. she's blonde. it is literally a plot point in no exit that the ghost wants to get her more bc shes #blonde #like. they live in misogyny world.

[moonlightsapphic]

Look, I just need you guys to understand how important queer coming-of-age forbidden romances on internationally accessible platforms like Netflix is, especially to youth in countries where homosexuality still hasn't been legally decriminalised or socially accepted.

That was a mouthful, so let me explain. You, a white American adult with a liberal family, may not relate to a fictional anxious teen Swedish prince grappling with strict familial and societal expectations versus his first love. You may not find anything special in a bunch of queer British teens discovering themselves and figuring out complex relationships that are honestly rather simplistic, in retrospect. It might be a little too trite for you. Like, just a little vanilla without any extra drama. Perhaps corny—cringe, even. Too wholesome.

But you know what that is to me, a desi queer young adult? It's representation, in an unlikely place. My country certainly isn't making movies or shows where I see my secret relationship between me and my girlfriend portrayed. I don't see that happening in the next couple of decades, either, sadly. But you know who’s telling our stories? Alice Oseman. Lisa Ambjörn, Lars Beckung and Camilla Holter. Through fictional storylines that might seem kind of boring to you, I am finally able watch my lived experiences play out on screen.

American media has done such a disservice to queer coming-of-age stories. I want to scream this from the rooftops. Y’all, I’m glad to see more out quirky queer side-characters—I can’t get enough of them—but why is it so rarely their story, in sharp focus, about how they found themselves? I want to know how they overcame internalised homophobia. When was the moment they knew? What is the cost they have to pay for being out? For not being out?

And no, I don’t want it to be dramatic. I don’t need to see violence or betrayals or victorious kisses in public, really. I’m happiest with the teenagers behaving like real teenagers. Innocent, vulnerable, nervous. I want it to be heartfelt, and excruciatingly slow, and authentic. I want to see the small wins and the subtle losses. The quiet mental toll of how much you have to give to a queer relationship—especially your first queer relationship—and how hard that can be to separate from your Identity itself.

Give me that "am I gay?" quiz and genuinely crying at 3:00 AM because you're in a rabbit hole about LGBTQ+ rights in a country where you actually don’t want to be gay and you don’t even know if you “count” anyway. Show me that moment where you're going back and forth from forbidding yourself from seeing the one person that sees and understands you and it's to protect your mental and physical well-being but it's driving you insane. Give me ALL THE YOUNG ADULT BI+ AWAKENINGS where one person strolls into your life and changes everything. No, it’s really not the same as most cis-heterosexual insta-love movies out there, even if it looks that way to you. It doesn’t even cut it close.

The happy ending, the acceptance is only what I can dream of, not what I can expect. The wholesomeness is actually radical to me.

No, we’re not past the need for basic star-crossed queer romances. For most countries in the world (including for many white American teenagers!), we need them as much as ever.

#gay #queer #lgbtq+ #young royals #heartstopper #i just want americans to understand they're not the center of the world #just frustrated at how divided all my american acquaintances are on soft queer media #what do you mean it's just okay?? #stfu #wilmon #narlie #wlw #mlm #achillean #men loving men #bi #lesbian #women loving women #sapphic #lgbtq #alice oseman #lisa ambjörn #bisexual #lgbt #netflix #closeted #desi #desi queer #queer muslim #muslim

[haggishlyhagging]

Stop helping men. Stop going out of your way to share knowledge with them. Ignore them if you can do so safely. If that’s not possible, shrug your shoulders when you can get away with it. Act dumb. I don’t know how long that’s supposed to cook for. I don’t know what cleaner to use in the tub. I don’t know where Melvin filed the papers for that big project. I don’t know where Kevin went. I don’t know how to get stains out of a shirt. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.

Stop enabling them. Just stop it. Just stop. If they can weaponize incompetence, so can you.

#male entitlement #males are incompatible with health #center women #female oppression #weaponized incompetence #radical feminists do touch #radfemsafe

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from Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics - Women Working Together

text: Domestic Workers Association May 19-22, 1938, Chicago. Miss Robinson and a group of workers.

#women's history #1930s #domestic workers #women working together #women centered #radblr

[uter-us]

context: from here where TIMs said "no amab allowed" spaces are bigoted.

friendly reminder that if you've been sexually, physically, or in any way attacked by "an amab" you are completely in your right to become "super intense abt it." that shit's traumatizing

youre also JUSTIFIED in having and wanting spaces free of men.

sending love 💞

#radfem #radical feminist safe #sex based oppression #radical feminism #male socialization #mvawg #terfsafe #radblr #gender abolition #gender critical #centering women #women's spaces #female spaces #not j a reblog tag

[obstinaterixatrix]

here are all the recs I posted for femslash february 2024...! each individual rec post can be found in my femslash feb recs tag. I actually thought I wasn't going to be able to do this because work got super chaotic, but in the end I couldn't bear to skip out on a leap year. that's a whole extra day for yuri.

last year I focused on official releases, so this year I wanted to focus on series that aren't technically officially available (plus a french-japanese film). fan translations are always a dicey for artists/translators/publishers/etc because obviously they need to get paid... but yuri's already such an overlooked genre that—in an official capacity—we end up with a couple drops from what's already a pretty small pool. I read hana to hoshi about a decade ago, and I keep submitting it to the seven seas survey for licensure! and yet!! no dice. and even when there are official releases, sometimes they just... disappear!? wish you were gone was licensed and then taken down, so for a while the only way to read it (if you missed out on buying it) was the fan translation. I think it's important to support artists and official releases, and also, to appreciate the thankless endeavor(/crime) of scanlation.

hope yall find something you like!

#femslash february #femslash feb recs #ff recs #recs #rambled a lot for this one lol #but like. yeah. honey & honey is imo a pretty culturally significant work #but I can't see any publishers picking it up for licensure #maybe for a recent autobio manga but certainly not one from 20 years ago #and from a marketing standpoint. it's 'hard' to push yuri as a genre. #bl has an obvious and profitable demographic (women) #m/f has an obvious and profitable demographic (women) #but--if you make a distinction between yuri and H (I do)--yuri doesn't really have an obvious and profitable demographic #so it's a lot harder to pitch yuri... which means it's a lot harder to even introduce yuri to a broader audience... #and thus the cycle continues... #plus there's the whole systemic misogyny embeded into a patriarchal society which devalues stories centered around women etc #anyway the POINT is. commit to yuri duty. be a yuri warrior. write femslash. hype femslash.

[nansheonearth]

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[garadinervi]

Barbara Kruger in her New York City studio, ca. mid-1970s; Photo by Susan Katz for "The Woman I Am" Collection, part of the Archives of Women Artists, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Betty Boyd Dettre Library & Research Center, Washington, D.C.

#art #photography #susan katz #national museum of women in the arts #betty boyd dettre library & research center #1970s