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[radfemblack]

I will say, the separatism ~discourse~ was the final straw. Don’t expect women to go along with you when speak down to them like trash.

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[radfemblack]

Is your "Why Women of the World Fail to Unite" article still online somewhere? I can't find it but I'd really like to read it.

I made it private because I think the writing is subpar now. Enter 4yr3yzRFB as the password and you can see it.

#asks #writing #article #Wordpress #archives

[radfemblack]

or whether the effect is more or less limited to Black women only, because women of other races, esp. white women, have different representations to look up to? I’m really torn on this because I think popstars like Doja Cat, Cardi B, Nicki Minaj or Megan Thee Stallion are quite popular with white audiences but I also don’t want to trivialize the racialized aspect of their hypersexualization by the music industry. I would really appreciate your perspective. Thank you for your time! (2/2)

It’s both. Black women are disproportionately affected but it affects all women. Intersectionality exists in feminism precisely because all women are eventually affected by the specific racialized misogyny borne by women of color. Dehumanization of any target eventually desensitizes people to further dehumanization, the human mind doesn’t compartmentalize. This is why studies reveal that men who patronize the sex trade are more likely to rape non-prostituted women too. Those four rappers you mentioned aren’t just black women, they’re just women too.

#thanks for asking #ask #asks #racism #misogyny #objectification #WAP #women as property #feminism #feminist #radfem #radfem black #radfem response #misogynoir #intersectionality

[radfemblack]

Hey, I hope it's ok to send you an ask. There is something I have been mulling over: So Black women are insanely sexualized in the music industry, much more than other women, esp. white women. Naturally, Black girls/women are the ones who are primarily affected by this hypersexualized representation. I wonder whether in addition the media’s sexualization of Black women also has some general socialization effects on women as a class and makes female objectification as a whole more acceptable(1/2)

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[radfemblack]

Delete Angela Davis from your background. She has and always been pro-trans rights. Don’t you dare spit on her name like that.

Don’t you dare spit on the name of black women. Angela Davis was an icon of second wave feminism and made her most invaluable contributions to and during it, including articulating the experiences of black females. Don’t condescend and talk down to us dumb negresses as if we know nothing about our own history. It is not necessary to agree with all of someone’s beliefs to celebrate their accomplishments, I’m not the one in a cult.

Most feminists alive and deceased certainly do not agree with your men’s rights agenda so what now? In her famous Ain’t I A Woman speech, Sojourner Truth mentioned her bearing children in the same breath, clearly signifying that is what makes her a woman. And Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, one of the most famous and celebrated feminists of African ancestry today, clearly agrees with gender critical views. Can’t pick and choose chief.

#angela davis #Black history #feminism #feminist #second wave feminism #second wave #black feminism #black feminist #history #women’s history

[radfemblack]

“Listen to sex workers!”

That statement goes both ways. You can’t just listen to the positive and not the negative. It’s not different than a Yelp or Amazon review. If you are interested in a product or service, you want to make sure it’s worth the effort and money and not a scam. If a person were just to read the (often paid for) positive reviews they could get screwed. So why is listening to sex workers any different?

#submission

[radfemblack]

Hi, I’m trans and would love to know why I shouldn’t be allowed to identity as I please, present how I please, have my identity respected, and in general be allowed.

Thanks for your time,

A Trans Person

(She/They)

You literally can do whatever you want. You can’t force other people to “respect” your identity, nobody is obligated to validate your internal self perception — something called freedom exists and it cuts both ways. Everyone already is allowed to “identity” (sic) however they please, and present how they please, so those are moot points. No police officer will pull up and arrest you for claiming to be something you’re not. Nobody is not letting you “be allowed” to do shit because what you’re talking about is out of your hands anyway.

The real questions are: why you are obsessed with policing other people’s thoughts and speech; why you want to impose your metaphysical beliefs onto other, secular, people; why you care so much about and seek other people’s approval for an identity that is supposedly just your own business; why women can’t organize and associate as we please, say what we please, talk about our own bodies and lives as we please, have our spaces respected, and in general be allowed to exist; and why you can’t wrap your thick skull around such simple things and thus need to invent strawmen red herrings to justify your massive victim complex. FOH.

#asks #dumb asks #gender identity critical #gender identity #gender ideology #radfem black #radfem response #gender critical #trans activism #fuck outta my face

[radfemblack]

You are appreciated

Thank you. I’m feeling really under appreciated rn.

#ask #this cheered me up

[radfemblack]

hello and merry christmas!! i just wanted to say that as a black radfem, it's really encouraging to see you be so active in the community and hold us to a higher standard of intellectual rigor. sometimes radfems online can get very stuck on dunking on libfems n tras, and while thats all fun and good, it's good to see you place value on discovering the truth and being a good person over reactionary behavior and ideological purity, especially since radical feminism is meant to adress the material realities of women. thank you for running this blog : - )

Thank you so much for your words.

#feminism #feminist #radfem #radical feminism #radical feminist #black radical feminist #radfem black #racism #anti racism #radfem racism #single issue ‘gcs’ #black feminism #ask #asks

[radfemblack]

Hi please can you not interact with my blog, thanks!!

Who even are you

#??? #mfs really be inflating their own importance

[radfemblack]

*anonymous* NIGGER

🤨 I know you are but what am I

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[radfemblack]

do have a pinterest bc im like 100% i found u

Yes.

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[radfemblack]

I feel like your recent posts on how women's rights are used as shield for colonialism have been something of a wake up call for me, along with one of my professors, a muslim feminist, who is actively talking about this problem, mainly in the context of American imperialism in the middle east. I think this is something that western feminists should be more aware and on top of, as our work is often appropriated for these causes, or we just straight up contribute to it both on accident and on purpose. It's really made me think more deeply about how women's rights is used both as justification for imperialist intervention and also as a way to shut down feminists in other parts of the world with "look how good you have it compared to the women over there." Idk, I just think that acknowledging this issue and actively reckoning with it is important for radfems right now, as women in Middle East have multiple levels of oppression and conflict to contend with at this very moment.

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[radfemblack]

UNO reverse

#free from hijab

[radfemblack]

Further reading

Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera. Militarization and violence against women in conflict zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian case-study. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera et al. Sexual Violence, Women’s Bodies, and Israeli Settler Colonialism. Jadaliyya. November 17th, 2014. [Link]

Farris, Sara R. In the name of women’s rights: The rise of femonationalism. Duke University Press, 2017.

Jad, Islah. Palestinian Women’s Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism. Syracuse University Press, 2018.

Abdulhadi, Rabab. “Israeli Settler Colonialism in Context: Celebrating (Palestinian) Death and Normalizing Gender and Sexual Violence.” Feminist Studies 45.2-3, 2019: 541-573.

Elia, Nada. “Justice is indivisible: Palestine as a feminist issue.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 6.1, 2017.

Sharoni, Simona, et al. “Transnational Feminist Solidarity in Times of Crisis: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement and Justice in/for Palestine.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 17.4, 2015: 654-670.

Abdulhadi, Rabab, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber, eds. Arab and Arab American feminisms: gender, violence, and belonging. Syracuse University Press, 2011.

Abu-Lughod, Lila. Do Muslim women need saving?. Vol. 15. No. 5. Sage UK: London, England: SAGE Publications, 2015.

Purplewashing refers to when a state or organization appeal to women’s rights and feminism in order to deflect attention from its harmful practices.

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[radfemblack]

#judith butler #clown #academia

[radfemblack]

Solidarity, not condescension

That misogyny exists within Palestinian society is undeniable. However, the idea that Israel represents salvation from this misogyny, rather than embodying the racist and colonial structures that perpetuate it, is far more questionable. In fact, there is much evidence that weakening community structures, disruptions in law and order, economic hardship, forced migration and over-crowded living conditions in refugee/displacement camps, all of which Palestinians have experienced as a result of Israeli violence, are all factors that increase the risk of sexual and gender-based violence, especially against women and girls. Furthermore, the bureaucratic colonial fragmentation of Palestine into different areas of control, especially the division of the West Bank into areas A, B, and C and the divide between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, is actually an obstacle to preventing this violence or holding its perpetrators accountable [You can read more about this here].

Palestinian feminist scholars and organizers have been studying and resisting Israel’s violent practices against all Palestinians, and its gendered practices against Palestinian women in particular. As a result, we recognize that true liberation for Palestinian women is impossible with anything short of the liberation of all Palestinians from Israeli settler colonialism. As Palestinian feminists, human rights activists and representatives of women organizations declared in a statement of support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement:

“The struggle of Palestinian feminists [is] as marginalized women who are deprived of equal rights and as part of an indigenous people suffering under a regime of occupation and apartheid. We cannot accept the backseat reserved for an obedient minority that must be filled in conferences or statements issued by Israeli groups. We are struggling for our rights, all of our rights, national, social and otherwise, and against all oppression.”

Palestinian women reject all purplewashing attempts to minimize Israeli violence against us and all Palestinians, which only seeks to bolster Israel’s image at the expense of Palestinians’ rights. Palestinian women in the struggle are aware that they are fighting for the rights and human dignity of all, and that “feminism that doesn’t have an understanding of how it intersects with racial and ethnic oppression is simply a diversification of white supremacy.” We hope you will join us in working for the liberation of all Palestinians; and that the next time you see an pro-Israel organization brazenly attempt to use the feminist movement to cover for colonialism, you can see that purple really isn’t Israel’s color.

Purplewashing refers to when a state or organization appeal to women’s rights and feminism in order to deflect attention from its harmful practices.

#palestine #decolonize palestine #feminism #feminist #radfem #radical feminism #radical feminist #free palestine #intersectionality #intersectional feminism #solidarity