#intersectional politics

[spookyradluka]

Female cops don't deserve rape

Tradwifes don't deserve rape

Conservative women don't deserve rape

Fascist women don't deserve rape

""Terfs"" do not deserve rape

MRA women don't deserve rape

Disagreeable women in general do not deserve rape

No woman no matter her shitty ideology deserves to be sexually abused

Once it's okay to excuse rape based on ideology sooner or later you'll meet someone who doesn't agree with you.

#rape culture #feminism #intersectional politics #intersectional feminism 101 #intersectionality #intersectional feminism #rape apologism #terf #trandwife #conservative #acab #radblr

[yardiekub]

I can’t stop laughing at this

#race #intersectional politics #humor #comedy

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

I don't think there's any "root of all oppression" oppression that's especially worse than any other oppression. I think that's kind of a ridiculous premise and I hate being expected to even engage with it but that root of all oppression would absolutely be ableism if there were one. There is no argument that makes any sense at all under the premise that "there a root to all other kinds of oppression" for any other kind of bias or oppression other than ableism.

#oppression #ableism #intersectionality #intersectional feminism #intersectional politics #homophobia #transphobia #transmisogyny #transandrophobia #fatphobia #sexism

[ftmtftm]

TMA/TME is such fucking useless language if you actually understand that systems of oppression are fluid and don't actually give a shit about how you - the victim of violence - actually personally identify because all the system of oppression wants to do is be violent against anyone it deems worthy of violence.

Like - lest we forget things like the ways in which Cisgender Black Women are transvestigated and also experience extreme amounts of Transmisogyny because Black Womanhood is masculinized by a White Supremacist society.

Or the ways in which Intersex People's bodies are treated like medical disasters that need to be "corrected" so good little girls have vaginas and good little boys have penises. If the forcible correction of a little girl's genitals motivated by the fact that a doctor doesn't think a little girl should have a penis and a uterus isn't rooted in anti-intersex, sexist, transmisogynist ideas about women and womanhood I don't know what is.

Or even more broadly speaking - just to highlight this concept further - the ways in which Sikhs continue to be victims of Islamophobic violence even when they are very much not Muslim because a White Christian Supremacist society afraid of "Middle Eastern Terror" only cares that a Brown Person is visibly not Christian before enacting violence against them.

Or getting more personal, the ways in which no one in bumfuck South Dakota actually sits down and asks my sisters what their ethnicity is before slinging anti-Native or anti-Hispanic rhetoric at them, despite the fact that they're Japanese American and just don't look "stereotypically East Asian".

It's just so functionally useless to define groups of people by the violence they do or don't experience - especially under an Intersectional lense of understanding oppression - because the people and systems who are actually enacting the violence do not give a shit if they're "right" or not !!! They want to subjugate difference regardless !!!!

#original post #tma tme #transmisogyny #intersectionality #intersectional politics #this is why i have feelings about the word misogyny and the way it is used but absolutely no one is ready for that conversation #tma / tme is not radical political language and it is absolutely useless in conversations about radical political oppression

[transx-mogai-cafe]

Intersectionality theories will always be incomplete if the concepts of transableism, transageism, and transracism/traceism are not addressed within them.

#intersectionality #intersectional politics #transx #transid #transage #transabled #transrace #just to name a few

[burningtheroots]

What really strikes me, though it doesn’t surprise me, is that whenever there‘s a discussion about the "ideal future" and people are asked what they‘d wish for, advocate for, prioritize and improve, basically everything gets named immediately except for women‘s liberation & women‘s rights.

Environmental protection, ending racism, ensuring trans rights, abolishing classism and capitalism, no more war and world hunger, no more exploitation (though "sex work" isn’t included here, especially not porn), no more theft or murder, animal rights, religious freedom, disability rights … All of them (usually) make the list and far more often than women‘s rights, especially since women‘s rights are treated as an afterthought whatsoever.

I‘m NOT saying that the things above don‘t matter and I‘m well aware that the things above intertwine with women‘s rights, too.

My point is that women‘s unique struggles & sex-based issues are brushed aside and not even acknowledged as a priority. Female liberation in particular is a bonus, if at all, but not a priority, especially to the men who join in.

Why does no one discuss sex-based violence and oppression as eagerly and passionately? Because only problems which affect men as well are taken seriously under patriarchy.

Why do they focus on theft and murder, but not on rape? Why do they focus on exploitation in the workforce, but without ever mentioning the suffering of women in porn & prostitution? Or the women who are used as surrogates? Why do movements for black people, trans people, gay people, disabled people etc. always center males, but rarely the women? Why is religious freedom important but freeing women & girls from patriarchal religious traditions is not? Why is period poverty almost never mentioned when it comes to classism and capitalism?

Why is violence against men, or violence which at least affects men as much as women, so much more important than violence which exclusively & uniquely affects women and girls? Hmm?

#women deserve better #radfem #radblr #radical feminism #feminism #radfems do touch #radfems do interact #radfems please touch #womens rights #sex based rights #hypocrisy #intersectional politics #by women for women

[oppression-olympics-blog]

Check out this post… "The Silent Leaders: Black Women as the Backbone of All Movements".

New blog post!

#feminism #social justice #black women #womenempowerment #women #gender #race and politics #racisim #black history #black lives matter #blog #blogger #social justice blog #intersectionality #intersectional politics #intersectional feminism #Americanah #chimamanda ngozi adichie #america

[sweaty-confetti]

trans people and feminists are not enemies

trans people and feminists are not enemies trans people and feminists are not enemies

trans people and feminists are not enemies

trans people and feminists are not enemies

trans people and feminists are not enemies

#feminism #intersectional feminism #intersectional politics #trans rights #transphobia #transmisogyny #transmisogynoir #transandrophobia #anti transmasculinity #anti terf #terfs do NOT touch #intersectionality #intersectional social justice #trans feminism #feminist

[variousqueerthings]

From “There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions”

I was born Black, and a woman. I am trying to become the strongest person I can become to live the life I have been given and to help effect change toward a liveable future for this earth and for my children. As a Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, poet, mother of two including one boy and a member of an interracial couple, I usually find myself part of some group in which the majority defines me as deviant, difficult, inferior or just plain "wrong."

From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sexes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression. I have learned that sexism and heterosexism both arise from the same source as racism.

"Oh," says a voice from the Black community, "but being Black is NORMAL!" Well, I and many Black people of my age can remember grimly the days when it didn't used to be!

I simply do not believe that one aspect of myself can possibly profit from the oppression of any other part of my identity. I know that my people cannot possibly profit from the oppression of any other group which seeks the right to peaceful existence. Rather, we diminish ourselves by denying to others what we have shed blood to obtain for our children. And those children need to learn that they do not have to become like each other in order to work together for a future they will all share.

Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue, because I and thousands of other Black women are part of the lesbian community. Any attack against lesbians and gays is a Black issue, because thousands of lesbians and gay men are Black. There is no hierarchy of oppression.

I cannot afford the luxury of fighting one form of oppression only. I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.

-Audre Lorde

From Homophobia and Education (New York: Council on Interracial Books for Children, 1983)

#audre lorde #intersectional politics #black rights #queer rights #feminism #queer stuff #and when they appear to destroy me it will not be long before they appear to destroy you

[lochness-tess]

Hating Tories isn’t just an ideological disagreement when you have skin in the game. I spent my teens and became an adult during the 2010s and was a young carer. Tory slashes to NHS funding meant no one bothered when my mum’s agoraphobia prevented her from attending the local mental health hospital for treatment. She really was left at home to rot. I have many friends and family whose circumstances weren’t their fault and Tory austerity made their lives demonstrably worse. So yeah, fuck Tories. It’s personal.

#uk politics #tory britain #socialism now #austerity kills #marxist #cull the Tories #austerity #intersectional politics #on my soapbox again #socialist #viva la resistance

[spookyradluka]

“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.’”

—Erin McKean

#intersectional feminism #feminism #book quotations #intersectional feminism 101 #intersectional politics #intersectionality #intersectional activism #beauty standards #anti beauty culture #book suggestion

[choptop-sawyer]

The fact that the term "transracial" has been stolen by shitbags like Oli London and other racists is just another blow to those whom the term was meant for.

We were the ones adopted from the countries the West reviles or pities, brought to a new land and cut off from our old like the snipping of the umbilical cord. Maybe some of us don't even remember it. Maybe, when we were young, we just thought we were natives of this world we'd been transplanted in to. But that world takes every chance it gets to remind us that we do not belong in it. You can wipe away any feeling of belonging to a culture from a child, but you can't change the color of their skin, the looks of their faces. We don't belong in this new place, by virtue of this, and we can't belong in the old culture, because that bridge was burned by people other than us.

And we're told we should be grateful, when we're the victims of white saviors. (Recall an instance where a white girl with 3 horses scoffed at me and said "at least your parents wanted you). We're more susceptible to abuse and less likely to get help if we try to speak out. Our peers don't understand what it feels like to have no place to belong, nor do they care. Why should they? They've always belonged.

So we seek each other out, we find comfort in the fact when we realize that there are others who are orphans the same as us, orphans of cultures that don't want us. We name ourselves. We can know that we can create a new place to belong.

And then those same colonizers snatch away that name and use it to justify their own racist actions. Nobody cared about us to begin with, so their actions and the nane they've ripped from us are now one and the same. We are spat on for using the name WE INVENTED, or we are told to find a new one. Why should we? Why should we have to change ourselves for the benefits of those that harmed us?

Anyways, Oli London, eat rusty nails.

#long post #transracial #oli london #colonization #racism #white guilt #intersectional politics #jiangshi screeches #ok to reblog

[wearetryst]

#feminism #intersectional politics #whorephobia

[touka-the-fallen-angel]

Now that I've maybe kicked the hornets nest by actually replying to a terf/rad fem post I'm putting the following (so they can educate themselves on what actual feminism is):

Real feminism is intersectional and to continue to exclude various marginalized groups of people from your advocacy work and community organzing is not revolutionary or inspired.

It's sad

It gets nothing accomplished

It leads to division of what should be a united group

It directly contributes to the loss of greater rights

It would take many posts for me to detail every single point I bring up in this post, but I can directly put out how I feel about recent "feminist activism." It's been very disappointing and angering to say the least especially in the US, because feminist activism often fails to take in the needs of various groups of people (poc, lgbtq+, disabled, non-christian religious groups, etc.) Who have often been protesting on the ground first. Especially with the abortion situation now it's very infuriating to see marginalized groups relied upon again and again to lay the groundwork for any huge movements while not being taken care of or credited for their work.

Trans rights are important and if someone calls themselves a "Feminist" or "an advocate for feminism" without recognizing the right of Trans people then that is a major red flag. I instantly expect them to not care for the rights of poc, Indigenous persons, disabled people, and others too since they are already comfortable with openly excluding one group.

#terfs need to stop #feminism #abortion #discourse #together we could be a powerful group in activism but too many people like only fighting for their direct group #intersectional politics #especially tired of the white woman brand of feminims here that excludes everyone until something major happens

[little-witchys-garden]

Dear Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Baptists, and all y'all other religions listen up.

Don't act like your shit don't stink.

If your religion is openly harming people for have done something bad don't ignore it, don't deny it's happening and don't fucking act like your religion is perfect, all loving, harmless and beautiful because it's fucking not.

I'm sure there are parts that are beautiful and have a message of love somewhere in there but pretending your religion is blameless in all the bad things that have happened because of your religion and in the name of your god is idiotic.

No religion is all loving, harmless or all perfect so stop saying yours is.

One fucking thing I can promise you is there isn't a damn religion out there without blood on it specifically the blood of the innocent and you're a damn fool if you think your religion is the expectation.

#christian #catholocism #catholic #muslim #isam #Baptist #athiest #feminism #feminist #womanism #intersectionality #intersectional activism #intersectional politics #intersectional feminism

[pumpacti0n]

you can’t tell me that ableism isn’t as important as any other social struggle it’s when one of the main things reactionaries love to engage in to insult their political enemies.

transphobes regularly accuse trans people of being mentally ill, racists insist that black folk are mentally deficient, and misogynists will believe that women are “hysterical”/and emotionally unstable. not even non-humans are safe from it — wild animals are classified as inferior lifeforms due to their relative lack of intelligence or physical abilities, and thus ripe for exploitation by the “superior” (ostensibly able-bodied, sane, white and cishet,) human.

If someone is part of a marginalized group, you can bet ableism will follow and inform the character of their attacks on them. as such, all of these issues are intertwined with ableism. focusing on just one form of exploitation while leaving ableism intact and unaddressed is a futile endeavor.

however, we should be wary: this type of behavior isn’t exclusive to “the right” — cops and politicians are regularly called “psychopaths”, ignoring the reality that the vast majority of actual psychopaths are not inherently violent or abusive.

in an attempt to insult them, radicals resort to claiming that authoritarians and bigots are just “idiots”, but this shifts focus away from their hatefulness and targets their alleged lack of intelligence instead.

the problem with this is that it gives us the false impression that the right isn’t to be taken seriously, that it’s ok to underestimate them, that they are easy to outsmart and unable to devise complex strategies or organizations, when this is demonstrably untrue, and can be a fatal mistake during conflicts.

this framing also suggests anyone who is considered intelligent must have leftist values, when this is also untrue. doctors, scientists, engineers and scholars can each be abusive or conservatives in their own right. their academic achievements has no real bearing on their political leanings.

take ableism seriously.

resist the urge to call your political enemies ableist slurs. don’t fall into the trap of believing that ableism can be a tool for liberation or to score points against others during arguments. If disabled people aren’t free, none of us are.

#ableism #disability justice #uploads #text #intersectional politics #intersectionality #ableist violence