#radfem resources

[baited-beth]

A new google drive of radfem literature has dropped. Go wild gyns!

#feminism #radfem #radical feminism #gender critical #radfem resources #radfems do interact #radfems please interact #radfems welcome #radfems please touch #radfem safe

[mrterfycat]

Hi radfems, I need your help <3

I need some resources / theories / stats from Good sites on the following topics, I had some saved and I'm not able to find it anymore;

1. Man to woman Ratio of Porn watchers

2. Man to woman Sexual Assault Stats

3. Theory/resource on Beauty standards affecting women.

4. How Patriarchy Affects women and What all Patriarchy has Done to women.

5. All the rights Men and women DON'T have.

6. Stats of Crimes by men and Women.

7. How Misogyny is ingrained into women

8. Overall on what all women go through vs what men go through

If i remember more I'll be adding it.

Please Rb to boost <3

#radical feminism #radical feminist community #radfem resources #radical feminist theory #womens rights #misandry #terfblr #proud misandrist #sex based rights #radical feminist safe #radblr #radical feminists do interact #radical feminists please touch #radical feminst #radical misandrist #radical feminists please interact #radfem servers #radfem #terf #terfsafe #please reblog #boost

[haggishlyhagging]

List of Wordpress/blogspot radfem blogs that I’ve found

I haven’t 100% verified all of these are radfem and not sure how many are active. If you know of more that are still online please send them to me? My inner librarian really wants to collate.

-https://antipornfeminists.wordpress.com

-https://bevjoradicallesbian.wordpress.com

-https://elementalwitch.wordpress.com

-https://factcheckme.wordpress.com

-https://feministuk.wordpress.com

-https://www.hellyeahimafeminist.com

-https://icemountainfire.wordpress.com

-https://keepingreallesbianfeminismsimple.wordpress.com

-https://radfemimages.wordpress.com

-https://radfemspiraling.wordpress.com

-https://radfemworldnews.wordpress.com

-https://radicalhubarchives.wordpress.com

-https://radicalkitten.wordpress.com

-http://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com

-https://sisterhoodispowerful.wordpress.com

-https://sisteroutrider.wordpress.com

-https://storyendingnever.com

-https://thenewbacklash.blogspot.com

-https://tradfem.wordpress.com/

-https://trustyourperceptions.wordpress.com

-https://witchwind.wordpress.com

#radfem resources #radfem blogs #radfems do touch #radical feminist

[radykalny-feminizm]

Lucy Delap's book "Feminisms: A global history" just came out in polish, the description looks kinda promising but idk, is it worth reading or is it a typical libfem bullshit?

#radfem #radical feminism #radfem safe #radblr #radfems do interact #feminism #radfems do touch #radfem resources #radfem books #feminist book #feminist books #feminist history #lucy delap #ask radfem

[is-this-really--life]

#sex trade abolition #radical feminism #trans inclusive radical feminism #radfem resources #Spotify

[mayonnaiseolivia]

hi all,

my 15yo sister recently came to me and told me that she's thinking of starting to bind her chest (she identifies as a genderfluid demi-boy).

I've been looking for resources about the dangers of binding. if you have anything, please please drop it in my inbox or on this post, much appreciated.

my sister has been talking about her gender identity for about a year and a half now but this is the first time she's mentioned any kind of physical change (besides dressing/wearing her hair differently) and i'm really worried about her.

she says she is willing to look at studies about the dangers of binding, so I have been compiling some resources, but i could really use y'all's help.

#my sister #boost #radfem resources

[hadesoftheladies]

radblr needs to get comfortable with having nuanced conversations with "no clear winner"

sometimes people just need space to talk through their complex experiences without being relentlessly fact-checked. consciousness-raising takes listening to each other, not just talking at each other.

#radblr #radfem #we don't need everyone to be 100% correct about every fucking point #we need to share our resources whether that's information or help #that's feminism

[nansheonearth]

 A Boston shelter tried a new approach to finding women stable housing. Three years later, its success is clear.

Since launching its stabilization program in July 2020, Women’s Lunch Place says that 97 percent of women who found housing are still living in their homes.

By Alysa Guffey Globe Correspondent,Updated August 30, 2023, 5:51 a.m.

Nancy Edwards in her apartment.SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF

Two years ago, Nancy Edwards fell into homelessness after being priced out of rent in Southern California. With her two dogs, Roo and Tink, in tow, she decided to drive across the country with all her belongings packed in her small sedan. Her final destination would be Boston, the home of her only child and the last place she says she received adequate mental health care.

She arrived in Boston in September 2021, and later that month met Lianne O’Reilly, a behavioral health and stabilization clinician at Women’s Lunch Place, a daytime shelter and advocacy center serving people who identify as female.

With help from O’Reilly and Women’s Lunch Place, Edwards, 65, was able to receive the mental health care she needed and took the first steps in applying for housing in the city.

“I was able to make heads or tails out of life and rescue myself from being homeless,” Edwards said.

Edwards is one of 173 clients who Women’s Lunch Place has helped to secure housing since the organization launched its housing stabilization program in July 2020. Three years later, the organizaton reports that 97 percent, or 167, of the women are still living in their new homes.

At Pine Street Inn shelter, a mother and daughter persevere and find communityNew housing strategy behind Mass. and Cass cleanup offers ‘hope, dignity’ — and may be a solution to homelessness, officials say‘Permanent supportive housing’ may be controversial to would-be neighbors, but it’s been beneficial to those who live in it

Located on Newbury Street in Back Bay, the stabilization program is designed to provide clients at Women’s Lunch Place with wraparound services before and after they receive keys for an apartment, said Doris Romero, the center’s housing and stabilization manager. Often times, women who walk through the doors have a steep learning curve when living on their own and can be evicted if they do not have continuous support.

“The last thing that I want is after getting someone into housing is for them to lose their housing,” Romero said.

Romero facilitates conversations with landlords, property managers, leasing officers, and even other tenants to ease the burden on clients. Each woman seeking housing is paired with a full-time advocate from the organization, and the team has doubled in size since its inception, she added.

For some, the housing search can take years, with some guests only moving into homes now after originally starting a housing application five years ago, said Romero. Other times, partnerships and applications with the city can speed up the process for those who really need housing. For instance, Edwards submitted an application to the Elders Living At Home Program through Boston Medical Center.

“In the application you have to explain why this person needs housing, and as soon as I met [Edwards,] I knew that housing was really key to her stability and moving forward,” O’Reilly said.

As a result, Edwards moved in to her new home about seven months after connecting with Women’s Lunch Place.

“It’s nice and quiet and I feel secure,” Edwards said on a recent Friday in her one-bedroom apartment in the South End.

Nancy Edwards in her apartment.SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF

While stabilization programs are not necessarily a new invention, Women’s Lunch Place’s method of keeping tabs on and tracking women it helps find housing is encouraging, because it shows “obvious and dramatic evidence that it works,” said Susan Sered, professor of sociology at Suffolk University.

For the past 15 years, Sered has been following a group of about 50 women in Boston who fall in and out of homelessness. In her research, she has seen women lose housing because of substandard living conditions or abusive men in their life who visit homes and cause trouble — issues that can often be prevented with robust stabilization services.

“A lot of these problems are dealt with before they get out of control,” she said of the system in place at Women’s Lunch Place. “They can provide this kind of really intensive support that can help people get through that difficult period or a difficult incident and hold on to their housing.”

Romero said she poses as many questions as possible to find a strong fit for each individual client.

“Do they want to stay in Boston? Do they want roommates or their own space?”

However, even though the program is run through the shelter, women who seek the stabilization services have their own agency throughout the process, choosing where, when, and what they apply to.

“We can provide them options of different opportunities, but they get to choose where they want to apply to,” Romero said.

Most of the clients would prefer to stay in Boston, Romero said, but that doesn’t always work out. Sometimes, after looking at options in Boston, she encourages clients to look elsewhere, such as the North or South Shore, to set realistic expectations. Romero added that the center has had luck stabilizing people in Medford and Watertown homes.

The stabilization program is unique since it doesn’t end once women get the keys to their new place.

“People really assume like everything’s like sunshine and flowers once you get housed,” O’Reilly said. “And it can be, but for a lot of people it can be traumatic in many ways.”

The length of stabilization looks different for each client, Romero said. Advocates visit the homes of their clients as much as they need to help with everything from setting up cable to finding a church community nearby.

Women’s Lunch Place also assists clients facing possible eviction — a vital component of stabilization services, staff members say.

Estella Green, 55, credits the program for her finding stable housing and avoiding eviction after she had been sleeping on the streets or couch surfing for almost three years.

“I was in a place where I was about to go downhill, but I came here and I asked for help and they helped me,” Green said.

With help from her advocate, Christina Labossiere, Green has lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Brighton for more than two years. Since March, the organization has assisted Green in applying to the city’s Residential Assistance for Families in Transition program, which helps keep households in stable housing situations when facing eviction, loss of utilities, and other housing emergencies.

Green said she loves the apartment, especially the bed to sleep in, but still comes to Women’s Lunch Place almost daily because that — not Brighton — is her community.

“You can relax, be comfortable, and you can always find someone to talk to,” Green said.

Alysa Guffey can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her @AlysaGuffeyNews.

Edit:

Here's a link to donate to Women's Lunch Place

Follow them on ig

If you reblogged the previous version, reblog with the donate link.

#radfem #alysa guffey #women's lunch place #boston #massachusetts #new england #housing #sisterhood #solidarity #resources #welfare #ideas #to do #o #boston globe

[she-is-ovarit]

There's a new website a radical feminist made, which just launched! I wanted to share:

"Hello all! I wanted to share the website that I've created, kindrad.org. My goal was to create a place where a person with little background in feminism or gender criticism would be able to get started in understanding these concepts."

It sounds like she's planning on adding more to it at a future date and that this is just more of a skeleton foundation. Still, it's really well designed and is a great introduction to gender critical/radical feminism.

#radical feminism #radfem #radblr #gender critical #feminist resources #feminism

[womenaremypriority]

i don’t ever want to hear anyone deny that they’re medicalizing kids for being GNC ever again

This is a doctor speaking for Children’s Hospital of Orange County- the Orange County in California, one of the most populated counties in the USA, outright admitting a child being GNC (aka, a girl being masculine, or a boy being more feminine!) is a sign that they may be transgender, and they should be taken to a doctor right away. What was it about this being a TERF conspiracy, again?

#The women reacting is YouTuber Exulansic #she has not edited it #neither have I other than compiling clips #My post #gender critical #transing kids #tra receipts #radical feminism #radfem #radical feminists do interact #Resources #my bangers

[balkanradfem]

what are some good resources for someone just getting into being a radfem?

Here's a link to the radfem reading list! Link

I personally would recommend:

'Who Cooked the Last Supper' PDF link

'Invisible Women' PDF link

'The Second Shift' PDF link

'Loving to Survive' PDF link

I also recommend all the works from Andrea Dworkin but those go very deep into the violence and trauma, the ones I listed are very good entry points that deal with statistics and data!

#resources #radfem reading list #radfem literature #radical feminism #who cooked the last supper #invisible women #the second shift #loving to survive

[blinkieopolis]

LESBIAN BLINKIES BUNDLE ✰

FREE TO USE!

TERFS, SWERFS, RADFEMS DO NOT FUCKING INTERACT

#blinkies #blinking gif #lesbian blinkies #lesbian #web graphics #page decor #spacehey #old web graphics #flashing gif #fast gif #gifset #carrd resources #carrd graphics #old internet #2000s web #webcore #old web #radfems dont interact #terfs dont interact

[uter-us]

hey yall i got a great question from @waveofmutilationuksurf !! they asked how i view the process of male or female socialization, so here's some explanation with data on the way we are socialized based upon sex. anyone's free (and encouraged) to reblog or pm me or comment if my information is inaccurate, they have something to add, or disagree w, etc!!!

okay so to start off, just defining socialization: the second definition from Oxford languages for socialization is "the process of learning to behave in a way that is acceptable to society." so male socialization would be about the distinct differences in how people who are male are taught to behave acceptably in our society as opposed to female people. (most radfems would say "men"/"boys" and "women"/"girls" but this post isn't primarily for radfems just the general public interested, so I am only going to be saying female people / female children and male people / male children for that sake! i have more about this at the end.) I am talking primarily about the socialization in childhood and adolescence. (As their brains are developing, gender roles have a greater ability/depth to ingrain into their sense of the world and themselves. The dont have the context or knowledge to discern stereotype from reality.)

Male and female socialization aids in upholding misogyny and patriarchy primarily through gender roles. It starts from birth. From the abstract of peer reviewed ScienceDirect's "Gender Bias in Mothers' Expectations about Infant Crawling." ->

"This study examined gender bias in mothers' expectations about their infants' motor development. Mothers of 11-month-old infants estimated their babies' crawling ability, crawling attempts, and motor decisions in a novel locomotor task—crawling down steep and shallow slopes. Mothers of girls underestimated their performance and mothers of boys overestimated their performance. Mothers' gender bias had no basis in fact. When we tested the infants in the same slope task moments after mothers' provided their ratings, girls and boys showed identical levels of motor performance."

This is an example of how even before the female child could walk and talk, they were already being underestimated, and the male child was already being overestimated. This is a very sad message to send to the female children because it undoubtedly extends into other aspects of their lives. This is just the beginning of a lifetime of underestimation towards female people who will then internalize this about themselves, believing it to be true and hindering their potential. This message is also bad to send to the male children, because when this theme extends in other aspects of their lives (throughout their lives), they will underestimate the female people around them, while over estimating the male people. This undeniably will do harm to the female people as the playing field is not level!

Another example is on the content of greeting cards (separated by age too!). Children get greeting cards from peers and family year after year. From peer reviewed ACM's "Pretty Princess vs. Successful Leader: Gender Roles in Greeting Card Messages." (download for free here) ->

primary topics from the birthday cards:

and fyi this is the info on the catagorization:

"We further split these messages based on their gender association. We assume that the association is implied by the recipient’s gender mentioned in the message: If a message mentions an indicator in the general female group in Table 2 (or variations of mother or grandmother), we categorize it as a female-associated message."

Specifically in our discussion of childhood socialization, the difference between the female-addressed cards and the male-addressed cards were between a value in appearance for female children, and a value in achievement for male children.

(the reason i still am specifying sex and not gender for these cards is because the majority of trans people do not come out in childhood (more often adulthood and adolescence), so the vaaasttt majority of these birthday cards going to these children are picked based off their sex.)

this study was actually REALLY very interesting and you should definitely consider reading it (or at least perusing some of the data! they include valentines and wedding cards too w over 18000 cards total, and they additionally have some data on personal messages on twitter-- all very interesting!)

another example is from an article from the New York times titled, "The Gender Divide in Preschoolers’ Closets". The author, a mother to two preschoolers, sees the divide in her male toddler's clothing and her female toddler's clothing. She writes primarily about the functionality of the clothing. ->

"'Especially in the toddler years, the boys have more pockets, they have more fun active clothes than the girls,' said Francesca Sammaritano, a children’s wear designer and assistant professor of fashion at Parsons School of Design. 'There’s leg room for bending your knees.'"

Additionally the author Sara Clemence writes, "It’s not just about avoiding skinned knees, but also the subtle and discouraging message that’s woven right into girls’ garments: you are dressed to decorate, not to do."

As well as the functionality of the clothing, we can consider the text on the clothes from the girls section vs the boys section. In the Irish Times' "It’s time to tackle gendered inspirational guff on children’s clothes," Deirdre Falvey writes about the content on the clothing. ->

"The more that clothes and toys emphasise gender difference, the more our shared humanity is undermined. And the more girls and boys learn to see each other as other. The more children are pushed to conform to gender stereotypes – even via the clothes they’re offered – the more they grow up to fulfil them.

"The messages from most of these clothes: Girls are sweet and flowery, good and kind. Boys are strong and adventurous, assertive and bold. See it, wear it, become it."

Throughout this post, we've seen that female abilities are undermined; female and male children are taught female value is in appearance; female children are taught to minimize, quiet themselves, and "put on a pretty face." Male children are taught the polar opposite. The difference is stark!

Male and female socialization is important to recognize because it explains and contextualizes stereotypes and gender roles. For example, I hear men point to how women (or they often say "females") are less likely to ask for a raise as proof of women's "weak nature" and to justify the wage gap (fyi I find conflicting information if this is actually a true fact lol, but I digress). Is this because female people are just naturally more submissive? are they just naturally less assertive? no, it's not natural, it's nurtured.

Furthermore, outside of this post, I primarily say "men"/"boys" and "women"/"girls" as opposed to "male people"/"male children" and "female people"/"female children," because to me, there is a lot to a woman, but not a lot that makes a woman a woman. Her biology did not betray her; it was weaponized against her. These children in the studies and articles above are not mistreated because of their gender identity, they are mistreated because of their sex.

Another reason recognizing male/female socialization is important is because once we recognize that these things do happen, we can mitigate the harm. From peer reviewed APA PsycNet's "Parents’ judgments of children’s gender-typed play indicate qualities of the early-life caregiving environment." ->

"Mothers who displayed androgynous and counterstereotyped preferences—primarily conveying approval different-gender-typed play—were rated higher on objective assessments of the quality of the home environment and parent–child interactions."

I'm not speaking for all radfems, but in my understanding, a large part of not considering trans women to be women is due to their socialization, and that a gender identity or sense of self can not undo years of male socialization starting from birth.

I hope this was reasonably coherent ! if you have questions and corrections lemme know :)

#radfem #radical feminist safe #sex based oppression #male socialization #gender abolition #gender critical #radical feminism #radblr #radical feminist theory #feminist theory #resources #not j a reblog tag #read conversations tag

[radfae]

sick of the radblr discourse like why is it half of my dash omg

#in case ur wondering i do think there’s something to be said about identifying as a radfem and not being one in practice #but i also know that idk what it’s like to be an osa woman and i’m also not a fan of kicking someone while they’re down and all women #deserve access to support and resources regardless #i’m not a perfect person either but i also have said that i’m not a radfem i just stick around bc i’m a gender crit feminist #idk. shrugs. #tldr none of this matters to me

[hadeantaiga]

Hi I'm sorry if I'm bothering you idk where to go with this and i saw you post on anti t*rf cutting to the chase im a nonbinary afab person but during a spiral i got sucked down a t*rf rabbithole and some of the ideas are stuck in my head help me please i don't want to be one I don't know what to do

If you send me an Ask off anon, we can chat and I can message you if you want!

For now: Start reading books and blogs and watching videos by feminists who are explicitly pro-trans. Consume media made by trans feminists. Consume media that specifically counters the arguments made by terfs and radfems. Consume media by trans people in general, especially trans folks who openly state they are inclusive.

An excellent video series that rips apart TERFism from the inside out is here:

There are tons of awesome trans folks to follow on Tumblr.

There's my own transfeminism blog, @graytheory. There's also @transsexual-menace who has an excellent pinned post with resources. @queermasculine is a great blog about transmasculinity. @spacelazarwolf is just super cool and posts a lot about feminism and trans issues. @genderkoolaid is also fucking awesome.

Things to avoid: Any content by self-described "baeddels", "proud misandrists", "truscum", or content by people who call themselves "TIRFS". You want to avoid radical feminism in any form, because it is the root of TERFism and TERF ideology is based on radfem ideology. You also want to avoid any form of trans rhetoric that is exclusionary, claims there's only one right way to "be trans", etc.

I'd also say avoid anyone who claims trans men aren't oppressed, can't experience misogyny, or claims that trans men have "male privilege", because that's just watered down radical feminist with trans language slapped on top of it.

One thing that can help, if you use desktop, is downloading the extension Shinigami Eyes. Yes, it's controversial as hell, but when you're first getting out of radfem and terf circles, it'll help you identify terfs and radfems right away, and you'll be able to block them and unfollow them really quickly. I highly recommend it for anyone who's just learning to identify radfem rhetoric and anyone who is trying to avoid interacting with radfems and terfs entirely.

#trans resources #anti terf #anti radfem #escaping bigotry

[haram-terf]

Since Eid-ul-Fitr was yesterday, I’ve been thinking about how fortunate I am to be completely detached from practicing Islam. I know that this entire post may sound disingenuous just by that fact alone. But there are still so many closeted ex-muslim women who still have to pretend they practice, just so they are not harmed or killed for wanting to exist as women. I just wanted to tell every ex-muslim woman who had to fast, pray taraweeh on top of the five daily prayers, constantly read the quran, and just overall deprive themselves just to appease a God who doesn’t even see us as entire people that you made it. You made it to the other side.

#I wish there were more resources for ex-muslim women to escape religious abuse #I really do #Islam is a cult #especially for women #the amount of religious gaslighting done towards women is pretty upsetting #ex-muslim #ex-mus #radfem #radfem safe #radfem friendly