#revolutionary feminism

[hadeantaiga]

Playing off a post I just saw:

"I thought I saw a beautiful butch lesbian but it was just a man"

(which was followed by a super valid statement of "sometimes beautiful butch lesbians are also men and deserve love)

But I wanna go a step further.

Why'd he stop being beautiful? You, aesthetically, saw beauty in his masculinity before you knew his gender or his birth sex. Why do you think he's no longer beautiful just because he's (potentially) got a dick?

Unpack that.

Because he is beautiful. Masculinity is beautiful, even when it's on men.

#gender #masculinity #feminism #revolutionary feminism

[graytheory]

"Religion is incompatible with feminism"

No it's not.

The synagogue I go to held a prayer of mourning for the anniversary of the overturn of Roe v Wade, mourning all the people hurt by a lack of access to abortion and reproductive healthcare.

Both of the cantors are women.

They held a whole session a few months ago that was literally all lead by women and talking about women and feminism in Judaism.

Our Torah readings often discuss the reading from a feminist perspective, asking "where were the women in this? did they have a choice in what happened here? was this fair to them?"

Maybe your religion is incompatible with feminism, but Judaism sure the fuck isn't.

#feminism #judaism #revolutionary feminism

[butchgtow]

I promise you that if you don't have the time or energy to write an argument in the moment, no rebuttal will ever dismiss a 'queer' Tumblr user more effectively than "go back to Utah."

#radical feminism #radblr #radical feminist community #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do interact #radical feminists do touch #radical feminists please touch #radical feminists please interact #revolutionary feminism #the joke is they're all ex-mormon CIA/FBI psy-operative wannabes employing mormon and CIA/FBI psyop tactics #the U.S. CIA and FBI hire mormons at extraordinarily high rates #the U.S. CIA and FBI are the pinnacle of Utah employers and mormonism is the pinnacle of Utah socialization #mine

[leftistfeminista]

In Pelotas, the comrades from CFCAM, PCB and UJC created the "Boca na Tribuna" act together with the 8M front to denounce systematic violence against women and make the date visible, pointing out that this violence is inherent to the capitalist-racist-patriarchal system. Let's go!

Coletivo Feminista Classista Ana Montenegro - RS

Coletivo Feminista Classista Ana Montenegro - RS CFCAM is a national collective linked to the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) that operates in several regions of Brazil. ☭ classist feminism, socialist future! ☭

#Brazilian Communist Party #Coletivo Feminista Classista #marxism-feminism #socialist feminism #violence against women #revolutionary feminism

[m0thmancore]

Your ‘feminism should include women considered cringe’ post is so funny BC I know your ass would choke up and cry if you ever had to even think to include transmascs and trans women who don’t pass to your liking into your warped version of feminism 💀💀💀💀

i almost wasn’t gonna answer this shit because if how overtly cartoonish it is but you know what it’s good for a laugh. babes. bestie babygirl. i am a trans woman who doesn’t pass. know your audience.

also yeah obviously transmascs should be in there but you’re not thinking big enough. feminism is about dismantling societal structures of oppression, so if you’re doing it right most cis men are in there too since the patriarchy also hurts them (not to the same extent but like. it’s there)

literally nowhere in the original post was there a single mention of gender and that was entirely intentional because good, effective feminism is by and for everyone. you’re just reading shit through your own biases you need to deconstruct i think

i’m gonna link the post so if you see this ask, you can actually read it this time instead of jumping the gun to send some wile e coyote ass hate mail

(my paste function is not working so it might be a minute until i get it linked. it’s right at the top of my top posts though in prime position)

#radical feminist unsafe #feminist #feminism #transfem #trans issues #transphobia #transgender #trans woman #transmasc #trans man #trans masc #intersectional feminism #intersectionality #revolutionary feminism

[lollobarcollomanonmollo]

#trans rights #transsexual #terfs dni #feminism is for everyone #intersectionalfeminist #intersectional feminism #transfem #Misogyny affects everyone #revolutionary feminism #Revolutionary feminist #anarchopunk #Terfs fuck off #ora parlo io 🥶 #transgender #trans supremacy

[transexualmilf]

For everyone rushing to revive radical feminism, or some better version of it or whatever, I offer this essay from the late 80s bitterly noting how the white women's movement, radfems included, had become complicit in Black genocide.

Radical feminists believed in the unity of white women just as much as their liberal sisters did. While sisterhood demands the dis-unity of white women.

What white women have united behind is getting more money for themselves, to put it bluntly. Their own economic advancement is the only common ground that liberals and radical feminists, marriage reformers and lesbian separatists, can agree upon. Sisterhood demands the dis-unity of white women. Demands that women who want to find a way of life without colonialism, whatever the price, break away from those women who intend to profit from colonialism. And i mean colonialism in all senses of the word

#radical feminism #revolutionary feminism #feminism

[lackadaisycal-art]

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

#feminism #media criticism #this doesn't apply to media with large casts of female characters where one or the other is uncommonly outspoken or ahead of her time #and it is dealt with realistically in the setting #im not saying women in the past couldnt be wild and headtsrong and revolutionary #i just think treating it as an essential whenever a female love interest gets added to a historical story about some man is wearing

[1luaamor]

#supportsystem #thomas sankara #revolutionary feminism

[jadwiga-abremovic]

"I know that my human potential will never be reached. I know that I am not only damaged, but studded both physically and intellectually. Both poverty and my situation as a female and as an American have contributed to this 'retardation'.

When I used to feel sorry for myself, my mother would tell me that there were little children starving and without clothes at all and with no shelter at all, and worst of all who were orphans (as she had been). It always angered me that my bad condition was not sufficient for complaint— that I had to bear it because others were worse off than I, but I now see the wisdom in that sort of stoicism. Women have that kind of stoicism, as do poor people. They have to be stoical to bear reality at all.

I have felt what I call 'metaphysical agony' in the face of the reality that I can never make up for what has been lost to me; that I can never really be the fine scholar I should like to be. Even if I were accepted by my fellow scholars, which happens only to the most extremely well-educated women, I still would not have the kind of training necessary to be a really good scholar. Again a combination of being poor and being female conspired to prevent my receiving the kind of superior education reserved only for the wealthy, and the few males they choose to take out of the lower class.

For me to 'make up' for lost time would be to make a machine of my brain, and by the time I might be prepared, I should have destroyed my creativity like so many scholars who have 'made' it. I look at the healthy, robust, clear-eyed, highly intelligent, informed, and confident children of light- ness—the wealthy boys and girls, and I am stunned more than outraged that such a tiny few are let through. Even the rather mediocre and the females somehow gain a zest for life based upon their constant exposure or access to all that is beautiful and fine and tasty and splendid in Western Civilization and other cultures as well through travel.

I never really believed that the 'poor little rich girl' was bad off. Her lonliness and princess separateness seemed delicious to me, never having even a bit of space for privacy and no 'things'.

We are damaged—we women, we oppressed, we disinherited. There are very few who are not damaged, and they rule. The reason they see their kind of world, their system as the best of all possible worlds is that it is Utopian for them, and they plan to keep it.

The oppressed trust those who rule more than they trust themselves because self-contempt emerges from powerlessness."

Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz, Who Is The Enemy? , 1969

#intersectionality #marxism #anarchism #feminism #proletarian feminism #marxist feminism #revolutionary feminism #classism #poverty #don't touch my post if you hate trans people #terfs dni #lgbt #radical queer

[hadeantaiga]

I'm going to say it again:

"Men are dangerous" is 100% patriarchal rhetoric.

The patriarchy does everything it can to train men to be dangerous. It creates a toxic version of masculinity that only profits and privileges men who choose to be dangerous. It does everything it can to put men into positions where they can be dangerous.

Which means that danger is artificially constructed.

Men are not dangerous because they're male. Men are not dangerous because they're masculine. Masculinity and manhood are not dangerous things.

The dangerous version of masculinity sold by the patriarchy is a social construct that can, in fact, be opted out of. Men and masculine people can construct a masculinity that is not toxic, that does not promote violence, that is centered around healthy relationships and communication and helping others.

Building a healthy, vibrant vision of masculinity is absolutely a part of feminism. I'm not saying it needs to be done by women - do not twist this into a claim that I'm attempting to burden women with remaking masculinity. Men can be feminists. Men who are feminists are eager and willing and actively taking part in the act of ripping masculinity away from the patriarchy and reforming it into something new.

#feminism #intersectional feminism #revolutionary feminism #queer feminism #trans feminism

[graytheory]

One of the most harmful things transphobic feminism has done to feminist discourse as a whole is promoted the idea that trans men don't deserve a voice in feminism, and that if a trans man speaks about feminism, he is "mansplaining".

No, I'm vagina-splaining. About the vagina I have. And the societal oppression I face because of it.

And no, my cunt does not make me less of a man. I know transphobic feminists don't care about that, but I need cis feminists who claim to be allies to listen.

A trans man telling you he needs to be included in feminism is not "men invading women's spaces". A trans man saying "please stop saying abortion is a women's issue" is not stepping out of line or trying to "erase women".

Fix your language. If you say "women's health" that means you're talking about the health of cis AND trans women and the discussion doesn't involve anything a trans man might care about. If you DO mean issues AFAB people care about, then say "gynecological health".

No, we don't want people to say "menstruators" or "vagina-havers" or any of that weird shit transphobic feminists love to scream, that's fucking weird. There's literally already terminology in place. Just use common sense.

#feminism #trans feminism #transmasc feminism #revolutionary feminism

[butchgtow]

the frequency at which low to middle class women and girls are addressed as "lady" and "ladies" by antifeminists and feminists alike to silence them is disturbing.

women and girls aren't upper class simply for being female. almost any woman or girl disagreeing with you doesn't financially or economically disenfranchise you, let alone in her favor.

#radical feminism #revolutionary feminism #class analysis #economics #personal finance #finance #radblr #radical feminist community #karen #mine #incel logic on societal mains

[leftistfeminista]

On the Objectification of Guerilla Women's bodies

Ana Guadalupe Martínez, like Che Guevara was known as  "Commandante". And in many ways she was the Feminist Che Guevara of El Salvador's revolutionary struggle. One of the most important guerrilla cadres of the People's Revolutionary Army (El Salvador) and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front FMLN. But one way a female Commandante is singled out for her gender, is how the Junta guards objectified her body. Even her strength and athletic fitness which she devoted to the people's struggle was ogled and groped by the guards. This is the demeaning treatment women get because of our gender, no matter how fierce and fearsome we are. Even as a revolutionary threat to the capitalist state, we are still women's bodies first to the chauvinist pigs.

JOURNAL ARTICLE Double Binds: Latin American Women's Prison Memories Mary Jane Treacy

Hypatia Vol. 11, No. 4, Women and Violence (Autumn, 1996), pp. 130-145 (16 pages)

INTERROGATORIES IN SALVADORAN PRISONS: DIALOGUES AND FEMALE NEGOTIATION ON THE MARGINS OF THE REVOLUTION

Interrogations in Salvadoran jails: Dialogue and Female Negotiation in the Margins of the Revolution

The texts of Ana María Guadalupe and Nidia Díaz are not only a fight on the political margins of the country but are also a fight against the models and configurations of women's roles on the margins of that revolution through the body. . In a very different way, Martínez and Díaz present the construction of their body, politicizing it and re-writing it. If we take into account torture techniques and the way mental fracture is carried out in prisons, gender becomes a fundamental element of aggression. Martínez and Díaz resist this aggression, without this implying the denial of the corporeal. In prisons, torturers base the ideological on the sexual as a path to demoralization. After an attempted rape, Martínez states “with this type of torture they try to influence the framework of ideological values ​​that place dignity, honor, manhood, etc., in the sexual field” (55). But, this does not imply that she wants to completely forget her body or her sexuality, what she does not want is to be manipulated through them. Martínez only expresses the rejection through the dialogues of the kidnappers, in a denial of traditional values ​​regarding motherhood and the consideration of guerrilla women:

The denial of motherhood by the kidnappers does not imply that she is not aware of her condition as a woman. We see it in the fear of being pregnant, after her rape, and in the feeling of demoralization that dominates her: “she tormented me so much that she had only one idea: to abort if it was a pregnancy. Just thinking about it caused me an indescribable despair” (119). Through desperation and anguish over an unwanted motherhood, Martínez is aware of her body, in the same way as when she undergoes a medical self-examination guided by the doctor, that is, she recognizes that her body has adapted to prison and that this is the reason why she does not menstruate.

#political prisoners #el salvador #marxism-feminism #revolutionary feminism #revolutionary women #guerrilla women #Youtube

[overtlydinosaurian]

I'm seeing "Revolutionary Feminist" or "RevFem" going around as a sorta 'replacement' for "Radical Feminism" because people wanna remove the "TERF" association with their feminism, and I got mixed feelings.

Pros:

-REVFEM IS FUCKING AWESOME? Revolutionary Feminist? Revolutionary Feminism? Yes I'd love a fucking feminist revolution please. Dope-ass name.

-Might come across better to centrists and people who aren't already distinctly aligned with a feminism idealogy who are scared of the boogie woman radical feminist, and a new name might make it a lot more easy to accept radfem ideals and thus garner new support!

-the joke potential. Rev your engines ladies/these RevFems get my motor running

Cons:

-You cant realisitcally distance yourself from "TERFs" or getting called one because "TERFS" "definition" will just expand to include you anyway if your views don't align with a specific narrative. "TERFS" include literal trad wives and conservatives, so of course it'd be stretched to include "RevFems"

-Creating unnecessary divides between what are clearly the same idealogies not because of actual real infighting and a need for more groups but because people who dont know the real meaning have decided what the idealogy stands for

Idk what do others think?

#radical feminsim #radfems #radfems please touch #revolutionary feminism

[lollobarcollomanonmollo]

Radical feminists and TERFs:

We prioritize women's safety over men's feelings.

Revolutionary """feminists""" , intersectional """feminists""" and whatever male rights activists are calling themselves now:

Ermmm... Acsstsually😅👆 friendly reminder that women oppress men and are evil and monsters and patriarchy affects everyone, oh no! I meant cishet white ablebodied rich privileged goyim non lactose intolerant european men!! Because other men are oppressed too and absolutely aren't capable of being misogynist!!! Anyways men are beautiful and prettier than the ugly privileged white heterosexual cis w*men🤮🤮🤮 MISOGYNY AFFECTS ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE!!!! EVEN MEN!!!! anyways patriarchy sucks, AND IT AFFECTS EVERYONE EVEN THE CISHET WHITE ABLEBODIED RICH PRIVILEGED GOYIM NON LACTOSE INTOLERANT EUROPEAN MEN!!!!!!!!!

erm anyways smash the patriarchy 💗🙌👏⚧⚧⚧⚧⚧🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🎌🎌🎌🇦🇶

#If yall are too ritardati to get this by yourself yes this is an exaggeration #Or is it? #revolutionary feminist #revolutionary feminism #intersectional feminism #radical feminists do touch #radical feminists please interact #radical feminism #terfsafe #ora parlo io 🥶 #terfblr #terfism #based