There is no way forward for either women or the planet itself without enacting female separatism and agroforestry on a mass scale. You don't have the eggs to kill every rapist, CEO, anti-abortion politician you see? That's fair. The fastest way to destroy capitalism/patriarchy is for women to walk away-- completely remove themselves in body and spirit. Without their servants/broodmares/receptacles, everything men have built crumbles-- and fast enough to save the planet besides. We walk away, protect ourselves (yes, with violence if need be), and let them burn.
Everything you eat and wear must be locally produced, scavenged, or fairly traded for-- this is the only sustainable path. We need all-female land stewards, all-female livestock keepers, all-female shipping networks, all-female builders, all-female soldiers. Girls must be brought up free of male toxicity, mediocrity, society. If you bear children, bear only daughters.
We do not have time for small gestures.
Welp, so much for the prediction that he and Chris could host within a few years as the ultimate Oscars gimmick.
Two genuine apologies and he resigned from the academy. But it's just not enough for these people.
All his projects are on hold. Deals are on hold. Now he can't attend the Oscars for ten years.
I've never witnessed anyone in Hollywood actually be punished by Hollywood until now.
FRIDA KAHLOÂ âHeroine of Painâ
We celebrate David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Prince for their gender-nonconforming amazingness as we should, but let us not forget
Annie Lennox
Grace Jones
Sinead OâConnor
Dolores OâRiordan
Patti Smith
Tracy Chapman
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I wonder if cis people ever step back and think about just how much trans people have to spend just to live a happier life. I wonder if they realize just how many trans people live poor/live in poverty because they have to juggle between everyday expenses and the expense that being trans is. And that's the expense left if your insurance is "kind" enough to even try covering your healthcare if you need medical care in regards to being trans.
Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975)
An American-born French dancer, Josephine Baker grew up in poverty. Between the ages of 8-10, she was out of school, helping to support her family, taking on jobs such as cleaning houses and babysitting for white families.
At age 16 she was touring with a dance troupe from Philadelphia. In 1923 she joined the chorus in a road company performing the musical comedy Shuffle Along and then moved to New York City, where she advanced steadily through the show Chocolate Dandies on Broadway and the floor show of the Plantation Club. In 1925 she performed in France at the ThÊâtre des Champs-ĂlysĂŠes, where she introduced her danse sauvage. She went on to become one of the most popular music hall entertainers in France. In 1936 she returned to the states, but despite being a major celebrity in Europe, was not accepted by American audiences, who referred to her as a âNegro Wenchâ. So she returned to Europe.
In the late 1930s, she became a French citizen, and performed in several films before WWII halted her career. During the German occupation in France, Josephine worked with the Red Cross and the resistance, passing along secrets she had heard from the Nazis to French Military officials, after performing for them. Passing along said secrets by writing with invisible ink on music papers.
In the 1950s and 60s, she returned to the US to help the fight against racism. She refused to perform for segregated audiences, which forced some club owners to integrate their clubs. She also began to adopt many children of different nationalities and races, calling them âThe Rainbow Tribeâ.
Josephine was an amazing woman, who worked hard and did so much for the world, and we love her here. đ
Extra Trivia
Josephine was a bisexual who had an affair with Frida Kahlo, the two having met in 1939.
In 1963 she was one of the few women allowed to speak at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Her opposition against segregation and discrimination was recognized by the NAACP
Unusual for her time, she was a woman who never had to depend on a man for financial stability, and was more than willing to leave a bad relationship (her first marriage only lasting a matter of weeks)
Western culture thrives on creating a victim narrative for anybody who goes through a difficult period in life.
We are much more resilient than we give ourselves credit for; the most traumatizing thing that has happened to all of us is experiencing birth. We got through it as infants back then, and we can get through our traumas now. The difference is now we have incorporated our traumas as a part of our Selves instead of taking it as a lesson.
During my childhood, I had a run-in with a teenager who must've been put through a traumatic experience along with other questionable moments I won't detail here, but that along with the rest of my life was an initiation into the person I am now. Only a self-absorbed person would think they're the only ones who have ever felt pain and demand the world stop and acknowledge their pain.
If I dwelled on that time in my life, I would've been developmentally arrested, trying to make sense of something that isn't supposed to be made sense of by my conscious mind.
Iâm a firm believer that there was something in me that attracted that situation. Looking back, my thoughts were fucked up, yes, even as a 9-year-old, so I got what I deserved. Everybody has been through some type of initiation by the time they're adults, you are not the only one who has experienced something negative in their life. Not everybody is interested in making noise about a disturbed person doing disturbing shit. Sinister occurrences are normal here.
Our youth doesn't protect us from the perils of the world; cosmic intelligence has different rules from human intelligence. Everybody is treated equally, even the cutest animals will get cooked, so humans aren't protected from the same fate. I'll ask once again: what makes one person special from the next? Really, tell me. We all go through life so we can empathize with each otherâs perspective on the world. If you donât want any experiences, why are you here?
When you become obsessed with your trauma, there is a higher chance you will want to recreate and relive it to make sense of it and there is no shortage of people who are waiting around to help you do that.
This is mutual abuse and this lowers the vibration of the planet and guess what? You're no longer the victim especially if you procreate. When you're trying to "make sense" of a moment for 20 years and you're running through multiple partners, trying to find the one who can give you that moment over and over again means there's a part of you that likes getting hurt. Seeking pain is your shadowâs will; your shadow wants to go through certain experiences so it can make itself known. The longer you ignore your shadow the most hostile its takeover.
Those who do not make their trauma their identity and have healed tend to be the ones who understand the purpose of trauma; it's to wake us up to the truth of this world and behave accordingly.
Trauma is supposed to leave an imprint on you so you operate in truth. That trauma was for you because you have a specific purpose you could not possibly fulfill until you experienced that. Nobody else has to relate to it, and nobody has it worse or better than you; trauma's purpose is not to compare yourself to others because you really have no idea what other people are going through. The point of your trauma is to learn to have unconditional acceptance of yourself and the world regardless of what happens. Itâs to let you know you cannot change the world, but you can change yourself. Half of the battle people are fighting is their own narcissism... that they shouldn't have to learn anything here like the rest of us; they truly think they should be here to rest, eat fruit and have a community take care of them. Trauma is our wake-up call.
You are not going to have a good time here unless you learn this place and how to navigate it.
A lot of people cannot cope with this truth which is why they come up with labels and futility try to protest the Earth's cycle. The years of truth in everybody's life is 27-33, this is also when many people take their life. If you're in this age range and you still haven't gotten the memo that you're on a polarized planet, you should be placed on suicide watch until you get it.
When it comes to the shadow, most people want the persona without the darker parts of the human being. Everybody is giving each other ultimatums to change instead of just removing that person from their life. You cannot tell somebody to change the course of their life they wanted to go on, that's for them to experience. People threaten each other into following "The Right Way to Be" and then they have the nerve to talk about "love." Love doesn't exist when you cannot accept somebody's shadow. When women start threatening males about dying alone (and vice versa) because males didn't follow the script, that is not love. I'm of the opinion that nobody needs to do anything. We have choices and making somebody do something unnatural to them or lying about their capabilities is hatred.
My radical feminist starter pack
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MEGA PDF
More books here, here, here, and here
de Beauvoir: The Second Sex (1949)Â
Brøgger: Deliver Us From Love (1973)
Burstow: Radical Feminist Therapy (1992) PDF
Collins: Black Feminist Thought (1990)
Criado-Perez: Invisible Women (2019)
Daly: Gyn/Ecology (1978)
Daly: Beyond God the Father (1973)
Dines: Pornland (2010)
Dworkin: Intercourse (1987)
Dworkin: Last Days at Hot Slit (2019)
Ekis Ekman: Being and Being Bought (2013)
Firestone: The Dialectic of Sex (1970)
Friedan: The Feminine Mystique (1963)
hooks: ainât i a woman (1981)
hooks: Feminist Theory (1984)
Jeffreys: Beauty and Misogyny (2005) PDF
Jeffreys: The Industrial Vagina (2000)
Lorde: Sister Outsider (1984)
MacKinnon: Are Women Human? (2006)
MacKinnon: Butterfly Politics (2017)
Miles: Who Cooked the Last Supper? (1988/2001)
Millett: Sexual Politics (1970)
Moraga: This Bridge Called My Back (1983)
Rich: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)
Russ: How to Suppress Womenâs Writing (1983) PDF
Saini: Inferior (2017)
Wolf: The Beauty Myth (1990)
Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
Please feel free to message me if you have anything to add!Â
Completed:
Dworkin: Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981)Â Â
Dworkin: Right Wing Women (1983)
Solanas: SCUM Manifesto (1967) PDF
An in-person conversation I had with my sister after mentioning Harry Potter (sheâs in quotes):
âFuck jk Rowlingâ
Random. Why?
âSheâs a TERFâ
How?
âShe wrote all that shit about trans peopleâ
What did she write?
âLike, a whole essay.â
Okay, so what did she say exactly?
âShe basically said-â
No. I mean âexactlyâ. Whatâs a direct quote from her essay thatâs 100%, indisputably, transphobic.
âI mean. Sheâs said a lot.â
yeah, Iâm asking you to tell me, though. Iâm genuinely curious.
âIdk. I donât feel like reading it.â
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