Radical Sister: We have to take responsibility (those of us who are white and non-lesbian)

radscum:

radsis:

There will NEVER be true sisterhood if we don’t stop. If we don’t stop using our privilege against those of us who have to deal with double- or even triple-oppression. These sisters have to constantly defend themselves against our ignorance and heterosexism/racism. Go on, stand in front of your…

White women need to realize that our bonding is at the expense of nonwhite women and that the silence of nonwhite women in face of white feminists centering ourselves isn’t agreement it’s separation, it’s withdrawal from a radical feminist revival led by white women. And lesbians get scolded like children for putting our energies into oppression between women in our communities. we are all we have and we don’t want a heterosexist hierarchy that celebrates the courage of recently exhet feminists while silencing lifelong lesbians and mocking their pride at loving girls in childhood or pretending that its a privilege to grow up lesbian. Lesbian girlhood matters, especially when the dominant culture acts like lesbian children don’t exist.

(via boterocats)

The day the women went on strike

randomstabbing:

On October 24 1975, 90% of Iceland’s women refused to work, cook or look after children. The effect was incredible, recalls Annadis Rudolfsdottir.

This is an older article, but very interesting if you’ve never heard about it.. or even if you have. I am posting all my older bookmarked articles so I can share them before I clean them out. Re-blog at will.

If women come together to create change, it can happen. Patriarchy is all about divide and conquer, especially dividing women from each other. When we come together, amazing things happen.

(via vegetablearian)

i'm not a wordsmith, i'm a wordbutler: Trigger Warning: Rape, Rape Culture

feministninja:

lillykane-dreams-on:

feministninja:

This little shithead protested on a campus with the sign “You deserve a rape” at an Arizona university. AND. No one stopped him. Because free speech.

Where are the radfems to exercise their free speech on such days?

Well, we can exercise it viral….

First of all, the original article is provided at the bottom of the original post. He did this on school campus.

Second, he was shouting at women that they deserve to be raped as they were walking by. He was “preaching” that women who look like whores are asking for it.

He’s a psychopath trolling a university and sexually harassing every woman who walks by with any skin showing. That is CLEARLY in violation of a sexual harassment law, which should be included in the code of student conduct.

Finally, you don’t think his sign incites anyone? That’s just you. Maybe ask some people who have been raped, such as myself. For a rape victim, seeing a man like this shouting those things could cause a panic attack and I nearly had a panic attack just reading the news article. If you don’t find this image with intent to incitement, then you are very lucky and I hope you’ll understand that not everyone is so lucky. Considering that the rape rate on college campuses is significantly higher than in the general population, without question, a number of rape survivors walked past that sign that day. Without question.

Please think of Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons for a moment, two women bullied to the point of suicide, and not by just one person, but by a culture that allowed various people to continually perpetuate this sort of behavior seen from Dean Saxton. Think of all the women who haven’t killed themselves, but struggle to keep their heads up and be a “survivor” not a “victim” every single day so as not to end up the next suicide victim after being violated at the deepest personal level. Then to walk past a sign like this. Try to see this from the perspective of all the women who have and will be raped in their lifetime. This little asshole is not JUST a little asshole. He is causing great emotional harm to other people, especially to women, who were his primary targets that day.

This is rape culture.