In teaching her about oppression, be careful not to turn the oppressed into saints. Saintliness is not a prerequisite for dignity. People who are unkind and dishonest still deserve dignity. Property rights for Nigerian women, for example, is a major feminist issue, and the women do not need to be good and angelic to be allowed their property rights.

– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2016) Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, p. 58.

“The Woman Identified Woman” from Radicallesbians (1971) sourced from Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution.

Does anyone have the url of the woman who made the radfem bling banners? I had some downloaded but I need more (also if you know of others/have made some of your own, add that as well!!)

The ones I still have are:

I don't even recall if these are all from the same blog either ngl

favorite excerpts from SCUM manifesto by Valerie Solanas

Liberal feminism is not about dismantling patriarchy but figuring out how to do well for oneself within its system. It's not designed to fight it, it's designed to make it tolerable and exploitable for some.

In a world as far gone as this one, I can't even be mad if women want to prioritize their own happiness and comfort until this whole thing blows up or whatever, but I hate that it masquerades as a wrecking ball when it's actually a pillar. Women literally believe that if we all commit ourselves to being Sexy Badasses or Bad Bitches etc. that magically we'll topple the very system that we're fighting to be sexy for.

oc. 2024

The Radical Cat Collective has formed. Their tails are high and their claws are sharp!

My quick take on Poor Things (2023) is that it’s obviously not realism, it’s absolutely not feminism, it’s without a doubt not about sex, and it’s definitely a little sick and twisted at times… but my god was that a gorgeous surrealist movie about autism and unapologetic joy

Once I head someone say Sarah is the only really necessary or meaningful female character, and that Nazz and the Kankers are pretty much disposable; ''Nazz has no personality, and the Kankers are absent from 50% of episodes and are just a Diabolous ex-machina ending when they appear. The could work very well without any of them.''

What do you think of this?

are they implying that she's only "meaningful" because she's related to ed? because...yikes dog. sarah serves a pretty similar role to the kankers in that she foils the scams and pranks and acts as an obstacle and/or deterrent. an antagonist. but the way they fulfill the role and the reaction they get from the eds are different in ways that i'm too lazy to get into at the moment.

now i could genuinely be missing something because i've never taken a class on media analysis or whatever the fuck, but i truly don't get what people mean when they say nazz is uniquely lacking in personality. i'm not saying eene has excellent, fleshed out female characters, but some people act as if 1) any of the non-eds have highly complex personalities that are explored canonically 2) being kind, outgoing, flirtatious, sporty, etc. aren't personality traits. just because someone doesn't like her personality doesn't mean it doesn't exist. and we know just as much, if not more about nazz's interests than we do the kankers. or jonny: he likes wood, is laid back and seems to enjoy superheroes. or kevin: he likes bmx. he's a bully. he has a crush on nazz. he's buds with rolf, whose backstory we probably know the most about after the eds (maybe even more?). then there's jimmy who lowkey has a great, complex personality.

seems like since nazz is pretty, is into stereotypically "girly" things and is nice, people consider her a "bad" (female) character. which to me is hilarious and ironic. these are the same people who call the kankers "evil". like okay... 😂

this idea that all female characters are supposed to be virtuous geniuses... it's a show about 3 dumbass preteen boys. there are tons of female-led shows available out there, and female main characters galore. these people should go watch em. seriously. im tired of hearing about it frankly.

oh and if edd was canonically a girl, people would hate her and call her a mary sue 👍

Teach her to reject likeability. Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people. Remember I told you how upsetting it was to me that our friend Chioma would often tell me that 'people' would not 'like' something I wanted to say or do? I always felt, from her, the unspoken pressure to change myself to fit some mould that would fit an amorphous entity called 'people'. It was upsetting because we want those close to us to encourage us to be our most authentic selves.

Please do not ever put this pressure on your daughter. We teach girls to be likeable, to be nice, to be false. And we do not teach boys the same. This is dangerous. Many sexual predators have capitalized on this. Many girls remain silent when abused because they want to be nice. Many girls spend too much time trying to be 'nice' to people who do them harm. Many girls think of the 'feelings' of those who are hurting them. This is the catastrophic consequence of likeability. We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable.

So instead of teaching Chizalum to be likeable, teach her to be honest. And kind.

– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2016) Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, pp. 36-7.

Bitch Mutant Manifesto (2024)

born from an obsession with vns matrix, i made this fanzine of their 'bitch mutant manifesto'. my first experimentations with html and web design, so if it's completely inaccessible - i guess that's part of the performance. :)

People who criticize Poor Things for the sex scenes because 'she has the mind of a toddler!' aren't exposing Yorgos Lanthimos' 'secret fetishes', rather they're exposing their own biases when it comes to people with intellectual disabilities

NEW FEMINIST PUNK BAND NEW FEMINIST PUNK BAND LISTEN TO THIS STUFF

Avaline is canonically a feminist so this is how imagine her and Adam's interactions end up being:

i'm bored of barbie

ngl i feel like the current wave of feminism whatever we are on right now has this real issue with neglecting earlier work that results us having to constantly restate the same things and talk in circles (ironically in the second wave ppl like gerda lerner pointed out that having no history is one of the issues facing women and we need to re-instate our history in order to reclaim the present). like how is it we can read marx as foundational but recognise he was deeply flawed in some ways and then read later work addressing these flaws and building on the topic, but when it comes to feminism we literally can't touch anything from before the 90s and then expect every work to encompass every last complexity in the debate and the sum of every previous viewpoint? the more i read earlier feminist work the more i'm like holy shit it's pathetic that we are having to repeat the same things 300 years later like they're brand new and every generation has to re-learn the same lessons instead of actually getting anywhere...

oc. 2024

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