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Separatist Swaps: Home Cook Youtubers
This week’s theme from @radblrthemeweeks is Separatist Swaps (suggesting equivalent female artists/musicians/creators/etc to support as well as or instead of men)
I’ll admit I don’t read or watch TV much, but I do watch a lot of YouTube. I added some of my favorite channels to this post in the past (X). This will be an expanded list in no particular order.
Initially, I wanted to compare each channel to a similar male-led one, but I opted to just summarize what I think is unique about each one.
Food and Cooking
Note: I prefer vegan/plant based cooking, so I’ll specify which of these channels are exclusively vegan.
Cheap Lazy Vegan (V) Rose makes a lot of Korean food, but the ingredients are pretty easy to find at a regular grocery store. Many of her videos feature high protein, nutritious meals that can be ready in 20 minutes or less. I’ve also found her recipes to be shockingly simple without getting boring.
Rainbow Plant Life (V) Nisha is one of my favorite youtubers. Her recipes are a bit more involved that Rose’s, but I’ve made several of them myself so they’re still approachable for a home cook. Her recipes are primarily American or Indian inspired with advice for meal prep and saving time.
Pick Up Limes (V) Sadia is a nutritionist, so her recipes tend to be wholesome and nutritious. However, she still has a lot of recipes for comfort food and desserts. I don’t make her recipes as often, but her videos are enjoyable.
Sierra Ann I like her easy “recipes” (more like meal ideas), but she sometimes posts about fashion as well. Her content is more akin to a vlog than concrete recipes or cooking tips, so I find myself watching her YT shorts more than her longform content.
Lisa Nguyen I’ve only ever seen her YT shorts so idk if she makes longer videos or not. She does instant ramen challenges where she tries different brands or ramen hacks.
Morgan Drinks Coffee Morgan releases a mix of recipes and other content like appliance and coffee reviews. She has a lot of advice for people just getting into coffee or those who want some fresh ideas.
Inga Lam When I made the other post she was still working for Buzzfeed, but she recently decided to focus on her own channel. I’m not sure what she has planned but she’s very creative and ambitious.
How to Cook That Ann Reardon mostly makes baking videos, but I prefer her debunking videos. She seems to have shifted more toward debunking dangerous videos in general, not just food related videos.
June Xie from Delish June makes long videos creating a week’s worth of meals, often on a budget. My main complaint about her content is that some of the food she makes is either not for everybody or uses ingredients that aren’t readily accessible, like produce from specialty shops. However, that also means her recipes tend to be unique and interesting. Her boyfriend also comes off as kinda rude, but he’s only there when they’re tasting the food.
Beryl Shereshewsky People from around the world submit ways they eat a particular food, like instant ramen or onions, and Beryl makes and reviews them. These videos are helpful when I feel stuck in a routine and want to see ingredients from a different perspective.
Alix Traeger Alix used to work for Tasty, but now she makes content on her own channel with her girlfriend Zoya. Zoya is Persian, so it’s been fun watching Alix try to master Persian dishes.
Here are some others I saw in my Watch Later list that I don’t watch often or haven’t seen yet.
Mina Rome (Cooking)
Doobydobap (Cooking)
Flo Lum (Cooking)
Sarah’s Vegan Kitchen (Cooking)
Sweet Simple Vegan (Cooking)
Julia Pacheco (Cooking)
Feelgoodfoodie (Cooking)
Anne of all trades (DIY)
The busy brown angel (Gardening)
Gardening and Homesteading
Girl in the Woods I just found her channel last week, but it was too interesting to leave out. Usually I don’t like homesteading YouTubers because they focus on the aesthetics, but I’ve actually learned a lot about off-grid living just from watching a few of her videos.
HannahLeeDuggan She bought a property with a run-down cabin a few years back. Before that, she was living in a van and selling handmade clothes online. I can’t say I’ve learned much about van life or homesteading from her videos, but I haven’t given her a fair chance yet. Last I checked, she was planning on documenting the process of fixing up and weather-proofing her cabin.
Learn Something
Answers in Progress This channel is run by three people, two of which are women. They answer random questions with a surprising amount of research and interviews with professionals.
The Take The Take claims to be “ the leading female-led entertainment analysis channel on TV, Movies & Pop-Culture”
Cheyenne Lin Cheyenne focuses on feminist analysis and film analysis through a feminist lens.
Jessica Chou She isn’t active anymore but she has some basic videos on car maintenance.
Micarah Tewers Micarah sews a combination of beautiful and insane clothes. I’ve never tried to recreate any of her patterns but she’s so entertaining to watch. She made fake eyelashes out of her dog’s hair and that’s not even the craziest thing she’s done on her channel.
Since this is intended to be a discussion, I’m also including a list of channels I’d like to find that are usually male dominated.
Game News and Lore I like watching lore videos for games like the Fallout series, RDR2, and TES. So far, the only female gamers I’ve seen on YT are overly sexualized and don’t make the content I’m looking for.
Food Science There are a few channels that break down food science like Adam Ragusea and Kenji Lopez-Alt. The closest female equivalent is How to Cook That, but it’s not quite what I’m looking for and she primarily posts baking videos.
I’ve been watching a lot of Ethan Chlebowski’s videos lately because he makes meal formulas and focuses on high protein meals. If anyone knows who I’m talking about, I’d love to see female-run channels that make similar content.
Gardening and Homesteading I want channels that actually teach me something new and don’t focus on pseudoscience or religion.
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YouTube swaps for @radblrthemeweeks
I watch YouTube when I want to have some downtime... And I like my YouTube to be fun.
I thought I would share some female YouTubers I've been enjoying recently, I'd love to hear other people's recommendations!
If you like Nick DiRamio or Mike's Mic, TV and film review/comedy videos try -
Jamie French
She reviews bad and nostalgic films, including skits where she green screens herself into scenes from the films. She points out production errors, lazy tropes and is pretty fun. The series started out being "movies and make up" but the make up is easy to ignore and as she's done more movie review videos she seems to be doing the on-screen make up less and less.
Recommended videos -
Sleepover is a dumpster fire
I think I found the worst dance movie of all time
Kierra loves TV
Kierra summarises and discusses characters and tropes in her favourite TV shows. Her channel is pretty new, only 7 months old, and while i don't watch her videos on family guy, in her other videos she has a great voice and interesting perspectives on early 2000s TV - I enjoy her videos on Gilmore girls and Sex and the City
Recommended videos
Why everybody hates Carrie Bradshaw
The manipulation of Emily Gilmore
If you like Todd in the Shadows or other deep dives into musicians, one hit wonders, artists who didn't make it, try -
Naomi Cannibal
Naomi talks about a range of topics including celebrity culture and TV shows, but I particularly enjoy her videos about musicians careers and history.
Recommended videos -
One album wonders : label conflicts and the rise of streaming
Teairra Mari - the girl who was almost Rihanna
If you like Stuart Hicks or Architecture related videos try -
Belinda Carr
Belinda makes videos about architecture and modern building techniques and trends. I find her videos to be very informative, even if you're not that into architecture I recommend giving her a try!Recommended videos -
Bamboo Vs cork flooring - everything you need to know
How to build straw bale houses - pros and cons
If you like day in the life, spending challenges and solo travel try -
Clickfortaz
I love Taz's videos, she is silly, very honest and quite naïve. Her friendship with her childhood friend Moon is really lovely, but most of her videos are just Taz trying new things. She has talked a lot about her mental health and has published and performed her poetry.
Recommended videos -
I tried to bake a cake with no recipe
Living in a treehouse for 48 hours
If you like furniture restoration or carpentry like Blacktail Studio try
Transcend Furniture Gallery
Angie repairs, restores and up cycles furniture. The videos are informative but also very calm and satisfying and I really like her work!
Restoring table tops - stripping, sanding, staining, sealing
Do you like videos of model and miniature making like Thalasso Hobbyer? Try -
KaypeaCreations
Karen makes a lot of animals, mythical and real, and her methods and techniques are really interesting to watch.
Recommended videos -
I made a realistic mooshroom from Minecraft
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I wanted to raise the way I often see white/ethnic european women on radblr reblogging posts and sharing information about misogyny affecting woc overseas in other countries but I think it's much rarer to share information or promote helping woc who live in close proximity to us. I'm sure we have reblogged posts about 4B in Korea or menstrual huts in nepal much more than brough up issues close to home.
I don't mean those are less important than close ones, but I think it's easy to make a big fuss over problems far away you're not directly contributing to.
I reblog posts about maori women or issues affecting woc in NZ when I see them but I don't go out of my way to find and/or make informative posts. Surely that would be a better use of my time than repeatedly reblogging posts of situations far away I have no way of affecting or being involved in.
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https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-movies-directed-by-women-of-the-21st-century/
There were a lot of films on this list. I think I’ve only seen one of them (Wonder Woman), so this list might be my recommendation list for a while.
On there was Lady Bird, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Kids Are All Right, Babadook, and a lot of popular documentaries.
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For @radblrthemeweeks I am looking for fantasy novels written by women that are not about high-schooler aged kids. Also wlw novels that don't have gender ideology in them.
#radfem#radical feminism#radical feminists please interact#radfems please interact#radfems do interact
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Hey gyns- I was inspired by @radblrthemeweeks to make this post.
Woman II Woman is a non profit organization made for and by incarcerated women. We all know just how vulnerable these women are.
Directly from their website:
“Woman II Woman, Inc. is a community of previously incarcerated women providing resources, education, and support services for system-impacted women. We stand in solidarity with our sisters, being a voice for the voiceless and ensuring them that they are not forgotten.
We champion the rights and welfare of our sisters through advocacy and education, along with providing services for parole suitability hearings, commutation preparation, and one-on-one re-entry support, welcoming women back into the community with dignity and respect through a team who have lived the experience.”
I 100% recommend supporting them. If you are unable to donate raising awareness can do wonders. Amplify this wonderful organization, they really do deserve it.
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This is my attempt to do a thing for @radblrthemeweeks because I love the concept of their blog!
This week’s theme is Separatist Swaps, basically: if you like the content from this man, try the content of this woman.
I’ll deviate from the theme a bit because I don’t know that many things to compare stuff to, so instead I’ll just list different female musicians/bands in different genres!
Indie:
BANKS
Boyskout
The Butchies
Courtney Barnett
Grace Victoria
Jen Cloher
Kate Nash
Montaigne
Odie Leigh
Päter
PJ Harvey
Rio Romeo
Metal:
Angor Animi
Apofenia
Asagraum
Astarte
BABYMETAL
Bambie Thug
Banshee
Bridear
Kittie
Mary’s Blood
We Are PIGS
Alt:
DIAMANTE
Girls Rituals
HAWXX
K.Flay
Lacey Strum
Lola Blanc
Punk:
Bikini Kill
Childbirth
Destroy Boys
Otoboke Beaver
Pussy Riot
Country:
Gillian Welch
Miranda Lambert
Gothic:
Emelie Autumn
One-Eyed Doll
#definitely a non-exhaustive list lol! this was made by scrolling through my Spotify likes for 30 minutes!#(*also means it’s not well-researched so some of these may just be female-fronted. but I tried to look into that!)#long post
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Hi all,
I thought for this month’s @radblrthemeweeks theme (Real World Action), it might be interesting to share some of my experience of running this tumblr, and trying to organise UK meetings for rad women.
I won’t pretend - it’s really hard.
At every stage of the process - from first contact to vetting to organising to attending meetings - women stop replying, stop engaging, ghost entirely or come in and out over months. It’s killed any ego I had about sending multiple messages, or being disappeared on! I have tens of conversations that are almost entirely one sided, me trying to keep women informed and involved while they ignore me. I know that often this is because women are afraid, overwhelmed, or just plain busy - but I won’t pretend it’s not frustrating.
Also, actually getting women into the same place for a get together is really stressful. Every time I head out for a meeting I worry that our location has been leaked, that I’ll encounter protesters or that our safety will be compromised, even though so far, this has never happened. My vetting process has successfully weeded out people who went on to be identified as dangerous by the community. As much as that is a relief, it’s disturbing to think of what could have gone wrong, or could go wrong, if I don’t remain rigorous and constantly vigilant.
In addition to organising meetings, I try and share news and opportunities related to women in the UK. This means wading through articles about femicide, sexual assault, crimes against children. It very rapidly gets overwhelming. The occasional piece of good news - like the news that Owami Davies, the woman missing in London for over 45 days, has been found alive and well - is what keeps me going.
What also keeps me going is the belief that my frustration, stress, and overwhelm is dwarfed by the importance of getting women off their screens and into the real world. Getting women communicating, creating connections, forming friendships and networks. Increasing women’s awareness of what’s happening on their doorsteps. Letting women say things they’ve been thinking for years out loud, possibly for the first time. Having feedback (any of which is always welcome and wanted, whether positive or negative) from women who appreciate my posts, who had a great time at meetings, who’ve made real friendships because of me. Knowing that almost twenty women are going to the Filia Conference in part or wholly because of my posts about it. That women are able to go to events they wouldn’t have gone to otherwise, because of my efforts. My own dented ego, nerves, and irritation are far less important than achieving the goal of this blog - to make a difference, no matter how tiny or insignificant.
And all that means I’m not going to stop. I’m not going to give up. I’m going to keep trying, keep trying new things and trying to improve and trying to make a difference. So if you’ve been on the fence, or if you’ve never thought of it, or you’ve been thinking about it for weeks or months - send me a message. See if I can put you in touch with radblr women in your area. See if you could form a group, could do some real world action of your own, could make some tiny difference. It might frustrate, stress, and overwhelm you, but I think it‘ll be worth it, because it’s worth it for me.
Love, UKRF XX
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I’m thinking about getting a bunch of sticky notes and marking the books at the library.
There’s a book called “fossil men” which bothers me because in recent years and over the course of paleo anthropology, many skeletal and fossil discoveries were female. You are probably most familiar with Lucy, but the first example of homo naledi found in south Africa was female. The oldest human remains in the americas was a female found in some underwater caves in Mexico.
I’ll admit I haven’t read the book, so I would expect that the author does include these female examples and unsexed examples because all we have is a miscellaneous bone to type the species. However, his title brings to mind cave men, not humans and especially not women and children.
This title just bothers me because calling it “fossil humans” would have had the same mystical effect and instead the author had some implicit bias and kicked out women. On that book I would mention some of those important fossil discoveries.
There are a lot of books about Amish romance which always is so disturbing to me given the high rates of incestuous rape that fathers and brothers inflict on the daughters and sisters.
Making note on the copy of Steven king’s books about his creepiness, especially if I can get the specifics about that book.
Putting notes on dvds or cds about plot or content or artists that are offensive to feminist values.
Using sticky notes means that it’s not permanent and is easily replaceable so it’s not like you’re defacing public property and you can hide the sticky notes inside, too, so they don’t get removed until a patron checks them out.
It doesn’t feel like a lot, but that’s what I need right now. My mental health is on thin ice, so I can’t make big commitments, but I can get some sticky notes and write on them.
@radblrthemeweeks
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September’s @radblrthemeweeks prompt is marriage and relationships, which is great since I’ve been musing on something related lately.
When my best friend and I were kids, we made a pact: if both of us were single by age 30, we would get “fake married.” After all, if we reached that ancient age without finding a good man to settle down with, there probably weren’t **any good men left.
To us, both ten years old in a small conservative town, marriage wasn’t about sex or romance (which at that time we only knew about in a heterosexual context), but partnership. A married couple would live together. They would buy a house together and have joint finances. Each person would contribute equally, which for us meant we would both work, do chores, and take care of the kids — who were inevitable, in our sheltered worldview.
And we would also do taxes together. We were fuzzy on that part, but taxes seemed very adult, and something married couples had to do all the time.
Most of all, we thought, a married couple prioritized each other. They’d have each other’s backs, through sickness and in health. What were wedding rings but grown-up versions of our handwoven friendship bracelets, anyway?
Then we “grew up.” We put away the thought of platonic partnership when we hit our teens. Romance became our priority. Society had been hammering that into our heads since earliest childhood, and once puberty introduced us to feelings of romantic love and sexual desire, we put away our so-called childish dreams and focused on more adult things.
But the pact remained. We still joked about it, especially when comforting each other post-breakup. In fact, if tragedy hadn’t struck (in the form of her deep connection to cats and my deep allergy to them), we would probably be living together now. Sometimes I mourn what could have been; we would have been happy and fulfilled with each other.
I think about our pact a lot these days. Two women, platonic but very much loving, centering each other as life partners regardless of any romantic relationship that may appear in our lives — I think my childhood BFF and I were inadvertently inventing female separatism.
We weren’t the only ones, either. The more I look around, the more I see women who don’t consider themselves radical feminists, who might not think about feminism much at all, choosing to exclusively build relationships with women. I find them online, in places like women-only forums and subreddits. I find them in my social circles, where single moms have chosen to throw in together and support each other; there’s a household of three women and five kids who live in both sides of a duplex, a community unto themselves. I find them among my parents’ friend group, made up of retirees who credit their happiness to lifelong singleness, or to their divorces.
“Stick with your sisters,” one advised me once. “A man will only drag you down.”
Women are starting to question the established wisdom of the nuclear family. What value does a man bring into our lives? they ask each other, as they compare experiences. We can support ourselves financially. We have each other for companionship. We have the confidence and ability to find sexual flings if we want, and access to any sex toy we can think of if we don’t. Men never do their fair share in relationships; we are worn-down and sick of it. What if we turn to each other?
And, miraculously, some do.
Am I saying that straight women are becoming separatists en masse? No, definitely not. The patriarchy demands the prioritization of heterosexual relationships from women, and we are a long way from dismantling that. It’s baked into society and driven into us from birth: prioritize men, turn your back on your sisters and female lovers. Arguably, the act of centering women alone isn’t even separatism, depending on who you’re asking.
But does it give me hope, to see women break that conditioning? Does it give me hope to know that women are meeting each other’s eyes and saying, “I’m going to choose you, my friend, my sister”? Oh, yes.
Like wildflowers growing on a featureless lawn, we are blooming. And I have hope that in the future, we will run to riot and fill that lawn with color and vivacity. I think we can do it. We are women, and our bonds are powerful.
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I really want to do graphic design for radfem stuf. Especially zines, books and book covers, posters etc.
@radblrthemeweeks would you maybe interested in having your posts/submissions as a web zine or an ebook/document? With a good graphic design, illustrations etc
#for free ofc#or if someone wants to make a document of their og posts#radfem#radblr#radfems please touch#radfems please interact
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radblrthemeweeks is trying to kill us all
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Thank you to everyone who voted on the topic for the next theme week!
The community has decided the theme topic for November 2022 is ‘Methods of Managing the Psychological Impact of Misogyny/Feminism’. Please consider posting about it over the next week under the hashtag #radblrthemeweek5 - all original posts (besides spam) under this hashtag will be shared by this blog from the 21st November, a week from now. Please use the #radblrthemeweek5 hashtag first, before any other tags, or it may not show up under the tag.
Everyone is welcome to contribute to the theme, regardless of your experience, how established your blog is, or how many followers you have, so please don’t hesitate to get involved, by creating original posts or interacting with others’ posts. Please remain civil and polite in discussion, in order for everyone to get the maximum benefit, and to develop ideas as much as possible. Please also consider sharing this post, so more women can see the prompt.
Contributions can take any form - original ideas, excerpts/quotes from theory or literature, anecdotes, study evidence, articles, creative efforts such as poetry or art, and more, are all welcome and valued. Most particularly, new contributions, even if they’re not fully formed or directly relevant, would be ideal - this is an opportunity to discuss possibilities, share work from less known theorists, and gain understanding from different contexts than what is typical of radblr. Also, please engage with other people’s theme posts!
As always, a reminder - if you don’t make the posts, the posts don’t get made.
Looking forward to seeing everything you all create, suggest, and share under the hashtag #radblrthemeweek5! Any questions, please get in touch!
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For @radblrthemeweeks on Marriage and relationships. I hope I am not too late. I am sure this has been said before but it has been weighing on my mind a lot.
I want to talk about marriage and history. Marriage in the context of history is a slave contact. This practice of families (mainly male members) selling women and girls to other men to be a household servents, raped and bred is always highly overlooked in conversations about the lives of women in the past.
I am constantly thinking about the Athenian women living in Classical Athens, the time which many people look back on as a the height of culture, and all I can think about is how they were enslaved by men. This is not limited to Athens either. Marriage as a slave contract is present in almost every single culture, and is still pervasive today with girls being married to men who are up to 40 years their senior.
I get very tired of the lack of acknowledgement that almost all of women were slaves in the past. Almost every single married woman was sold to a man. She was told to do as he said and couldn't refuse his sexual advances. Most people didn't marry for love. Men found a woman they thought would be a good match and that woman was sold to him, or she accepted because it would be advantageous considering her context.
These men had compete control of these women because of marriage. Their finances, body, children, everything belonged to him. He could be as violent as he pleased, rape her as much as he liked and then she had to cohabitate with him. Marriage like this still exists today and to ignore the history of marriage is to deny the oppression of women.
#radfem#radical feminism#radblrthemeweek3#gender critical#radical feminists please interact#radfems please interact#radfems do interact#herstory
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Thank you to everyone who voted on the topic for the next theme week!
The community has decided the theme topic for August 2022 is ‘Methods of Real World Action’. Please consider posting about it over the next week under the hashtag #radblrthemeweek2 - all original posts (besides spam) under this hashtag will be shared by this blog on the 28th August, a week from now.
Everyone is welcome to contribute to the theme, regardless of how established your blog is or how many followers you have, so please don’t hesitate to get involved. Please remain civil and polite in discussion, in order for everyone to get the maximum benefit, and to develop ideas as much as possible.
Contributions can take any form - original ideas, excerpts/quotes from theory or literature, anecdotes, study evidence, articles, creative efforts such as poetry or art, and more, are all welcome and valued. Most particularly, new contributions, even if they’re not fully formed or directly relevant, would be ideal - this is an opportunity to discuss possibilities, share work from less known theorists, and gain understanding from different contexts than what is typical of radblr. Also, please engage with other people’s theme posts!
Some prompts from the community’s suggestions:
How to express anger productively, and create effective calls to action
How to find or create real-world community to make a difference locally
Advice from older, more experienced feminists on effective methods of activism, especially for younger women and students with less experience
Tactics effectively used by feminists in the past as well as the present
Individual testimonies about protest experiences, or for those who have no protest experience, what is preventing attendance and how this could be addressed
Ways of approaching consciousness raising irl, including how to set up formal consciousness raising sessions, and any lessons learned from previous efforts
How to form temporary separatist/female-only experiences, particularly across generations and for groups that have historically been excluded (such as CR sessions, women-only events, etc)
Methods of countering misinformation about (radical) feminism
Looking forward to seeing everything you all create, suggest, and share under the hashtag #radblrthemeweek2 ! Any questions, please get in touch!
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