Hey guys!

I need people to interview for my dissertation... criteria are to be

- 18-25

- Living in the UK

- Previously or currently using a hormonal birth control pill to regulate/suppress/manage periods

Focus groups are this weekend. Open to people of any and all gender identities - would love to hear about your experiences!

Register your interest!

I recently heard a quote along the lines of “the issue was never that the sex was outside of a relationship but that it was unkind and objectifying” and I wanted to read more about issues like that.

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I’ve had a long journey to try to embrace all the parts of intersectional feminism, for me it’s the new complex gender identity stuff. I’ve noticed online if I say certain things I get accused of being a TERF and not intersectional. Needless to say some of my concerns have not always been dealt with nicely. I do want to try to do better if this is the new and true definition of feminism.

Hi i am a year 12 student completing my Personal Interest Project on how the media perpetuates white feminism. I would really appreciate it, if you could fill it out. Thanks.

"A white feminist is someone who refuses to consider the role that whiteness and the racial privilege attached to it have played, and continue to play, in universalizing white feminist concerns, agendas and beliefs as those of all of feminism and all feminists. You do not have to be white to be a white feminist. It is also perfectly possible to be white and feminist and not be a white feminist."

I'm relatively new to feminism, and as a WOC I've found it very difficult to find spaces to talk about race and intersectionality, especially in feminist subs. I come to feminism having spent a few years already reading various scholarship on postcolonial theory and by decolonial thinkers. It has surprised me how race is still a taboo for feminism, but my prior reading has given me some insight as to why this is sadly the case.

Zakaria makes a good attempt at describing 'white' feminism, but I think the racial marker is confusing and makes ppl feel it's an attack on white women, when in fact it should be white supremacy or more accurately, the ideology of Western cultural and political superiority - of which feminism has been complicit. I've certainly come across WOC feminist who were 'white' feminists, and more troublingly claimed colour blindness as a positive.

If you've read it, what did you think?

Kimberlé Crenshaw, the person who coined, "intersectionality" has on multiple occasions spoken about what she meant by the term which now has become common place and therefore diluted.

This clip is a good summary of what she meant -- "Intersectionality is not primarily about identity."

I have a friend who said she wants her first child to be a boy because “she wants a boy first and then wait to have a girl a year or 2 later so junior can protect his little sister.”

That just sounds so sexist and wrong.

The other day I kid you not I saw a tik tok of a wife giving her husband a surprise gender reveal with a big balloon (popping it to see pink confetti for a girl or blue confetti for a boy) and the confetti turned out to be pink. The dad goes “oh jeez” and just walks away. Another gender reveal had pink smoke with the dad rolling his eyes and walking away as the mom cheers.

You’d think that as expecting parents you’d be happy to just be pregnant and not care what the gender is and not treat a child differently because of their gender, or push toxic expectations of gender onto their kids.

What’s worse is that the dads seem so disappointed when their babies turn out to be girls and I find it horrible, and some moms are complicit and enable the hatred of girls or having daughters in general.

I hope everyone likes this, I have been working really hard on it and am pretty proud ;p even with the 1 typo. Please share

https://imgur.com/a/W3q8eQm

I don't know if this is the right sub to ask this on but I am looking for resources (books, videos, movies, etc.) that explain talking points so I can have reference points when trying to speak to a TERF about why TERF's are wrong. I'm not great at debating and am easily flustered and I was disappointed in myself recently for not knowing how to stand up for trans rights better in the moment. I would really love any recommendations so that I can educate myself more and be better prepared the next time I encounter someone who doesn't understand the importance of trans rights are human rights. Thank you for your patience with me I apologize again if this isn't the right subreddit.

Call for Participants!

I am an MA Disability Studies student at Liverpool Hope University.

I gained full ethical approval from Liverpool Hope University to complete this research.

I would like women of 18+ years from the UK with any disability to take part in my research. The study aims to examine disabled woman's sexual experiences with non-disabled men.

This includes anybody that identifies as female and any form of disability.

Focusing on thoughts and feelings involved around sexual encounters.

The research aims are:

1. To examine the types of reactions women's impairments elicit during their sexual encounters with non-disabled men.
2. To identify which forms of impairment/disability creates what type of reaction from non-disabled men.
3. To also examine how the women's impairment/disability has impacted their feelings towards sexual encounters with mon-disabled men.
4. Identify the cultural representations of disabled women's sexuality and use feminist disability studies to explain why/how this can impact a disabled woman's sexual identity through psycho-emotional disablism.

As a disabled woman myself I have first hand experience of people thinking people with disabilities have no sexual desire or hypersexualising us.

I want this research to give women with disabilities a platform for their voices to be heard.

All participation is voluntary and I will not be offended if you continue scrolling.

For an information sheet which provides further details about this research and a consent form if you're interested please email me at: 21003102@hope.ac.uk**.**If you read the information and decide this isn’t for you that is OK with me :)

Hey guys, I have seen many people claim that intersectional feminists dismiss religious sexism when it comes from religious (Islam, Hinduism…etc) minority (I mean minority in Canada or the US) groups. I don’t think this is true so I would like to hear your thoughts on it. As someone who is trying to be a better feminist, I was also wondering if I could get recommendations for content creators who are/were within a minority religion who do not excuse sexism within their group and talk about it. A perspective like that would be very interesting to listen to I think. I already follow a Christian woman who speaks on Christian sexism (godisgrey) and as an antitheist who loves hearing other perspectives, I would like to hear more.