Hi ladies!

I’m looking for the quintessential books on female/lesbian separatism and supremacy, similar to SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solonas.

Also looking for recommendations for books on radical feminism (radfem) and the lesbian identity. Can be theory, biography, or poetry, just no fiction please.

I’ve already read everything by Rachilde and Renee Vivien.

Thank you!!!

why men assume we have daddy issues when we point out their crappy behavior? joke is on them i have a good relationship with my father and my parents are married. is this their stupid way of not feeling accountable for their actions as usual?

Would you guys consider wearing jewellery to be anti-feminist in the way that other things that prop up beauty standards (makeup, shaving, high heels, etc) are? For me it’s a bit of a grey area; id say that some types of jewellery (watches, piercings, etc) are somewhere between neutral or even positively feminist (like the so called “man repellent” septum piercing), whereas jewellery that has a more traditional beautifying “function” is less clear.

On the one hand, I wouldn’t say it’s harmful to women in the ways that confirming with beauty standards definitely are and you don’t get the same pushback from male society for not wearing jewellery as you would for not shaving or wearing makeup. But on the other hand, it serves no really purpose other than making you look “prettier” so I’m torn as to whether or not it’s anti-feminist. Opinions?

Note: I’m not talking about culturally significant jewellery, just about jewellery that is worn purely for ornamental value.

Im just so tired. Im exhausted from feeling like i HAVE to be “pretty”. Today i woke up and my face seems to have some sort of skin problem on my face and when i went grocery shopping i felt so ugly. I saw how people looked at me. I know that everyone is beautiful and it’s whats on the inside that ACTUALLY matters but i don’t know why i feel so pressured to put on makeup and always be “pretty”. I know that being “pretty” isn’t the rent I mistakenly pay to exist and yet my heart aches when i see people avoid me today. I hate it because I’m just so tired. I wish that the concept of being “pretty” never existed. I hate seeing my friends cry because they don’t feel pretty because they feel they have to.

I am cautiously optimistic. Yes there will be sex. There was a gratuitous sex scene in the first episode. But they actually said "sisterhood above all", and I gotta say it made me really really happy. It is about materially empowering women. Evidently the first schism in the bene gesserit was about whether material empowerment or just "the good of the universe" was their goal. And they chose material empowerment of the sisterhood! I like it, ngl.

Alright, let me just lay this out and leave it here: look at how the cycle keeps repeating itself, over and over. It’s almost laughable how predictable it is.

We created the “Bear vs. Man” concept, a symbol of resilience and challenge. Suddenly, out of nowhere, “Woman vs. Tiger” pops up. Like, seriously? They couldn’t even wait a second to remix it and center themselves.

The #womeninmalefields, it’s just a funny little joke. But then, right on cue: “Men in female fields” becomes a thing. Sassy much?

Then there’s that amazing trend, “What I would wear if men didn’t exist.” It’s empowering, fun, and a little cheeky, highlighting how societal expectations shape even the smallest details of women’s lives. But, of course, here comes the edgy counterpart: “What I would wear if females didn’t exist.” Alright, edge lord, go off, I guess. What’s next?

Let’s talk about the “I hate my boyfriend” trend, absolute gold by the way. It’s humorous, relatable, and cathartic. But no, they couldn’t leave it alone. Suddenly, “I hate my girlfriend” trends start popping up, trying to co-opt the energy. And yet, we’re the “emotional” ones? Sure!

And don’t even get me started on Female Rage. It’s raw, it’s real. But before you can blink, Male Rage shows up, as if men haven’t had centuries to channel their anger into everything from wars to laws to Twitter arguments. Childish is an understatement.

It’s like they can’t stand not being the center of attention for five minutes. It’s not just mimicry, it’s a refusal to let women own anything without reshaping it to fit their narrative. The cycle is exhausting, predictable, and honestly, a little embarrassing at this point. They won’t let women have anything and that’s the same reason they invented this god of theirs, they cannot stand that women are the ones that make the babies.

How many times have you heard the “But men need to ejaculate or else they’ll get prostate cancer!” or “Blue balls are really bad for a man’s health!” arguments? Well, I’m completely over them. They’re based on inaccurate and inconclusive studies promoted by the same people who earn money from sleazy, borderline pornographic paparazzi pics.

How many of you have been forced into sexual interactions with men because of these so-called “health risks?” How many men have you said no to that guilted you with ‘blue balls?’ Awe, it hurts? Try being a woman for a day, a day!

“A Daily Mail headline from 2017 reads, ‘Ejaculating at least 21 times a month significantly reduces a man’s risk of prostate cancer’” (Healthline). The Daily Mail, of course, is currently running a story on their front Showbiz page called “Braless Emily Ratajkowski flashes her worryingly thin torso and defined abs in striking cutout top.” The article currently has over 430 comments, whereas Daily Mail’s other articles average less than 100 comments per article. Hmmm… a magazine promoting suggestive content that could attract a certain type of attention also promotes frequent ejaculation? ‘Hey boys! Look at this semi-nude model! Don’t forget to hit your daily cum goal today; these pics should help!’

There is no concrete evidence that frequent ejaculation does anything positive for a man’s health; it’s just a lie we’ve all been told to encourage us to say no less often and for them to demand sex more frequently, “You care about my health, don’t you? Now go on and suck it.”

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Hey, long bit of text, I'm wanting some advice/input from fellow feminists as I'm not sure where to go from here.

I'm a hardcore gamer. I work in the gaming industry and it is my primary hobby. As a woman in gaming, I'm sure you know I get TONS of horrific messages from men. Constantly.

I'm in a Discord server where you get paired with other members to form a gaming group for a game I like to play. Recently, I got paired with a man who was in typical fashion, saying every slur possible. I ended up kicking him from my group, but due to the Discord server outages yesterday, he was able to continuously join my call. He told me "Im going to find your address, r*** you violently and film it for your boyfriend, you fcking whre".

I was quite upset by this individual. Usually I am able to block and move on from comments like this because it happens too frequently. This one hit a little too close for me, I've been sexually assaulted in the past and it triggered my trauma immensely.

I got off the game shortly after and went to confide in my boyfriend about it, how I was upset that I can't engage in my hobbies without facing gender based violence, and that it was hurting me emotionally to have to talk to people like that even when I'm just trying to have fun.

My boyfriend told me to "chill the f out and just block people, it's not a big deal, everyone is rude on video games"

I was incredibly hurt and offended by this because it felt like a stab in my heart that someone I trusted was trivialising the gendered violence I face literally daily. I told him it was incredibly privileged that he can just tune it out. He left the conversation super fast and has been giving me hardcore silent treatment for a day and a half now. He has not said a single word to me since.

I don't know what to do. I thought I had found someone who was a feminist, and understood the nuances of misogyny, and was on my side, but now I'm reconsidering my entire 3 year relationship with him. I just feel so hurt. I keep having hope that the men in my life will just be normal, and kind, and they just prove me wrong every time.

Does anyone have any words of advice, or input about this situation? I think I just want to feel some community here. I know tons of you here have been through the same. Thanks ❤️

(English is my 4th language so excuse me if I don’t make sense) It infuriates me whenever I have to sit through another “feminism is for everybody” lecture. It’s like everyone around me thinks feminism = equality of all sexes. We’ve tried this path, and look at where we are now. I mean, imagine if everyone started saying that gay pride should include straight people because we’re all equal! That’s utter bs.

I’ve never, EVER, seen a BLM activist include white lives, because that just contradicts the whole movement. But due to misogyny being so deeply rooted in our society, women STILL have to care for men, even those that hurt them. I’m not gonna sit here and ignore that the fact that the patriarchy does affect men in the long run, (with toxic masculinity and all that) but that’s like grasping hot coal and complain about it burning, and I’d also like to add that the patriarchal society that we live in does not hurt men the same way as it does to women. That is why we need FEMINISM. It is in the name. It’s here to liberate women from oppression caused by the patriarchy. At least radical feminism, which in my opinion, is the only feminist ideology that actually makes change possible.

This doesn’t mean that men shouldn’t support feminism and stand by us, but trying to include themselves into the movement is just foolish.

I need some book recs! I am just beginning to learn about radical feminism and I would love to hear some of your fav books on the topic!

I literally feel like I'm going crazy. Me and my father have very different opinions on many things, including feminism, so it's not unusual that we have arguments (he usually blows up and I can't say anything so yeah). He makes many misogynistic and homophobic jokes and today he made one about men being "victims" in marriage and I called him out on it, and shit went crazy. He got very angry and told me that I am exaggerating, that he has no problem with anybody and that I am making up shit and that he can't say anything anymore. He then started ranting about having seen on the news that women in Europe earn on average 12 or 13% less then men and how "that's nothing in his opinion and that a stupid woman was acting crazy about it on the tv". And after a pause he started screaming that he doesn't have a problem with women and doesn't have a problem with "fa***ts" (the irony...) and that he's allowed to make fun of whoever he wants and that I am exaggerating and must shut up. I genuinely feel like I am going crazy, like I see the misogyny clearly but I'm wondering if I'm crazy or making up stuff in my mind and I can't tell if it's reality or my imagination. I have very few women in my life who share my views and I feel so lonely. When I see all these behaviours normalized and the general apathy when I talk about women's issues I start wondering if it's only my imagination... Please tell me if the world is as fucked as I see it...

it’s not her own flaws that are the issue, it’s the lens she’s viewed through. In film rather than having her own backstory and screen time her character exists for a man. These men often have no depth or personality and are a blank canvas for all men to relate to. They are unrelatable, but enough of a person for men to view themselves through. These men can exist solely by themselves but the manic pixie dream girl cannot exist without them. Her character is reliant on being perceived by him.

These men are often going through something difficult within their lives which is when the manic pixie dream girl spawns to save them and solve his problems.This is her purpose. Without a man to fantasise about her, there is no manic pixie dream girl. If she is the main character/protagonist she suddenly has too much depth and humanity and therefore is unqualified to be a manic pixie dream girl.

She is fun, whimsical, and spontaneous. She impulsively asks men for their numbers on the street and dances in the rain in a miniskirt. She has obscure interests and quirky behaviour but it is never explored where these stemmed from. Her interests do not matter, they are simply charming assets to make her appealing to the stale white bread boy. Both the ones in the story and the ones in the audience. The male protagonists are almost always completely infatuated with her, but this infatuation is superficial.

I always found these women much more enticing and interesting than the male protagonists, leaving me frustrated with the lack of exploration of their characters. She is an accessory to him.

Many of us as teen girls wanted to become a manic pixie dream girl, we would pick one of choice and emulate her. Perhaps choosing characteristics from multiple or create our own. Our lives became a vessel of showcasing these qualities. Maybe this can be seen through the vintage records under our beds, or through the fact that our lingering nicotine addiction started here. So much of girlhood is peformance art. Curating our existence to be perceived in the way we desire to be, because we have been taught that this is our ultimate purpose, much like the manic pixie dream girl, and that to be loved is to be consumed.

Majority of manic pixie dream girls are played by white women. Eccentricity and quirkiness is only cute and desirable when expressed by thin white women who have a close enough proximity to beauty standards to remain fuckable.

i don‘t know if this is a rant, and if that‘s not allowed, feel free to delete.

ever since i opened my eyes to how messed up this world is in terms of sexism against women, i‘ve been feeling so alienated. i feel like the odd one out for not using sexist slurs. it‘s also hurtful to see how much of the "feminism" from the women around me actually only consists of rolling their eyes when a man says something misogynistic. that‘s usually it. most women aren‘t feminist at all, or liberal feminists at best. they might be feminists on paper, but it‘s painful how high they praise the men around them, while bashing any woman they encounter. i‘ve been trying to make friends at my new uni, but it‘s been so hard to see past this crap. the world is so male-centric. NO, i do not know and/or care about this show with the 5 male lead characters. NO, i do not want to trash talk sabrina carpenter with you. thank you.

and the thing is, i try to stay as neutral as possible. sometimes i won‘t even let them know my political stance. anti-feminism keeps crawling back up to me.

Hello everyone,

I'm a grad student studying to become a therapist. I've been working on a project for the last 6 months to interview a 100 incels. I wanted to expand out and also speak with some radical feminists about their beliefs, lived experience and journey. It's a pretty unstructured interview/convo.

Would anyone be open to talking on a VC sometime?

https://forms.gle/g42uG4AVTwQ9WQ6i6

i’m tired of looking for validation

Sociobiology, as a scientific discipline, looks at the biological roots of social and behavioural norms, including gender differences. In its view, social roles, including gender roles, have evolved as evolutionary adaptations aimed at the survival of the human species. Sex differences in behaviour, according to sociobiologists, were necessary for the efficient reproduction and survival of the species.

Radical feminism of the 1970s, represented by thinkers such as Shulamith Firestone, advanced the concept of women's liberation from the reproductive function that was (and still is) the basis of their oppression. She proposed to get rid of gender and take reproduction outside the body, through ectogenesis, and to destroy the nuclear family. But it seems to me that in her analysis she still preferred Marxism rather than sociobiology.

Gender abolitionism, therefore, based on the premises of sociobiology and radical feminism, must include the aspiration to liberate human beings from biological determinism, freeing their bodies and minds from the social and physical constraints imposed by nature, abolishing biological sex with all its superstructures. It is possible that it is possible to destroy the primative structures only by abolishing the biological sex.

What do you think about it.?

I’ve always held radical feminist beliefs without realizing it, despite being brought up in a community that upholds “traditional values”(including going to church every Sunday until I became an adult). I haven’t really dated in years because I simply wasn’t interested in it and really despised the dynamics present around romantic relationships with men. However, a lot of my friends have recently gotten into serious relationships and I thought I would try dating out once again:/ I had been seeing a guy from my culture for around 3 months, and he put in a lot of effort to go out regularly despite him living an hour away and him being the only one of us who drives. I had expressed my views super early on, including how I align with antinatalism and radical feminism. He appeared to agree or at least understand my perspectives, especially compared to every other man that I’ve shared these views with in the past. To me it made sense since he wasn’t raised the same way I was, as he wasn’t religious or really connected to our community at all until recently.

We hadn’t seen each other for these past few weeks and weren’t talking much for no particular reason. In the meantime the US election had happened, and he texted me about it. He told me he wanted Trump to win because of his stock investments, and then brought up the convo again a week later saying how he sort of likes Trump and his policies “even though he’s probably not a good guy”. He then proceeded to list some random policies and how he agrees with them. For context, we’re from Canada and I didn’t even ask for this conversation to be started (but I’m now glad it did). On top of this, he was saying that he wants the PPC party to gain more seats in the next Canadian election so real change can be made. The PPC party is essentially a racist, sexist party with their only goal truly being to support white men. They also deny climate change in their platform, and that really confused me because we both discussed how we worry for the state of the environment at length. Ultimately, this made me realize that he didn’t feel comfortable expressing his true beliefs until he knew I liked him and I wasn’t physically around him.

I didn’t call him out for his views or debate him since I knew that would fall onto deaf ears, but instead I stopped talking to him entirely. It felt like a reminder that men don’t actually care for women but instead what women can do for them, and that men only have their own self-interest in mind. What’s worse is that I am made to feel bad because I’m “not understanding” of this man and told that he’s a “good guy” by the people, mainly women, in my life since he’s already done so much for me.

I don’t plan on dating in the future. I’ve never dreamt of finding a perfect man, getting married, and having children. Although this isn’t particularly a horror story, it reaffirmed why I intrinsically held the beliefs that I do. I often wonder what my friends aren’t sharing with me regarding their relationships and how the men are treating them, what’s expected of them, etc. I just don’t see anything positive about dating men and I wish women would escape the societal prison that is romantic love. I struggle with it myself since we’re conditioned from a young age to strive for this, but we’re truly better off without them until we’re seen as actual people first, instead of “women” (namely everything that is associated with that term), by men.

So i was talking w another girl in a discord server about how alot of men r disgusting rapist pedophiles, note i said ALOT and not all, plus i was including the men who get the urges to rape a woman. And as we wer talking, not offending anyone or calling out names, some disgusting freak man starts "lets not..." And another one goes "thats misandry". I informed them that i wasn't grouping all men together and i went to bed, and in the morning i was informed i got banned for "being toxic and misandrist ". The female rage i was feeling was through the roof!!! Im 100% sure a fucking incel was checking this out and feelt his little bit of masculinity he can claim hurt and decided to ban me.

And The thing is, the server is like mostly full of gay/bi men and it haves very little women. And im mentioning this because gay men loveeee to say how they view women as" besties" and respect them, but as long as they aren't their typical supportive chick on modern family stereotype and are ACTUALLY proud of being women and putting men in their place they all group up and starting hating on u and making up rumours about u.

I’ve been recently coming across a lot of comments on the threads app, and it’s always a man trying to downplay women’s oppression in the US by bringing up the male suicide rates.

(With that, I just wanna clarify that I do care about everyone’s suicide rates, suicide is one of the many horrible things that an individual can go through and I do not think someone deserves to go through it simply because of something like their sex or gender.)

Now my question is, why are women always expected to care about male suicide rates when men themselves don’t give two flying fucks about it, if it’s not to minimize women’s experiences? Why is it that men demand support from women, but refuse to support one-another, using all sorts of made-up b.s to excuse not doing it? Are men really so invested in being women haters that they don’t even bother to show sympathy towards their very own group, the one they’re blatantly favoring over others?

Ironic yet incomprehensible if you ask me.

With that being said, I refuse to show sympathy towards male suicide rates until men starts caring about it willingly and not in a stupid attempt to repress female oppression.

I was talking with two of my close friends about the election - the three of us were extremely disappointed to know that majority of our “fellow Americans” (none of our friends would vote like this) decided to vote for Trump. I explained that I was not surprised, as a rise in specific trends was predicting a “return” to conservative values. It is extremely disheartening to know how do many young girls are vulnerable.

What do you think about influencers like sheraseven, or “high value dating” coaches? As a former SWer I find them to be ridiculous - I can see right through it. As a radfem, I just find it outright disgusting.

In 2020, it was the rise of the Onlyfans baddie. Fashion nova cutouts were in, alternative fashion was trending. When coquette began to trend in 2022-2023, I saw it as a “bridge” between the “OF Baddie” and the “Tradwife”.

I’m just curious about what other women have to say about these trends. Especially the pilates princess, and trends revolving around “feminine” leisure.

SO I've been thinking all the time about the myth of marriage as purpose that's been sold to women since we were born. Girls and women are fed all of these fairy tale media tropes of romance and marriage as the highest pursuit and it's all patriarchal propaganda.

The purpose of inundating girls and women with media and archetypes promoting marriage as their end goal, life purpose, and happily ever after all serve to seduce women into willingly sacrificing self to serve men’s needs and desires.

These standards of hetero romantic and marriage dynamics are essentially promoting conditioned codependency amongst women and enabling narcissistic abuse amongst men.  

Boys and men are not receiving any of these messages or training - they're told the world is theirs and to pursue purpose and prosperity at all costs. They are sold this because they are meant to CONSUME marriage - not actually participate or create one. They consume the work of women through marriage, lock down kitty kat on retainer, a maid, a cook, a therapist, a strategist, nanny, babymaker, homemaker - and they don't develop any skills or perspectives that allow them to reciprocate any of that care or effort. And they can! But they refuse because of this radical entitlement to CONSUME women and only focus on self.

Part of the problem is fundamentally that partnership isn’t meant to provide purpose.  Healthy romantic love and partnership exists between two whole individuals and the relationship never diminishes the wholeness and integrity of one or the other.  Partnership is the mutuality of love and care that supports and encourages each person in creating their individual purpose and living the integrity of their passions.  

But women aren't taught that!! We find out through hard knocks - and even the best, most romantic relationship cannot generate a sense of individual purpose or fulfillment for a person.

Standards of patriarchal marriage are designed to extract love, care, and the manufacturing of basic needs and life from women to benefit men.  This alleviates men from the burden of knowledge and labor to meet basic needs and focus on his individual purpose and prosperity.

Because the man never compromises on his purpose and identity outside of the marriage, right? But he expects her to - and has FITS if he feels she is existing outside too much, too independent, shining in her own right and generating her own success.

The system of patriarchy - the system of male private for profit ownership of women as a means of production - creates the culture of male narcissism where men feel entitled to own, use, and profit from women.  Marriage is integral to this system.

Narcissism is the opposite of love but we're all encultured to enter narcissistically exploitive relationships as our end goal.

SO I'm 4B - I've been for a couple of years, not intentionally at first. At first I needed to heal my inner wounding that was perpetuating bad relationship cycles (not just romantic) and as part of that I went no contact with most men in my life. I've healed a lot and realized how much I was participating and actually seeking out messed up codependent dynamics because I thought centering men would provide some type of security or fulfillment but obvz it can't. Not that love isn't great - it just can't replace individual purpose and internal security, you know?

But yeah, I'm pro decenter men and don't date or engage with them at all - it's too dangerous for women. So many are open that they're lying about voting for Trump because they still want to date liberal women, it's so gross.

Anyway, I made a YouTube talking about all of this if anyone is interested. Regardless, thank you for listening!

I feel like I'm yelling into the void a bit posting on YT but then I just hope that a 20something that feels the way I did back then or is stuck in the same cycles might accidentally stumble across and benefit

https://youtu.be/N0QdyiBr4Mk

Im making a new patch for my battle jacket but i have no idea what to put on it, i want something radfem but the only slogan i can think of is "dead men dont rape" and its not speaking to me as much as my other patches

From all the anthropological, historical and politic Philosophical works I have read and studied, it is clear to me that societies with women's governance and freedom has always been about collectivism, cooperativism, mutual aid, cooperative breeding, and many other forms of social structures that is indirectly or directly similar to libertarian socialism. Meaning, community self-governance (autonomy).

1⁰ - Patriarchy has always emerged as politics to oppress communities. It has also always emerged and counter revolution or from womens liberation, because:

2⁰ - Community liberation has always being the cause of women liberation and vice-versa.

To be clear, community autonomy is when power comes from within the community, from community members themselves through self-governance. While patriarchy has always been the opposity: The oppression of people self-governance by enforcing them to a structure of top-down power hierarchy.

It has not only an historical reason but also a neurobiological reason. "It takes a whole village to rise a child". Also because women know better than men how to understand each other bodies, how their safety relies more on community strength, and protection, than individual strength. There are many other things that are more intuitive, especially to working class women.

What I am talking about has also been the narrative of many cultures. Catholicism came from the narrative of a Bible version where God forgive sins, is solitary, and it has a string representation of a feminine symbol, mother of Jesus, which to me clearly symbolise a "faminist" society. The history of Jesus and catholicism came exactly from a time where societies which have been more matriarchal and matrilinear since almost always, was being oppressed and influenced by a patriarcal structure, of men hierarchy dominance, such as the Roman Empire. It also was a counter narrative of the Jewsh version of the Bible, of a punitive, hateful, vengeful and fearful monoteist God (with a more patriarchal characteristics). That is not a coincidence that Protestantism, that emerged during the succeeding oppression of communities and women, eliminates almost of entirely the importance and narrative of Maria, Jesus mother, and saints, from its religiosity, to give a more patriarchal narrative and perspective of Jesus as a leader or "liberation".

The Greek Tragedies wore also popular narratives criticizing the social and political struture changes in their societies towards patriarchal influence, because originally the Greeks came from a tribe and tradition of matrilinear and matriarcal aociety. Whole Patriarchy has a structure of power to control and dominate, especially to control changes, or to avoid changes by taking dominance over people and nature, women's governance has historical been about cycles, nature cycles, body cycles, embrace change, not control or stop it, but move with changes in a symbiosis. The Greek Tragedies are about a hero who want take control, but always fails because the message is: You can not have power and understanding of the complexity of nature, and attempting that breaks the equilibrium of natural things, their cycles.

During the Feudal system crisis in the end of the middle ages, women gained so much political, social and economic autonomy, through the liberation and autonomy of free communities and free cities emerging at the time. The creation of a professional army, that also created the Modern State to finance such army, was for enclosures; meaning, invade, steal and take the land of free communities and free cities. With that came also the politics of women domestication, forbidding women to have jobs, income, property and business. We can technically say that the modern state came from a counter revolution of community and so women liberation.

Just as the it becomes even more clear with time with antropology findings, that most of all pre-historical great societies were essentially made by women's governance, where women were the scientists, doctors, artists and political influenced. All that changed towards an oppressive changes, what becomes even more clear now that were revolutions enforced by groups of military, and later economic elites, towards a system of their power control and dominance over people and communities: Patriarchism.

Many libertarian socialists now recognise that, like Abdullah Öcalan who said that "oppression started with women oppression" and "nobody is free while women are not free".

And here comes the problem with liberal feminism, which is not about liberation from patriarchal structures, but assimilation to it. Mistaking their assimilation to patriarchal structure power for liberation. But I don't blame liberal entirely. How history has been told from the narratives and perspective of men, and especially of me in power. They erased women and free communities from history and reduced the human history to the history of male dominance and patriarchism. So most people today can not even imagine about a society with a different structure, because such view and thinking has been so alien to most people that they assume it nothing more than utopia.

But thanks to women, and new generations today, occupying more space in academics and research, in antropology, history, political philosophy, neurobiology, behavioral biology, etc, the old patriarchal view and narrative of human history, society and nature is beings slowly dismantling.

(TW: SA)

Hello, I'm a college student and one of our projects is to Advocate for women's rights and the legalization of divorce (I'm from the Philippines, and it's illegal here). I'm part of the art booths. I want to create something interactive or an exhibit that evokes deep emotions that makes the guest put themselves in a person who wants to separate from their partners' shoes.

I want something that is emotionally impactful, I really love the impact of the "What were you wearing?" exhibit, where the message is that it isn't your clothes that invite danger. I thought it was a powerful idea, so I'm asking for suggestions for my booth on ways to send an impactful message in legalizing divorce.

I have a limited budget btw.

My current ideas are (I'm still struggling with how to convey the message, so this isn't a proper plan):

1. a mannequin or doll where it shows all the burdens women carry. (we are focusing on women, but fighting for men too) Maybe with bruises, scars, etc.

2. "Life without an exit", where may be a small tunnel where the guest will have to figure out a way out with all the adversaries and bumps along the way. But I have no clue how to go about this.

I just started posting my stuff to different sites. I posted a collage of to support women, mostly had pictures of women at protests in it. This is the type of comment I got from a man. 🥱 Honesty it just made me want to post more of the stuff I make. I just want to remind all women that they are loved, and that I LOVE seeing all of the art you make. Keep going.

Curious if you guys have any recommendations for podcasts with a radical feminist message. I’m particularly interested in topics like decentralising men and beauty / looks. Other media welcome as well!