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#sex work is not work #sex work oppresses women #payment is not consent

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Something to feel hopeful about: The first-ever Bi Pride parade in West Hollywood last month. Yay visibility, yay community. 💗💙💜(photos by Jon Viscott for The Advocate) 

#bisexual #bi pride

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happy mother’s day to all biological mothers, adoptive and foster mothers, expectant mothers, first-time mothers, and mothers who are grieving a child or pregnancy loss.

society wouldn’t function without you and your value and impact on the world cannot begin to be measured because, for better or worse, who would we be if not for our mothers?

#happy mother's day #mother’s day #mother’s day 2023 #motherhood

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happy black history month

#black tumblr #black history #black history month

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When you ask gendies for proof of "terf" violence:

- a screenshot of a frustrated bi/lesbian woman wishing that dating apps weren't flooded with transwomen.

- an article about prostituted transwomen of color in Latin America being murdered by male clients and pimps.

- screenshots of conservative men using slurs.

- a screenshot of a woman saying she doesn't want to be called a menstruator or uterus bearer.

- that time Putin, a homophobic, misogynistic, murdering, warmongering dictator compared himself to J.K. Rowling.

- a screenshot of a woman saying that it's maybe not a good idea to house male rapists and murderers with incarcerated women.

- a video of transwomen assaulting a man who allegedly insulted them just before the video began.

- screenshots of people "misgendering" Chris-Chan (an incestuous rapist), Ezra Miller (a child groomer/woman beater), Eli Erlick (serial abuser/rapist of female trans ppl), etc.

- an ugly comment by a conservative woman who would balk at being called a feminist of any sort, much less a radfem.

- an article about women complaining about a transwoman in the spa changing room (without mentioning that the transwoman in question was revealed to be a serial sex offender with a history of exposing himself to women and girls).

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need book recommendations !! preferably fiction something easy to get lost in. i’m not opposed to any genre really (just no romance with unnecessary pregnancy plots or age gaps)

for nonfiction, i love anything written about women.

#book recommendations #book worm #book rec request #book recs pls #reading #literature

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maturing is getting a reblog from *you know who* and not feeling the need to debate. hashtag manifesting growth in 2023

#radblr #radfems please interact #radfem safe #gender critical #drop the t

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Trans activists think they're super fucking smart when they point out that some women don't have cervices, uteri, vaginas, breasts, etc. They like to say that radfems think these women aren't women because of it. Yes, we are all aware that some women are missing body parts or have body parts that don't function due to injury, illness, or developmental disorders. But in the same way that some humans missing a leg doesn't mean all humans are not bipedal, some women missing components of their reproductive system does not make them not female.

Trans activists, by insisting that women having missing or dysfunctional reproductive organs make them the same as men who identify as women, YOU are denying them their womanhood. Being female cannot be taken away as much as it cannot be opted into. Stop using disabled women, women with DSDs, and women who have had parts of their body removed as your pawns.

#radfem safe #radical feminism #radfems please touch #radblr

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taking a women’s studies course this semester to satisfy a graduation requirement (i study biology) and i wonder how many times we’ll actually use the word woman in class. so far the textbook fails to.

#radblr #radfems please interact #radfem safe #adult human female #gender critical #women’s studies

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i don’t know if it’s from my love of women or what but i have this intense feeling that i’m meant to raise daughters. fingers crossed

#mother led communities #motherhood #radblr #one son max

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happy new year women.

#radblr #radfems please interact #radfem safe #adult human female #gender critical #female only spaces

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you know you’ve lost an argument or have no basis to argue when you go straight to insults. i’m laughing at your pathetic attempt to hurt my feelings 😂😂😂. did i hit a nerve? ☹️ did telling me to commit make you feel better?

if you can’t clearly define what a woman is, and you reject every radical feminist who can clearly define what a woman is, how do you know you are one?

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Quick fun fact I learned in ASL class:

Babies can begin signing as early as a few months old. You don’t have to wait until they’re 9-12 months to start communicating verbally; the parts of the brain that process and use language develop before a baby is able to speak intelligibly with their mouth. Teaching your kid sign language early means that they can communicate effectively months ahead of schedule, when compared to peers that only speak a spoken language.

Additional fun fact: this jumpstart in language is thought to be a possible way to avoid the “Terrible Twos”; that phase of a toddler’s life is thought to be largely due to a toddler being unable to effectively communicate their needs. If a two year old has already been speaking for a year and a half, they’re far more able to communicate to you what’s wrong. Heck, they might also start reading earlier; languages with a fingerspelling component, like ASL, mean that any speaker needs to be able to spell unfamiliar words and ask about them. This can jumpstart a toddler’s ability to recognize letters as components of a word, and teach them to spell, read, and eventually write these letters to communicate.

Which, of course, lends absolutely zero credence to the theory that ASL will inherently stunt someone’s spoken language skills. If anything, sign language fluency makes acquiring any language, spoken or not, easier rather than harder.

#child development #asl #american sign language

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#triggering content #sigmund freud #misogyny

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I love aging, and I think one of the worst lies patriarchy tells women is that aging makes us irrelevant and worthless, that aging is something to be ashamed of. As with everything in patriarchy this lie has a malicious intention, and it runs like a straight line through patriarchy’s stories of wicked witches and scary crones. Aging women, older women are stronger women, more independent women, women who’ve lost their insecurities and who do not live to please, and there’s no bigger threat to the system of male dominance and female subordination. Of course women need to be taught to worship youth and of course older women need to be hidden away under notions of them being irrelevant and pathetic or strange, because otherwise women would be much more difficult to control, and older women would take over the world. The strength women unfold within themselves when they get older is unyielding; it stands tall as a tree and has deep, deep roots. Men have much to loose in women realizing this. Women have everything to gain.

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I love and support Amber Heard forever and always, I’m glad she found a great resolution to this emotionally exhausting ordeal. First of all, I absolutely believe her appeal would have been successful (clearly that man’s team did too) since she had plenty of evidence for it, as well as having an appeal team who had never once lost an appeal. But this woman has been to trial twice, winning in the UK. Disappointingly, the American legal system failed her as it has failed so so sooo many victims before and after her.

That type of a physically and emotionally exhausting ordeal…your worst moments in your life mocked because your abuser was a celebrity, I don’t know how she had the courage to survive that. I understand completely why she decided against another trial.

And Amber Laura Heard settled on her own terms, admits NO guilt, doesn’t have to pay a CENT and no gag order. They knew she was gonna win that appeal if she went forward with it. This outcome is amazing.

Even when it looked like she was destroyed , she still came out the other side unbroken and FREE.

I’m so happy she’s seen how the tide is turning, more and more people support her every day, but I’m proud to say I supported from the start. I’m so happy for her and look forward to seeing more of her now that this is over ❤️

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this is different from what i usually post but i need to rant and would love thoughts and feedback (especially from any women with children and in a committed relationship. the sex of your partner doesn’t matter either but i’m slightly more curious of a hetero or bi woman’s perspective)

i want to preface that i’m a single and childless woman and most of my opinions are hypothetical as i can’t truly relate yet but yeah.

anyway so i’ve been coming across articles, social media posts, etc. about how and why you should love your spouse more than your children and i can’t wrap my head around loving someone, anyone, more than your children. and all the arguments don’t make sense to me. folks argue what the bible says about loving god first then your spouse and lastly your children. but i don’t read nor follow the teachings of the bible so that doesn’t convince me at all. other arguments i’ve read are that your spouse was with you before the children and they’ll be there after the children become adults so you should love them more. my question then would be are these people saying it’s impossible to love your children more than anything and still have a strong relationship with your partner? because the reason i think i couldn’t love my spouse more than my children is because the love between partners and the love of a parent and child is not comparable. parent-child relationships are stronger, or at least should be. they would have to be to truly love the child unconditionally. i have no doubt that i could still love my partner after bringing children into the picture but i couldn’t imagine loving them more or even equally to my children. also marriage/partnership is not forever in every case and it’s not truly unconditional. for instance, if my spouse cheated or broke my trust, i’m leaving them and falling out of love. my children are forever even when they are grown. they’ll be adults with their own lives and i won’t have as big of an impact in their lives when they are grown (which is natural and normal and to be expected) but even so they are my children. i can’t explain it, it’s more of a feeling but like they’re my children how could i not love them more? i feel i’m rambling as it makes more sense in my head and i don’t think i can put it into words. i guess the biggest thing is i don’t think it’s wrong to love your child(ren) more than your spouse and i don’t think loving your children more equates to neglecting your relationship with your partner either. i don’t know, i just can’t imagine loving anyone more than my children, though they don’t exist yet lmao.

#parenting #parenthood #marriage #motherhood #children come first in my book