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Becoming A Radical Feminist moodboard

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we've all heard of dykebreaking but allow me to introduce terfbreaking. maybe terfs just need to get broken in by some good girldick to shut them up

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I return to form no longer bound to me

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To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

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When we see a terf we block and don’t engage. In theory that’s great - leaves them without an audience, saves us from accidentally helping them recruit.

In practice things are less than optimal. You see some feminism 101 take like “bitch is a slur” and your hackles go up. Go on OP’s blog and there’s a bunch of posts about women’s rights. That could be a red flag - I don’t have all day to vet this person. Better not reblog, just to be safe.

What is the effect on the tumblr ecosystem? Feminist posts with any teeth at all can never go viral in this atmosphere! Any discussion of surrogacy more nuanced than “it is an individual choice” will get no engagement; only the most milquetoast sentiments can prevail.

I don’t have a solution. I just want to point out that the atmosphere of (justified) paranoia has set feminism on this website back 20 years.

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adoration of the savior, c. 1640

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Someone said they want Mike Faist and Halle Bailey in a musical together and then another respond “so you want ddg to tweet about Mike Faist?” And technically they’re not wrong but black men (and black women who are race loyal) will voice their disdain nonetheless so who cares

zendaya/challengers asks!

if halle bailey has a career not on black television post-DDG i will eat my hat. that beautiful girl (who was the victim of some of the worst misogynoir i've ever seen online) completely destroyed her career to act like a fool with a man who should be making toilet wine in prison. i can't bear to think on things that shan't transpire ... also why is everyone obsessed with mike and not josh? hateful. but yeah it doesn't matter what a black woman does, literally no one will be out there supporting her because someone always got a problem with her based on how she looks/who she dates. i've been aching for kirby and jessica williams to be bigger stars, but that shit will simply never happen because all the energy folks expend on black actresses is on critical thinkpieces. meanwhile denzel's ugly nepobaby son was welcomed with open arms and no one commented on how he can't act for shit.

i've already commented on the tashi erasure this morning 😔 her tag is 1. either white women erasing her or 2. black women saying she's not black enough and we shouldn't support her. hmmm wow interesting how those both leave us with the same option. anyway, i hate art and in an ideal world challengers would have been about tashi leaving him for patrick, but whatever. i wanted to write a fic for challengers but the fandom ruined that desire immediately.

zendaya with a haitian mother ... god knew we weren't ready for it. all the biracial black actresses with black moms have success that's limited to their country of origin (england lmao) and it's too bad because their smoke is soooo different from the neurotic american biracial actresses with absent black fathers.

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"Sex is biological fact, NHS declares."

Fuckin FINALLY.

The article's behind a paywall, so I had to grab a screenshot fast. It's not the clearest picture, and I may have cut some off.

Here's the article, if you can get around the paywall.

From BBC News via Yahoo News:

NHS England charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards

Transgender women should not be put on single-sex female NHS wards, the government is proposing.

The measure is part of a raft of changes to the NHS Constitution for England, the charter of rights for patients.

The proposals stress the importance of biological sex for the first time when it comes to same-sex accommodation and intimate care.

In both cases, the rights are available only where possible.

For example, same-sex accommodation rights, which have existed for years, can and are breached where there is a clinically urgent need to admit and treat a patient and do not extend to areas such as critical care or accident and emergency.

The guidance also means that trans men should not be housed on single-sex male wards.

Under the proposals:

transgender people, whose gender identity differs from their biological sex, may be provided single rooms, where appropriate

patients will have the right to request a person of the same biological sex delivers any intimate care

Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said it was about making it clear that "sex matters".

"We want to make it abundantly clear that if a patient wants same-sex care, they should have access to it wherever reasonably possible," she said.

"By putting this in the NHS Constitution, we're highlighting the importance of balancing the rights and needs of all patients, to make a healthcare system that is faster, simpler and fairer to all."

'Trampled over'

Maya Forstater, of the Sex Matters campaign group, said the changes were "excellent news".

"The confusion between 'sex' and 'gender' in official policies like the NHS Constitution is what has enabled women's rights to be trampled over in the name of transgender identities," she said.

But Cleo Madeleine, of Gendered Intelligence, said robust policies were already in place and the government had its priorities wrong.

"After 14 years of austerity, medical professionals are crying out for more funding, more resources, and better conditions for staff and patients," she said.

"The government seems hell-bent on pursuing its obsession with the transgender community instead of addressing these longstanding needs."

'Martha's rule'

The changes are part of a wider review of the NHS Constitution, which the government must complete every 10 years.

They also include a plan to embed patients and their loved ones' right to access a rapid review from outside the care team if the patient is deteriorating.

This is the right behind "Martha's rule", which is being introduced in the NHS, to ensure patients know they can ask for a second opinion, with the government providing funding to hospitals for posters and leaflets informing patients and their families.

Martha Mills died aged 13, after being admitted to King's College Hospital, south London, in 2021, having injured her pancreas slipping on to the handlebars of her bike while cycling.

She later developed sepsis - but with better care, could have survived, an inquest found.

All the changes will be consulted on over the next eight weeks, before the constitution is updated later this year.

Labour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said: "Rights on paper are worthless unless they are delivered in practice.

"The NHS constitution already pledges that no patient will have to share an overnight ward with patients of the opposite sex, but that is not the case for too many patients."

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i am not fucking with dating apps like… i’m really just too pretty, too funny, too interesting, and frankly, too crazy to handle rejection from one more white they/them nonbinary lesbian with questionable tattoos and a septum piercing. it’s a thousand yous and only one of me type beat.

#LITERALLY ME CURRENTLY!!!!!!!!

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Gajra 🪷

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women be like “i love men they’re so special and unique i could never live without them✨💖”

meanwhile men are deciding which of the three strict animal categories women they meet belong to: pets (companionship), beast of burden (labor), consumption (sex/femicide).

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Lucy Liu photographed by Naomi Kaltman, 1999

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This is what's happening in the Netherlands.

Municipalities see illegal sex work hundreds of times a year.

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Mattress on the floor.

The working conditions are very variable. "From workspaces that are very professionally and neatly furnished to spaces where there is only a mattress on the floor in a polluted room," says the municipality of Sittard-Geleen.

Examples of workplaces that the municipality of Tilburg found during inspections: (see pictures above.

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Many sex workers move around and camp somewhere else every week. "They often come from abroad and live out of a suitcase," notes the municipality of Dordrecht.

The origins of the sex workers (usually women) are extremely diverse, but most come from South America, Eastern Europe or the Netherlands itself.

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Chances of being caught are small.

Amsterdam has the feeling that the illegal circuit is growing. "A conservative estimate is that approximately 6,000 sex workers were active on regular sex advertising websites in Amsterdam last year, the vast majority of which involved illegal prostitution. During inspections we regularly find abuses and exploitation."

Due to a lack of supervision, many municipalities see illegal prostitution as a risk. "The earnings are high, the chance of being caught is small and there is no prospect of voluntariness or [whether the sex workers are underage or not]," according to the municipality of Almelo.

Enforcement officers regularly wonder whether prostitution is forced. For example, Amersfoort came across a Romanian sex worker without papers and a tattoo with the name of a suspected pimp. Sometimes someone other than the sex worker speaks, which municipalities find suspicious.

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Different perspective.

It rarely happens that someone admits to working under duress. "There are often suspicions of a network, but not much information emerges in conversations or interrogations," says the municipality of Assen. "It also plays a role that sex workers sometimes have a different perspective on exploitation," says the municipality of Hilversum. Female sex workers often come from abroad to earn money for their families. "They have more income here than in their home country, even if they have to [pay a part of what they earn.]"

When municipalities discover illegal prostitution, they often choose to warn sex workers and possibly offer help. They can also close properties or impose a so-called cease and desist order on the owners.

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Link to the full article below. It's in Dutch, but it isn't long so an online translator will go a long way for you to get the gist of it:

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Speechless so I’m just going to show this response