#uk radical feminism

[ukrfeminism]

Hi all,

I’m really pleased to announce that the process of organising meetings outside of London has been successful so far. So, if you are a radical/rad-aligned/gender critical feminist, anywhere in the UK, who is interested in meeting other rad etc women (adult only) in real life, please message me.

Also, if you are based in or around London/the South East, and would be interested in meeting other rad etc women in a WOC-specific group, and/or and LGB-specific group, please get in touch too.

Getting offline, building communities, and talking to each other is the first step to change.

Looking forward to hearing from you all!

#uk radfem #uk radical feminism #uk radical feminist #uk feminism #radblr #radfem #radfems do interact #radical feminism #radfems do touch #radfems please touch #radfems please interact #radical feminist

[pissingcoffee]

Uk radfems who wanna make friends hmu I'm in Suffolk

#uk radfem #uk radical feminism

[ititledit]

We have brothers, sons, lovers – but they can’t live here!’ The happy home shared by 26 women

With residents aged from 58 to 94, New Ground is the UK’s first cohousing community exclusively for older women. Setting it up was an 18-year battle – but with soaring numbers of people living alone, is this an idea whose time has come?

Chipping Barnet, a leafy suburb of north London, is an unlikely location for a feminist utopia. Yet it is here, at the top of the high street, past the Susi Earnshaw theatre school and the Joie de Vie patisserie, that you will find Britain’s first cohousing community exclusively for women over 50. The purpose-built development is entirely managed by the women who set it up as an alternative to living alone.

New Ground’s entrance, all glass and bold typography, could easily be mistaken for a co-working space, as could the common room I am ushered into. Everything is bright, airy and spotlessly clean. The walls are lined with sleek white bookcases and a cinema-grade TV screen. The only clue as to the residents’ demographic is an unfinished 1,000-piece jigsaw on a table overlooking the large garden.

#feminism #radical feminism #uk radfem #female separatism #cohousing

[blackpilljesus]

The right downplays misogyny from boys as "boys being boys 😏"

The left downplays misogyny from boys as "it's the toxic masculinity 🥺"

In both scenarios boys aren't directly held accountable for their actions and the women + girls they abuse are seen as passive objects for male character development.

#toxic masculinity is not real #radical feminist #radical feminism #feminist #feminism #liberal feminist #liberal feminism #hold males accountable for their fucking actions #Left and Right wing are both misogynistic #i know the colours are the other way around in the us but i'm in the uk so...

[homosexuhauls]

For more than half a century, it was just a rumor. As London’s river boat pilots passed by Waterloo Bridge (“The Ladies’ Bridge,” as some of them called it) they’d tell a story about the women who had built the bridge during World War II. But the idea that women had been largely involved in building Waterloo Bridge wasn’t included in any official history of the structure, or detailed in any records. During the new bridge’s opening ceremony, on December 10, 1945, then-Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison had declared that “the men that built Waterloo Bridge are fortunate men.” It wasn’t until 2015 that the hard work of these women could be confirmed, by the historian Christine Wall, thanks to a series of photographs she found.

Eight years prior to her discovery, Wall had collaborated with the filmmaker Karen Livesey on a documentary called The Ladies Bridge. It explores the stories of women working on Waterloo Bridge and records first-hand the experiences of a variety of wartime workers who were women. “There was jobs galore. There was absolutely jobs galore. You could go anywhere,” recounts one woman in the film.

Watch The Ladies' Bridge here

#uk feminism #radfem safe #radblr #radical feminism #feminist history #spotted on ovarit so i can't take credit for this

[radykalny-feminizm]

Multicultural societies can be great, but there's one condition: different cultures must be willing to learn from each other and respect each other's values.

If people from one culture are open and welcoming, but people from the other culture want to enforce their own rules and take away people's freedom in the name of their religion, then the results are going to be catastrophic. This is why Europe is suffering right now and it's women who will pay the highest price.

Wondering what I mean? Let's have a look at some statistics:

Poll: 46% of French Muslims believe Sharia law should be applied in country

Over 40% of UK Muslims support “aspects” of sharia law

If it doesn't terrify you I don't know what to tell you. It surely terrifies me as fuck.

#radfem #radical feminism #radfem safe #radblr #radfems do interact #feminism #radfems do touch #women's rights #women's liberation #immigrantion #middle east #muslim immigrants #france #uk #immigration crisis #islam #muslim #anti islam #anti religion #anti hijab #sharia #sharia law #women's freedom #french Muslims #British muslims #multicultural #multiculti #society #politics #culture

[pronoun-fucker]

Like many people in Britain, you probably watched with horror the US supreme court’s reversal of Roe v Wade, thinking, “Thank goodness women could never be prosecuted for having an abortion here.”

But let me tell you, it already happens here.

Two women are currently awaiting criminal trial in England for abortion-related offences, both facing charges that carry a maximum sentence of life. At least 17 women have been investigated by police over the past eight years for having had abortions.

In Oxford, a 25-year-old mother of one is facing trial for allegedly taking the drug misoprostol – one of the two pills routinely prescribed by doctors to abort a pregnancy. But her baby was born alive and she was subsequently reported to the police. She is being charged under the Offences Against the Person Act, a law passed by parliament in 1861, before the invention of the lightbulb and before women had the right to vote. The law states that a woman must be “kept in penal servitude for life” if she procures an abortion.

Another woman is facing trial after she took abortion pills she obtained from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) by post when rules were relaxed during the pandemic to allow this. She was allegedly 28 weeks pregnant at the time and is facing charges of “child destruction” (note the visceral language) under the Infant Life (Preservation) Act from 1929, which also comes with a maximum life sentence. She could spend the rest of her life in prison.

We so often think that the 1967 Abortion Act legalised abortion. But it did no such thing. It partially decriminalised abortion in England, Scotland and Wales, so long as strict conditions were in place, such as a confirmation from two medical practitioners that the pregnancy had not exceeded 28 weeks (subsequently reduced to 24 weeks in 1990), or that the termination was necessary to prevent injury or mental harm. Any abortion outside these criteria is still a criminal offence.

We know that it is overwhelmingly vulnerable women who are investigated and prosecuted for having abortions. One woman collapsed in the dock when she was sentenced to two and a half years in 2015 for taking tablets she had bought online to induce a miscarriage after the 24-week period of gestation. The court heard that she had “a history of emotional and psychological problems”.

Another woman, a mother of one, ordered pills online to induce an abortion in 2019 after her abusive boyfriend had told her not to go to the doctor. She had believed she was eight to 10 weeks pregnant but after a traumatic miscarriage in her bath tub, where she has described sitting in an inch of blood, she realised her pregnancy had been much further along. She was arrested in her hospital bed and served two years in prison.

These are just some examples of women who have faced trial: there are multiple other women who face gruelling police investigations. In 2021, a 15-year-old girl was investigated for a year after suffering an unexplained stillbirth. Her phone and laptop were confiscated during her GCSE exams, she was self-harming, and the investigation only ended after a coroner concluded that the pregnancy ended due to natural causes. Another woman was arrested in hospital last year and kept in a prison cell for 36 hours after a stillbirth at 24 weeks, and is now suffering PTSD. My question is this: if a woman has had an abortion late in the gestation period, or a traumatic miscarriage or stillbirth, should she go to prison or should she be offered support from medical practitioners at what is clearly a horrendous time, both mentally and physically?

Women in 2022 are being shackled by a 160-year-old law made at a time when we were not even allowed to set foot in the House of Commons. Urgent reform is needed to protect more women from harm, which is why organisations such as BPAS and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) are calling on the director of public prosecutions for England and Wales, Max Hill QC, to drop all charges against these women. The RCOG this month has gone further, calling on ministers to finally legalise abortion. There is absolutely no public interest in sending vulnerable women to prison for terminating pregnancies. Instead, these prosecutions will only serve to put off women seeking help from doctors because they might get arrested, pushing more women into unsafe and underground options.

Meanwhile, according to the criteria of the Abortion Act, a woman has to show that she would suffer grave permanent injury to her mental health if she did not have an abortion after 24 weeks. Why should women still have to pathologise themselves as mad, hysterical, unfit or suffering to legally access healthcare?

The state currently has a triple lock on women’s bodies. By not legalising abortion it has the right to force pregnancy, birth and motherhood upon us. Look to the rules on organ donation: it is illegal to donate people’s organs after they die (however desperately they are needed by people on waiting lists) without their permission. The law at present, which denies women the right to abort a pregnancy on their own terms, is to give us less autonomy than a corpse.

Link | Archived Link

#abortion #USA #uk #radfem #radical feminism #misogyny

[womenstruation]

Perhaps as a result of the masculinisation of Back women, nowadays hyperfemininity has somehow become a necessity to being a Black woman who is proud of her Backness. As a young woman who has no interest in make up, wigs /weaves etc. I often stick out amongst other Black women my age, which doesn't bother me too much. What does bother me, however, is the constant implication that I somehow must be "white-washed" as a result or some self hater who knows little about Black culture. I have to constantly field accusations of knowing nothing about my country of origin and nod along to well meaning "jokes" that I'll end up with a white husband.

#i really hate how much this absurd hyperfemininity is being pushed onto every Black woman and girl #and that some Black women seem to view you as the enemy or worse an outsider if you refuse to conform #Black women's culture is so much more than mass produced products and performances of femininity #this is from a UK perspective #feminism #radical feminism #radfem

[ukrfeminism]

Hello feminists!

I think it’s about time a few more of you got the chance to see each other’s real world, 3D faces.

The chance to talk about actual feminism using your actual voice, rather than typing it into the internet.

Sound fun? Sound fulfilling? Sound like the only thing that might stop you from losing it entirely and moving to the US in search of women’s land?

Send me a message, and let’s see what we can build together. UK-based only - for now.

#Radblr #radfems please touch #radfems do touch #radical feminism #uk radical feminism

[womenhelpingwomen]

Looking for Women-Only Housing in the UK

Does anyone know of any Women's Lands or Women-Only housing in the UK? We're trying to connect women in our group who have knowledge and resources to share with other like-minded women. If you have any info please DM us or email us at [email protected].

@ukrfeminism

#Radical feminist community #female seperatism #UK feminism #radical feminist safe #radical feminism #radblr

[ititledit]

Sticker still there four days later. This is a high traffic area, so very pleased to find it still up.

#radical graffiti #radical feminism #uk radfem #stickers

[spidergwen-real-notclickbait]

The woman pleaded guilty in March this year to procuring drugs to induce an abortion under the Offences against the Person Act, legislation dating to 1861

legislation dating to 1861

we’re so fucked

#radfem #feminism #radical feminism #terfs please interact #radfems please interact #abortion #uk politics

[vgpussy]

(reblogs appreciated for bigger sample)

#this is coming from a mostly-recovered anorexic who is a uk size 8 and wants to get back to a 6 btw #radblr #polls #radical feminism #radfem #my posts

[homosexuhauls]

Did any UK radfems catch "Gender Wars" on Channel 4?

Non-UK link here (I just found the link on twitter, no idea who this person is or what their politics are)

It was a pretty surface level look at the gender ideology debate, primarily focusing on Dr. Kathleen Stock's experience within the academic world, and on those who have disagreed with or protested against her. There was talk of male violence, "trans women are women", single-sex spaces (limited mostly to bathroom chat and a brief mention of rape/domestic violence shelters, which was frustrating) and freedom of speech, but no mention of statistics, women's sports, Mermaids/Tavistock/ROGD, the "cotton ceiling", same sex healthcare provision, and a whole other host of things I'm forgetting. I understand that the documentary had to limit the issues discussed, but I think they overlooked some of the higher priority conflicting needs/interests in favour of the flashier or more digestible conversations.

I'm glad that Dr. Stock, Julie Bindel and Linda Bellos* were the high-profile "TERFs" featured in the documentary. It's nice seeing the focus taken away from demagogues like Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker). Homophobia is at the heart of gender identity ideology, so it makes sense to centre parts of the gender critical discussion around the lesbian perspective.

Some of the trans participants (Dr. Finn Mackay and Stephen Whittle afaik) in the documentary have claimed to have been misled regarding the context of their interviews. The former tweeted about not being informed that the documentary would focus on Dr. Kathleen Stock, and said that had this been made clear, the invitation to appear would not have been accepted. I won't defend Channel 4 for using deceptive journalistic practices, but I was glad to hear their perspectives as two female trans people - the documentary was otherwise very male-centric on the trans side.

There was a very painful moment to watch in the documentary, as a debate about the right to cause offence, held at Cambridge Union, was used by one of the participants to make personal attacks on Dr. Stock's character. She was visibly affected by this, but made it clear that she would defend any opponent's right to argue against her. I think she came off very admirably here, showing herself to be consistent in her principles (belief in free speech) but also not hiding her emotional response to baseless insults.

A final noteworthy observation is that all of the trans interviewees made constant reference to the belief that Dr. Stock's views (or any gender critical views) are putting trans people's lives at risk. In their eyes, it's the inherent and apparently lethal danger that gender criticism poses, which justifies all manner of tactics used in the name of trans rights. This isn't new to me, or to radblr, but I think it will shock some of the offline crowd, considering Dr. Stock made multiple references to trans people absolutely needing ongoing legal protection.

Overall, I think Channel 4 have created a very balanced, very superficial introduction to gender identity ideology and its feminist critiques. Drawing a clear line in the sand between gender critical feminism and conservative transphobia will likely anger both conservatives themselves and those who conflate the two groups. But I found it really refreshing.

*Linda Bellos only featured very briefly at the end, and I absolutely wish we could've heard more from her.

Cambridge Union - "We have the right to offend" - full debate

#uk feminism #radical feminism #gender wars #gender critical #radblr

[tattered-cynic]

If anyone who follows me wonders why I don't post "original" posts of my own about feminism or politics and tend to only reblog from others, it's actually a very simple answer. Pretty much anything I could say, has been said by someone else, and usually better than I could have said it. Especially with regards to feminism-related issues, where I'm not going to add my (male) voice to what is and should remain a woman-led and woman-centric movement.* I will endlessly reblog the posts of women who have far more knowledge than me and deserve to be heard. Even with politics, where I have much more actual knowledge, it's still not my place. I'm not from many of the countries whose issues I reblog posts about, I don't know all the details or the nuance. I serve to amplify the voices of those who actually have important things to say, so I'll keep reblogging those people instead of adding pointless commentary.* The only exception is UK politics - If I do know what I'm talking about then you can be damn sure I'm going to speak up. I haven't been doing that much here I'll admit, and maybe it's time I started using my own voice here more often in that regard. *unless I happen to have a specifically relevant addition [In response to a message I received asking why I basically never post anything "original" and just "parrot others" (?? on the reblogpeople'sposts website ??) - Here's a reply to them and anyone else thinking the same thing]

#feminism #radical feminism #politics #uk politics #world issues #personal? I guess

[sad-cinnamongirl]

tired of people saying misogyny and sexism don't exist anymore.

ive lived in a place where women have limited rights. feminists from uk or usa seem to forget that it is very common in other countries and it is often seen as "not our problem" ive lived a lot of my life in russia and the systemic sexism there is a big part of society.

There is a list of banned professions that women are not allowed to ever do, this list includes firefighting, carpentry, types of engineering etc. there are 98 on this list however when i used to live there there were over 400. luckily in 2019 they shortened the list, however there is still a ton of job inequality.

#russia #russian woman #radical feminst #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #radfem #radblr #radical feminist safe #radical feminist #radical feminist community #sexism #misogny #vicky's posts <3 #also sexism does exist still in usa and uk but to a lesser degree