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"This text is about Joan of Arc. She lived, and she strove for freedom; and as long as she was, indeed, free, she fought. She rejected femaleness in the same breath as she rejected the chains placed on femaleness. Her protest was politically minded, practically minded: she could not be free unless she had defined herself in opposition to every other woman she had met, trading material sisterhood for the images of ascended female saints in her mind."

seen on tiktok. funny how men seem to have learned they can take advantage of the gender ideology loophole “oh you’re not attracted to me….. but I now identify as someone you are attracted to!” and what’s worse is that so many women enable it, by claiming to be lesbians and dating men, or claiming that their relationships with men are lesbian relationships, whether those men are nonbinary or trans women.

okay so basically instead of just ceasing the beauty routine, and continuing to be a girl, and asserting that girls can just not participate in those beauty expectations, instead you ceased the beauty routine, and continued to be a girl because humans cannot change sex, except you simultaneously asserted that you should be afforded the special privilege of divorcing from those beauty routines because you AREN'T a girl.

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Fuck you, Steinbeck. (via theangelofbucephalon)

Steinbeck based his book on reports made by Sanora Babb (leaked to him by her boss, Tom Collins, to whom Grapes of Wrath is dedicated). Sanora Babb was planning to write her own book, but Steinbeck published before she did. Babb was told that the market could not bear another on the same subject. Her book, ‘Whose Names are Unknown’, was finally published in 2004. I haven’t read either book yet, but am now definitely going to be reading ‘Whose Names are Unknown’ soon. Babb’s novel is described as showing how by re-creating rudimentary democratic practices the refugees restructure their lives as a unified community, resisting violent discrimination. In ‘Whose Names are Unknown’, we hear the whole powerful story from the point of view of a woman who had actual experience with both the origin and the destination of the migrants.

Sanora Babb was a member of the US Communist Party in the 1930s and 40s, dropped out of the party due to the authoritarian structure and in-fighting.

(via jinerviet)

here are some sources, in case you were looking for them

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queer homophobia: all lesbians hate trans women and want them to die

straight homophobia: lesbians should have sex with men if they use dildos

queer homophobia: lesbians should have sex with trans women if they use dildos

straight homophobia: lesbians are sex-crazed deviants

queer homophobia: lesbians are vagina-fetishists

straight homophobia: if you like butch lesbians [masculinity], why wouldn’t you just date a man?

queer homophobia: if you like butch lesbians, why wouldn’t you date a trans woman [who is feminine]?

straight homophobia: lesbians recruit minors to be homosexuals and feminists

queer homophobia: lesbians recruit minors to be homosexuals and radical feminists

straight homophobia: butch lesbians are basically men

Queer Homophobia: How can you be sure you don’t like girldick if you’ve never tried it?

Straight Homophobia: Lesbians need to be fixed through force, rape, coercion, and conversion therapy.

Queer Homophobia: Lesbians need to ~critically analyse~ their ~penis aversion~ through ~exposure therapy~.

Straight Homophobia: Lesbians need to allow room for men in their life and stop prioritising women and being angry, hairy, man-haters.

Queer Homophobia: Lesbians need to accept trans lesbians into their beds or they’re not *real* allies.

Straight Men, as a joke: Hehe lol, I’m basically a lesbian too, eeeeeeeeeey, pussy. High five.