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I'm helping out with spreading the word and sharing invites to a few radfem-focused websites I'm part of!

One of these websites is a friend's project of making a radfem version of reddit which will be launching soon, in which radfem women (such as women of color, lesbian women, detrans women, disabled women, working-class women, women from countries in the global south, survivors, nonconforming women, and any other demographics of radfem-supporting women & girls — including TIFs) will be able to make their own communities to chat in, share links and resources, have discussions on different topics from a radfem perspective. (Please DM me if you'd like to join this new site to start some communities of your own! 🙏💖)

... And in the long-term I'm hoping to work on learning how to code to eventually create my own small female-friendly website similar to reddit as well. A website that is not explicitly labelled radfem or feminist, for safety reasons.

So, I'm wondering if any other radical feminist women on this site, especially women of color, women living outside of the USA, lesbian women, & other biologically female (AFAB) people who've felt alienated or excluded in online spaces, would feel comfortable reaching out to me over DM to give me any advice and feedback on building an inclusive, intersectional female-friendly website, and to share about experiences that have alienated them from other feminist online spaces and why existing spaces for feminist women online have not been useful or beneficial to them as much as they may have hoped. I'd especially also love to connect with other women in the tech field who are open to sharing their knowledge or any resources or giving any advice, motivation, or support to me as I learn how to code (or if any newbies want to learn to code together with me! 💖)

I made a Cats community on Raddish, and I'd love to get it active with more cute cat pics, videos, and convos! :)

Below is some info about Raddish.World, for those interested in joining and/or starting their own Raddish communities! ('Raddish Patches'):

Feel free to DM me on tumblr for an invite code to Raddish, or DM the Raddish World admin @raddish-world if you have any questions about the site before you join! :)

Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!

It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.

I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?

How many relationships? How much writing?

You may think this won't happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.

A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and “describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly.”  Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet). 

Link to the Guide at Project Gutenberg can be found here

A Wikisource entry can be found here.

"Consuming" is a capitalist/neo-fascist way to interact with art, it forces to treat art as a product to be thrown away once we're done with it, and to rebrand creativity as productivity (especially with the rise of AI). IT MAKES ME WANT TO CRAWL OUT OF MY SKIN why is everyone saying that ugly awful word!! And don't get me started on "content" !!

Iranian women started an AMAZING trend on tik tok, proving that no matter how hard men try to control women and take away their autonomy, women WILL ALWAYS fight back and tear their freedom from the hands of their oppressors

My friend Sama was killed on January 9th during protests against the Islamic Republic.

she was a really kind soul and a good friend for everyone around her.

she loved drawing so i thought i’d share some of her works with you. I want everyone to see how talented she was.

I agree with absolutely everything you've said. Many radfems are deeply racist, hold racist views or are racist, as you said, by refusing to talk about racism because they want to focus on women - which doesn't make sense because not only women of color exist and face racism, but you can acknowledge that all men are oppressors in a patriarchy while also understanding that men of color are oppressed because of racism and fighting against that. Women of color's freedom will exist when they are free from both sexism and racism, and for that we need to fighting sexism but also racism as a whole.

I think this comes from several reasons ;

- many white radfems just don't care about women of color and racism, and many of them literally hate them. it's a terrible thing to say but i have noticed so many racist bullshit. many of this can also be pure ignorance, as i have noticed that many people do not even try to understand racism issues and to learn about poc's experiences.

- radical feminists are often uncomfortable with the idea that they have a privilege and are part of an oppressor class. i have noticed this with opposite sex attracted radfems and white radfems. i remember when i think it was menalez (not sure) made a post about how she hated white women and many white radfems got angry, while they are the firsts to say that women have the right to hate men because men are our oppressors - and well, white people, including white women, also are the oppressors, aren't we ? so it should work that way too. it is not a radical feminism issue, just a white issue in general - the problem isn’t radical feminism but white people not being able to handle the fact that they're (we're) privileged.

- radical feminists are tired of libfems, TRAs and other people in general asking feminists to include everyone in their feminism because it's about EqUalItY and tHe PaTrIaRcHy HuRtS mEn ToO and what not, which i totally understand because i am tired of this shit too, but they react the wrong way. they understand that feminism is for females only but forget that different groups of women face different struggles, ex women of color face racism, and that we have to focus on these struggles and to fight different kind of oppressions if we want all females to be free - which means that feminism has to fight against different forms of misogyny (misogynoir, lesbophobia, etc) and to overlaps with other forms of activism, like anti racism activism, that will include men. it doesn't mean that our feminism include men. nuance.

I am a white woman so I might not be the best person to talk about this but I feel like you can acknowledge all of this while still being a radfem - tho I respect and understand women of color who leave radical feminism because of racism, of course. At the end of the day, the problem is (some) white radfems and their racism, not radical feminism in itself. You can still believe in the theory and doing activism while calling out racism in the community, or even focusing on women of color. You can still donate, talk about feminism, etc. Radical feminism actually needs more women talking about this to improve. I'm really not trying to lecture you, I hope that's not how it sounds! Just giving my opinion because I think it's an interesting topic.

Even if Kristi Noem is impeached, the system has to go.

Even if ICE is defunded, the system has to go.

Even if the right withdraws, the system has to go.

Even if Trump dies, the system has to go.

Even if a liberal is elected president, the system has to go.

Any institution that lets fascism rise is one that's fundamentally broken.