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If spaces in which women are vulnerable aren’t single-sex, women will not use them. That’s why we fought for them. It’s because without single-sex spaces, women are house-bound with a short leash, or unable to participate in activities without risking their safety.

It's like wanting to have our cake and eat it too, which is somewhat possible when it comes to fiction, but systems of oppression like patriarchy don't care why you like male violence, or in what form you accept it, as long as you like and accept male violence. As long as women continue to feel desirable using patriarchal dynamics, in any and every form, the system lives on.

trans women are male. they retain male criminality patterns. It’s perfectly reasonable for women to not want males in out private spaces.

In 2023 alone, 260000 women died from complications relating to pregnancy and childbirth. Young mothers, children that is, are at a higher risk. Black women also have a higher mortality rate.

Women have been exploited over our reproductive capabilities for millennia. Forced to carry a rapist's offspring, killed over not producing a male heir, made to be surrogates, forced to put children up to adoption, denied access to contraception and abortions, denied access to a proper education, made to abandon baby girls. Young girls were sold off to marriage and forced to endure a string of pregnancies, one after the other, to the point getting your period could feel like a death sentence. Husbands did not care. Look at what Tolstoy did. Slave owners and colonizers raped and impregnated black and indigenous women, forced them to act as wet-nurses. Every war had soldiers who went on to rape and impregnate civilian women.

Pregnancy changes your body and affects your mind in ways we're just starting to understand. My own mother had everything planned out and the necessary resources to go through it safely, yet she still almost died giving birth. Adriana Smith was declared brain dead and still forced to carry her pregnancy to term.

Coming to terms with your infertility as a woman can be a hard, painful process. We're sold this idea that our purpose in life is to be a mother, pretty much from the moment we're old enough to play with dolls. It's such a complex issue to tackle I really can't make it justice in a single rant post. Having said that, a man who feels sad over the fact that he can't get pregnant (because if we're being completely honest here, it's about pregnancy and not about actually raising a kid) will never, ever understand what this is actually like. Women do not owe them any sympathy either.

Cotton ceiling was taken from the term “glass ceiling.”

“Nothing about us without us” was from the disability movement.

- #TransExcellence (original: #BlackExcellence)

- #TransIsBeautiful (original: #BlackIsBeautiful)

- #TransLivesMatter (original: #BlackLivesMatter)

- #StopTransHate (original: #StopAsianHate)

- "This is what I was wearing when I was misgendered" (original: "This is what I was wearing when I was raped")

- "Trans rights are human rights" (original: "Women's rights are human rights")