personally i find conversations about whether Global Majority Female Separatism is possible quite misguided and self-defeating. my big beautiful pipe dream is not even Global Majority Female Separatism, it's like... 15% of women worldwide having access to a womyn's land, an intentional community, a single-sex housing association and/or an explicitly feminist mutual aid network. and if we're shooting for the stars? i'd love to see a 30%. there are places i could go to find Russian diaspora in multiple countries in the world; why cannot women as a class and a politically conscious group have vocal, defined, physical presence in our own countries or even freaking continents?
those spaces are not going to spring from conversations in which we give up before we ever even start; they won't come from us tiptoeing around it and leading with the disclaimers. when we describe those spaces and networks, we need to sound SECURE. those ideas need to sound APPEALING. our rhetoric needs to be PROVOKING. we need to inspire bold political imagination in women around us if we want them to try and create - or participate in - something viable
single-sex changing rooms, bathrooms, shelters, hospital wards - all these spaces are incredibly important, but they are also liminal and transitional. we need something stable, grounded, continuous. without it, i truly believe we are missing out on a huge resource of female connection, consciousness, solidarity, resilience, re-skilling and organizing power; and we are missing out on a sense of strong, secure identity. we deserve better than what we have right now, and we do ourselves no favours by coming up with reasons why we cannot have it all. and if we cannot have it all? fine. let's talk about the incredible possible benefits of having a fraction of it, rather than all the countless drawbacks and obstacles we can think of
Great train of thought. I also want to add that it might not be perfect, either, but it’s statistically, empirically established to be better than being around men, and that’s what should matter alongside developing stability where feasible. This might not turn out to be a women’s utopia, we all carry baggage and trauma, but that by NO means points to the fact that any attempt at separatism is a failure. Always support the movement and encourage it. I’m excited to see where it goes.
