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Medical Bill Support for Linda Tillery

August 8th, 2024 by Linda Tillery, Beneficiary

Greetings Dear GoFundMe community. It’s been quite a while since I’ve checked in so here’s an update on my activities. But first, let me thank all of you for your continued support. I couldn’t have made it this far without your contributions to this campaign. Now, I have a special request - I’m trying to finish the recording I began back in 2022. All was going well for a fall release then COVID struck. The American economy came to a grinding halt. Concert venues and night clubs shut down and I was moved into a senior care facility due to my complicated mix of health issues. The remaining funds for my recording were used to cover the cost of care and insurance copays. So now I want to finish that recording and need to raise $7000 to complete the project. *This includes additional studio time, mixing, mastering and distribution. It can be done and I’m asking you to help me complete what will be my first solo recording since “Secrets” in 1985. This CD, “Alabama Shoes” would also be an additional source of income. Give what you can. Here’s What Else I’ve Been Up To Last year at my 75th Birthday concert I was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse of Berkeley, CA and this past March I was honored by SF Jazz as part of their month long tribute to local women artists in Jazz and Beyond. It was a spectacular evening as 20 of my musician colleagues were on hand to throw down some scintillating soul music. The Cultural Heritage Choir was also on the bill and in great form. (See new photos) Another bright moment was Olivia Travel’s 50th Anniversary was celebrated on two back to back cruises. The joy of being amongst Women’s Music’s brightest stars was off the charts. Upon returning home, I tested positive for COVID, took Plaxovid and recovered fairly quickly. On the health front: In July of last year I underwent a successful aortic valve replacement surgery. In March of this year I had a toe amputated and am due this fall to have a second valve replacement surgery (tricuspid valve) which will be followed by cataract surgery on both eyes. Hopefully that will be the last surgery for quite some time.” All the best - Linda Tillery

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She thinks she's found an exception and can do something nice for a friend or crush while he's putting her down on a public platform for validation from strange men online.

That said. It is downright disgusting to see a radfem try to talk about safeguarding cis women in whatever regard, y’know — the incredible majority of those affected by ancient, historic, and modern sexism in ideology and politics and reproductive matters — only to be met with such extreme hatred it often results in literal rape threats. Like. Holy shit. It’s genuinely mind boggling.

But now that I’m here, I’m finding that there are things I’ve noticed and just never sat down with longer. Like; how the conversation of women’s rights since maybe 2020 is constantly derailed before it can even really start to instead focus on the undeniably smaller population of an issue already strife with an uphill battle against the male system. This in itself is, in the very least, tone deaf as all hell and terribly shitty feminism and ally-ism.

But then you take it a step further and think; every time in these specific situations, they are very rarely speaking up for women’s rights. They advocate fervently for trans rights even when the subject is women’s rights — which is to say it is a rare sight to see them also advocating for women’s access to abortion or free access to menstrual products. Issues primarily affecting cis women, obviously with nuance and outliers.

Radfems here seem to be targeted often for having or creating a “division,” but the accusers are the same people who consistently choose one community before the other. And no, I don’t think my (our) noticing of that is transphobic; I think that your refusal to even engage with the idea or see it how the oppressed do is misogynistic and shallow.

Jesus H Christ

"How much it warps my self image" you fragile little peanut you're fantasising about shooting someone who used accurate pronouns

Your self image is fucked alright but it has NOTHING to do with the people around you and EVERYTHING to do with you crashing out when you are unable to consistently control the perception other people have of your female form.

I think saying "blow jobs aren't inherently degrading" is a perfect world argument and criticism of het sexual acts makes some het partnered women defensive because intimate stuff like that is a very touchy nerve

The fact of the matter (from the perspective of radical feminism specifically) is we live in a misogynistic patriarchal society where men are socialized from birth to view women as objects they have an entitlement to own. Especially now with the rampant hyper misogynistic porn problem

Men as a class treat heterosexual sex as an act of dominance and porn has specifically weaponized blow jobs. The "money shot" was an almost instant success. Men in the porn industry view blow jobs as degrading (read Pornland by Gail Dines) and porn overwhelmingly influences mens sexuality with younger and younger exposure

Because of all that I also don't think it's comparable to eating a woman out because the dynamic is completely different

A big reason why "my man is different" doesn't really fly here is because radical feminism advocates from a class standpoint, not an individual one. Men as a class are the oppressors, women as a class are the oppressed

Radical feminism is critical of heterosexual sex dynamics, and that is going to include blow jobs. A good majority of radfems are going to express that they find it degrading

You do not have to defend doing het sex activities in radfem spaces, it is both accepted and expected basically everywhere else

If those criticisms make you feel like you're less of a feminist then focus that energy on doing something that benefits the women in your life or by doing some other feminist action because that's what feminist advocacy is: action

When we say “this space is for women and nonbinary people” they get mad because nonbinary people aren’t woman-lite!!1!11

When we say “this space is for female people” they get mad because that’s bioessentialism for some reason

When we say “this space is for those assigned female at birth” yeah you guessed it. Still bioessentialism. Yeah acknowledging that female human beings exist at all is bioessentialism actually.

B) his wife just went through labor and birth and he actively WANTED to piss her off in this vulnerable situation

C) he wanted to name his daughter after a porn star, meaning he just sees women as sex objects, EVEN HIS NEWBORN DAUGHTER. And everytime he says her name, he'll think of sex (absolutely disgusting)

D) he actually told his daughter about who she's named after, probably wanting to humiliate her and "put her in her place."

On tumblr, a site that supposedly doesn't have porn, will literally keep porn posts as long as the porn is in a reblog instead of the original post.

And yet this post not only has all the images deleted, but all of the reblogs are deleted in the notes and op is deactivated. This post got more of a thorough response than the porn posts that have already been reported to staff. That's where tumblr staff see the real issue: a singer pointing out that men can get cosmetic surgery before women's health needs.

A great example of the trans community not being able to stick to one story. For the longest time they said that sex couldn’t be changed, but gender could. Then they started saying that both gender and sex change at the same time. Now some are pushing for the idea that sex changes but gender doesn’t? And nobody can agree with each other within the trans community on this, but you bet they’ll call you a bigot if you’re confused by it too.