Our Future Is Female

So I wanted to create a list of women’s Youtube channels. It’s still very much under construction, but here it is.

Channels Added This Update: 13

10,000 signatures = gov't responds to petition

Two single mom friends formed a sisterhood after deciding to raise their children together in a four-unit home.

Friends Holly Harper and Herrin Hopper have gone through multiple life changes in the past few years, including the end of both of their marriages. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the women found themselves living in individual apartments and struggling with the challenges of being a single parent. Harper is mom to her nine-year-old daughter and Hopper has two children, ages 13 and nine. After years of joking about raising their children on a commune, the women thought that purchasing a home together would help create a support system for themselves and their families. The two friends decided to purchase a home together in the Washington, DC area.

In August 2020, Harper and Hopper moved into a four-unit home in Takoma Park, Maryland where they rented out the remaining two units. Not long after, another single mom named Leandra Nichola contacted the women. She and her two children — ages nine and 12 — moved into the basement unit and a few months later, Harper and Hopper’s friend Jen Jacobs began renting the top floor unit.

The women call their home “Siren House,” named after the half-bird half-woman creature in mythology who lured sailors to their death with their enchanting songs. The women see the siren as a symbol of female empowerment. According to TODAY, the women hope to expand their co-housing concept to other moms.

“We’re definitely like sisters, and the kids are more like our nieces and nephews,” Harper said in an interview with the Washington Post. “We’re not dependent in an unhealthy way. We’re interdependent.”

“We all have this awareness of each other’s humanity, and a genuine desire to care for one another,” Hopper added. “We’re not romanticizing it. It’s real and true and deep and doable.”

Their support for each other even extends past Siren House. Together, the women helped Nichola fulfill a life-long dream of opening a cafe. In March 2021, the women co-founded the shop Main Street Pearl, a “youth-centered, queer friendly micro-café” managed by Nichola.

We still have 3 ppl, waiting for 2 more to start a group chat.

Oregon Democrat Tina Kotek vies to become first openly lesbian U.S. governor

Tina Kotek is used to breaking new ground. After becoming the first out lesbian to lead a U.S. state’s House of Representatives, she now wants to be elected the nation’s first openly lesbian governor, too.

Kotek is one of nine candidates vying for the Democratic nomination to compete in Oregon’s gubernatorial contest, hoping a win in the northwest state will break down barriers for all LGBTQ+ Americans.

“Becoming the first openly lesbian governor in the country means that I am showing young queer kids around the country that they can do it, too,” Kotek, 55, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in emailed comments.

Link to the event

Wed, May 4, 2022, 2:00 PM EDT

FREE EVENT

The labor movement in the United States has gained international attention over the past several months as workers nationwide engaged in powerful collective action, and women have been leading much of the current surge. Thousands of workers across the country haven’t hesitated to take action—whether it was leaving jobs in the Great Resignation, organizing, or going on strike. What role have women played in sparking and energizing the current labor activism? And is U.S. women’s labor leadership at a new peak?

Join us on Wednesday May 4, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm ET as we discuss the work of women labor activists over the past year and lift up the invaluable contributions of these organizers and communities.

Featuring:

Facilitator: MaryGrace Menner, Congressional labor law fellow, WILL Empower—Office of Representative Andy Levin

Moderator: Michelle Chen, Labor reporter, The Nation, Dissent, co-producer Belabored podcast

Maddie VanHook, Starbucks shift supervisor and leader with Starbucks Workers United

Nozlee Samadzadeh, New York Times software engineer and New York Times Tech Guild organizing committee member

TBA, BAmazon Union (RWDSU)

Presented by The Century Foundation and WILL Empower.

If you have a request related to disability, please email [email protected] by May 1. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill requests after this date.

Introduction:

Fast fashion is one of the world's biggest polluters, and is often made in unethical circumstances. Companies overproduce clothes and set up the market in such a way that tons of clothes are thrown out every year. This isn't great for the climate.

While we consumers can't change the industry overnight, we can tackle our own wardrobe, instead. Every bit of fabric and haberdashery we reuse is one less piece of trash that ends up in a landfill. Every fast fashion item we mend or alter to be wearable again is one less item to buy.

This blog is dedicated to giving you ideas to make your own wardrobe a little more sustainable, preferably in a budget-friendly way. I'll be posting tutorials, ideas, resources, and projects that may inspire you.

Your actions may seem like nothing but a drop in a bucket, but even the biggest bucket will spill over if we all contribute!

Good luck!

Blog index:

These links lead to lists of all of this blog's posts, sorted by theme.

Sewing, mending, and crafts

Projects and patterns

My personal projects

Replies to asks (part 1)

Replies to asks (part 2)

Replies to asks (part 3)

BBC News - The ‘real outlier’ in the crossword puzzle-making community

We see so many brilliant takes here every day, they don't deserve to end up getting lost and forgotten on tumblr

You can even start to classify them by topic to keep them more organized. That way you can refer back to what you've already written instead of having to dedicate energy to writing the same points over and over again. And if you get termed you'd still have your work, it won't be lost

A great example of this is Ses purs ongles' compilation of tumblr posts

Also you could do this with other radfems' posts instead of your own, compiling your favorite ones, giving the corresponding authors credit, obviously

4W (4th Wave for Women)

Feminist Current

Asian Women for Equality

Women's Declaration International

Women are Human

50 Countries, 50 Books by Women

! indicates lesbian/bisexual main characters

Algeria: So Vast the Prison by Assia Djebar [realistic]

Australia: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty [thriller]

Bolivia: Women Talking by Miriam Toews [realistic - philosophical]

Botswana: Juggling Truths by Unity Dow [historical - 1960s]

Brazil: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector [realistic]

Cambodia: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung [memoir]

Canada: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot [memoir]

Chile: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende [historical - 20th c.]

China: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang [high fantasy]

Colombia: Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras [realistic]

!Democratic Republic of Congo: Everfair by Nisi Shawl [alternate history]

Egypt: Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi [realistic]

France: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn [historical - 1940s]

Germany (present day Poland): Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys [historical - 1940s]

Ghana: Homegoing by Yaa Gyashi [historical - 1700s to present]

Greece: Medea by Crista Wolf [mythology]

Iran: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [memoir]

!Ireland: Hood by Emma Donoghue [realistic]

India: The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal [realistic]

Israel: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman [historical - 1st c.]

Italy: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante [historial - mid. 20th c.]

!Jamaica: The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin [memoir]

Japan: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee [historical - early 20th c.]

Malaysia: The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo [historical fantasy - early 20th c.]

Mauritius: Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi [realistic]

Mexico: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia [historical fantasy - early 20th c.]

Morocco: Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman’s Journey Toward Independence by Leila Abouzeid [historical - mid 20th c.]

Netherlands: An Address in Amsterdam by Mary Dingee Fillmore [historical - 1940s]

!Nigeria: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta [historical - mid 20th c.]

North Korea: The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee [memoir]

!Norway: The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave [historical - 17th c.]

Pakistan: Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie [mystery]

Peru: Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez [realistic]

Poland: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk [mystery]

Romania: Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn [magical realism - late 20th c.]

!Russia (present day Moldova): Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon [historical - late 19th/early 20th c.]

Rwanda: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya [memoir]

!Saudi Arabia: The Others by Seba Al-Herz [realistic]

Senegal: So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ [realistic]

!South Africa: The World Unseen by Shamim Sarif [historical - 1950s]

South Korea: The Vegetarian by Han Kang [realistic]

!Sweden: The Engelsfors Trilogy by Sara B. Elfgren [urban fantasy]

Trinidad and Tobago: ‘Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma [historical - mid 20th c.]

Turkey: The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak [realistic]

Ukraine: Dog Park by Sofi Oksanen [realistic]

United Kingdom: Milkman by Anna Burns [realistic]

United States: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich [historical - late 19th c. to present]

!Uruguay: Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis [realistic]

Vietnam: The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai [historical - 1950s to present]

Every year on Lesbian Visibility Day, LesbiansOverEverything.Com puts out a list of “real life lesbian adults who are living their best lives.” The women we feature usually write 1-2 paragraphs about their careers or passions and submit a picture of themselves to go along with that.

The point of doing this every year is to promote positive representation of lesbians and to highlight lesbian achievements. 

Submissions for this year are open until Friday, Apil 22nd. If interested, please send a pic and 1-2 relevant paragraphs to [email protected]

1. meet with other women. talk about your lives, talk about your dreams, talk about what you need, then figure out how to get everyone what they need

2. look around you, where do women you know need help? help them

3. look around. where are there women’s businesses that need support? women’s organizations that need support? help them

4. gather women you know. use some excuse, like a book club, music parties, anything that will get women in a room together, talking and making friends. over time as you get to know and trust each other, start doing little projects and then maybe bigger projects that benefit women, that develop the class consciousness of women, that create women’s solidarity.

look around you, there is so much to be done, literally everything helps.