radwave

and how could i forget one of the things that peaked me - when tras were calling them bigots

"something to be studied abt how certain types of (usually USAmerica, sometimes Australian, Canadian, etc) natives are obsessed with having ther own "land" and having "native land" and the idea of owning a restrictive piece of "land" where "white people" aren't allowed to go with the idea that this area of "land" they've fenced off for themselves with will be a place absent of oppression with some sort of healing connection between the natives and the "land." plastering over anything that might have happened with that "land" in those places to make a historyless blank-slate homesteading fantasy fenced off for only a specific group of people who meet certain "biological" criteria natives deem "safe" for them on "their" "land""

I'm not entirely unconvinced that this isn't a dogwhistle and this man hates natives. Not just because he's clearly anti-women but because everything he said can so clearly be replicated by arguments that indigenous people have been making for decades. He just happened to list three places where indigenous people are persecuted and have had land stolen, but want to keep their little bit of land (reservations) to themselves? places where we're struggling? ok lol. he just happened to point out our actual practice of escaping white oppressions by having our own land and recognizing that our connection with the earth and our land is healing, that WE as natives have between the earth and ourselves? our land? ok lol. this person is a lover of white colonization and it's blatant, at least to me.

If the idea of having sacred land where only a subset of people can live, whether that be the rez for natives, or a womyn's land, bothers you - congrats you're a racist and a sexist.

The Ocean at Dusk -  Kate Jarvik Birch 

American , b. 1977 -

Nüshu 女书 was a women-only script used by Yao women in Jiangyong, Hunan province, China.

Nüshu works were a way for women to lament by communicating sorrows, commiserating over patriarchy, and establishing connections with an empathetic community. Typically a group of non-related women would pledge friendship by writing letters and singing songs in Nüshu to each other.

i personally have thought deeply about how to balance women creating community spaces where we can gather and live together, with my own decolonial, anti imperialist principles. i am a settler, and i live on stolen land. the women's lands in my country are also stolen land. i am not afraid to admit to this, to discuss it, or even to critique the moniker we have chosen for our community spaces through a decolonial lens. i think that indigenous women should be consulted and prioritized in discussions pertaining to women's land, and i do not think most serious radical feminists who have engaged with our theory and political roots beyond tumblr posts would argue against this, or against the return of indigenous sovereignty in colonized territory. women's land is a place where women live together, gather with one another, share and heal and love and connect, but yes, we do not actually own that land by virtue of doing those things.

with all that being said, this retroactive attempt to frame a threat to travel to a place where women do those things- live, gather, and speak -with "silenced pistols and no condoms" was never a decolonial critique of women's land. it was an actionable rape and mass shooting threat. it was, by the man who made the threat's own admission, a violent fantasy about women he claims are not human.

The power of style to override substance makes it difficult for feminists to critique this dynamic without being dismissed as miserable opponents of other people just 'being themselves'. The fact that one person's expanding 'selfhood' requires the constriction of another person's – that it means women cannot, to quote [Andrea] Dworkin, 'feel a whole range of feelings, express a whole range of ideas, address our own experience with an honesty that is not pleasing to men' – is simply not noticed. The underlying hierarchy is the air we breathe; we only notice difference, and the 'difference' of a superficial rejection of one form of masculinity is enough to distract us from that which remains the same. Any feminist failure to get on board with the 'fun' of a boy in a dress destroying his sister's possessions, or a man in lipstick leading a woman's march, falls into the category of old-style feminists once again being bitter and humourless, if not actively hateful.

The truly gender non-conforming women – gender non-conforming in her resistance to male entitlement – comes off poorly in comparison to the 'fabulous' male who embraces every feminine norm bar that of being situated lower down the social hierarchy. She is sour-faced; he is joyous. She is limitation; he is freedom. It is not surprising that many 'progressive' men (and women) not only decide to throw their lot with him but convince themselves that this is the way to create a brighter, shinier, kinder world for everyone. If only some women (and little girls) would stop making so much of a fuss about keeping their paints, their castles, and indeed anything of their own.

“Why do TERFs call transwomen perverts and trans activism a men’s rights movement?????”

Maybe because you guys are indistinguishable from the men who crashed out during the #metoo movement, except you’re taking E and demanding access to our spaces while gloating about not believing any accusations against the men in your community.

Gift article.

Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society’s double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible, who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women, they can become women much earlier — and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.

—Susan Sontag, "The Double Standard of Aging," The Saturday Review, Sept 23, 1972