#lesfem

Queerfeminine or queerfemininity/queerfeminity: a term for queer fem individuals or queer femininity; an umbrella term for non-square feminities, non-straight femininity, non-dyadic femininity, non-binary femininity, and non-cis femininity (among other femininities that are "deviant" or "transviant").

As a lesbian who doesn’t believe OSA women will ever take the political action needed to fully liberate us all, the best thing to do is to support feminist aims that focus on legal rights and material safety, because all that lesbians need to minimally exist happily is basic freedom from the obligation to be partnered with men in order to sustain oneself financially and socially.

Not sure which post prompted this ask.

I think I'm a feminist, or at least I try to be. (I do think that you can't really call yourself a feminist if the extent of your activism is blogging. You need to do things offline to be a feminist.) I don't agree at all with a lot of choice-based, liberal, individualistic "feminism." I come closer to agreeing with a lot of the more radical, systemic stuff that tends to be talked about more in radfem circles. I want genuine liberation for women. I don't support the sex industry, surrogacy, transition, etc., and I care about sex-based rights for women and girls, which a lot of people would say was terfy.

At the same time, I disagree strongly with a lot of the reformist ideas popular in radfeminism. I strongly disagree with a lot of Andrea Dworkin, Shulamith Firestone, etc.'s beliefs (especially regarding children), and I hate the seething lesbophobia that's, frankly, at the root of a lot of radical feminism. Which means works like Gyn/Ecology, Mary Daly's writing, Adrienne Rich, Andrea Dworkin, etc. are soured for me.

But I also don't necessarily avoid reading any feminist works that have things I find contemptible. In fact, I think it's a bit sad that we're still all reading Descartes and Rousseau and Locke and Hobbs when they all had their own massive flaws, while women writers are shut out of the life of the mind. I try to take the good and leave the bad when building my philosophy.

Fundamentally, I think my feminist philosophy is lesbian-centric. I look at everything through the eyes of a lesbian. I agree with most of sespursongles' (rip) analysis of women and power and lesbophobia. I think I'm also anti-imperialist, which plays as big a role in my politics as feminism does, as someone who grew up in a colony possessed and run by a violent foreign occupier, and who experienced that violence firsthand. I think secularism, anti-imperialism, a belief in the rights of Indigenous people, and a belief in the rights of women are all things that make up my politics.