Intersectional Feminism - Blog Posts
Leslie feinberg was a real person who existed and i’m posting about hir again because i deleted the last post i made on hir.
The first photo is Leslie Feinberg from some time in the 70’s, the second is her with her wife Minnie Bruce Pratt.
Feinberg identified both as a lesbian, and as transgender. he was a queer and workers rights activist and a Palestinian liberation activist. He fought for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who received the death penalty after an unfair trial regarding the shooting of a police officer. He believed that all communities, met with oppression, from the government, and on the social level, should come together for the sake of all of us being liberated.
Ze went by multiple sets of pronouns based on context, going by he/him, to honour his transgender identity, referring to zemself with ze/hir pronouns personally, and going by she/her to signify gender incongruence with her masculine appearance in certain spaces.
Ze wrote two novels about the queer experience, drag king dreams in 2006, and stone butch blues in 1993, which is considered a seminal text in the history of trans and lesbian writing.
Feinberg passed away in twenty-fourteen, hir last words were “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.”
Don’t forget about transmasc lesbians, they’ve been around for longer than you’d think. Their history shouldn’t be erased.
Here are the links to two interviews with Feinberg, hir website, a link to a website ze made to give free access to the 20th anniversary edition of stone butch blues, and a talk ze gave on Mumia Abu-Jamal:
(I might also make a follow up post on Andrea Dworkin, since a lot of her ideas regarding Androgyny get ignored. she as a lone activist was kind of like, a swansong to the power of being really fucking mad about misogyny, which is inspiring, but i think she gets pigeon holed a lot as just a feminist, and is left out of discussions on queerness, which was also relevant to her life and work. That’s not to say feminism doesn’t matter, but that it wasn’t all she wrote about.)
RECOUNT 2024: PROOF THAT HE CHEATED (spread this)
for them. for your siblings. for yourself. we have to fight. I believe in you, we're all in this together.
I'd commit arson for a good female lead
a sad feminist
"This International Women’s Day we call on all who identify as feminists to engage in the lifelong unlearning of their biases and to be in solidarity with Palestinian women, Sudanese women, Congolese women who are experiencing an ongoing genocide." from The Slow Factory, 08/Mar/2024: caption cont. under images.
In Palestine, more than 9,000 women have been brutally killed by the Israeli Occupation. 63 women killed per day.
In Sudan, 4 million Sudanese women & girls are at risk of sexual violence.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 1 million women have been survivors of sexual violence.
In Turtle Island aka the so called USA, 94% of fatal violence committed again Trans people are committed against Trans women.
This isn’t about the stats, the poverty porn or the constant shock doctrine the West desperately needs in order to be inclusive. This is a call for solidarity and collective action.
Access to feminine hygiene products, bodily autonomy and the access to necessary safe and caring spaces as women are all human rights.
Just posting this because people can't seem to get the fucking difference.
What feminism is: I think that women should be allowed to have the same opportunities as men and to be treated with the same respect while also not putting down other women who choose to be traditional as long as it isn't hurting them or me. I also think that women shouldn't be slutshamed for choosing to do sex work or dressing in revealing clothing, or owning their beauty/sexuality. But, they also shouldn't be treated as just a sex symbol since there is more to a woman than their looks.
What it isn't: Kill all men. Trans people bad. Man bad. Sexy woman bad. Big boobs bad. Bisexual and pansexual bad. Non binary bad.
Preach!! I'd add harassment to this as well though. Nobody deserves to be harassed.
Female cops don't deserve rape
Tradwifes don't deserve rape
Conservative women don't deserve rape
Fascist women don't deserve rape
""Terfs"" do not deserve rape
MRA women don't deserve rape
Disagreeable women in general do not deserve rape
No woman no matter her shitty ideology deserves to be sexually abused
Once it's okay to excuse rape based on ideology sooner or later you'll meet someone who doesn't agree with you.
Once you start noticing the passive voice being used for men's actions, you can't unsee it. In history class it was always "women weren't seen as equal human beings" or "women weren't able to own property or have jobs or get education" rather than men legally considered women their property and banned them from work, school, and property rights.
In the news it's always "girl raped in park" or "woman killed in home" which would make some sense if the perpetrator was unknown, but they often have already caught the culprit by the time the article comes out and it's always a man.
The amount of times I've seen a headline about a man murdering his entire family before killing himself being titled "man commits suicide after family is killed" with a nice little family photo of them is absolutely absurd.
Hell, just last night I saw an article titled, "3 kids killed after mom let ex-partner take them to get food." Her male ex took the kids to get food and murdered them before killing himself. Not only is the headline passive, but it also phrases it in a way that makes the mother somehow look guilty like she knew what he had planned or knew he was insane.
To top it off, people get really uncomfortable if you stop using the passive voice for this stuff. They start squirming if you straight up say "men wrote laws banning women from voting" even when that is literally what happened. BOTH men and women act this way. It's like we're all just supposed to pretend that rape, enslavement, murder, and other human rights violations against women just fell from the sky.