I'm So Sorry You Have To Grow Up In A World Like This.

a book rec for when you are a good number of years older is Gail Dines’ seminal book ‘Pornland’ taking apart the industry. bell hooks Feminist Theory is a classic

you’ve probably already found out about Andrea Dworkin by osmosis by now. I would also heed caution given your age and the topics she covers. You should always put your comfort above exposing yourself to information that may be harmful.

not necessarily feminist lit but the dance of anger by Harriet Lerner is a useful book on women’s anger and how to approach relationships (of all sorts). I found it useful both in a feminist context and in my personal life though.

sending hugs! 💞

thank you! <33

same thing with non-binary womyn. wanting to escape womynhood is so SO normal but basically no one in our world understands being a womyn means nothing but being an adult human female. not conforming to sexist assumptions and stereotypes doesnt make you not a womyn

I wonder if women who identify as men see males as the "basic, default person" in a way. TIFs dysphoria sometimes begins with discomfort toward their breasts because they've been sexualized, or the trauma inherent in puberty and getting their period, or the expectation to wear makeup or objectifying clothing - and then they think, "Well, men don't have breasts or periods. They don't have to wear makeup or clothes like that."

I wonder if it's less about truly "feeling like a male" and more about seeing the male as the standard person who does not have all these additional problems and expectations and identifying with that.

Do you have any favorite poets? 🌼 any favorite poems? 🌻 or a particular book that you carried around for a while? 🌸

my favorite poet is definitely emily dickinson! she wrote a lot of good poetry about her feminism, and poetry about other topics aswell :) id definitely recommend checking her out!

+ womyn actually have higher suicide rates then men, men just go for more violent methods more frequently than womyn

“if women are oppressed then why are male suicide rates higher” everyone knows men are much less resilient than women..

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if there was no patriarchy, no gender roles, no men.

I imagine I'd be more secure in myself. I would be less afraid to allow my body to exist as it naturally is. I could jump into a lake shirtless and never feel the real or imagined lingering eyes on my back. There would be no "man-peering-through-the-keyhole" psychological phenomenon women experience - the urge to always be palatable to the male gaze. I could feel completely comfortable cutting all my hair off in the summer so I could comfortably tend to my garden without sweat dripping from my hair. There would be no "does this hairstyle fit my face" bullshit that men interestingly never subject themselves to. I would walk home alone at night in the city and I wouldn't feel the urge to check behind me every minute. I could stretch my arms high in the air without the urge to immediately put them back down lest others see that I am human enough to grow body hair - to be human as a woman in this world is to be a beast - I could lay on the warm sands of a beach without the urge to cover my legs with a towel for the same reason. I wouldn't ever feel anxiety when making connections with other women because I would know with confidence they won't sell me out for a corn chip of validation from the patriarchy, because there wouldn't be one. Other women wouldn't look down on me for existing against the grain. And there wouldn't be the other kind of human to beat, rape or kill me for the same. Other women wouldn't be pushing their daughters, themselves, or me to conform to the identity of "decorative object to be oggled" because there would never have been anyone to start the demand.

I could rip my clothes off and grow my claws, my fangs. I could become the beast I'm meant to be. I could run to a hilltop with my sisters under a full moon and dance around a fire while we howl "This is freedom! This is freedom! This is freedom!" We could laugh heartily, loudly. We could feast decadently on all the delicious things we deny ourselves. We could take up all of the space we desire. We could love - truly love - one another and the Earth. Life would flourish.

I am deeply saddened that will never be the world.

why do you use the term womyn? why not just woman?

to avoid seeming like an adaptation of the word men or man. the spelling actually dates back to the 1970s :)

10 days sober from harry potter.. going coldd turkey..

Can't even boycott the last of us, can't even boycott captain america, SOME OF YOU CAN'T EVEN QUIT HARRY POTTER. And then you refuse to read some classic from a guy who's not even around to do any harm because "all the classics were written by white heterosexual men" WHICH IS NOT EVEN TRUE

In trans activist-spaces, “cis woman” is essentially used the same way “Karen” is