🧐 looking to connect some canadian women…

I’m leaving this as my pinned post, if you’re a womyn living in canada and you’d like me to add a “classified” on here to anonymously find likeminded womyn in your area, don’t hesitate to DM me. 

PLEASE message me if you fit the criteria and geography of these searches.  
🍁🍁🍁
Je laisse ce message épinglé, si vous êtes une femme vivant au canada et vous souhaitez que j'ajoute une «petite annonce» ici pour trouver anonymement des femmes qui partageant les mêmes idées, dans votre région, n'hésitez pas à m'envoyer un message. 

 S’IL VOUS PLAÎT m'envoyer un message si vous répondez aux critères et à la géographie de ces recherches.

Quebec City, QC 
🔎des femmes detrans et/ou des lesbiennes qui sont une peut GC/RF 
(detrans women and/or GC/RF type lesbians) 

Ottawa, ON
🔎detrans women, radical feminists and lesbians who want to be part of a radfem/lesfem social group 

Toronto, ON
🔎women of colour lesbians and radical feminists who want to be connected with other WOC lesbians & radfems 

🍁Canada 🍁
🔎any detrans women who want to be connected with other detrans women 
🔎toutes les femmes detrans, particulièrement si vous êtes francophone, pour vous connectez avec les autres femmes dertans 

Thanks for sharing sisters 💕

gnc-centric

From lesbian historian Lillian Faderman’s book

The Gay Revolution: The Story of The Struggle

achapstickdyke

hey fellow lesbians, can we stop saying donor-conceived adults are mentally ill and tools of the patriarchy for wanting to know what their biological fathers (or mothers if conceived by egg donation) and siblings look like? it’s almost like it’s actually super normal to want to know what your genetic parents look like to make sense of your features and that the desire has nothing to do with love, loyalty, or mental stability. 

i’m not sure when, as a community, we decided to abandon the act of listening to those most affected by particular circumstances (i.e. donor-conceived adults with respect to donor conception/sperm donation/egg donation, etc) but the refusal to acknowledge what the community and the research is saying is not a feminist win and it’s not a win for lesbians. we aren’t proving anything by suggesting that donor-conceived people who are curious about their genetic families are homophobic or otherwise bigots and simply need to “unlearn” this desire (does unlearning something that comes naturally to you sound familiar at all? the suggestion is ridiculous, right? because desires that have to do with who we are on a fundamental level don’t have anything to do with being bigoted) 

rather, we should be concerned with why research suggests that the physical health outcomes donor-conceived adults are different than that of their “naturally conceived” counterparts and why their mental health outcomes, particularly as adults, are significantly worse than naturally conceived people. in one study, donor-conceived adults “self-reported increased incidences of seeing a mental health professional (P < 0.001), identity formation problems (P < 0.001), learning difficulties (P < 0.001), panic attacks (P = 0.038), recurrent nightmares (sperm P = 0.038), and alcohol/drug dependency (P = 0.037).”

the research into this population is sparse, but growing, and several informal surveys done by advocacy groups replicate the results. as a member of the lesbian community, i’m not ready to abandon science and ethics for ideological reasons. the answer to this is not that lesbians (or single women) shouldn’t have children. it’s that we shouldn’t pretend that there aren’t issues with this industry. we should be honest about the current reality of being conceived this way and work towards change (i.e. increased transparency, more comprehensive screenings, no anonymity, releasing identifying information, and limiting the size of sibling groups because right now it’s not uncommon for those in North America to have hundreds of siblings.) i believe it would prove beneficial for the mental health outcomes of the donor-conceived and those who choose to create people this way. 

waxtrax

Factory Fan Bass: By attaching a disk with holes to the fan, it converts blinks of lights to electric signals and generates sound from a bass amplifier. Different numbers of holes can generate a musical scale, and turning on/off of the power makes it roar.

Created by Ei Wada + Teruo Takahashi(from the iron factory) + Nicos Orchest-Lab

Played by Ei Wada

from Electronicos Fantasticos

cipheramnesia

This is what I have in mind when I refer to Industrial Music.

colombinna

t-rfs are so funny to me because when someone points out their values are eurocentric and rooted in yt supremacy - because NON WHITE COMMUNITIES DID NOT HAVE THIS SENSE OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY - they'll simply disregard everything you said because they don't wanna face the fact they're fucking racists

radfemblack

What are you even talking about? The most celebrated black feminists of the second wave, bell hooks and Audre Lorde, were radical feminists. One of the most celebrated Nigerian feminists on Earth right now is clearly gender critical and backs JK Rowling. The feminist movements across South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America are very much radical. Are you saying again that non-white people didn’t know sexual dimorphism until colonialists came and lectured them in reproductive biology? That’s demonstrably false in many ways, including but not limited to the fact that their ~sense of gender~ was based on the sex binary, as all are, and were only allowed to people of a certain sex, usually males. Also implying that sexuality is a cultural construct is pretty stupid and lowkey homophobic. There have always been three sexualities, hetero, homo, and bi, regardless of what the culture thought about it. Don’t tell me you’re saying that homosexuals were invented by muh white supremacy 🤦🏾‍♀️

If you’re even actually black, you’re clearly nothing but a coon insulting the intellect of our ancestors to carry water for racist white trans activists who see non-white people as nothing but an amorphous blob of gotchas to tokenize and appropriate for their own illogical agenda. “Non-white communities” aren’t even one in the same, are diverse people with different and conflicting cultures, and have absolutely nothing in common apart from simply not being white. Ironically, defining the entire world in terms of white people is actually Eurocentric and “yt supremacy”, you’re just ignorant and probably don’t even know anything about what “terfs” even believe (hint: not in any gender, hope that helps), let alone the history and anthropology of every fucking non-white society to ever exist.

centipedehurts

our "sense of gender and sexuality" is simply that sex is real and consequential.

you know which other nonwhite community agreed? mine. sanskrit texts that are thousands of years old somehow knew the elusive difference between a man and woman when they dictated that women are the property of their fathers and husbands, should worship their husbands even if he is abusive or unfaithful, should be married to middle aged men at the age of 8-12, and should starve themselves after their husbands die.

i know you think us dumb pocs didn't notice sexual dimorphism until the whites colonized us but all around the world, women have been oppressed for millennia.

andwhimsicality

Inclusivity is refusing to call black women ‘women’

stingycat

Wow this some severe internalized racism and sexism.

divestedblackwoman

Wtf??? “Black nonmen”

This is the most racist and sexist shit I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

redrola

Britney Spears throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s from Felicia Culotta’s personal collection.

motordemonscorpion

This is so empowering to see proving that despite how hard the churches and Canadian government tried. They failed to "kill the Indian in the child" and that we will continue to flourish in our beautiful culture ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 and we will never give up

feministvenus

how I sleep after a day of ignoring men, not shaving my pubes, and loving other women

radiciradicali

jk rowling: sex is real and you shouldn’t be fired for thinking that

liberal media: this might sound like an innocent statement, but it’s actually supporting the violent transphobe maya forstater

maya forstater: i will use preferred pronouns but i don’t believe that people can literally switch their biological sex

liberal media: this might sound like an innocent statement, but it’s actually supporting violently transphobic radical feminist ideology

radical feminist ideology: gender roles should be abolished because they oppress women, so claiming that conforming to women’s gender roles makes you a woman is counterproductive. while being gender non-conforming is great, it doesn’t change your sex

liberal media: this might sound 

illalwaysbehere

These are innocent, clear, direct statements. Liberals are the ones projecting meaning that isn’t there. It is not radical feminists fault you purposefully misinterpret everything they say. That is on YOU.

radiciradicali

ya that’s exactly what my post is saying

shes-unforgettable

There ALWAYS needs to be a way to do everything without the use of computers and especially the internet. We don't own the internet. Websites can be blocked. Articles can be taken down and censored. They can't take the newspaper out of your hand, though. That's why I think that everything possible needs to be done to keep the physical press alive. You can't have freedom of speech on platforms that are managed by foreign entities and can be edited or confiscated at will. This isn't a thing of modernisation, it's essential for freedom of speech.

nada-mal

In honor of the worst comment on any of my LGBT history posts to date

please enjoy the following resources about the uprising and other events in United States LGBT history (all epub downloads, contact me if you need another format):

Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter, considered the most comprehensive collection of firsthand accounts from the rioters

and the short documentary based on his interviews

Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights by Eric Marcus and the incredible podcast he turned all these extensive, moving interviews with gay heroes into.

Out For Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America by Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney which covers more of the gay liberation movement in Stonewall’s wake

Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Contextby Vern L. Bullough for a closer look at important activists in the background of the movement

And a repost of The Gay Revolution: the Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman, in case anyone missed it at the end of the timeline. I also have a copy of the audiobook if anyone wants to message me for it.

Since most of these focus more on gay men, as they were the primary targets of police entrapment, bar raids, and anti-sodomy laws, she has another book that looks more at lesbians in pre-Stonewall America, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

So let us laugh at the bold ignorance of social media contrarians, and learn something.