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Could I ask you guys to do a favour for me? I don't know if you've heard it or not but there is some news going on that our protests have succeeded and morality police has been shut down. This is a half truth. And half-truths are worse than lies. Let me explain.

While it's true that it has been "shut down" (at least in theory) it's nothing to celebrate about. As it's just a strategy to calm the people (the gullible ones at least) and show themselves as good people to the outside world. As soon as they feel the protests are dying down they will bring it back tenfold.

Hijab is still a law in the constitution. You will still not be serviced anywhere if you're not a hijabi. there are still polices and extremists who will crackdown and arrest women who are not wearing their hijab. So just because the morality police is disbanded doesn't mean that there is a freedom to choose at all.

Furthermore, simply the shutdown of the morality police is NOT the Iranian people's goal In these protests. We don't just want the morality police gone. We want THE ENTIRE REGIME gone.

So I want you guys to once again be our voices and let everyone know that this war is still not done, and ask them to not turn their attention away from us. I will now copy and paste the text you will need to tweet (or you can use your own words) and the organizations you need to tag. Remember the hashtag #mahsa amini as well.

*Some international news sites are talking about the Iranian people winning the revolution because the morality police has stopped working. The work of morality police has not been stopped and only its name has been changed*

*This is a PR move by the regime to quiet the upcoming nationwide protests. After 3 months of violence, rape, imprisonment & murder of protesters, it’s too little too late. This uprising is no longer just about draconian dress codes. The Iranian people want democracy.*

#MahsaAmini

@wolfblitzer @ABaerbock @CNNPolitics @CNN @cnnbrk @CNBC @Europarl_EN

@tedcruz

@SecBlinken

@realDonaldTrump

@POTUS

@FoxNews

@NewYorker

@NewYorkTimesCIS

@washingtonpost

@guardian

@FRANCE24

@euronews

Please do not turn your attention away from us. Do not allow them to slaughter us in silence.

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Schoolgirls in Iran in protest against the regime sticking their middle fingers to Khomeini and Khamenei

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Insidious is absolutely the correct word. I'm so sorry people treat you like that. To question your gender because your behavior isn't what women "act" like is nothing short of misogynistic. I get the pronoun question a lot, too, especially at parties for some reason.

"YOU'RE SO PRETTY, WHAT ARE YOUR PRONOUNS!!!!!"

I'll never complain about a girl calling me pretty, but it's definitely weird. I've started telling them that I don't care what pronouns they use, I know what I am. Hey, it's the truth. And I bet they all proceed to use feminine pronouns when talking about me because THEY know what I am, too. I'm female and I'm fucking proud of it.

being a gnc woman is fun because you get asked your pronouns and sexuality all the time and your gender conforming friends don't

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ignore this disgusting hornypost, or not

Even eating fruit reminds me of her, fuck. This must be what eating pussy feels like + the warmth of a human. And yes I've tasted my own juices, it just makes me want to eat a girl out even more. Now the question is, do I wait for the very improbable event that I find another girl at this tra-infested school that makes me feel the way she makes me feel, and by that I don't mean basic horniness but COMPLETE INFATUATION. You know, the kind where your feelings of friendship and romantic feelings are all one giant ball of emotion. Nope. Too many tras at my school. The cute girl at the library I've been eyeing these past weeks has a trans sticker on her laptop... whhyyyyyyy

I guess I'll just make a move on this girl I've been flirting with at parties(if you couldnt tell, promiscuity is a coping mechanism for me) just so I can get over her and MOVE ON and satisfy my hunger for another woman.

Okay, when I phrase it like that it sounds really sad. I really do love her but I can't have her, so.. I don't know what to do. And it's not like I'm not attracted to this other girl. Should I just stop having sex? Find a gf on tumblr? Or try to expand my IRL radfem circle(which currently consists of women out of my age range) I DON'T KNOW. AAAAAAGGHHH. IM GONNA GO BACK TO WORKING ON MY PAPER. BYE TUMBLR!!!!

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Interview with Nele, Nika Shakarami’s girlfriend by Zeit Magazine

‘‘Nika loved the moon, and it became an important symbol in their relationship, says Nele. When they missed each other, they would say: ��We don’t live in the same country, but beneath the same sky.” Sometimes, Nika would tell Nele over the phone that she was looking at the moon, saying: You should go outside too, Nele, so we can look at it together. They even called each other “my moonie.” Or Niki and Neli. Or Haku and Chihiro, like the main characters in the anime film “Spirited Away,” which both of them loved. The story involves a courageous boy helping a shy girl escape a world full of monsters. “That was us,” Nele says today‘‘

Nika Shakarami was a 16 year old brave Iranian girl who was kidnapped by the police during the ongoing protests in Iran, brutally tortured, raped and murdered in cold blood. Her burial was on her birthday. Say her name, Nika Shakarami

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Introducing the Radical Feminist Library!

Hi Radblr, I'd appreciate if you shared this link! I've accumulated hundreds of books from the second and third waves to create the Radical Feminist Library ! ++(Library on another site) The link is available to everyone, and feel free to share it with others.

If you have any book requests, or EPUB requests, send me a message! I'll see what I can do.

If you'd like to follow me on twitter, my handle is the same as on here.

My pages are meant to talk about radical feminist theory & feminist + lesbian history. Thanks for sharing!

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227 members of the 290 seat parliament of iran have called on judiciary to issue death sentences for people arrested during the protests

over 14,000 people have been arrested

this is genocide

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On performative femininity

I've always known this, but I've been musing on this a lot recently. Ever since I cut my hair I've been getting no attention from men. Quite a sharp contrast to last year when I had shoulder length hair. It was cute. And I had guys complimenting my appearance or straight up hitting on me on a monthly basis. Now, the point of this post isn't to brag about how hot I am, but to reflect on what makes men attracted to women.

I look exactly the same as I did last year- same face, same body, same style, literally the only difference is my hair. Am I crazy to think that's the only factor? This also reminds me of something my dad said- "all men like women that wear makeup". Then there's the way guys in general drool over stereotypically feminine women. And these stereotypically feminine things are all grooming practices that distort our natural appearances.

So what are men attracted to? Do they actually LIKE women or just the SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS of what women look like? You know, like how eyelashes are used to indicate a character is female. And they dismiss women who refuse to participate in all that as lesbian feminazis(i take it as a compliment). We're invisible to men. Fine by me.

I guess it makes me feel like only wlw can appreciate female beauty. Or maybe not-there's a lot of women who prefer hyperfemme girls, which I'll never understand(if you ARE one of those women, feel free to explain). But I know I don't only speak for myself when I say I like WOMEN and their bare faces and their soft torsos and their body hair and the place where their chin meets their neck.. Ok I should stop before this turns into a thirstpost. But I think I made my point, whatever it is.

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THIS THIS THIS

It’s amazing how many normie women will agree with the basic concepts of radical feminism if you don’t frame them as Radical Feminism™. Things like porn culture, sex vs gender, male violence, are all observable and radfem conclusions are logical. It’s just when you start bringing out the theory of why it’s like this that women get skittish. Which is understandable—fully understanding the breadth and depth of misogyny is scary, and for a lot of women, it’s too much, and they will disengage.

But some women won’t, and while they might not read Dworkin or call themselves radfems, they’ll be more aware of how to protect and love themselves and other women, and might become politically active if they weren’t already. That’s the end goal for me—I don’t really care what women call themselves, I’m just happy they’re striving for female solidarity and class consciousness, even if they don’t use those words.

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Update

It's complicated. I'm crazy about this girl. I never thought I could love a girl like that... gawd i love her so much and the last thing i want is to see her hurt. i cant give too many details,..

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It is insane to know your father watches porn.

Your brother watches porn. Your teacher, your professor, your cousin, your friend. Every man in your life, whether you have a positive or negative relationship with, is actively choosing to watch women get hurt, abused, degraded, endanger their life for his sexual pleasure. Every man you know grew up on the notion that you are lesser than him. Does the seller in the grocery store search for people like you on his favorite human trafficking site? Did your guidance counselor search for teen girls before or after you went into his office? Or late at night, at his home computer, under a protected network, because those children are different than you, come from a worse background, are abused by others, so it's ok? You are a child. She, who is the same age as you, is a #sexworker. Or maybe she just turned 18 but has pigtails and pretends to color in a book before she gets abused. When you performed better in class than a male student, in work than your male coworker, did he go watch people like you get degraded in the most base, awful ways? Did he do it to punish you? To get revenge? When you broke up with your ex, did he think, even for a moment, to post intimate pictures of you so strangers online could get off on humiliating you? Did he decide against it, because he is #OneOfTheGoodOnes? Does he #StandWithHer? Did he instead go watch other woke feminist porn? Does he understand that if your photos being used for jacking off by others is humiliating and a punishment, so are the photos of that feminist, inspiring, empowered woman he pays every month to act out his fantasies?

Does your father know abusing other women is part of abusing all women? That you and that woman on his screen have more in common than you and him will ever have?

Words can't explain the horror of living under this constant, ever-present shadow. Porn rots our society. Porn is terror.

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Zan Zendegi Azadi!

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Had a dream that I had a conversation with robert smith. Can't remember what the conversation was about, though. Anyways, it's robert smith, so it must've been a good chat. Fingers crossed for a USA tour. Better than the usual dreams where I'm canoodling with the girl I love who I don't have the huevos to tell her how I feel.

BUT I'M TELLING HER TOMORROW! LIFE IS SHORT! AND IM SO FUCKING IN LOVE WITH HER I CANT HOLD IT IN ANYMORE. EVERY TIME I LOOK AT HER I HAVE A HEART ATTACK AND MY STOMACH SINKS AND ITS LIKE LOOKING AT A RARE MUSEUM SPECIMEN. AND ON FRIDAY SHE WAS TELLING ME ABOUT HER FEELINGS AND FEELING UNLOVED AND I JUST WANTED TO TELL HER THAT I THINK SHES FUCKING BEAUTIFUL AND I LOVE HER AND FUCK THE PEOPLE WHO'VE EVER MADE HER FEEL UNSAFE OR UNLOVED I'LL FUCKING KILL THEM!!! But when I tell her how I feel I won't be this intense... who knows how she'll react. I can't read her. Is she smiling at me like that... in a friendly way? is she telling me all this personal shit because she trusts me AS A FRIEND??? She's into femmy girls, am I femme enough for her?? does it even matter?? AAAH I HAVE SO MANY EMOTIONS. VERIWEANGQNOIERIUNFOWEN;RILAKANGRC GL;AQT'GPERSLKCM;OE'JPINOAFEWJKCSM/

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We should really bring back "pornography is the theory, rape is the practice" as a slogan. It's so succinct.

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Seriously, defining your sexuality through porn is so.. sad. I think we all agree that sex is awesome(yes tumblr, scary prudish radfems have sex too! im the most perverted person i know :)) and here we've got an entire generation of people(including myself) who learned about sex through porn, who never got to develop their sexualities free of the subconscious effects porn has on the mind and body. Acquiring various kinks through porn and feel compulsed to try it out in real life because people are just a means to an end for your fantasies, right? Now I'm not against trying new things in the bedroom but how much of it is just shit you're copying from porn? And is it respectful of your partner or yourself, or is it degrading? Yes some girls genuinely get turned on by being degraded but that's not something to celebrate.

Anyways, rant over.

watching porn is media consumption, not an extension of one’s sexuality. if your sexuality is defined by the products you consume and therefore consider any criticism of the porn industry an attack on your sexual freedoms, you have some serious work to do on yourself.