#the radical element

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: A Tyranny of Petticoats

Author: Jessica Spotswood

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2016

Genres: fiction, historical fiction, anthology, fantasy, feminism, LGBT+, romance

Blurb: Criss-cross America - on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains - from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago. Take a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their own course. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, screenwriters and schoolteachers, heiresses and hobos. They're making their own way in often-hostile lands, using every weapon in their arsenals, facing down murderers and marriage proposals...and they all have a story to tell.

[etawardana]

A Daydreamer

I may be a daydreamer. But if I am, it’s in the best way. It’s in the way that lets me imagine better things than what’s placed in front of me. It’s in the way that makes me go after those things, no matter what or who stands in my way.

The Radical Element, 1952: BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – The Belle of the Ball (p. 209)

[theatresteph]

Just finished this incredible book of feminist short stories!!! The Radical Element: 12 Stories of Daredevils, Debutantes & Other Dauntless Girls is an awesome collection of stories about young women being radicals of their time, breaking free in whatever way they can, owning who they are, and just being inspirations!!!!

[spocks-kaathyra]

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learned how to edit purely bc I need everyone to know this song and how well it fits Garak

[inksandpensblog]

I recently noticed a pattern in how I tend to write deaths, when I want them to have a perspective-shifting impact on the reader. There’s a specific element of body-horror that I implement in those deaths. I don’t consider myself a writer of horror, but looking at this it’s hard to think of it as anything but a body-horror trope.

When I want a death to radically alter a witnessing character’s understanding or journey (whether the witness has their perspective shifted upon the occurrence of the death or not), and I want the reader to be aware of this effect (whether they’re familiar with the dead character or not), I’ll write the corpse being desecrated in some way.

Could be harvesting of body parts or looting of belongings, could be improper or careless disposal, could be denial of rites, could be ignorant or malicious disrespect, could be negligence, etc. Sometimes the person isn’t even a corpse yet and the desecration of the body is a direct contributor in the cause of their death.

I don’t know if I can call it gore, because my focus is never really on the viscera of it; I’d almost say I linger more on the audacity, the appall that what is happening could and has happened. I can’t say it’s just for shock-value, either, because the means of desecration always adds credibility to some other element of the narrative.

I also don’t know why I developed this proclivity while writing stickfigure fanfiction.

Seriously almost every single one of my AVA AUs has a moment like this at some point in its storyline and I feel like it always stands out so much because it’ll usually be the only body-horror moment across the entire AU, why have I done this.

[womenaremypriority]

Do you ever think about how the old meme (dinosaur old) “hide your kids, hide your wife” was about rape? How a man crawled in a girl child’s room and tried to rape her and was turned into a viral meme? I do.

[radlymona]

I find this video essay really interesting. As a Greek person, my issue with their "re-tellings of Ancient Greek myths/legends from a feminist perspective" has never really been about the whole cultural appropriation aspect, but the fact that few of these re-tellings add new dimensions to Ancient Greek female characters. It's less Feminist and more "I didn't have a good original idea." If anything, sometimes they feel like mouthpieces for modern causes/rhetoric, or just so utterly removed from their context, that the names used are essentially a marketing tool.

[righteousruin]

Oh Christ,

Steadfast belief in restorative justice is psychosis, Grant??

[rocicrew]

the expanse is about naomi nagata actually. it is her story. a woman who had her agency taken away from her and was scarred so much at the beginning of her life that she run from causes and leadership and shut herself out from the world that slowly over the many decades reinvents herself and finds love and her place and faces her past and her regrets and finds a way to live forward anyway despite everything that happens. an oppressed woman who did care about her people but whose trauma made her shy away from violence having to be in constant battle with herself with how much action she can bear to take for her people and for the system. until enough is enough, and as much as she tries to hide she chooses to walk head in a leadership position and make the difficult choices she run from in her past and find a way to make peace with what acts of violence and to what degree she can handle giving when fighting back yet another totalitarian power

[jellojolteon]

Chemical element silicon.... We love her

She gives us glass, and computer chips, and flexible rubberlike sealants that have limited conductivity and nonstick properties... She has the range

[etawardana]

My Own Space

I’ll carve out my own space.

The Radical Element, 1927: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Better for All the World (p. 161)

[missandrisky]

The idea that my efforts would receive more praise if I took money from everyday people and broadcasted (see: exploited) the Women I help for views and engagement honestly encompasses all my issues with what respectability politics have done to social movements.

Ask yourself: why does Me taking money from sexual deviants and protecting the privacy of the Women I sponsor make you so uncomfortable? I’ll give you a hint: it’s not PERFORMATIVE.

[jemandthesingalongs]

okay i might still be a bit wishy washy but i think i have settled on a red/aggro city elf/non-dalish elf warden rogue that (ideally based on new info?) can be an archer that romances lace to try and get the most bang for my buck on a first playthru with my leliana/tabris worldstate for any unique dialogue or banter

[ripclaudia]

armand and daniel definitely make an appearance in TVL but its not a huge one. their roles become much more important during the events of Queen of the Damned and then afterwards. i suggest you read the books if you don't want to wait! they're pretty quick reads and i think you need to read about armand's sugar baby private island.

i've been a bit hesitant about reading the rest of them after finishing iwtv because the show does things differently and so far i have preferred the show's version. also i have heard the books don't exactly get better after iwtv. but it might be worth it to visit the rest of them too. i have read the devil's minion chapter though!! night island my beloved.

[roobylavender]

Saw a poll about immortality and the choices where different members of the bats and for Jason’s choice is was Jason (committed to haunt the narrative and will come back again and again) and for Barbara (she controls the narrative itself) and that was so poetic for like a poll answer but also it was like WAIT one haunts the narrative while the other controls it and I’m sitting here now just thinking about narratives.

they NEED to be in more stories together as direct antagonists (i use that term strictly positionally) to each other like bruce is a very big factor in the whole jason fiasco obv but i can't help but think we miss out on very crucial storytelling by failing to exercise jason as a force against barbara specifically bc she's the one with the foundations to understand him and yet her realm of control in the aftermath of that shared trauma is near completely antithetical to his own. there is so much meat there and instead we are stuck with writers trying to convince us jason secretly has a crush on barbara like i'm MISERABLE..

[fairandfatalasfair]

anonymous asks:

jsyk, radical feminists do not believe women are "inferior" or "weak," misogynists believe that. radical feminists believe that women are female. if you're following people who assume that "female" translates to "inferior" in any way, you're following misogynists. this is a logical leap you'll see a lot: "oh you think women are female? so you think women are walking vaginas designed to be fucked and incubate babies? so you think they're all physically and mentally inferior to the rest of the population?" they're telling on themselves when they do this. female does not mean "walking vagina" or "weak" or "stupid," and the people who make these logical leaps in their desperation to ✨pwn the terves✨ are misogynists

Nonnie, you're so close to getting it.

Like you're right, the people saying this are misogynists! They also account for the vast majority of self-identified radical feminists! Don't be fooled by the name: "radical feminism" is a deeply misogynistic ideology.

"Females are inherently weak and stupid" isn't some wild leap of logic: it's the explicitly and publicly held position of the majority of radical feminists. A fundamental building block of radical feminist ideology is the idea that "females" are helpless perpetual victims who can't be trusted to make decisions about their own lives. We know that radfems hold cis women and other afab people in contempt because they tell us.

You're completely correct, the people saying this are telling on themselves! You just seem to have missed that the people saying this are TERFs. It's not the people trying to "pwn the terves" who think "female" means weak and stupid. It's the people arguing that cis women can never be allowed to compete against trans women, ever, in any arena, because their inherent, inescapable inferiority means they will always inevitably lose. You're dead right, that's a misogynist position; It's also a mainstream TERF argument.

If that bothers you, maybe confront your fellow radfems about it.