#ti-grace Atkinson

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

“Almanina Barbour, a black militant woman in Philadelphia, once pointed out to me: "The Women's Movement is the first in history with a war on and no enemy." I winced. It was an obvious criticism. I fumbled about in my mind for an answer. Surely the enemy must have been defined at some time. Otherwise, what had we been shooting at for the last couple of years? into the air?

Only two responses came to me, although in looking for those two I realized that it was a question carefully avoided. The first and by far the most frequent answer was "society." The second, infrequently and always furtively, was "men."

If "society" is the enemy, what could that mean? If women are being oppressed, there's only one group left over to be doing the oppressing: men. Then why call them "society"? Could "society" mean the "institutions" that oppress women? But institutions must be maintained, and the same question arises: by whom? The answer to "who is the enemy?" is so obvious that the interesting issue quickly becomes "why has it been avoided?"

The master might tolerate many reforms in slavery but none that would threaten his essential role of master. Women have known this, and since "men" and "society" are in effect synonymous, they have feared confronting him. Without this confrontation and a detailed understanding of what his battle strategy has been that has kept us so successfully pinned down, the "Women's Movement" is worse than useless. It invites backlash from men, and no progress for women.”

- Ti-Grace Atkinson, Amazon Odyssey

[haggishlyhagging]

The reproductive function of a woman is the only innate function which distinguishes women from men. It is the critical distinction upon which all inequities toward women are grounded. It is, therefore, crucial for women to understand clearly what the nature of this function is, how it is to be defined, and in what relationship the reproductive function stands to a woman.

The reproductive function is a special ability, capacity, or talent held by women. This function is a property which determines their womanhood. The distinction between this function and the usual sense of property is that the latter is static, or primarily spatial, while the former is operational, or exists over time. The reproductive function has the status of property because of its definitive nature.

. . .

The Constitution of the United States, in the Fourteenth Amendment, clearly protects the life, liberty, and property of every person. Any legislation interfering in any way with any woman's self-determination of her reproductive process is clearly unconstitutional. It would interfere with her life by interfering with her person; it would interfere with her liberty by interfering with her freedom of choice as regards her own person; it would interfere with her property since her reproductive process constitutes, in the most integral and strictest sense, her property.

-Ti-Grace Atkinson, Amazon Odyssey

[radfemmedia]

Ti-Grace Atkinson Media

Interview (2009) Part 1 Time: 1:15:21 | Part 2 Time: 2:34:16

Visit to Fresno State Campus (19??) Time: 1:57

A Biography of Ideas (19??) Time: 34:41

Speech re: Radical Feminism vs. Post-Modernism (29 Mar 2014) Time: 16:11

[lizbethborden]

I had to read some extracts of Judith Butler books for a class at uni and it was the most nonsensical bullshit I've seen in my entire life, made worse by the fact that the teacher was in absolute awe of it and talking about her like she wrote the bible. Do you have recs of women (either in Tumblr posts or articles or their own books) reviewing her works and analysing it from like, a perspective that makes sense ? I tried searching her name on tumblr.com but almost every single post has "anti-radfem" in the tags which is a bad sign lol. Because if I don't read something smart very soon I think my brain's gonna shrivel up and die (just a heads up you're not the only blog I sent this to, I'm reaching out to the smartest tumblr blogs I know and desperately looking for recs lol)

I know what you mean anon LOL. I think the big one here would be "The Professor of Parody" by Martha Nussbaum. For criticisms of postmodernism and queer theory in general you could also read:

"Let them eat text" by Karla Mantilla

"The Descent from Radical Feminism to Postmodernism" by Ti-Grace Atkinson

"The Normalization of Queer Theory" by David M. Halperin

[trinitycove]

LMAO so let me get this right; women who are het-partnered can't be a radical feminist and women who are pregnant/have children/want children can't be a radical feminist?

This is false. Learn the history. Read an article or a Radical Feminist text.

Incomplete list of heterosexual, bisexual, and currently/previously het-partnered Radical Feminists:

Andrea Dworkin

Alice Walker

Chude Pam Allen

Robin Morgan

Ti-Grace Atkinson

[madam-melon-meow]

VRISKA SERKET IS A BISEXUAL WOMAN.

This is Homestuck canon. She is a transgender woman. This is Pesterquest canon. If you can respect the one you can respect the other.

I understand some are attached to lesbian headcanons. But if yourr bedrock is to insist she experiences comp-het. A THING THAT DOES NOT EXIST IN ALTERNIA. A THING THAT IS NOT SUPPORTED BY CANON. THEN YOU ARE BEING BIPHOBIC. PLEASE DO NOT SPEND PRIDE MONTH ERASING CANON BISEXUALITY. IT IS UNDER REPRESENTED AND MUCH MALIGNED FROM BOTH OUTSIDE AND INSIDE THE QUEER COMMUNITY. BISEXUALITY IS QUEER ENOUGH. BISEXUALITY IS BEAUTIFUL. CHARACTERS LIKE KARKAT. VRISKA. TEREZI. DAVE. ROXY. ERIDAN. GAMZEE. THESE HAVE ALL EXPRESSED BISEXUALITY. IT IS CRUELTY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER TO BE BADGERED BY COMP HET THEORIES ABOUT CANONICAL BISEXUAL CHARACTERS. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH THIS MESSAGE I AM SORRY BUT I REFUSE TO SIMPER AND KOWTOW REGARDING MY SEXUALITY. BISEXUALITY SHOULD NOT BE ERASED. IF YOUR DAVE HEADCANON RESTS ON OVERCOMING INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA THEN BISEXUALITY DOES NOT PREVENT THAT. SIMPLY RELABEL IT INTERNALIZED BIPHOBIA. BUT COMP HET WAS COINED BY ADRIENNE RICH-

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A (transphobe, if you cant figure this out from the rad fem rhetoric) proponent of the belief that all women can be lesbians regardless of sexual orientation by identifying as a “woman-identified woman”, aka thst the woman’s focuses are on the needs and emotions of other women. This belief is A core component of the lesbian separatist movement began in the 1970s, which should be pinging alarm bells. This is the organization that believes women’s bisexuality , MY sexuality, is inherently anti-feminist because of the implied desire for penetration, sexual dominance, and submission. This woman stated that women due to their socialization could not ever freely “choose” to enter a hetero relationship, that coercion was ever-present. Her words imply bisexual women (and others socialized as girls while growing up) have inherent lack of agency, erasing the freedom and truth of our love for what can be perceived as straight relationships. Ti Grace Atkinson said “ feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.” Lesbian separatists take this to mean Feminism is the theory and lesbianism is the practice, reflecting an assumption that lesbianism is the purest and most desirable manifestation of feminism, and that bisexuality thus is sullied and impure. Compulsory heterosexuality was coined by a TERF for the inherent purpose of invalidating bisexual and transgender women, as both run up against the terf ideology that all men are bad, that all relations with amabs are bad, that amabs are rapists in disguise and abusers on the prowl and to sleep with a man or anyone that could have been a man taints you. Bisexuality has always been transinclusionary. Those who exclude the one tend to exclude the other. terf theory should not be your bedrock of queer or feminist theory. What hurts one letter hurts us all.

S. Young’s “ Breaking silence about the B word“ has a fantastic paragraph about coming out as a lesbian and learning from other lesbians that my sexuality was considered a copout, that bisexuals were treasonous and would run back to men and leave the lesbians behind, that only lesbians had an anti-patriarchal sexuality, that we were buying into sexism by being bisexual. while gay men do not seem to view bisexuals as sleeping with the enemy as strongly as lesbians view us, there is still the presumption that a bisexual man is just trying to hold onto heterosexual privilege.  these views are not absent from fandom spaces.

Bisexuality is treated as a transitional category, as experimenting, as promiscuity, as being a liar and a cheat. To reduce every bisexual character you come across, to force them to “pick a side”, to comment on ship art of characters like John and Vriska as “generic boring and straight”, to similarly comment on art of characters like Vriska and Terezi as “lesbian favs”, to insist it is homophobic or lesbphobic when people push back against this categorization- this is cruel. This is biphobic. This is bisexual erasure. Andrew Hussie, no matter what you think of him, was very clear. They wrote a story in which an entire species is bisexual “by default”- where Kanaya is the only troll in a set of 12 to have a mono sexuality (albeit, while still displaying biromantic tendencies, at least in the ashen quadrant). Whatever issues you have with Vriska and Eridan viewing relationships with eachother and others (Terezi, Tavros, Kanaya) (Feferi) via the lense of their ancestors, that does not erase their bisexuality. (Vriska) canonically dated killed-by-Terezi!John , and followed it up with an albeit unhealthy relationship with Meenah. Vriska had a celebrity crush on nic cage, implied she was attracted to Karkat, and had a relationship with Terezi. Eridan flirted indiscriminatorily with most of his friends of both genders. Gamzee’s infamous flirtations with Tavros and relationship with Terezi exists. So does Roxy’s pursuit of Dirk and her insistence that Jane is hot. Dave pursued relationships with Terezi and Karkat, Davesprite dated Jade. Karkat caught feelings for Jade, John, Dave, Terezi. I could go on but i will not- there are many bisexual characters in homestuck, after all.

Many people view bisexuality as not committing, as not picking between “us” and “them”, as having “passing privileges” by finding an opposite gender partner. We are experiencing a time of great unrest. Do not return to the days of isolating aspects of the community, of infighting that weakens us. You see what rhetoric is being used against the transgender community, against anyone who dares to do drag, to break the binary boxes. Bisexuality breaks boxes too, by daring to love our own gender and other genders. By being unapologetically attracted regardless of sex. Fandom biphobia is nothing so serious as real world oppression, sure. You could say it is just another pin prick. But each pin prick makes me bleed. And I only have so much blood to give.

I see many musicians irl reduced to straight women or gay men when they have repeatedly expressed bisexuality. This is cruel. This is biphobic. This is not the move from inside the community i want to see. For young queer kids online, those experiences will shape them as much as bisexuals being kicked out of the gay organizations does those who are old enough to join one. Homestuck helped me understand I was allowed to be bisexual- i thought bisexuality didn’t really exist, especially not for women, when i was 13. If my first experience with homestuck had been being told vriska is a lesbian and is only compulsive about perusing boys, i would have never understood what i was feeling, because my crushes on boys as a kid, my relationship with men as an adult, those were not and are not a sign of being coerced by society. These feelings do not deminish or delegitimization my attraction to women. To say such a thing is to take away my agency, to reduce me to either an experimental straight girl or a lesbian who is “just confused”- the latter of which is rhetoric transmen and asexuals have aimed at them. This is a biphobic world you have been raised in. All i ask is that you do not impose the rheotric of a biphobic transphobic “feminist” on characters and people like me. This a shitty rant, but i needed to say it.

[dykemind]

hahah according to Lesbian Ethics the old adage “feminism is the theory; lesbianism is the practice” is a mash-up of Ti-Grace Atkinson “feminism is a theory, but lesbianism is a practice” and Sara Scott: “Feminism is the complaint and lesbianism is the solution.”

[verpaso]

A season 6 pirates scene idea I don’t want to put on my writing/art blog

[Ezra stands before a door on a ship. His hands are tied behind his back, and on each side of him there is a soldier. The soldier on the left has his hand clamped hard around Ezra’s upper arm. Ezra’s face is hardened and glaring.]

ATKINSON: Let him in.

[The soldier to the right opens the door, and Ezra is forced inside, though he snarls at the soldier as he’s forced to take a seat as well.

He sits across from Atkinson at a desk, unaware of who he is. Atkinson is stiff and silent, just staring, maybe analyzing. The room is a captain’s quarters, very neat, though the walls host several guns and blades. A large map hangs on the back wall, various pins stuck into it. The desk is littered with papers and navigation equipment.

Ezra’s eye catches on a small crystal skull, being used as a paperweight. He inhales in recognition.]

EZRA: You’ve been to Dead Man’s Cove.

ATKINSON: Yes, rather. [He picks up the skull, and ponders it.] A long time ago, now.

EZRA: [Sneers.] Now you’ve grown old. Is that your game? Reliving your glory days?

[Atkinson sets the skull down between them, facing Ezra, with a harsh slam.]

ATKINSON: I believe it was Dead Man’s Cove, where I came across one Captain Ortiz, and gave him a rather nasty gash on the cheek. Tell me, Ezra, did that leave a scar?

[Ezra hisses in shock and anger. But he pauses, and frowns in thought, and as he realizes the significance of what Atkinson has said, his eye widens.]

EZRA: That scar—that day—that scar came from— [And his face drops into a deep, ragged rage.] You’re the Pirate Slayer. You’re Atkinson.

ATKINSON: That’s General, to you.

[Ezra starts to pull wildly against his restraints, standing and knocking the chair back. The soldiers approach, and he screams out as they hold him.]

EZRA: You have no idea what you’re in for, you snake! When—WHEN I get out of here, you’re DEAD! No—No, you’re going to wish you were dead, once I’ve started with you—you—

ATKINSON: [He walks around the desk and approaches.] Are you quite done?

[Ezra gears up to spit in his face, but Atkinson grabs his jaw and jerks his head to the side with his good eye.]

ATKINSON: You do not frighten me. I have killed pirates far more formidable than you. If I am a snake, as you claim, then you are the vermin I am meant to eradicate. Now. You have something I want.

EZRA: You already have the Eye.

ATKINSON: What kind of pirate are you, traveling with a British soldier? It must be against your Code. [Clicks his tongue and shakes his head.] Well, the poor boy will be glad to know that an Act of Grace is waiting for him upon his return home.

EZRA: Simon? [He grins.] Simon isn’t coming back to you, you idiot. That’s your own fault!

ATKINSON: Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

EZRA: Don’t quote scripture at me, you fool. Who are you to take on the role of God?

ATKINSON: I am His humble servant.

EZRA: HA! Humble.

[Atkinson lands a rough punch in Ezra’s gut, and Ezra’s knees buckle despite himself. Long hair falls in front of his face. Again, he pulls against the soldiers’ grip and growls in Atkinson’s face.]

EZRA: You’ve disowned Simon, and he’s disowned your family name. Your lineage will die with you, old and alone on your hollow estate, and I will piss on your grave, and—

ATKINSON: I’ve had quite enough of this. Get him out! [Shooing motion.]

EZRA: [Has begun to be dragged back to the door, heels dragging.] —your faithful son will be known not as an Atkinson but as a pirate, and a genius, and the only fond memories he will look back on are those of his mother—

[A pale hand grabs a crystal skull. Ezra stops and gapes as Atkinson hurls the skull towards him, just too high to miss his head. The skull thumps against the wall and cracks, and Atkinson is seething, pale face tinted red, blonde hair falling out of place, blue eyes swirling with rage. The skull breaks when it hits the ground.

Ezra is silent for a moment, and the soldiers look almost frightened. Then, Atkinson composes himself and waves them off. Ezra grins, wildly, and starts to laugh, as he’s dragged back out of the room.]

[femmesandhoney]

"Words are important for the revolution. I think you need both theory and practice. You don't know what the words mean until you see the action. If you think about it, throughout history women have been able to write, so they have this sort of mystical relationship with words and are frequently given to a lot of verbosity. It's very treacherous. People can say all kinds of the wildest things, and it doesn't mean a damn thing. There should be a relationship between what you say and how you live your life. I think it's very hard for us to believe that we're important. That said, I reject the tendency in some French feminisms and in women's studies more generally to have words take the place of action" Ti-Grace Atkinson, 2008

[whatisitnowforfuckssake]

What are some writings of well-known self-claimed feminists who seem to genuinely hate men and advocate female supremacy?

A quick reminder before you read these: there are feminists who will claim that these quotes did not happen, that they have been “taken out of context” or that these women had no influence on the feminist movement.

The next time you hear any of those arguments, you will know that they are incorrect. And once you’ve read these, you can’t pretend that you haven’t. You can’t go back to a world where feminists have never promoted female supremacy or hatred of men as if it were a virtue.

Most feminists on the ground don't share these attitudes, but clearly some of them do.

“We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.” — Sally Miller Gearhart, in The Future - If There Is One - Is Female.

“All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.” — Catherine MacKinnon

“The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist” — Ti-Grace Atkinson

“Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men’s contempt for women.” — Andrea Dworkin

“I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig.” — Andrea Dworkin (said by the author surrogate character in her fictionalised biography, Mercy)

“I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman…” — Robin Morgan

“Satan-like, men possess women, making their wicked fantasies and desires women’s own. A woman who has sex with a man, therefore, does so against her will, ‘even if she does not feel forced.’ — Judith Levine.

“All men are rapists and that’s all they are” — Marilyn French

“Calling me a misandrist like it’s a bad thing” - Roxane Gay

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

“The "battle of the sexes" is a commonplace, both over time and distance. But it is an inaccurate description of what has been happening. A "battle" implies some balance of powers, whereas when one side suffers all the losses, such as in some kinds of raids (often referred to as the "rape" of an area), that is called a massacre. Women have been massacred as human beings over history, and this destiny is entailed by their definition. As women begin massing together, they take the first step from being massacred to engaging in battle (resistance). Hopefully, this will eventually lead to negotiations — in the very far future — and peace.”

- Ti-Grace Atkinson, Amazon Odyssey

[haggishlyhagging]

The most common female escape is the psychopathological condition of love. It is a euphoric state of fantasy in which the victim transforms her oppressor into her redeemer. She turns her natural hostility toward the aggressor against the remnants of herself—her Consciousness—and sees her counterpart in contrast to herself as all-powerful (as he is by now at her expense).

The combination of his power, her self-hatred, and the hope for a life that is self-justifying—the goal of all living creatures—results in a yearning for her stolen life—her Self—that is the delusion and poignancy of love. "Love" is the natural response of the victim to the rapist.

What is extremely difficult and "unnatural," but necessary, is for the Oppressed to cure themselves (destroy the female role), to throw off the Oppressor, and to help the Oppressor to cure himself (to destroy the male role). It is superhuman, but the only alternative—the elimination of males as a biological group—is subhuman.

-Ti-Grace Atkinson, Amazon Odyssey

[prettyperfectdoll]

você poderia indicar livros para quem está conhecendo o feminismo radical agora, por favor?

Posso sim, mas também vou te indicar alguns livros críticos ao rad com uma perspectiva diferente do queer, que é o caminho que eu tenho feito mais recentemente Biblioteca básica rad:

Ti-Grace Atkinson - Radical Feminism

Andrea Dworkin - Woman Hating

Andrea Dworkin - Pornografia: Homens Possuindo Mulheres

Sheila Jeffreys - Beleza e Misoginia

Gerda Lerner - A Criação do Patriarcado

Livros críticos de noções feministas ocidentais:

Ifi Amadiume - Female Husbands, Male Daughters

Oyeronke Oyewumi - A Invenção das Mulheres: Construindo um Sentido Africano Para os Discursos Ocidentais de Gênero

Edited by Cheryl R. Rodriguez, Dzodzi Tsikata, and Akosua Adomako Ampofo - Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora

Vou te dizer que por muitos anos (6 anos, pra ser exata) eu me aprofundei bastante no rad e eu continuo seguindo algumas coisas, mas hoje eu vejo como uma ideologia um tanto.... simplista. Por isso até praticamente não tenho postado aqui. Não quero te desencorajar, o feminismo radical é importantíssimo e deve sim ser estudado, mas ele sofre do mesmo problema do marxismo: eles são universalistas. É impossível que tenhamos uma ideologia universal que seja capaz de abarcar todas as culturas e experiências do mundo.

Dito isso, o esforço das mulheres da segunda onda foi imprescindível para alcançarmos as liberdades (especialmente a liberdade sexual, e digo isso pontuando principalmente os anticoncepcionais, que libertaram as mulheres de uma vida sem fim de parir até morrer) e direitos.

No mais, pode mandar mais perguntas, seja anonimamente ou por dm, tamos aí!

[lizbethborden]

Ti West should have been a woman. I understand that I feel this way because of Ti-Grace Atkinson, but I'm right.

[f1minist]

"feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice". this quote from ti-grace atkinson sums up what political lesbianism is and why it's at odds with female homosexuality. lesbians would and do exist entirely absent from any feminist knowledge whatsoever.

[judeesill]

inb4 someone hits me with the OK THEN WHAT SHOULD WE BE READING???

for starters

The Dialectic of Sex - Shulamith Firestone

Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore - Breanne Fahs

Backlash - Susan Faludi

Without Apology: the Abortion Struggle Now - Jenny Brown

Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975 - Alice Echols

it’s amazing how radblr has invented whole cloth a canon of “radical feminist” thought that has almost nothing to do with any movement history and draws almost exclusively on a bunch of bloggers and like, five books, only half of which are by even self-proclaimed radical feminists