Welcome to the new @pennsylvaniaradfems page, formerly @pennsylvania-radfems before tumblr decided to be a dick about it. Please use THIS blog or my new main blog @theradicalbuzzardofdiscourse to contact me. I would also appreciate anyone who reblogs this post to spread the word and let our previous followers know. Thank you everyone! 💐
You wanna know what’s a first. This is the first time in history women can feel this blinding rage at men and then in her hands is a machine that connects her to stranger women, I don’t know the number. But it’s in the thousands at the least, who share her blinding rage.
This is a first in patriarchal history. This is a new power we have. What can we do with it?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. In many ways, it’s remarkable that women all across the world can talk to one another about our material realities—for everything that feels hopeless right now, I think it’s important to remember that we’re in uncharted waters in terms of the possibilities for women’s progress and interconnectedness (and, by extension, solidarity).
These are extraordinary times, in a bad way, but at the same time we have extraordinary tools at our disposal for the first time in our history as women and as a species. I remain hopeful that the effects of connecting women globally have yet to be materialized but could become genuinely revolutionary. Female rage is so, so powerful. Let’s leverage it.
Women from the US mid-east coast please feel free to check out @pennsylvaniaradfems for local meetups and events! 💐
We will be meeting at the women’s march/protest in Harrisburg this Saturday (05/14/22) at 1pm on the steps of the capital! Hope to see everyone there if you can make it! 💐
Want to join me for this Planned Parenthood Action Fund event? https://mobilize.us/s/3Z2EAA
The organizers have asked that we wear green to symbolize the worldwide fight for women’s reproductive rights. Unfortunately all the Planned Parenthood shirts are already sold out but lots of other pro-choice organizations are selling them too! 💚
OH NO
They put a huge apology on the school’s main page saying they’re going to do an official investigation and potentially fire the supervising teacher involved. I fucking know people who work at this school, they are going apeshit 😭😭😭
Hey nerds if you’re on our discord turn your notifications on already, we’ve planned our next event!
Hey nerds if you’re on our discord turn your notifications on already, we’ve planned our next event!
Hey nerds if you’re on our discord turn your notifications on already, we’ve planned our next event!
Hey nerds if you’re on our discord turn your notifications on already, we’ve planned our next event!
Welcome to the new @pennsylvaniaradfems page, formerly @pennsylvania-radfems before tumblr decided to be a dick about it. Please use THIS blog or my new main blog @theradicalbuzzardofdiscourse to contact me. I would also appreciate anyone who reblogs this post to spread the word and let our previous followers know. Thank you everyone! 💐
Soon after creating a discord server for followers of my other blog, @pennsylvania-radfems, tumblr shadowbanned both my blogs for sending out 5-10 DMs with the discord link.
So I started making throwaway blogs and used them to send messages to another ~5 followers before those accounts were slammed too.
The problem is, most followers are either 1) shadowbanned themselves so I can’t find them from a new blog or 2) their blogs are set to block DMs from anyone they’re not following.
Any ideas? I’m trying to enlarge the local women’s group we’ve been working on and there are just SO many stupid unnecessary obstacles. I would really appreciate any help! 💐
As of this week this goddamn site has disabled my DMs on both my @pennsylvania-radfems and @the-radical-buzzard-of-discourse blogs so if you are trying to send me a private message, I will probably not see it for awhile until this gets unfucked. My deepest apologies for the inconvenience but I hope it’s only temporary.
Any advice on how to fix this would be dearly appreciated! The option to even SEE my DMs just completely disappeared after I sent messages to 5ish people in a row. I don’t know if that flagged me as a bot or what.
I wish you wouldn't alienate antivaxxers on this page. There are plenty of real, valid reasons to be against the Covid shot, and radfems are smart women. A lot of us have done our research, and have elected not to get it. Antivaxxers are not idiots; we're just looking at a completely different set of information than what you're reading. It's not a moral thing, or even an intelligence thing.
I am on the edge of my seat to hear what those reasons are.
Just wanted to get a quick survey, would it kill anyone to have the next meetup outside in spite of the cold weather? We unfortunately have a lot of goddamn idiot anti-vaxxers in our state and the COVID cases continue to rise, so I really think it’s better to avoid indoor events right now. It looks like our options are to either hold off until it gets a bit warmer or have a January/February meeting outside as we’ve previously done.
Naturally I’ll try to avoid any snowstorms or inclement weather, but mostly I’m asking if y’all would be ok with the cold. I don’t want to book a whole venue (which, as I may have mentioned before, is all solely coming out of my lil tiny fixed-income pocket) if only two women are going to show up. Either way, let me know what you all think! 💐
Any ideas, questions, suggestions?
A second female swimmer from the University of Pennsylvania has aired her frustrations and fury as her transgender teammate Lia Thomas continues to smash records.
The entire team has been 'strongly advised' not to speak to the media and the second swimmer has been granted anonymity.
Nevertheless, the teammate stepped forward to tell how UPenn swimmers are 'angry' over what has been perceived as a 'lack of fairness' as Thomas smashes record after record in the pool.
Thomas's winning time was 15:59:71, with her UPenn teammate Anna Kalandaze coming second with a time of 16:37:44.
Thomas's win was a record for the Zippy Meet, and the pool where the event took place. But she also managed to smash two US women's swimming records during earlier races at the same event.
The second anonymous swimmer to speak out over Thomas' performance has said Penn swimmers were upset and crying as they knew their times were going to be obliterated by her.
'They feel so discouraged because no matter how much work they put in it, they're going to lose. Usually, they can get behind the blocks and know they out-trained all their competitors and they're going to win and give it all they've got,' the source said to Outkick.
“Now they're having to go behind the blocks knowing no matter what, they do not have the chance to win. I think that it's really getting to everyone.
'Usually everyone claps, everyone is yelling and cheering when someone wins a race. Lia touched the wall and it was just silent in there. When fellow Penn swimmer Anna Kalandadze finished second, the crowd erupted in applause.'
What stings the swimmers the most is that the records are being set by a swimmer who didn't even make the first-team when she was competing as a man in the All-Ivy league during the 2018-19 season.
However, as a woman, Thomas broke 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:34:06 last Friday at the Zippy meet. She raced to victory 14 seconds ahead of Kalandaze - the swimmer she beat by 38 seconds on Sunday.
And then on Saturday, she won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:41:93 - seven seconds ahead of her nearest rival, giving her the fastest female US time ever for that race too.
It's the first season Thomas, who was formerly named Will, has competed in the swimming meets as a transgender woman. As Will, Thomas competed on the men's team for two full seasons.
Last weekend, she won three events and set three new school records, including two new Ivy League records.
The anonymous source who spoke to Outkick claims that after the race, Thomas could be overheard bragging.
'That was so easy, I was cruising,' Thomas is alleged to have said before bragging in front of her teammates 'At least I'm still No. 1 in the country,' while claiming she was unhappy with her time in the 500.
'Well, obviously she's No. 1 in the country because she's at a clear physical advantage after having gone through male puberty and getting to train with testosterone for years,' OutKick's source said.
'Of course you're No. 1 in the country when you're beating a bunch of females. That's not something to brag about.
'Honestly, this is so upsetting to us because we want to be acknowledged for our hard work, but it seems like this just keeps overshadowing us. Put Lia out of the picture — we have a really good team this year. We have one of the best teams we've had in years, and that's being overshadowed by [Lia],' OutKick's source said.
'Even without Lia, we had the chance to win the Ivy League this year, which is a huge deal for us. We train every single day and give up so much for this sport. And I love swimming. I do it because I love it. It's been a part of my life forever, and this is a slap in the face that the NCAA doesn't care about the integrity of women's sports.'
Penn's administration has backed Thomas publicly and says she is staying on the team and not going anywhere, with the team's coach Mike Schnur also lying low and staying out of the spotlight.
'He is just following the NCAA rules and the situation is out of his hands,' the source said.
The non-negotiable position has now left teammates feeling as though they have no choice but to speak out and risk repercussions.
'While they say they care about all of us, our interests are in direct conflict with the interests of Lia in regards to fair competition and getting to compete. While we support Lia as a person to make decisions for her own life, you cannot make that decision and then come and impede on other people and their rights,' the source continued. 'Your right doesn't supersede everyone else's right.'
'I don't know what the solution is, but I know this is not it. Because people talk about how the trans community might've been marginalized before and this is supposed to be helping, but you can't help the trans community by marginalizing [biological] women.'
'I know no matter what, biological women will never be on an equal playing field with transgender females.'
Thomas has said that she has the full support of her teammates.
'The team has been unbelievably supportive since the beginning, you know, teammates and coaches. Mike has been one of my biggest supporters and allies in this process since day one and I'm very grateful to have that support from him and from everybody on the team. I feel very supported. Just treated like any other member of the women's team,' Thomas said in an interview.
However, on Thursday, the first member of the UPenn swim team to speak out anonymously against Thomas said all support for her was fake.
'When the whole team is together, we have to be like, “Oh my gosh, go Lia, that's great, you're amazing.“ It's very fake,' she said.
'The Ivy League is not a fast league for swimming, so that's why it's particularly ridiculous that we could potentially have an NCAA champion. That's unheard of coming from the Ivy League,' the swimmer explained.
On paper, if Lia Thomas gets back down to Will Thomas' best times, those numbers are female world records. Faster than all the times [Olympic swimmer] Katie Ledecky went in college. Faster than any other Olympian you can think of. His times in three events are [female] world records.'
Also on Thursday, Thomas, gave an interview to SwimSwam, which covers college and Olympic swimming news, and praised the fairness of the controversial IOC guidelines on inclusivity saying they keep 'competitional integrity going.'
'I think the guidelines they set forward are very good and do a very good job of promoting inclusivity while keeping competitional integrity going,' she said.
'Each sport basically has to come up with eligibility criteria for what constitutes an unfair advantage in that sport. Everybody is able to compete in the category they’re most comfortable with unless there’s a proven unfair advantage that they have,' she explained.
'I'm just thrilled to still be able to swim and I love to compete and I love to see how fast I can go. It's sorta an ongoing evolution of what I think I can do.
'I'm proud of my times, my ability to keep swimming and to continue competing. And they're suited up times. I'm happy with them and my coaches are happy with them,' Thomas added.
Penn's team will be back in the pool on January 8 against Dartmouth with Thomas in line to claim NCAA titles in March.
'This is such a cloud over everything. A cloud in the locker room, especially the last few days because we all know of how things have changed in the last week,' Thomas' teammate said.
Virginia Women's Music Festival - April (date tbd) - Ferncliff, VA
Cinema Systers - May 26-29 - Paducah, KY
Russian River Women's Weekend - dates tbd - Guernville, CA
A Camp - dates tbd - Ojai, CA
Girls In Wonderland - June 2-6 - Orlando, FL
National Women's Music Festival - June 30-July 3 - Middleton, WI
Where Womyn Gather - June (date tbd) - Northeast Pennsylvania
Farmfest For Females - June (date tbd) - Iowa
Mystical Womxn's Magicfest - July 5-10 - Michigan
Big Mouth Girl - July 26-31 - Michigan
Michigan Framily Reunion - August 5-8 - Wayland, MI
OreGaia (site coming soon) - full moon weekend (dates tbd) - Oregon
Actualize - dates tbd (memorial day weekend) - California
Savannah Moon Celebration - date tbd - Pepin, WI
Twin Oaks Women's Gathering - date tbd - Louisa, VA
AquaGirl - date tbd - Miami, FL
Womenfest - September 7-11 - Key West, FL
SisterSpace Weekend - September 9-11 - Darlington, MD
Black Lesbians United - dates tbd (labor day weekend) - Malibu, CA
Ohio Lesbian Festival - date tbd - Lockbourne, OH
Farmfest For Females (see June above for link) - September (date tbd) - Iowa
The Dinah Shore Weekend - date tbd - Palm Springs, CA
Word Rock Sword - date tbd - New York City, NY
Lezathlon - date tbd - Los Angeles, CA
Women's Week - date tbd - Provincetown, MA
ClexaCon - date tbd - Las Vegas, NV
Redrox Music Festival - November 5-6 - Springdale, UT
Last updated 2021 November 27
This tiny cafe in my town recently started offering kids a free brownie if they showed their vaccination card, how nice! And of course WHAT do you think happened immediately afterwards? Conservative anti-vaxxers absolutely shitting themselves over WELL WHERE’S MY FREE BROWNIE FOR EXERCISING MY AMERICAN RIGHTS?!?!
Luckily this is a slightly more moderate town in a deeply red county so all the local SM groups are getting together to support their business! I’m getting takeout there tonight and going to lunch with some friends on Saturday. 💕
Thank you so much to everyone who brought this to my attention! Please sign the petition to end “Pray The Gay Away” conversion therapy advertisements on the PSU campus and stop using student tuition to fund homophobic speakers!
Monday, October 25th, Penn State students arrived at the HUB to start the school week. Many of us were appalled to see a poster stating "Pray the Gay Away," promoting an event speaker promoting gay conversion therapy.
The poster alone is enough to consider hate speech. Implying that one needs to "pray the gay away" means that homosexuality is a choice and implies it is the wrong choice. This is not the message that we should be sending students or prospective students touring the campus for the first time. It implies that there is something wrong that needs to be changed to 'fix' being gay.
The poster and the event were partially funded by UPAC, with money directly from student tuition. LGBT students are having their own tuition money used to promote hate speech against themselves. Under no circumstance should anybody have to face hate speech, but especially not in a place of higher education. It is incredibly insulting to these students that money from their tuition is being used against them. University funds are meant to be beneficial to some if not all students but should never be used to harm a student in any way.
Furthermore, it is appalling that the University would approve of a speaker who has openly claimed that pedophilia is okay, but homosexuality is not. On top of this notion, the entire speech promotes gay conversion therapy, which is physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive. Conversion therapy should be banned, as it already is in State College, but promoting these homophobic ideologies should not be allowed in a public university.
We encourage Penn State to remove "Pray the Gay away" posters for blatant hate speech and uninvite Milo from campus. There is no place for hate at Penn State, WE ARE who WE ARE, and WE ARE stronger together.
