Great entry – you’ve described the complete hopelessness I feel sometimes. The feminist groups I’m still involved with are those where I’ve always felt that no matter how strongly I disagreed with other members, we all liked and respected each other. It’s a complicated world, and people of good will can genuinely disagree with each other and still be basically on the same side. Meanwhile, I’ve also branched out to other forms of activism, esp. No Borders stuff.

I do think that it’s important to integrate a feminist perspective into other activisms, i.e. No Borders or environmentalism, and for feminism to integrate a No Borders and environmentalist perspective. Don’t ask me how to do this though.

Email me if you feel like it, it would be nice to hear from you.

Good Luck.

I have recently started reading your blog, when I am not busy on my own allotment! I would be really sorry to see you go. It is people like you that inspire me to keep campaigning. Every little bit helps. Every letter I write, every paper or mag I turn over, I know will make a bit of difference, somehow. Don’t give up. I also know the exhaustion you feel, it’s really hard when your own female, intelligent friends argue against you too. Sometimes I feel like I am not doing enough and have no-where to turn. That’s when I turn to you and your fellow bloggers.

Best of luck with the other bits too.
Charlie (girl)

I used to try and be active out there but that all changed when I fell in love with another woman, who later came out to me as having been born male. I don’t believe that makes me any less of a radical-aligning Feminist, but it has forced me to re-visit some of the what I used to profess, and what other radical Feminists around me assert.

“Every white feminist woman on the internet has a fabulous job, egalatarian husband, above-average children, 401k, and a vacation cottage on the lake.”

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze.

But I have to echo the others above who say marching in lockstep with men is no better then marching in lockstep with women. It’s not the group you choose, it’s the marching-in-tandem bit which is the problem. It’s control-freaky, and I’m done with that.

Let’s quit arguing among ourselves and find some common ground. It’s easy enough to identify obvious things which we can agree to work towards, and then agree to disagree respectfully with what we don’t.

If I’m going to tell someone what I think is important, for example, I clearly delineate between what is an opinion backed up by nothing but my feelings, and REASON, which is backed by EVIDENCE. If someone doesn’t immediately grasp the distinction between an opinion and a reason, they are not likely to attain a sensible conclusion. That failure to identify opinions promptly is one of the reasons people keep insisting “oh you should do things MY way”. Okay, baby, gimme a REASON.

Anyway, thanks for all the tuna, Charlie. lol And peace on your journey, wherever that may take you.

please let me know when you are holding anti porn protests and where….

i have met one of your activists at a feminism meeting in manchester in 2007 but we lost touch

shelley iqbal