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Feminist Organization41 ways to find radical feminists
I made this list a long time ago and thought this would be a good time to finally share it. Creating more/new online spaces is great, but I really hope women will see the closing of Ovarit as an opportunity to level up and get offline and into the real world to the extent possible.
Obviously, be cautious of anyone you find and conduct reasonable vetting.
Fundamentally, this is a two-part process: it requires both reaching out to people; and also putting yourself out there so people can reach out to you.
Social media/online
Facebook. Search Facebook for feminist groups in your area. Use a variety of search terms. “Radical feminists [state].” “Gender critical [state].” If no luck, try searching for parents’ groups.
Facebook. If no group exists in your state or city, then make your own. Title it something simple and obvious that women will be likely to search for (like you just did in point #1!). Make it private and set vetting questions for prospective participants.
Facebook. Join a large existing group like Gender Critical Women. Ask if there are any women in your area.
Twitter. Search Twitter for events in your area.
Meetup. Search the Meetup website for events or groups near you. I know of at least a couple cities with local RF Meetup groups.
Meetup. If no group exists, make your own.
Reddit. Find the subreddits for your city, state, and region. Search past posts by relevant search terms. Or make your own posts - but make sure your account is anonymized, and be prepared to be banned. If you’re lucky, some women will reach out to you before you get banned.
Google. Search for your locale with other search terms like “radical feminism” “gender critical” “anti-trans” “transphobic” and so on.
Bumble BFF. A version of the dating app for finding friends. Give hints in your profile.
**Local media **
Research your local newspapers - county, city, state, and region - and subscribe to them. Check the papers daily for pertinent topics. If you miss a day or two, use the search function to look for articles with certain keywords.
If you do find a relevant article (for example about men in women’s sports), read the comment section. Add a comment yourself, mentioning that you’re hoping to connect with other people on this issue.
If you do find a relevant article that is recent (published within the past few days), write a Letter to the Editor about it. Sign it with your name and email, and you never know - someone who likes what you’ve written may reach out to you.
If you do find a relevant article that is recently published, read the Letters to the Editor in the paper for a few days afterwards. If you like what someone writes, consider reaching out to her.
Join organizations
Subscribe to emails from the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF). Become a Sister in Action.
Sign the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights.
Apply to be a volunteer with Women’s Declaration International USA (WDI USA) or your local chapter.
Reach out to the WDI USA State Contact for your state. If there isn’t one, apply to be the State Contact.
Join Feminists in Struggle (FIST).
Follow each of these organizations on social media and subscribe to their emails. Keep an eye out for local news and actions.
When you hear about events happening, whether online or in-person, attend! Especially if they’re in-person - call in sick, drive across the state, whatever it takes! Networks of radical women already exist. Sometimes all you need to do is find a few people who can then plug you into their existing networks. The people with networks are the kinds of people who attend in-person events.
When you attend an event, make sure to be prepared with a phone number or email that you’re comfortable disseminating to people.
Libraries
Check if your local library has copies of feminist books. Check them out to show there is demand for them.
Request they order certain books.
Find out about the process for holding events at your local library. Hold a book club event at the library to read and discuss a book like Invisible Women.
On the ground
Volunteer at a women’s shelter.
Join a network helping women access abortion; housing and transportation are both needs.
Volunteer to be a clinic escort.
Legislation
Look up your state legislature (often called a General Assembly). Search with a variety of keywords for bills pertaining to women. When you find one, email your legislators with your feedback.
When you find one, search online (on social media and search engines) for people talking about it. Connect with them.
When you find one, write an online comment about it if written testimony is permitted. Include your email in your comment so that interested parties can reach out to you. When you find one, go to a public hearing about it if one exists. Keep an eye out for women on the same page - both legislators and constituents.
Lesbians
Subscribe to the Lesbian Connection magazine. Write something and submit it to be published. Include your email so women may contact you. If there is a Contact Dyke in your area, reach out to her. If there is not yet, apply to become your area’s Contact Dyke.
Subscribe to the Maize magazine and directory. Write an introduction to be published. Include your email so women may contact you. Make plans to visit some of the women’s lands listed.
Search for lesbian groups in your city or state. Even if they are “inclusive” (or more accurately, intrusive), attend a few meetings or events. Particularly seek out older lesbians. Drop hints. If they kick you out, so what? Just try to find a couple like-minded women before they do.
Miscellaneous
Plan a trip to a women’s festival. Even if technically “inclusive”, many of the older and smaller women’s festivals will in reality be entirely women, and are likely to be populated with many feminists and lesbians. Again, meeting women in-person is best because women who make the effort to attend in-person events are likely to have access to more extensive networks. Wear a “Save Women’s Sports” or “Keep Prisons Single Sex” shirt. Strike up conversations with as many different women as possible.
Wear a pussy hat around town.
Adjacent issues
Whatever your job is, join your union if one exists. A disproportionate number of feminists are also involved with union organizing. Even if you don’t find any feminists, you will likely learn valuable things about community organizing.
Do the same with organizations or movements involved in other adjacent issues, or issues that tend to have a lot of overlap with radical feminists, such as: Environmental organizations, green parties, and gardening clubs. Groups planting trees or removing invasives locally are generally dominated by (often retired) women.
Also try mothers’ groups if you are a mother; animal rights; racial justice causes; working-class issues; anti-war activism; and more.
Above all else
Speak up! You may be passing by ten other radical feminists each day, and never knowing it because both of you are silent.
After you have succeeded, I caution you against assuming that you will automatically become friends and especially against thinking that you will agree on everything. Even with a shared feminist leaning, it still takes an active effort to befriend someone and then to maintain a relationship. Even with a shared feminist leaning, you will still disagree on other things that may make you want to recoil; expect that and it will be easier to handle Good luck!
No sympathy here. They would have known this is a typical outcome with these surgeries if they bothered to research first and didn't let their brothers in arms delete any truthful discussion on these surgical outcomes.
Cutting your healthy genitals off is a bad idea, who knew?
He's probably spent $100,000 on this attempt to appropriate femaleness for himself. Much of that NOT out of his own pocket. He's encouraged others to get surgeries. He supports childhood transition. He supports males in female sports teams.
Yes, what he did to himself is a tragedy. It's an atrocity that doctors are free to do this to people.
I don't wish pain on him, I hope he gets better.
But it was his own misogyny that drove him here, and on that score he has not improved.
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suicide averted
If only this were true. Seen one too many people with the pain from these complications mention that they are now seriously considering euthanasia :(
I find myself wondering sometimes if suicide by "medically assisted death" arising from medical mutilation is on some unspoken level one of the expected outcomes.
Certainly many of the damaged victims of these practitioners of medical mutilation (hormonal as well as surgical), desperate for any kind of improvement in their situation, are likely to provide "human lab animals" for further gender / transhuman experimentation in future.
If anyone was curious about what he looked like before: example one | example two | example three. In that first before photo he has a little bit of a Tucker Carlson hairstyle going on lol.
He actually looked fairly decent before, but his after photos look like they're rather filtered. There's a sameness to them that's probably a filter. Plus he's evidently a big fan of using an angle that looks right down his shirt with an emphasis on his moobs. In other comments he said he's had facial surgery done too: he posted before and after photos taken by the surgeon.
He said he had these procedures done: > "First round: Hairline lowering, type III forehead reconstruction, brow lift, rhinoplasty, fat transfer to cheeks and lips, jaw shaving, genioplasty, and trach shave
Second round: Additional forehead burring/rounding out, additional brow lift, additional fat transfer to lips, creation of skin flap on chin (to get rid of cleft), and liposuction under jaw"
He had a somewhat daintier face to start with compared to a lot of TIMs though. He also posted a photo of him two years pre-transition, with a different hairstyle and facial hair. He looks pretty different in that one. He also said he had a BBL surgery: "Fat transfers are amazing for transition. Did it for my cheeks and lips during FFS. Then BBL for hips, outer thighs, and butt. Adds so much shape."
Apparently his partner is also trans, a TIF, and they swapped clothes when she (the TIF partner) transitioned. It's so ridiculous to think about; you can borrow your boyfriend's clothes without transing yourself. Women have been borrowing their boyfriend/husband's clothes for decades.
Lots of men have more delicate bone structure in their 20s. A man's bone structure becomes heavier and more pronounced in middle age. I suppose most of these guys don't understand that.
Thanks for the links and doing that investigating. This guy really loves to get surgery.
You're welcome. He really does seem to be keen on surgeries. I wonder how much all of it has cost so far. Though apparently he's been able to get most of the cost covered via health insurance, at least for the facial surgery: "For my primary surgery with DB for example I was able to get over 80% of his professional fee paid for out of network with my insurance. It takes a lot of due diligence and work but it can happen."
DB is the surgeon who did the facial surgery/ies, Jordan Deschamps-Braly. He was interviewed in 2018; part of that article says:
"The surgery can cost from $40,000 to upwards of $60,000 and is rarely covered by insurance. But patients say Deschamps-Braly is worth the cost. His high-quality work stands apart (undoing botched operations by other surgeons accounts for about 20-30 per cent of his surgery on transgender people)"
holy fuck that's a lot. I can't get the article to archive and there's a paywall, so the quote is just from a preview snippet I saw in the search results.
Wow, I remember this guy from when I used to follow the r/MTF subreddit. I remember thinking that he and his partner look like each other, I had no idea she was a TIF. He actually seemed kind of nice and not as brain-rotted as some of the other AGPs. I do feel bad for him, there isn’t any coming back from vaginoplasty.
oh interesting, how long ago was that? Based on his post/comment history, he's been transitioned since about two (maybe closer to three?) years ago. The account history for this particular account only goes back a year, but in comments/posts he mentions how long it had been since he started taking hormones. Did he previously have a different account?
I agree that based on what he's posted, he doesn't necessarily seem "as brain-rotted as some of the other AGPs" but maybe he's just better at hiding it.
That jaw shaving really gives his face a downright creepy vibe, imho - like, that "your face looks unnaturally edited" look from the uncanny valley.
He called the wound between his legs a canal!? Like a birth canal? Oh, for God’s sake.
Transcript:
Dr. Min Jun Made Me Feel Ashamed of My Body
I’ve talked about the issues I’ve had with Dr. Jun and my Vaginoplasty but what occurred yesterday caused me even more harm. I asked for a post-op appointment because my quality of life is terrible even 5 months post op. I pee absolutely everywhere (all over my legs, rear, etc regardless of sitting position), my canal is extremely painful especially at the entrance where there is excessive scar tissue making every dilation session hell, and aesthetically its just not correct. Regardless of what had happened I needed a post-op with the original surgeon, I need my life back.
I wanted to talk to Dr. Jun before the appointment to clear the air a bit and for me to feel comfortable opening my legs up in front of a doctor who had verbally abused me in the past. Instead of this happening he barraged me in the meeting by saying he was not comfortable ever operating on me again regardless of revision needs. I was a mess and just broke down crying in front of all 3 people in the room. This lasted for awhile and eventually we got to the point of the exam. I should have left before this, but having three medical professionals standing in front of you telling you to do something while you feel vulnerable is a hard situation.
The next part is one that is causing me a lot of pain. After I got undressed and Dr. Jun, his PA, and a nurse all came back in, instead of performing an exam on me Dr. Jun retreated to the corner of the room. Suddenly his PA was the one between my legs, and Dr. Jun made clear he was not comfortable performing an exam on me.
I would have never showed up to see this doctor who had treated me so badly if I had known this was the case. I was only there due to being in severe pain and not being able to pee outside of my own home. When your quality of life is this bad you can forgive a lot to try to get the care you need.
I felt so ashamed with my legs wide open and my surgeon standing at a distance, unwilling to even examine his own work or take responsibility for these significant complications. I’m ashamed of my body, and looking at my genitals is now a reminder of broken promises and significant trauma.
I’ve said before that Dr. Jun is not the right doctor for anyone. I should have followed my own damn advice but I had imminent issues and setting up care with a new GCS surgeon takes a long time. But instead of receiving care I need, I saw a doctor who played the victim and made me feel ashamed of the genitals he had created. I’m broken over this experience, and it will take a lot of therapy and time to get over what has happened.
This man was allegedly verbally abused by this doctor, but still had his genital surgery with him. Obviously this TIM completely bought into the surgery scam, and he didn't follow his instincts. I don't normally feel bad for TIMs who get their penises operated on but this TIM must have some serious mental health issues, and now has physical issues .
Jun works for the Crane Center, and Crane is a well-known butcher.
Yeah, they're also known for "Salmacian" surgery. The Drs are creepy as fuck.
I can definitely see a difference, but not enough of one to undergo that many expensive surgical procedures. Never heard of contouring, maybe?
Are we still taking TIP's claims of verbal abuse seriously in 2023? Lmao, the surgeon probably told him he won't be able to get periods or look like an Instagram baddie in the recovery room- that's the threshold of "verbal abuse" for these lunatics.
And you gyns are really feeling broken hearted and sad for a sex predator in this thread. Did we forget who he is? A pervert, probably a pedo or rapist going off the data we KNOW about TIMs. I, for one, am NOT sad and brokenhearted for this sick disgusting pervert.
We don’t know he’s any of those things from his post history so I will not assume.
If you want to be callous and hateful that’s your decision but don’t press it on the rest of us.
I do take TIPs claims of verbal abuse seriously when the person they claim to have been abused by is a TRA and gender butcher.
Statistical probability says that TIPs are fragile flowers who cry "abuse" at the slightest disagreement with their idiotic beliefs .
However, probability also says that a surgeon who makes it his specialisation to butcher healthy genitals is likely not a good person. Nor necessarily honest enough to tell a patient in advance that gender butchery does not a woman make.
It is only human to feel sad for someone who had his genitals mangled if we don't know for sure that he is a rapist.
And well, the statistics also say that most predatory TIMs keep their penises. So the very fact that this guy had his penis chopped off speaks in his favour.
This is tragic.
Weeping in humiliated frustration while you plead for reassurance and medical attention from the surgeon who amputated your healthy sex organs and left you soaking yourself with urine over an excruciating constructed wound is not “you get what you pay for” karma for bad ideas.
This person is a victim of toxic ideology and predatory doctors that have profoundly damaged his body and stripped him of his ability to use the bathroom away from home, hopefully only for the short-term. Harrowing.
I would absolutely wave my magic wand and absolve all errors in judgment that led to this outcome, no questions asked. None of us should pay for our human frailty at the expense of our dignity or physical well-being.
I agree, this sounds horrible, and no one should be treated this way by a medical professional they should be able to trust.
Some years ago I went through multiple dental procedures on one tooth, just to have the dentist who treated me tell me that she'd have to pull it after all. I had been through weeks of quite frankly horrible pain while she tried saving that tooth, all for that being the end result. Which is why I might have reacted a little harshly to it in the moment. I didn't even accuse her of anything, it was something like "Seriously, I show up here x times and now you are telling me you have to pull it?". I was clearly in distress at the time.
Well, she went and got her boss (this was a joint practice) who proceeded to berate me immediately, basically telling me how it was all my own fault (for supposedly not coming in early enough) and showing absolutely zero empathy for someone in pain who might have overreacted. I left close to tears that day, feeling like absolute shit and humiliated, and never went back. Got the tooth pulled by a different dentist who still treats me to this day.
What I wanted to say with this little anecdote is: In my case it was "only" a tooth. Could be replaced, even if it was a hassle, and didn't ruin my entire life. I can't imagine what the OP of this reddit post must have felt like.
That’s an excellent and empathetic comparison. A surgeon standing at the edge of the room and callously refusing to examine his own patient’s exposed, damaged genitals for liability reasons is monstrous.