Thank you for posting this link. I recognise myself in part of it, having come to feminism via being active in the left peace and anti nuclear movement. There is a fair bit I don’t agree with, and I probably would have been one of the radical lesbians passionately arguing with her. I love the ending. This is what it is about. To unapologetically voice our own truth and not care who hates us for it. As long as it is standing up for lesbian, women and girls sex-based rights, it doesn’t matter how we get there and whatever way we do it best. Pity she gave up on Substack.
I myself found that becoming a terf brought something strong out of me that may have otherwise remained dormant. It's very liberating once we stop caring about being hated.
I stopped caring what men, including the males in my family, thought of me, the moment I met my first lesbians (who happened to be feminist) and I finally knew what and who I was. It was more exhilarating than anything I ever experienced before. I became a radical lesbian separatist shortly after that. Not caring that I was hated for this by women, took much longer. I have learned over the years to temper the expression of the passion I have for every female living being and to choose words, however not the meaning, of what I believe, more carefully now. I cherish the lesbians in my lesbian feminist community, even though there are things we don’t agree with. I stand in my own truth more gently with those I care about, but still with the same fierceness with everyone who denies us our sex-based rights as lesbians, women and girls and who supports supports hatred against us, even if it is under the banner ‘we need to be nice to everyone, ans trans people are oppressed too’.
Brilliant
Thank you for posting this link. I recognise myself in part of it, having come to feminism via being active in the left peace and anti nuclear movement. There is a fair bit I don’t agree with, and I probably would have been one of the radical lesbians passionately arguing with her. I love the ending. This is what it is about. To unapologetically voice our own truth and not care who hates us for it. As long as it is standing up for lesbian, women and girls sex-based rights, it doesn’t matter how we get there and whatever way we do it best. Pity she gave up on Substack.
I myself found that becoming a terf brought something strong out of me that may have otherwise remained dormant. It's very liberating once we stop caring about being hated.
I stopped caring what men, including the males in my family, thought of me, the moment I met my first lesbians (who happened to be feminist) and I finally knew what and who I was. It was more exhilarating than anything I ever experienced before. I became a radical lesbian separatist shortly after that. Not caring that I was hated for this by women, took much longer. I have learned over the years to temper the expression of the passion I have for every female living being and to choose words, however not the meaning, of what I believe, more carefully now. I cherish the lesbians in my lesbian feminist community, even though there are things we don’t agree with. I stand in my own truth more gently with those I care about, but still with the same fierceness with everyone who denies us our sex-based rights as lesbians, women and girls and who supports supports hatred against us, even if it is under the banner ‘we need to be nice to everyone, ans trans people are oppressed too’.
wow you either write the good stuff yourself or you expose us to it, thanks
Thanks, Katrina
Have cross posted 😃
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-deer-hunter
Dusty