First, the obligatory Holidays greeting. I hope you’ve had a nice time and that the next year is better than the last. I hope all our dreams come true this year. (Yes, I am that naïve).
Now on to what really matters.
The Radical Feminist blogosphere has been pretty quiet lately, in what I hope only turns out to be a state of hibernation. Infighting has taken its toll and everyone has separated herself from everyone else, with the result that we are now not a community and that we can change nothing. Poisonous ideas are running rampant within Feminism. The teeth of the movement are hidden, and no one feels inclined to ask the tough questions and focus on what really matters. Every social movement needs a root, and Feminism is no exception. Without it we are left with meaningless arguments about meaning itself. You know, endless discussions about “empowerment” and “choice”.
Feminism is distorted beyond recognition to the point that the only standard used for something to be deemed “feminist” is “a woman somewhere benefits from it”. This approach to social change is guaranteed to not change anything, since there is no recognition of such a thing as society in the first place.
Sisters, it’s time to wake up. Our ideas are too precious to be lost…
Maybe we are already awakening…?
Amy has decided to keep her Radical Feminist Library going. And if you haven’t checked it out already, I strongly suggest you do.
Polly is blogging again. For now.
As you probably know by now, Mary Daly passed away last January the 3rd.
It doesn’t much matter how right or wrong she was. She went far in trying to uncover that part of Truth and Beauty that can only come from Womankind’s eyes, no small feat in a patriarchal society. And one that is most certainly doomed to failure, to a greater or lesser extent. She went where no feminist had gone before.
The Radical Feminist blogosphere seems to have come back, ever so slightly, to honour Mary Daly’s memory.
Allecto has come out of her hiatus and written on her blog
Heart has produced a series of posts on Daly’s work.
Oh, and I am writing this. 😀
Here’s to a new beginning for Radical Feminism… At least within the volatile blogosphere.
Please, feel free to post links to other radical feminist websites I may have missed.
Beyond Feminism 
polly said,
January 16, 2010 @ 7:19 pm
For now. Until the stooopid gets to me. But there is so much illogic out there, as we are discovering!
berryblade said,
January 23, 2010 @ 5:06 am
Yay! I’ve always wanted to read more of Polly’s writings and now I’ve finally got the chance @polly you’re awesome.
I’ve finally updated with a crappy movie review. I think I came here through factcheckme maybe? Either way, I’m adding you to my blog roll, hope you don’t mind.
Julian said,
January 23, 2010 @ 7:06 am
Glancing over my blogroll and important webpages list, I thought I’d offer these blogs and, er, webpages, some of which explicitly identify as radical feminist or the perspective is deeply informed by radical feminism. I know most folks have their own take on how a radical feminist blog is defined. Thanks for being here! I’m adding you to my blogroll right now!!! (And thanks for the link to the Radical Feminist Library.)
AROOO (unapologetically radical feminist, partly separatist)
abyss2hope (a fiercely anti-rape blog)
Alice Walker blog
Celie’s Revenge
Don’t Call Me Ya Sista (new on the blog scene; appears to be unapologetically radical feminist)
Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind
Finally, a Feminism 101 blog
Incorrigible Radical Feminist
Keep your coins, I want change
Kitchen Table (archive)
That Girl Has Issues
The Curvature
The American Dream Is Dead… by Sabina England
The Feminist Texican
The Pursuit of Harpyness
Webpages:
Apne Aap
Asian Indigenous Women’s Network
Diana E. H. Russell’s website
Genderberg (radical feminist identified; moderated by a woman named Sam)
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
MADRE
Making Face, Making Soul… a Chicana feminist homepage
Minnesota Women’s Resource Center
No! The Rape Documentary
Oyate
Patricia Hill Collins website
Purple Berets
Sisyphe.org
Sista II Sista
WIDE Network
and last and least, my boyblog is unequivocally pro-radical feminist, in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Andrea Dworkin, Patricia Hill Collins and Sheila Jeffreys, Andrea Smith and Catharine A. MacKinnon, among other great women:
A Radical Profeminist
marytracy9 said,
January 23, 2010 @ 11:29 pm
Cheers, berryblade, and welcome 🙂
marytracy9 said,
January 24, 2010 @ 12:03 am
Thank you very much, Julian. I must say it is quite refreshing to find a man who knows more feminism than I do 😀
The ANTipatrix said,
June 20, 2023 @ 1:08 am
“She went where no feminist had gone before.”
I don’t believe this. Mary Daly maybe was just the first that had the time and energy to put it into a whole book. Gyn/ecology is a very intergalactic work but her thoughts are the fusion of others that women before her had.
And Mary Daly did open the door but she was not going through it. Most just repeat what men do to women, they show us no exit ways to defend and build our own societies, laws, values and so on. That is why Antipatriarchalism is the militant answer. The logical conclusion that we must reduce and erase male life and which steps we need to do to reach this goal. All is lead by the awareness that women belong to women, female-bodied beings are oppressed by male-bodied beings and so the later must be exterminated as revenge and end of our oppression.