In Response to Censorship of Vagina Anthem and a Pink Pussy Hat put on Harriet Tubman Statue

So here is my POINT, to pick up from the Vagina Anthem Lesbians being censored in FAVOR of trans.

I was reading on the  Debate about somebody putting a pink pussy hat on Harriet Tubman statue.

 For non Americans Harriet Tubman was a black woman who rescued slaves in the underground railroad they called it so she was quite a shero but a black woman shero of course so the black folks were upset especially some black women and one wrote a poem to try to wake white women up that this was inappropriate.

 That I can understand because many black women feel slighted by white feminism and the fact that 53% of white women voted for trump which makes me mad and that's where I bring in my Jewish and lesbian background that I definitely wasn't one of those women and I am  oppressed by that system in different ways.

 However where I live now I am surrounded by those types all over the white working class in the mid West and there isn't a democratic senator or congressperson to be seen for miles and miles hundreds of miles.

 In any case she talks about in her poem about this situation with a pink pussy hat and wake up white woman and don't assume your issues are our issues basically but also throws in the oppression of queer and trans women of color and how not every woman has a pussy or vagina so that's what I have a problem and I don't wanna say it on my profile because I feel safer in here.

 I can get behind the black woman struggle the black lesbian struggle but I am sorry I am not supporting trans because they don't support lesbians and in her Poem she mentions women and trans she never says the L word or the D word Dyke so in that sense I feel completely invisible.

 As we are every time we try to assert ourselves that all those for communities are not the same and we have very differing needs it would be just like saying people of color:  Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Indigenous people, ALL  Have the same needs  And history that's what LGBT means to me it means invisible Ising us lesbians because our needs are very different than the other groups all of them have men in volved and then you involve all those other letters and keep adding to it and lesbians become even more invisible that's why the let's remove the L from it because and they've already remove the L actually. Lesbians/Dykes are barely  Mentioned anymore unless putting us down or silencing us and assuming we're under the great queer umbrella and that women and trans includes us automatically

Dont compare us to Trump. Since when have lesbians had billions of dollars to force their will on others, with full State  support and threatening violence, and enacting it?

Trans have threatened Lesbians and radical feminists and other women over and over again because we disagree.  With murder and rape. This is what MALES do. No matter HOW they dress or act or what feminine gestures they imitate.

Us Lesbians HAVE BOUNDARIES. This is WHY we are hated. We do not cater to males sexually PERIOD. IF there's a penis attached, NO THANKS. A dildo is NOT a penis and will NEVER get you pregnant. No false equivalencies. Lesbians come in all races, ages, sizes, ethnicities and ways of expression from high femme to hardcore Butch and everything inbetween. But we only recognize bio females/wbw as Lesbians=Female homosexuals.

DO NOT COUNT ME OUT! JANIARY-27-2018

Dont count me out or dismiss me
Dont tell me who to have sex with, or how to have that sex
My body is my own, as are my desires
This Butch Leather DykeAmzon hs been around a long while.

I choose my associations, my communities, my allies. Dont bar me from what feeds my power, my strength, my self esteem. The ONE PLACE I CAN FULLY BE MYSELF.

As a Witch,  as an Amazon,  As a lover of women As a place I feel safe and can let go of the guards I constantly put up for protection that place is born female space especially lesbian born female space but in that space I can be all of who I am not just a part.

So many parts I have to shave off to survive in the patriarchy to keep a job and my sanity.

 I cannot let that wild woman out I cannot let that part of me that loves women desires women express herself freely in the company of men,  or women who are lesbophobic,  Or who fear their own lesbian desires.  Only in lesbian centered female sovereign space.

 It is something so many young women no longer experience and something young women may never get to experience because our spaces are impinged upon a place where they can think their own thoughts without males' interference feel their own desires try things new that they are not allowed to in the outside world or put down for or belittled.

 The gynomorphic energy of women coming together is the most powerful force for change I have ever experienced. There I found my true self and like minded sister souls who understand me down to the depths.

As an Amazon Warrior a Dyke Amazon I refuse to give this sacred space up. I will fight for it till my dying day and beyond.
        -M.A/ F.A.

Us LESBIANS HAVE BOUNDARIES

In response to comparing Lesbians to 45 or his supporters because we have BOUNDARIES:

Dont compare us to Trump. Since when have lesbians had billions of dollars to force their will on others, with full State  support and threatening violence, and enacting it?

Trans have threatened Lesbians and radical feminists and other women over and over again because we disagree.  With murder and rape. This is what MALES do. No matter HOW they dress or act or what feminine gestures they imitate.

Us Lesbians HAVE BOUNDARIES. This is WHY we are hated. We do not cater to males sexually PERIOD. IF there's a penis attached, NO THANKS. A dildo is NOT a penis and will NEVER get you pregnant. No false equivalencies. Lesbians come in all races, ages, sizes, ethnicities and ways of expression from high femme to hardcore Butch and everything inbetween. But we only recognize bio females/wbw as Lesbians=Female homosexuals.

           - M.A.

GUEST POST: Pele Sized Rage by Spider Redgold

I have a rage...
in me..
Pele sized rage
 a volcanic lava of rage
I am rage...
And I am tired
Tired of men thinking that can walk into the space feminists have created
and shame me
shame us
into thinking they belong in this volcano sized rage

Try to shame me/us into thinking they know what it is to be girl

Shame us into leaving the word mother behind
Shame is into being uterus bearers

I have a rage in me that is dangerous
like molten lava is dangerous..

I use that rage, not to harm anyone
I use that rage
direct that lava into protecting women and girls
protecting girlhood
protecting tomboys from thinking they must take testosterone to feel allowed/valid

My rage is dangerous
my wild female mind is unleashed
I will protect women and girls to my dying breath

I will lay my body across the gate to the temple

will you step on me to make sure men are comfortable?

Spider Redgold © 2017

On Butch, in response to superfical article trying to sell Butch clothes

To young Butches in the video saying they do what they want and "don't give a fuck"...

No, it goes much much deeper than that and "not giving a fuck". Many Butches IN FACT GIVE A FUCK, and want to be fucked, thus we dress to ATTRACT the kind of womyn WE WANT.

WE are the WARRIORS of the Lesbian communities.  The obvious Dykes, we wear our sexuality on our sleeve, we DEFY Female roles and femininity forced upon us, WE TAKE UP OUR SPACE,  we dont let men control us and often stand up to them and compete with them for jobs and other resources, and we are often hated upon for NOT being sex objects to men but FULLY OUR OWN PERSONS.  WE INSIST on being treated as equals, as seriously as any man, and yet proud to be Lesbian and Female connected to our own unique Sisterhood that has been around and often suppressed for millenia. 

We show the world a Female can be and do anything she wants going to places and professions other women fear to go as groundbreakers and pioneers because we ignore all the accusations of not being "female" or feminine or submissive enough to men. We pursue our goals anyway DESPITE THEM. We are the females who act in every fiber of our beings as if we are FREE of male control.

We do pay the price for our defiance, but also reap the rewards for doing so.

We LOVE and Lust after women.
       -MasterAmazon

RadLesFem Survivor and WHY She NEEDS WBW ONLY SPACES

https://radlesfemsurvivor.wordpress.com/https://radlesfemsurvivor.wordpress.com/I feel this is so important to include. For her very survival. I completely feel for her and ONLY in WBW Lesbian centered spaces do I feel most alive!!!

https://radlesfemsurvivor.wordpress.com/

In Response to a Radical Feminist Survivor whom ABSOLUTELY Craves WBW SPACE FOR HER SAFETY

Goddess, I agree with her on so many levels. Never more Separatist after working with men all day in the Trades, where I would be lucky to see even a handful of women if that on the job, with men who didnt want me around, always treating me as "less than". Sacred womyns spaces were places to GET AWAY from them and their patriarchal attitudes, and be able to BE my FULL DYKE SELF without fear, censorship, threats, or male violence on ANY LEVEL(including psychological).

My Dianic rituals were my refuges, and womyns festivals. Other aspects of Dyke and womyns community, parties, groups, events, SF Dyke March were slowly being encroached on by trans. Males who in NO WAY even "pass" as women, the vast majority of them, and whose energy is STILL MALE, despite hormones and feminine dress. The most male aspect being THEIR ATTITUDES and assumption of privilege. In other words, like every other male,they cannot take NO for an answer or boundary, by Females.

She may pick up on their oh so obvious predatory male energy as a survivor, like any other hunted species we are TRAINED to detect males and assume a certain level of wariness around them ESPECIALLY as survivors.  But also as a Witch, Female energy energizes me, male ennergy drains me. Men openly leech off Female energy, THEY HAVE PREYED ON US LONG ENOUGH!!! And so called trans "women", are wolves in sheep's clothing. Not to denigrate real wolves.
Male en femme. They are,still and WILL ALWAYS BE MALE.

WOMYN MUST trust OUR gut instincts and our womyn only environments USED TO BE our refuges. But sadly some women and lesbians HAVE sold us out...

Trust your instincts Sisters, ALWAYS!!

DO NOT COOPT OUR TERMS!!

You fuck men, males, (and Female)you are NOT Gay or Lesbian. Both terms MEAN HOMOSEXUAL (Gay) or Female Homosexual. Dyke is a fierce out loud and proud LESBIAN term. Every time a bi/pan/queer individual claims a purely Lesbian or homosexual term IT IMPLIES  our sexuality is fluid and if need be we too could engage in het sex, or be hit on by the opposite sex. Conservative Religion is always pushng this too..that we can be converted to mostly straight.

This is even more problematic for Lesbians cuz dudes THINK they can convert us, or we will make an exception for them. So by you using the term "gay", and other nonLesbians using the term "lesbian or dyke", you put Lesbian/Dyke/Gay womyn at risk to be hit on by het or bi males. It happens ALL THE TIME. And it partly happens cuz they got a bi/pan woman like you coopting OUR labels fucking them, so they THINK WE WILL TOO, if properly persuaded. THAT is nonconsensual!!!

This Lesbian/Dyke whose been gay 36 years DOESNT DO BIO MALES OR WANNA BE MALES OF ANY STRIPE.
WBW Lesbian womyn ONLY.
                -MasterAmazon

Charge of the Crone-Author Unknown

This was read at the Croning Ceremony I attended where I was Croned among others. Very powerful and life changing.

I heard this once before in a ritual put on by Bayla at the darkest dark Moon of the Year: right before Winter Solstice. She opened up her Crone circles to ALL WOMYN, and yes Bayla was Lesbian.

CHARGE OF THE CRONE
Hear the words of the Grandmother of Time:
She who has been known as Hecate, Erishkagel, Cerridwen, Kali-Ma, Anna, Hella, Spider Woman, and many other names - some feared, and some loved, but none ever ignored.

She it is who brings wisdom and the awareness of eternity.
She has been the Maiden, and remembers that joy.
She has been the Mother, and recalls that pleasure.
But age has changed her, and taught her the mysteries of the Wheel that is ever turning, the Wheel that is life, death, and rebirth.

She is the whirling tornado, the erupting volcano, the rising tidal wave, the trembling of the earth's crust.
With age comes an understanding of the past, and a glimpse of the future.
For, in the turning of the Wheel, the past is the future, and the future is the past.
She is the Learned One, the Teacher, the Bringer of Inevitable Change.
She is the Dark of the Moon, the Hidden One, the invisible unknown that lies ahead.

But do not fear her for she is not malicious, and her touch, however harsh, is love. Only in ignorance is she scorned and reviled.
Those who do not know her, parody her as the ugly old woman whose powers were said to blight crops and sour the milk in the cow. It is fear that turns her age into abomination, her wrinkles into hideous deformity, and her voice into an evil and manipulative cackle.
For those who sought power over the earth were afraid to face her wisdom and her unalterable truth.
But in the old days, we sat at her feet to learn the most ancient lore.

From her came the knowledge of the healing herbs, and the chants and songs that shaped our lives. She sat in honour at our councils, our marketplaces, in our homes. She governed our governing, and interpreted our laws. She gave focus to our changing seasons. She was our teacher, our oracle, our promise of rebirth.

Come, honour her as of old, listen now to the words of Wise One, the ancient Seer, the Crone!

- author unknown