This post is happy making.

[cantarina1]

And this, this is why I've been coming to love Shakesville so much over the last few weeks, in an era where transwomen and women with disabilities call - not unjustifiably - for boycotts of the major feminist blogs. In a movement criticized by many women that defy "white" and "middle class" and "educated" and "able" and everything else deemed

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[emerald_embers]

in which women see ourselves not just as men's equals, but as each other's."

This part alone is so perfect I could kiss it. Feminism will never truly move forward, not as far as it needs to, when there are people who still call themselves feminists who belittle each other, not just as sluts/whores/bitches/cows and other gendered slurs, but through ablism and racism and classism and all the rest.

*hugs*

[cantarina1]

So many hugs! :D

[scorpiod1]

THIS. JUST THIS. I love Shakesville <3

[cantarina1]

I kind of want to write them a love letter to say "Thank you for showing me to the door to the kind of feminism I've want to see in the world!"

I know that Shakesville didn't originate it, but it's how I'm discovering that community and knowing its there gives me SO MANY warm and fuzzies!

[belledewinter]

YES. THIS.