Who they are today
There’s a thing called The Feminist Library in Peckham, London. It tells us it has a long history and has [cough] changed over the years.
The Feminist Library was founded since 1975, and we have existed in many different forms since then. This is who we are today:
That’s not a good sign. People running a library should be more literate than that. The point appears to be that the library was founded way the hell back in 1975 when the barbarians were unaware of the spiritual glory of trans ideology, and now the library is Uplifted and Perfected.
So you know already what their “principles” are going to be.
- We are intersectional Feminists.
- We are trans-inclusive and transfeminist.
- We are opposed to colonialism, imperialism, transphobia, racism, ableism and oppression of all forms.
So there you go. It’s not a feminist library at all; it’s a transist library, which is not compatible with being a feminist library. Transism shits all over women every chance it gets, just as this “feminist” library is doing in this “who we are today” denunciation.
And this is what we do:
- We stand in solidarity with Palestine, and all colonised people.
- We work collectively on a flat hierarchy.
- We strive to make Feminist knowledge and history free and accessible to all.
- We seek to be a free and welcoming space for the community in Peckham, South London, and the world.
- We promote equity and justice for women and gendered minorities.
- We provide a safe space for people of all genders.
So, if you are an actual feminist woman, you had better get the hell out of their library, because they hate you. They hate you way more than they hate men who abuse or bully or assault women. They hate you more than anyone, really.
Next up: that “statement” on their “history” with “transphobia.” It’s as bad as it sounds.
Looks like it’s an ‘everything but feminism’ library. The only thing they don’t appear to care about in the list is women! Duh. Like feminism has anything to do with women…it’s only the old, boring, second wave feminists who insist feminism is about women. The young, exciting, whatever-the-hell-wave-we’re-on-now feminists know better. Their feminism is intersectional. It’s inclusive. It includes everyone but females. And, of course, only bigots would find anything wrong with that.
The right tried for a long time to shove feminism aside; it took the left to get women totally out of the picture.
They don’t sound so keen on Jews either.
@1 your last point reminds me of a political tactic I witnessed decades ago in California. Some (old-school) progressives got a commercial rent control measure on the ballot, to protect small businesses, nonprofits and charities against the steeply rising rents in downtown areas. Instead of directly challenging it, the rentiers’ coalition put another measure on the ballot that sounded very much like the original one but, obviously, protected rentiers not tenants. So instead of voters making informed decisions about a conflict between two opposing visions of what downtowns would look like, there was just uncertainty and confusion. (I don’t actually remember the outcome of this strategy.)
The shopping list approach to enumerating perceived injustices attracted my attention too, because, by a charming coincidence, just around the time of the founding of the library in 1975 Malcolm Bradbury was (in The History Man) giving his character Howark Kirk the line: … it excludes everything that makes up the real face of society. By which I mean poverty, racialism, inequality, sexism, imperialism, and repression.
You know, I suppose it would be too easy for the vast minds at The Feminist Library to be against “oppression of all forms” while simply leaving it open as to what counts as oppression (excluding, of course, their actual area of expertise –sorry, lived experience).