Welcome to female.liberation

Stand Up. Fight Back.

Female liberation is the song I’ve been singing since before I even knew its name. Like a tune stuck in my head that I just can’t shake, I yearn for a world where women and girls are free. Male supremacy tries to knock me off my course, yet I return each time stronger than the last. Each day I see more and more feminist women challenging those who try to silence our voices. From Afghanistan to Australia, their dissent fuels me. Female freedom fighters stand up and fight back against anti-female violence even when it seems impossible; even when we find ourselves hopeless; even when it feels like we can’t break the chains of oppression. We persist. I’ve witnessed women bullied, censored, threatened, shadow-banned, shut down, and demonetized on major platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and beyond. I saw this in my early days on the internet in chat rooms, blogs, and such. Currently, several women are gravitating to SubStack which seems to accept feminist discourse on their platform. But who knows if that will last. All we know is that female people are consistently pushed out of physical and digital spaces. And when women do own and control space it is seen as a threat to the men who work to rob us of our freedom of association and self-determination. To the women and girls everywhere who’ve been afraid to speak, it’s time to stand up and fight back.

About Me:

I’m a visual artist and feminist who loves to draw, write, and reflect. I recently started posting on Instagram and SubStack to build community, with the goal of directing readers to my blog here on the female.liberation website. Though my time and following on Instagram and is miniscule, I’ve already felt the effects of censorship from Meta. I’m a former community organizer of more than 15 years who focuses on rape culture. The very word “rape” which is central to my work is censored across most digital spaces. On Instagram, people obscure the word in order to talk about the subject matter. But I refuse to adopt this language manipulation that turns a legal term describing sexual violence into a “dangerous” word that needs to be erased. It’s not by coincidence that during each wave of woman-uprising, there is a systematic censoring of women and their stories in major media outlets. I’m inspired by all the women who are using their scholarship in their own ways to stand up and fight back against male supremacy and censorship of feminism. I join them here in their work toward female liberation: a world where women and girls are free. Thanks for your time reading what I share. I hope to create a space for like-minded women to raise our consciousness together.