2008
New Radical Lesbian Feminist Front-NRLFF-Join Us if you Dare
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The New Radical Lesbian Feminist Front (NRLFF) is an organization for and about lesbian feminists. We’re unrepentant gynophiles – women-loving-women – lesbians. Lesbians are descendents of a proud and unique culture that traces its roots back to antiquity. We reject male supremacy in any form; we stand in opposition to it. We always have. Our longstanding endurance is a refutation of its inevitability. We plan to address the following issues:
* We are opting out of the LGBTQI “gender revolution” and reclaiming our proud heritage as Lesbian Feminists. We believe we were forcibly conscripted into the Brave New World of queer theory. We want out.
*We reject the gender colonization and appropriation of the Butch-Femme dynamic by the hetero mimicking of queer theory proponents.
*We renounce and will actively work, both online and in real-time, against the forcible intrusion of gender theorists into women spaces with the sole intention of colonizing the women who reside there.
These are some of the issues The New Radical Lesbian Feminist Front (NRLFF) intends to address and pursue on and off line. We welcome you to our community of self-loving lesbians. You’re safe with us.
The New Radical Lesbian Feminist Front (NRLFF) rejects patriarchy and its dehumanizing hierarchies. We recognize its self-perpetuating evils and how they manifest in many forms, including: homophobia, sexism, racism, and gender and class oppression. We also recognize the inherent interrelationship of multiple oppressions and identities.
Regrettably, we have not seen the issues of classism, racism, sexism, cultural and gender appropriation seriously addressed within most current LGBTQI communities. We do not believe that queer theory addresses these issues at all. Typically, such conversations are forcibly suppressed. In fact, we see gender theory as a manifestation of white, classed privilege, which is why we completely reject the self-preoccupation of queer theory.
The NRLFF believes that the butch-femme community is a prime example of the invasion of lesbian space that has occurred in the last decade. We will no longer allow or tolerate this! Femmes and butch women are the offspring of lesbian identity. The butch-femme dynamic is entirely lesbocentric and lesboerotic. It is not hetero-bi-queer-trans-centric, though aspects of lesbian culture have been co-opted by queer theorists of multiple stripes. Such people are attempting to take up residence in our identity. We stand separate and apart from them.
We reject gender colonization and appropriation. We reject ideologies that serve to normalize, or justify heterosexism and dysfunction in any form. Including, pop culture movements and ideologies that would erase, overtake, co-opt lesbian or butch-femme culture.
The greatest, current threat to lesbian and butch-femme culture is coming from within LGBTQI communities. It comes in a number of ways, including on stealth feet through the use of euphemisms and queer theory semantic contagion – the co-option, and repetition of words separated from their intended meaning and sexed, lived experience.
That all sounds very, very radical. History tells us that only a few truly radical thinkers ever ultimately succeeded on any grand scale (Trotsky among the more successful-but look what happened to him – turned on by his peers-all of whom ended up not being the radicals they’d purported to be, but just more of the same in different packaging all of whom provided just another box to keep people in.)
The beauty of this era is there is room for everyone. That kind of divisiveness is going to do nothing for me, nor I daresay many others.
And, this particular forum, where you call for new supporters in your radical new organization, is built on the pillars of tolerance (even for you and your radical self) and inclusiveness (something you eschew). So, my question is – why are you here?
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