Open Letter to the Lesbian Community
How is this even fuckin possible? What has happened to dykes when the very womyn who fought male violence & bigotry to create & stand for a march & space that honored & revered lesbians, womyn-loving-womyn, at a time when womyn were being raped & murdered for daring to openly love ourselves - not to mention the fierce fighting we did to liberate ALL by smashing sex (now called 'gender') boxes: when these very womyn are attacked, pushed to the pavement, their signs snatched & torn by a transdomination bully mob of 40-50 men & women at said march?
Okay so you don't believe "Biology is not Bigotry" or you think you have the right to silence the womon carrying the sign "I will not be silenced by violence" or you furiously disagree with "Transitioning children is child abuse". What is it that makes you as violent as the pro-war or white lives matter or pro-fetus folks who also believe in pushing womyn to the ground, tearing signs out of our hands while aiming their road-hog trucks at us?
& how can the organizers of the dyke march not ensure safety for DYKES??? So busy are they ensuring the fragile egos of male-2-trans folks & their allies are "safe" from the fuckin words & opinions of womyn who have survived DECADES as females & out dykes & womonists/feminists, so busy prioritizing a space where men & their allies won't be challenged with mere words they are willing to sacrifice womyn who fear men will push them to the ground, snatch their signs out of their hands, & then put 'hits' out against them on the internet.
The signs were a little different 40 years ago - i.e. "Man-Boy 'love' is Child Abuse" or "Biology does not determine Ability" or "We will NOT be silenced by your violence" - but what is not different is the same violent brutalizing reactionary attempts at silencing us.
But look out! We are old, which makes us wise not ignorable; we are fierce, which makes us capable; & we are loving, which makes us unbeatable. We are not the enemy, no matter what the backlash to womyn's liberation (i.e. womonism/feminism) spouts. We are your foremothers & the descendents of your foremothers.
Be very careful: war is a white & male thing; grabbing bats & hitting those who differ from you is a white & male thing; silencing those who you have the power of patriarchy built on racism & sexism over is a white & male thing.
Choose instead to embrace womyn's values of critical thinking, consciousness raising, cooperation, healthy discourse, honest discussion, & most of all, valuing the sacredness of all life.
We will NOT be silenced!
posted by Xan @ 8:53 AM
7 Comments:
At 25/6/18 12:47 PM,
Giovanna Capone said…
Xan... thanks for posting this letter and for writing it. I totally agree with you! I don't think most lesbians realized that this Dyke March was as consequential as it was. I really believe the trans rights activists planned to take over this March for themselves and subsequent marches after that. They are the "true lesbians," according to themselves and to the handmaiden women who do their bidding. It's a whole new world now and we as lesbians are being kicked out of our own marches and institutions and female spaces. But we have to keep fighting and keep raising awareness because more and more people are reaching peak trans and realizing what a dangerous ideology this is and how it is rolling back the civil rights of women and lesbians under the guise of being progressive. Thanks for speaking up!
At 25/6/18 12:55 PM,
Unknown said…
Like!
At 25/6/18 3:34 PM,
Anonymous said…
Handmaidens are out hand into the dick.
At 25/6/18 7:49 PM,
Rosa said…
Hi Xan,
Though you may not agree with us on some issues you'll find that once you break through the fabric of 'politically correct' discourse to arrive at an independent point of view you'll be rejected and stigmatized by your tribe, as we have been. It doesn't matter, actually, where you draw the line, where you say, 'hey the emperor has no clothes!'...when you refuse to march to the party line you will find yourself on the outside. Frankly I expected more dykes / queers to be courageous about being on the outside because we've already chosen to step out from the dominant culture, and that takes courage. What I hadn't expected is that so-called queer culture could be twisted to the point where lesbians would be reviled as 'the man.' I refuse the cis label.
Look, the goal is much wider than what you are experiencing in this situation. The goal is something called third order change which destroys the existing social structure and replaces it entirely. We thought we were doing this ourselves but in fact we were just a midpoint in the continuum, and the ultimate is to turn everything completely upside down. Think Mao's Cultural Revolution and that will give you the sense of what is happening. These people are the Red Guards of the current ideology.
I can go deeply into this and I do in my book,which was an international bestseller. I say that merely to encourage you to read it, because of course lots of people have written books that no one reads and good for them but so what. In my case I think if you can bring yourself to be open to reading my book you'll see that this outrageous 'exhibit' of woman-hating viciousness is symptomatic of a larger ideology, one that you may think you agree with. I'm reaching out to you because I think you might be able to hear this, and dykes need allies.
Thank you,
Rosa Koire
At 26/6/18 10:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
You made some good points there. I checked on the internet for additional information about the issue and found most people will go along with
your views on this website.
At 3/7/18 2:41 PM,
Unknown said…
Yes!
At 8/7/18 8:30 AM,
MasterAmazon said…
Thank you Xan Joi for speaking out!!! I sure hope the tide turns and ALL Lesbians get their voices and wake up!! So many of us been speaking out over and over and just been getting bullied about it for Years while WARNING women, Lesbian Sisters of the potential outcome. Well now its here.
I may no lmoger be in the Bay Area because the Recession priced me out of California both workwise and rentwise, but I have been to just about EVERY SF Dyke March from 1994 to and including 2013. Years before it became less and less about us Dykes. One of those years a woman annoubnced that the Dyke March was for " past present and future females" and I was fuming!! I knew it wouldnt bode well in the longrun.
We MUST demand these Lesbian/Dyke institutions represent US otherwise do NOT use the term Lesbian or Dyke.
And violence, ESPECIALLY against your own community members on THEIR might of Dyke Pride is NEVER ACCEPTABLE!!!
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