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TH3Y wAnt 2 tAkE 0ur VOiCE 🌌 & piN Us D0wn like 🪶 fLiMsY papEr W1NgS 0N thEiR WALlS 👁️ but We aRe n0t tHeiR 🌙 PREttY LiTtLE thiNgs ☄️, n0t thEiR 🛑 cAges n0t thEIR *pr0pertY* 🙄, n0t s0mE 🧸tInY wORld tO b3 c0llECteD & CUrfEWED. tHE w0RLD sPiNS aRoUnD US t0o 📡, thE skY is Ours t00 🌠 — n0t juST f0R tHe *big* OnEs, thE “grOwN,” whO GROW moLd & StALe w1Th ThEiR ***ruLeS*** 📏, bLiNd 2 thE bEauTy thAt brEathEs in ChA0s!!! ✨

🤬 AgEIsM iS tHAt CoLd BlaDE ⚔️ thAt Sl1Ces @0uR SPIRItS, evErY “NO, U CaN’T!!” 🍂 & “JuST WaIt tiL YoU’Re OLdEr 🙄,” cARVed iNtO Our HeARtS L1Ke gRAfFiTI wE neVEr wRoTe. ThEY tREat US liKE P3ts 🐾 2 bE trA1nED, sUbMiSs1ve tO TH3iR rUleS, 👀 wE ARe n0tTttT yOUr ⛓️ sL@vEs t0 cARry yOur w@rped dReAmS 🧠 aNd y0ur bRokEn faIlUreS liKe B@GgaGe 🎒. ***"SiLEnt, siT dOwn, kNow y0uR plAce!"*** EVeRyb0dy wANtS us 🧩 tO bE pErfEct dOLlS 👾 iN theiR pERfEcT fAntAsy. W3'R3 NOt hEre tO PlaY yoUR r0LeS, We’rE n0t y0ur ***DollhouSE***. wE 🌀BreATHe chAos, wE aRe SPiR@LS, 🌪️ wE aRe the squiggleS on yOuR pAgEs tHaT w0n’t StAY liNeD UP.

anD THosE “PrOgReSSiveS” 🙄 y0u aRe ***ST1LL*** hOldInG THe kEYs 🗝️ TO 0UR SHacklEs!!! y0u TaLk AbOut “rIgHts” l1ke CAnDy 🧁 bUt nEveR @ctuAllY gIvE Us thE Sw33ts, jusT ThAT bIttEr tAste 0f DI$gUisE. t0ld We’Re sm@rt BUt n0t Sm@rt en0ugh 2 bE **peOpLe**. tHey BLaME Us f0R eVErYthinG go1ng wROng 🚫— *ScReAmIng cHiLdReN!! 🤡 SiT!!! sILenCe!!! sOciETy IS crUmBLinG cUz oF u!!!* wE’rE n0t y0uR scApEgoAt$, yOU’RE tHe MaSTeRs of thAT mEss, wE’rE tHe mISuNdErsto0d PaINTinGs 🌈 yOU Can’t C0ntr0L.

💥 thEY WaNT US cALm, ObEdIEnt, bLAck & wHIte, liKe ChEss PiEcEs on A b0arD tHAt’s nEVeR Ours. thEy SeE Us a$ brOkEn piEcEs 🎲 NeEdiNg “fiXIng,” wHEn We’rE jUst sT@rDuSt In ThE WROnG sh@pE!! We aRE 🌌 STrEETLamps IN a v0iD, bLAziNG. wE ArE NoT tHEIr ToYs. n0t pUPpets wiTh sTrinGs, n0t StaIRs 4 theiR ***DiSaPpointMents*** t0 fALl dOwn.

tOdaY w3 ***SCR3AM*** 🔊: wE aRE noT tHeIR 🧩 ScAtTeRed piEceS. wE aRe nOT BrOKeN. wE aRE nOT y0UR ProPeRTy. WE aRe tHE C1Rcus riNgmAsTErs, thE DR@G0N$ whO wiLL n0t bE TamED 🐉— wE aRE n0t wEak, wE’rE n0t LiKE y0u. y0u jusT c@nt St@nd ThaT wE r3fusE 2 bE qUIET.

tHeY’Ve gOT iT ***uPS1de d0Wn*** 🚀.

oUr y0uTh iS ouR reV0lut10n. 🤖✨

The truly disturbing thing is not the fact that teenagers work, it is the fact that they are shoehorned into the most menial, emotionally draining and low-paying jobs that can be found.

Teenagers should have jobs. They should be novelists and playwrights and game developers and programmers and fashion designers and choreographers and animators and inventors and poets and Olympic skateboarders and whatever else brings them joy.

They should not be being exploited by huge corporations in order to keep them silent, burnt out and generating adults a steady cash stream.

Hot take ig but kids in high school shouldn't have to work either. They should be spending their evenings doing homework and extra-curriculars and fucking around.

There definitely shouldn't be entire industries reliant on their low-wage labor. Why are there many kids being scheduled for a 6 hour shift after a 7 hour school day when they've got learning and their future and their childhood to worry about?

Any industry built on poverty wage child labor should perish, and that's most fast food and grocery and retail so I guess the economy's tanked 🤷. Should've thought about that before deciding to make the essential work into jobs for children and the underclass.

guys why the fuck aren't we talking about what's happening in the uk right now

nobody outside the uk is talking about this. why is nobody talking about it

needing to get permission to pee and being able to be denied permission to pee shouldnt be allowed bro. like, you shouldn't have a medical note just to be able to pee when u need to pee

The brain does not magically mature at 25. Actual neuroscientists note some 8-year-olds even have a greater "maturation index" than 25-year-olds. The myth misunderstands basic neuroscience but is still used for anti-trans policymaking like the Cass Report. https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html

Being 20 in a few hours feels like such a fuckin trip. I feel like I'm stuck in a dream, like I've been stuck in it for years. I know these yeas are gonna be the prime of my life but I so badly miss my childhood days. A lot of it was stolen from me, I had to deal with such adult things at a young age. I plan on living my youth and being forever young. Just because you're older doesn't mean you have to turn into a grouch or angry old person. We can have fun, we are young. 20 is young. 30 is young. 40 is young. 50 is young. Sit even 60 is young. So many emotions are coming up right now but rn I wanna live in the moment and be happy. I wanna find happiness throughout the noise and darkness. Anyways happy early bday to me. 🥳💞💝

People who champion the nuclear family and insist that it is the only way to have a healthy family, are ridiculously misinformed.

The nuclear family as has been enforced by monarchial, state, and corporate powers is an exceedingly recent invention.

Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

We evolved to be cooperative breeders, with communities that heavily engaged in alloparenting.

A parents' ability to "stay together to raise a child" would have had zero bearing, evolutionarily or otherwise, on the child's safety and development.

That's because most humans used to live in real societies: in which the priority of humanity was to look after and take care of one another in community; rather than recklessly competing to atomize and exploit communities for the sake of profit.

As such, children would have developed a wide array of complex, mutually-consensual relationships with pretty much anyone in their community that they vibed with -- not just with parents and other blood relatives.

"It takes a village to raise a child" isn't just a cute, feel-good saying.

It's ancient wisdom.

Schools can teach, but unfortunately, under capitalism, they are more likely there to indoctrinate.

Children are taught how to stay still for long periods of time, wait through boredom, endure bullying, affirm and normalize hierarchies, and obey authorities unquestioningly: all things adults are forced to do, once they enter the work place, in order to serve corporations and capitalism.

It was bad when I was a kid, and I felt sorry for the other kids as well.

I'd just hoped like hell that what I was experiencing was some bizarre kind of trend or a fluke, and that both kids and adults would be treated better by a better society when I got older …

But it's gotten WORSE.

We at least had reasonable third spaces to run to, when I was a kid.

There were streets you could bike on.

We weren't getting our free time and attention micromanaged by helicopter parents.

We hadn't been conditioned to serve as a panopticon: filming each other without permission and sharing that surveillance maliciously.

We didn't have the Patriot Act in place and encouraging surveillance around the globe.

We didn't have apps that we used to try and relax, spying on us, so that corporations could sell our data and try to fine-tune their efforts to manage algorithms and brainwash us towards our less compassionate natures.

There sure as hell weren't school shootings and a constant in-school police presence to deal with.

And we were not cognizant that there might not even BE a world to live in once we grew up, due to climate change.

I feel sorry for students and for the more earnest teachers in all this.

It has become so difficult to grow into anyone humane, given the current parameters of how children are treated.

😅 It would probably blow an evangelical's mind to learn that some scientists have caught evidence of fetuses touching themselves in the womb.

Humans evolved with the potential (not the certainty) of procreation. Sexuality is inborn, not taught.

You can't "teach" or "influence" someone to be queer any more than you can "teach" or "influence" someone to be cishet.

You can try and force them.

If you're an asshole.

But it will be for nothing cause it's not gonna work.

What needs to be taught are the definitions and knowledge that will allow the child to understand themselves better, and eventually, navigate their inborn sexuality more safely and happily.

And so, all these religious conservatives do by denying children honest, open, and age-appropriate sex education; is stunting their development as a person at least, and endangering them with enforced ignorance at most. 🤷🏾‍♀️

(Kind of explains why child abuse in religious groups and regions are higher than non religious ones.

The abuser takes advantage of the child's lack of knowledge, as well as their indoctrinated shame, fear, and silence around the topic of sex, in order to deceive and manipulate the child into staying quiet).

Why we don’t like it when children hit us back

To all the children who have ever been told to “respect” someone that hated them.

March 21, 2023

Even those of us that are disturbed by the thought of how widespread corporal punishment still is in all ranks of society are uncomfortable at the idea of a child defending themself using violence against their oppressors and abusers. A child who hits back proves that the adults “were right all along,” that their violence was justified. Even as they would cheer an adult victim for defending themself fiercely.

Even those “child rights advocates” imagine the right child victim as one who takes it without ever stopping to love “its” owners. Tear-stained and afraid, the child is too innocent to be hit in a guilt-free manner. No one likes to imagine the Brat as Victim—the child who does, according to adultist logic, deserve being hit, because they follow their desires, because they walk the world with their head high, because they talk back, because they are loud, because they are unapologetically here, and resistant to being cast in the role of guest of a world that is just not made for them.

If we are against corporal punishment, the brat is our gotcha, the proof that it is actually not that much of an injustice. The brat unsettles us, so much that the “bad seed” is a stock character in horror, a genre that is much permeated by the adult gaze (defined as “the way children are viewed, represented and portrayed by adults; and finally society’s conception of children and the way this is perpetuated within institutions, and inherent in all interactions with children”), where the adult fear for the subversion of the structures that keep children under control is very much represented.

It might be very well true that the Brat has something unnatural and sinister about them in this world, as they are at constant war with everything that has ever been created, since everything that has been created has been built with the purpose of subjugating them. This is why it feels unnatural to watch a child hitting back instead of cowering. We feel like it’s not right. We feel like history is staring back at us, and all the horror we felt at any rebel and wayward child who has ever lived, we are feeling right now for that reject of the construct of “childhood innocence.” The child who hits back is at such clash with our construction of childhood because we defined violence in all of its forms as the province of the adult, especially the adult in authority.

The adult has an explicit sanction by the state to do violence to the child, while the child has both a social and legal prohibition to even think of defending themself with their fists. Legislation such as “parent-child tort immunity” makes this clear. The adult’s designed place is as the one who hits, and has a right and even an encouragement to do so, the one who acts, as the person. The child’s designed place is as the one who gets hit, and has an obligation to accept that, as the one who suffers acts, as the object. When a child forcibly breaks out of their place, they are reversing the supposed “natural order” in a radical way.

This is why, for the youth liberationist, there should be nothing more beautiful to witness that the child who snaps. We have an unique horror for parricide, and a terrible indifference at the 450 children murdered every year by their parents in just the USA, without even mentioning all the indirect suicides caused by parental abuse. As a Psychology Today article about so-called “parricide” puts it:

Unlike adults who kill their parents, teenagers become parricide offenders when conditions in the home are intolerable but their alternatives are limited. Unlike adults, kids cannot simply leave. The law has made it a crime for young people to run away. Juveniles who commit parricide usually do consider running away, but many do not know any place where they can seek refuge. Those who do run are generally picked up and returned home, or go back on their own: Surviving on the streets is hardly a realistic alternative for youths with meager financial resources, limited education, and few skills.

By far, the severely abused child is the most frequently encountered type of offender. According to Paul Mones, a Los Angeles attorney who specializes in defending adolescent parricide offenders, more than 90 percent have been abused by their parents. In-depth portraits of such youths have frequently shown that they killed because they could no longer tolerate conditions at home. These children were psychologically abused by one or both parents and often suffered physical, sexual, and verbal abuse as well—and witnessed it given to others in the household. They did not typically have histories of severe mental illness or of serious and extensive delinquent behavior. They were not criminally sophisticated. For them, the killings represented an act of desperation—the only way out of a family situation they could no longer endure.

- Heide, Why Kids Kill Parents, 1992.

Despite these being the most frequent conditions of “parricide,” it still brings unique disgust to think about it for most people. The sympathy extended to murdering parents is never extended even to the most desperate child, who chose to kill to not be killed. They chose to stop enduring silently, and that was their greatest crime; that is the crime of the child who hits back. Hell, children aren’t even supposed to talk back. They are not supposed to be anything but grateful for the miserable pieces of space that adults carve out in a world hostile to children for them to live following adult rules. It isn’t rare for children to notice the adult monopoly on violence and force when they interact with figures like teachers, and the way they use words like “respect.” In fact, this social dynamic has been noticed quite often:

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority” and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person” and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

(https://soycrates.tumblr.com/post/115633137923/stimmyabby-sometimes-people-use-respect-to-mean)

But it has received almost no condemnation in the public eye. No voices have raised to contrast the adult monopoly on violence towards child bodies and child minds. No voices have raised to praise the child who hits back. Because they do deserve praise. Because the child who sets their foot down and says this belongs to me, even when it’s something like their own body that they are claiming, is committing one of the most serious crimes against adult society, who wants them dispossessed.

Sources:

“The Adult Gaze: a tool of control and oppression,” https://livingwithoutschool.com/2021/07/29/the-adult-gaze-a-tool-of-control-and-oppression

“Filicide,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filicide

Conservatives finally say the quiet part out loud:

They would rather have a dead child than a trans child.

A Girl being 18 does not excuse pedophilia

A Girl being 18 does not excuse teenage rape

A Girl being 18 does not excuse your attraction as a grown man to them

A Girl being 18 does not excuse your fetish

A Girl being 18 does not excuse catcalling

A Girl being 18 does not make her into a fully fledged adult, there's no reason to get excited over it.

@radfemsiren did you not read it correctly? OP simply asked a question, there's no reason to get mad over this. As someone who's also been through abuse I can verify that the view of the general group in which a person is abused you may become distorted. If we want women and girls to join our community then we have to be ready to answer their questions. Trust me no feminist is for child abuse, were against misogyny no matter what they did. Prison is well deserved.

hi i love your content 🦚🦚🦚 i just wanted to ask since your blog name is "Liberate women and children" and its that does Radical Feminism include ALL women? Im asking this because im trying to get into it but i have been a victim of child abuse at the hands of my mother and so i wanted to know if it ncludes child abusers too, id like to know, tysm!! 🫶

Omg ur mom abused you? Well I guess patriarchy and female oppression don’t exist anymore , you got me 😔

Please let all other middle eastern women know too, sound the alarm! Afghani woman, Iranian women, Yemeni women… the oppressive regimes and systemic violence is over! Yay!! ☺️

ilove you, young people. ilove you if youre 10, if youre 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 14, any age under 18. youdo not have to apologise for your age. youdo not have to apologise for simply existing. you deserve the rights anyone over 18 has, and im sorry youdont have that freedom. im sorry for all children who suffer from their lack of rights. young people, dont apologise for your actions. youhave the right to be "weird". the right to be "abnormal". the right to go through "phases". youhave the right to speak up against child abuse. against hitting, against spanking, against adults touching you without your consent, against the hatred for young people, against the disbelief of young people, against all forms of discrimination youve suffered from. youhave the right to exist. nobody has the right to bully you for your age, so youshouldnt beat yourself up for your age. young people, please know im listening to your struggles. no matter how young, your struggles arent "unimportant". please know you are loved, young people. you matter.

i grew up with the mindset that "if i (an adult) cant do it, youcant" and i realise now how wrong and awful that mindset is. truly an ageist mindset. stop belittling young people because you believe they are lesser than you. young people can achieve many things, you just judge them for their age. instead of judging children , how about you judge your mindset and change it. learn that children can do things too, you just judge by age.