This is a safe space: a space for women+ to come together as we are. All of our wants, needs, thoughts, feelings, experiences, losses, successes etc. are welcome. We are here to support each other during trying times and grief, as well as to celebrate each other. If you are a woman+, you belong here. Your contributions are valid and valued: this is the space for us to be ourselves, whatever state it may be that we find ourselves in. It is okay to be angry, happy, sad, disgusted, overjoyed, pensive. It is okay to be in need. We are here to support each other.
The prompts are entirely optional: any contribution/rant/thought experiment by a woman+ is always welcome. There’s also a sub thread for people to suggest future topics.
Some guidelines to help this space be a positive experience for everyone:
As always with the Avocado, don’t feel compelled to share beyond your comfort level.
Anyone who identifies as female, or who was socialized female/AFAB/otherwise has firsthand experience with the issues being discussed, is welcome to post. If you identify as cis-male, we ask that you please set your participation to “lurk” mode, unless otherwise explicitly invited to participate further (i.e. if we did an AMA kind of thread). I’m sure there’s plenty to be gleaned just by reading! (New Guideline, please take note) This includes upvotes, we ask cis-men to keep their upvotes to commenters who voluntarily add “+up” to their comments and only those comments.
Please do your best to be mindful of others’ experiences when commenting or posing questions for the group. The female+ identity is Legion and contains multitudes, and not everyone who has experience with being treated as female by society identifies as female. Furthermore, racial and ethnic identities, sexual orientation, and many other factors can colour how one experiences their gender identity on a day-to-day basis.
Suggested Prompt (courtesy of This Time, It’s Personal! and Tiff Aching’s Golden Hare): Let’s talk about how tired we all are of this same old, same old patriarchal bullsh*t, whether it be the media’s handling of abuse cases, rabid internet misogynists, more dead children, more dead POC, rabid misogynists in positions of actual power, or just your average “woke” dude needing a woman+ to be sparkly-clean (the easiest way to achieve this being, you know, dead), in order for him to believe that we could really, really, really, really be a victim.
Let’s talk about the methods at our disposal to burn the Patriarchy all the way down. Also, how the F do we protect our children?
If you’d rather talk about something else entirely, that’s fine, too!
To borrow from Captain Awkward: Don’t have to be cool to be kind.
Have at it, luvs!