Igor Alexander
December 4th, 2008, 06:27 AM
http://dirtywhiteboi.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/new-radical-lesbian-feminist-front-nrlff-mission-statement-and-more/
New Radical Lesbian Feminist Front (NRLFF)
MISSION STATEMENT
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 [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Intersex --IA] “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.
About 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 is deeply concerned with the appropriation happening within certain quarters of the LGBTQI community, particularly as it relates to lesbian and butch-femme culture and discourse. We are no longer willing to watch conversations about these issues violently quashed. For too long, we have witnessed interpersonal terrorism, the vilification of women who do not subscribe to queer theory and dare to say so. This typically involves vicious personal attacks, intimidation and stalking; it involves using patriarchal, authoritarian hierarchies to shut down and silence women on and off the internet.
Butch-Femme
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.
New Radical Lesbian Feminist Front (NRLFF)
MISSION STATEMENT
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 [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Intersex --IA] “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.
About 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 is deeply concerned with the appropriation happening within certain quarters of the LGBTQI community, particularly as it relates to lesbian and butch-femme culture and discourse. We are no longer willing to watch conversations about these issues violently quashed. For too long, we have witnessed interpersonal terrorism, the vilification of women who do not subscribe to queer theory and dare to say so. This typically involves vicious personal attacks, intimidation and stalking; it involves using patriarchal, authoritarian hierarchies to shut down and silence women on and off the internet.
Butch-Femme
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.