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Muster point for new US posters directed here by noisy Twitter storm

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LostTxn · 24/03/2022 14:05

Hi, trying to connect to other GC’s in the US. Just to have an idea of what’s happening. I see tons of GC stuff on Twitter from UK women but little from US women. I’m currently in North Carolina but live normally in Texas (Fort Worth). I don’t know anyone in North Carolina (Southern Pines) and feel very powerless! I have no organization I’m just attempting to connect so we can attempt to be somewhere as awesome as our UK counterparts.
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DomesticatedZombie · 24/03/2022 16:19

Yeeha!

I hope that's not culturally insensitive. Welcome to Mumsnet.

Good to see some of you swimming over the pond, as it were.

Vipers to the left of me, witches to the right, here we are.

There's a few facebook groups for gender critical feminism that seems to be mostly US based posters.

WouldBeGood · 24/03/2022 15:54

Good luck from Scotland, where it’s very bad!

LostTxn · 24/03/2022 15:32

Yes so true! I at least have more resources 🙌🏼

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ErrolTheDragon · 24/03/2022 15:11

It's quite good when twits on Twitter act as a helpful signpost. GrinDespite being mostly U.K. based, there are MNers in many countries. And a woman is a woman in all of them.

LostTxn · 24/03/2022 15:01

Grinitchspinach (It won't let me reply to your post).

Thank you! Totally understand being more anonymous! The info you provided is so great, thank you so much!

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GrinitchSpinach · 24/03/2022 14:32

Hello! Fellow American here, somewhere in the Eastern time zone (sorry, prefer to be very vague about location online).

Because our country is 1) so spread out and 2) a federal system of 50 states, it is really, really hard to organize! But efforts are ramping up.

Women's Liberation Front is a radical feminist group that has been fighting gender ideology probably the longest of the US organizations:

www.womensliberationfront.org

US chapter of Women's Declaration International, headed by the tenacious Kara Dansky, is newer, affiliated with the global organization, and not specifically radfem, I think:

womensdeclarationusa.com
(looks like there is a contact for Texas but not yet for NC: womensdeclarationusa.com/get-involved/state-contacts-map/ )
(link to recent event outside the White House which they coordinated with Kellie-Jay Keen/Standing for Women:

Two very active grassroots protest groups I like are Terf Collective and RevFem Rebellion. They are both on Twitter but I'm not sure how else to get in touch with them.

Save Women's Sports does what it says on the tin, if that's a particular interest of yours:

savewomenssports.com

As far as online places to chat with other women, besides Ovarit there is also spinster.xyz. As far as I know Spinster does no censorship at all of women's speech.

Good luck! I used to post here more often when I lived in the UK, but since moving back to the States I've been more active offline. I still read here almost every day, though, so if we gather a good US contingent I'd be thrilled to post here more actively again.

I love the old-school message board format here; find the newer-style social media with followers and upvotes and so forth a bit annoying and hard to read. Plus Mumsnet vipers are the FUNNIEST and SHARPEST! I like the sense of hanging out with UK friends virtually. Grin Just don't get them started on Weetabix...

LostTxn · 24/03/2022 14:28

@NameChChChChanges1

Hope you find people, LostTxn. Might be worth checking out Megan Murphy - she's Canadian but not living in Mexico I believe.

I used to live in California. Absolutely despair of what is going on there

Thanks I'll look her up!
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NameChChChChanges1 · 24/03/2022 14:25

Hope you find people, LostTxn. Might be worth checking out Megan Murphy - she's Canadian but not living in Mexico I believe.

I used to live in California. Absolutely despair of what is going on there

LostTxn · 24/03/2022 14:20

@BettyFilous

Good luck LostTxn. Hope you gather your tribe. Smile
Thank you! We'll see 🤷🏻‍♀️
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BettyFilous · 24/03/2022 14:14

Good luck LostTxn. Hope you gather your tribe. Smile

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