My feminist society at Sussex uni spent our social night at a strip club!

[Arabella94]

Just how difficult is it to create a real feminist society at Uni?
We are crying out for a radfem soc at Sussex.

I'll put the link to my tweet where you can see the video of the Feminist Society at Sussex watching and cheering on a stripper.

Please share my tweet, we need a strategy for rescuing feminism at university, or is it too late?

twitter.com/Chantelle_bu/status/1490041584896954373?t=UJ9-kOWRHrexdxa2MA7ggg&s=19

www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/skuwmd/stop_telling_me_to_normalize_sex_work_its_a/

Interesting thread on Reddit about this type of ‘feminism’. A lot of heavy modding going on.

Well done you.

5 or 6 people is a good start. You're hard pressed to get more than that in most local campaigning groups - honest!

When feminism has made a difference it's always been a few people sticking their necks out and being insulted and abused. Feminists at those points have never been universally accepted as Good People. Once the battles are won, whether they're over voting, equal pay, maternity leave or whatever, after a while people realise the sky hasn't fallen in and then everyone wants to say they supported the idea all along, and wasn't Mrs Pankhurst a Good Person?

And there's the rub, IMHO. Feminism made a lot of advances that eventually got accepted; and then it became easy rather than hard work to be known to be a feminist; and therefore at least some of the people into it didn't want to be arsy and confrontational enough to tell males claiming to be women, "No, you're not."

What you're doing is about reclaiming the word "feminism" from those who see it as simply a badge to put on saying "I'm a Good Person". It's a hard road to choose. But good for you if you decide to choose it.

@Arabella94

Well I'm young, very working class, half gypsy 🤷‍♀️😂 I guess I don't fit that mould.

Not only am I the first woman in my very large family to go to college or uni, I am the first person to go to uni, not even the men went.

It's frustrating when they call our movement a white middle class movement, I am a radical feminist because I have experienced at every level why we need liberation. There's no alternative.

You sound absolutely fucking awesome!

You do sound awesome and it's heartening to hear that it isn't just us oldies who are outraged by how liberal feminism has been hijacked by men's right's activists.

I can't take any credit for my knowledge on radical feminism. FiLiA took me under their wing, they were in Portsmouth for a whole year, I grew up in Portsmouth and found them just at the right time. I was then introduced to the radfems in Brighton, which makes being a feminist student at Sussex tolerable. I am on several radfem groups on Facebook, I literally use these groups as a agony aunt function, particularly when I come up against a concept that I don't understand. I fall back on my sisters and aunts most days, I'm grateful to have truly found sisterhood.

Yes you sound brilliant OP!

The current feminist society sounds grim.