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

[LostTxn]

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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Good luck LostTxn. Hope you gather your tribe.

@BettyFilous

Good luck LostTxn. Hope you gather your tribe.

Thank you! We'll see 🤷🏻‍♀️

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

@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!

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. Just don't get them started on Weetabix...

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!

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

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

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

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

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

I've been watching on Twitter 😳

@DomesticatedZombie

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.

😂Not when I use the word "y'all" regularly! Yeehaw! 😆

Welcome OP!
I often listen to WLR - womensliberationradionews.com/ - for updates on the feminist push-back and general rants. And do join the WDI crew - they run regular chatty webinars with women from across the globe. Helps one to feel less isolated.
There's also a MN pub - the Bluestocking which is a great place to go when it all gets to much to handle. Mind you, it's been a bit quiet there of late... maybe that's a sign that the tide seems to be turning here so there's less need for virtual alcohol or sustained swearing.

I'm Scottish, agree with @WouldBeGood - it's pretty dire here.

However, we can cope with liberal application of foul language. I'm a bit worried about my North American GCs - seems to me that you are generally more conservative in language?

If you ever feel like you need a really good "Faaaaaaaaaaaaarkinell" then do message on here. The Scots will donate, we never run out of fucks to give.

Solidarity, sister.

Welcome.

@vivariumvivariumsvivaria

I'm Scottish, agree with *@WouldBeGood* - it's pretty dire here.

However, we can cope with liberal application of foul language. I'm a bit worried about my North American GCs - seems to me that you are generally more conservative in language?

If you ever feel like you need a really good "Faaaaaaaaaaaaarkinell" then do message on here. The Scots will donate, we never run out of fucks to give.

Solidarity, sister.

Hahaha! I love to cuss Idk what’s wrong with these other women! We need some more outrage for sure. I don’t know why it’s all gotten thru so easily. I didn’t know about the schools & kids being allowed to trans until Texas passed their law. A bit of a shocker but you know “everything’s bigger in Texas.” I have been saying wth ever since. Along with many other things. My husband is sick of me & I told him I will divorce him if he doesn’t get more outraged! 😆 Hopefully between the sports debacle and the SCOTUS hearings more people are peaking. I was out on the Republican Party well before trump’s term ended now the Democrats will want to redefine women to include men so out on them! It’s all so frustrating. I’m already not offended by TERF or transphobe. But I am by cis. This is a fkng nightmare.

Hello! Thanks for posting this thread and alerting the Americans that we can join Mumsnet too! I am located in New Jersey. I post on twitter anonymously as I am surrounded by UN-likeminded people. I don't know that many people, and yet THREE of the young girls in my social network are now claiming to be NB. Two have changed their names. I have two daughters, and I worry so much for them in this crazy new biology denying world. Would LOVE to meet someone in my area to rant with in person, but until that day comes, I am so thankful to find all of you online.

@LostTxn There are excellent GC forums in the US, for instance Ovarit at ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical. If you want to join just email the administration

I just saw your tweet on this subject on Twitter. Welcome to Mumsnet. I hope a veritable transatlantic tsunami makes its way here to join us!! Bit hugs, Hx

Welcome to MN. Good to see you all. :)

Happy to have you join us.

Welcome! But you better spell stuff right.

@BenCooperisaGod

Welcome! But you better spell stuff right.

This does present a dilemma. Do we put out biscuits or cookies for new visitors?

Hey, hope you find lots of like-minded women. I just wanted to say that Bridget Phetasy had two women from WoLF on her podcast recently, and they were talking about the bill to keep men out of women's prisons. That might be something worth finding out more about/organising around.

Hello from Pennsylvania!
I live in one of the more conservative counties in the state, but the klaxon of “TWAW” has somehow taken over here. The liberal people in my area aren’t interested in trying to do anything useful (common sense gun control, funding schools, feeding people, etc.), they’re all busy making sure that our Bepenised Overlords can intrude anywhere they’d like. The conservatives are busy stockpiling ammunition and ‘rolling coal’ to show Biden what’s what.

I feel like I’m losing my mind and I want to flee the country.

Welcome to our friends from across the pond!!
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