WHAT IS THIS?
THE (WO)MANIFESTO
FOR QUEEN AND CUNTRY.
ANYONE WHO CHALLENGES THE OPRESSION, MARGINALIZATION AND DEGREDATION OF WOMEN IS A FEMINIST.
FEMINISM IS SELF DEFINITION.
FEMINISM IS THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND EQUALITY. PRESCRIBED NOTIONS OF WHAT CONSTITUTES A ‘TRUE’/’REAL’/’SERIOUS’ SHOULD BE ABANDONED. HOWEVER, THE ISSUE OF HOW WOMEN PRESENT THEMSELVES AND THE CHOICES THEY MAKE ARE IMPORTANT TO DISCUSS, AS PRESENTATIONS AND CHOICES ARE OFTEN PRESCRIBED.
THEORY IS GREAT, WE LOVE IT - ENGAGED PROVOCATIVE AND DEFIANT, IT HAS ITS PLACE, BUT IT IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AND POWERFUL TO BE THE THE GIRL WHO TELLS THE WOLF-WHISTLER ON THE STREET TO FUCK OFF AS IT IS TO BE JUDITH BUTLER.
FEMINISTS DO NOT HATE MEN. FEMINISTS HATE MISOGYNY.
WITHOUT MEN TO COMBAT PATRIARCHY OR THE PATRIARCHAL IMPUSLES WITHIN THEMSELVES THE FIGHT IS MADE EVEN HARDER.
THESE MEN ARE FEMINISTS.
SOMETIMES, IRONICALLY, IT IS IN FIGHTING AGAINST SEXISM THAT WOMEN FIND THEMSELVES ALL THE MORE OPPRESSED - DISMISSED AND ‘UNNATURUAL’, HYSTERICAL, EMOTIONAL, AGRESSIVE, IRRATIONAL, ALIENATING, UNATRRACTIVE, UNSEXY OR UNLOVABLE.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE NATURAL THAN WANTING TO BE IN CONTROL OF YOUR BODY, YOUR IDENTITY OR YOUR LIFE.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE NATURAL THAN BEING ANGRY IN THE FACE OF OPPRESSION - YOURS OR OTHERS.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN A FEMINIST.
IN THE FACE OF OPPRESSION, ONE MUST SPIT.
SO WE ASK: FEMINISTS, MEN, WOMEN, STRAIGHT, GAY, BI, PANS, QUEER, LESBIAN, TWINKS, MUSCLE MARIES, OTTERS, DYKES, GIRLY DYKES, LIPSTICK LESBIANS, GENDER BENDERS, GENDER FUCKERS, CUBS, BEARS, CHASERS, PUPS, BUTCH, FEMMES….. OR WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE TO BE TO JOIN US IN THE SPITTING.
CUNT SHOULD NOT BE THE MOST OFFENSIVE WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SO LONG AS IT IS SYNONYMOUS WITH VAGINA.
LOVE FROM THE CUNTRY LIVING TEAM XXXX
