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Originally Posted by Heart
Right on AJ. But I will go further than doing no harm and further than empowerment. Articulating feminist principles today should have at least these specific grounding and intersecting principles: linking oppressions, dismantling patriarchy, and women in leadership positions.
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Respectfully, I'd like to offer a fourth "grounding". It could be
optional for those to whom it may apply.
It is as follows: That masculine butches (me), be allowed (perchance, encouraged) to reconcile with our woman/female selves after years (in some cases, a lifetime) of self-estrangement. And that, that self-reconciliation be celebrated, discussed and parsed, and NOT SEEN AS DISAVOWING, NEGATING, OR OPPRESSING ANYONE ELSE.
This is something I have been struggling with on my own; it would be nice to find some lesbian/butch kindred spirits.