Cishet women who believe that being born with a vagina & sleeping with men gives us the monopoly on femininity will always be the weakest link. Black lesbians have been at the forefront of fighting femicide in this country for decades & cishet women showed little/no solidarity.

Cishet women did not take up the fight against corrective rape as a cause that could unite all women because of homophobia. Cishet women show little/no solidarity with sex workers because of respectability politics & slut shaming. Cishet women now are incensed by trans women.

If your feminism is about playing up patriarchal hierarchies, and trying to use your status to climb up that phallic totem pole, then it ain’t feminism.

They bought your aunties and Mamas lunch & t-shirts to stand outside the courthouse and swear that Zuma didn’t rape Khwezi *in Jesus name*. They sweated for hours for a man who turned around and hollowed out the state. You rape a woman, you can also very well rape a country.

Patriarchy has no allegiance to anyone in a body that is deemed feminine or weak in any way. @this_natalia explained this so beautifully. This includes queer, gay, lesbian, trans, disabled, and elderly bodies. Cishet women are fighting trans women for a spot on a sinking ship.