Feminista-101: A new publication

Positive-thinking writers welcome (well, mostly positive)

Do you ever feel like “feminism” doesn’t mean quite what it used to?

Do you ever look around at social media and think, “This isn’t the feminism I grew up with!”

Do you ever wish you could go back to a simpler time… before Trump’s presidency, before the nutty Supreme Court of the United States, and all the crazy shinanigans that came with that?

Well — ya can’t.

But you can write for Feminista.

At Feminista, we are holding up all the values of feminism and diversity that too many people in the United States are trying to obliterate.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Well-written articles in feminist issues.
• Important insights into: Sex, gender, race, LGBT issues, neurodivergence, ableism, intersectionalism, sexuality, identity, etc.
• Or random fun feminist articles (we can’t always be doom and gloom!)
• Acknowledgement of the current state of the world (or your country)
• Hope for a better future for humanity
• Distmantling backward power structures and terrible ways of thinking
• Things that don’t just blatantly hate on men
• Pro-both/all genders is actually better
• Pro-diversity is good too (race, gender, LGBT, etc., just humanness)
• Of COURSE you can bash the racist, heteronormative patriarchy
• Of COURSE you can bash colonialism and its ongoing impact
• Hating on white people ok (within reason)
• Religion is tricky… many of us are religious and/or spiritual, but it’s hard to ignore the role of religion in literally every bad movement out there as well as oppressive aspects (positive religion ok though)
• Educational posts
• Well-researched essays
• Personal stories and reflections
• Being human
• Justice and social justice
• Possibly other things, too.
• Yes, you can view this as a left-leaning publication
• Some will view it as just human and anti-bigotry

If you think you have what it takes to write at Feminista-101, please email [email protected], or write a comment/private note to Just Sam.

Thanks for stopping by!

Peace and love to everybody.

~ Feminista-101 ~

P.S. Until some other people join, Just Sam is just publishing her own work which is boring.

As always, I leave you with the poem that I shamelessly force on everybody I can, mostly because I think it’s fantastic, bold, and sweet all at the same time:

Desiderata

By Max Ehrmann (1927)

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

by Max Ehrmann ©1927

Remember:

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~Just Sam~