Sister Gorgon Victoria joins Esmée to explore the role of empathy hijacking plays in creating reactionary allies to 'victim' demographics, purity spirals, and radicalization. It's also a favored tactic of abusers and predators inside the BDSM culture.

Most vitally, empathy hijacking deployed within feminist movement or organizations can create breaches of trust and fractures that weaken solidarity and, when very public, weaken the movement's authority and influence.

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Soul Craft | It's all personal. 

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The Emergency | Part 1 | The Political Winds and a Radical Materialist Feminist Compass

political lesbianism, feminist history, coalition building, political subversion, movement fracture, all against the fascists

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Soul Craft | "...disconnecting and shaming us for our pleasure has been a fantastic tool in patriarchy’s quest for dominion." 

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Lauren Leggieri talks with Esmee on LGBCC's campaign to protect youth from a trans-medical-industrial-complex & loss of lesbian community & connection.

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We connect detrans individuals with medical and allied health professionals who can provide medical care. We provide educational resources related to these long-term problems arising after interventions.

Find a therapist in your area. Meeting the needs of gender dysphoric youth is one of the most urgent and complex challenges facing the mental health field today. Therapy First’s mission is to raise the quality of care accessible to this population and to drive systemic improvements in the mental health field necessary to meet their needs.

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Fiction | It would be funny if it weren’t so… persistent.

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platypus writes satire, speculative fiction, and cultural criticism with a sharp eye for the gap between what people perform and what they actually practice. Her work swings between darkly comic takedowns of gendered power fantasies and earnest, richly built worlds where matriarchy isn't a costume drama but a living system—always circling the question of whose stories get centered and why. She draws from years spent in the messy, under-resourced, quietly radical spaces of feminist organizing, and from a lineage of hereditary witchcraft that informs both her craft and her convictions. She refuses to choose between humor and sincerity as tools for getting at the truth, and she takes out the trash without being asked.

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On this darkening Independence Day 2026, please visit https://democrashe.org to connect with and support their work!!

Over 60% of girls who complete the DemocraShe program go into a civil position, a policy program, or into brute politics. 60% is wild success!! Some start their own programs with funding they secure from the UN or the Obama Foundation. This is working. DemocraShe is making change in, by, and for women.

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