Hi, my name is Miriam, and this is the vlog created for The Sydney Feminists.
I'm....
from Sweden, but I think maybe my story can be relatable to you wherever you're from.
I am a feminist, and I was in a feminist
separatist group in Sweden around
2001, 2002
And we were about a dozen
feminists, most of us
educated
with.... we read gender studies and such at university level and
We grew tired or frustrated just reading about
inequalities between women and men and
We wanted to do something about it
so we formed this activist group just for women and
We didn't think of this separatism as a problem
We didn't ask ourselves, 'So who who's a woman?'.... 'who belongs in our group?'
For us it was very simple you either were a woman or you weren't
Many of us were gay and some of us were queer
But we all considered ourselves
women and
Today, I think we would have to think more about the issue of Gender and about who belongs in a female
separatist environment
but maybe if we think about
horrible crimes that are committed to
women on a global scale
Crimes committed to them just for being women and
I think it's
necessary to call a woman, a woman,
To be able to shed light on these issues
and
maybe none of us are free until all of us are free ...
and I think we need separatism as a contemporary
solution not a goal
but a contemporary solution to create safe spaces for women.
...I would say that we used violence as a way to liberation....a sort of 'smash the patriarchy'
kind of thinking and
As long as we only used violence on objects
(Cars that belonged to sex buyers for instance), I was fine with that
...but what went wrong, I think was that we at our meetings would build up a sense of anger and
entitlement and
self-righteousness
That got out of hand eventually
One of us would go out and just beat up men for only that reason: they were men and therefore
guilty and
I admit
I I took pleasure in the idea that men should suffer as
Women had suffered through history, a sort of Poetic justice
Today I can easily call myself a pacifist. I hate violence....
...and even though things got out of hand and we were just too young and angry to perhaps make real change
Instead of just doing things that made ourselves feel good
I think of that time and I think about what we stood up for and
That's still important today, and that of course is sisterhood
Justice, equality and
more sisterhood.
Bye.
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