Hopefully my english is readable since I'm esl, but I really wanted to contribute something to the thread even if it's potentially worded poorly kek. Have any of you nonitas actually tried to start female only micro/pseudo societies? Last year we more or less started discussing the topic in the group I do irl activism with, and at first it seemed like everyone loved the idea, but it started to fall apart very fast. One of the first problems I found is that most women I know don't want any sort of formal structure in our female society. They tend to reject EVERYTHING male-made, to an honestly ridiculous extreme. I personally believe in observing what works in our current system, analyzing why it works, and maybe modifying some things if neccesary to adapt it for us. I think I'm the only one in my group who thinks this way, kek.
Another problem I encountered is that a lot of women have this idea of moving to the middle of nowhere and start living there, and while I understand the appeal of nature and all that, I think it's suicidal to just move far away from everything (specially hospitals) and leave everything behind. I wish it was possible, but just completely cutting ourselves off from the system doesn't seem like the best idea to me. I think we have to find a way to have our own thing while being aware that we are still inserted in a world with an already defined system and way of operating, and we can learn to take advantage of that instead of pulling a Christopher McCandless.
Anyway, here are a couple of ideas I have for a micro-society, that I think could potentially work. Basically what I wish I could convince my group of trying. I have more ideas, but I don't want to make this post even longer.
>Have shared savings. Ofc you can have your own money, but it is highly encouraged to donate (potentially mandatory? kind of like a tax, but ofc the ammount would depend on how much each member earns). These funds are used for covering different necesities (for example, in my activist group we use our shared savings to pay for public transportation or buying things we use for our workshops/open activities). The idea would be to also use the money to eventually buy land/houses. Like I mentioned, my irl group already has something similar going, but I feel like most don't want to donate or just can't because (and this is another problem I see a lot) most have shit jobs and refuse to pursue something better o get a degree because they hate absolutely everything they see as male-made. I feel like we would have to encourage sharing a bit more, and drilling in our heads that we are forming a society so we can achieve shit we can't on our own, and that includes things like buying land.
>Have laws and rules, and our own written constitution. Also detail our ideological tenets so new members have to read them and agree before being acepted. Again, we attempted to do this with my irl group and half were against because they found it "oppresing" or didn't think it was necesary. We also started to write a protocol for conflict resolution, which I thought was very useful, but as soon as one single retard didn't follow the protocol, a lot started to complain that it didn't work and was useless. That is something that tends to happen a lot btw, many women I know just refuse to put effort in anything related to bettering yourself, or learning how to beheave in a group. Many refuse to accept when they fuck up and don't apologise for some reason. I'm very interested to know if this is common in feminist activist groups in general, or if it might be just my group.
I'm very interested in reading your personal experiences! I feel like thinking of a world where women are on top can be a little discouraging because of how impossible it seems (or is), but I think that micro-societies around the world that colaborate with each other is more achievable, at least in the beginning. Think of how some religious groups have basically their own cultures and separatist places, and tend to be very charitable among their own. I'm not religious at all, but like I mentioned, I believe in taking the things that work from different groups. Also sorry if this last bit sounds out of place, I've been reading about evolutionary biology and group adaptation (yes, Darwin's Cathedral) and I feel it helped me envision a bit more clearly what I want to achieve.
>>40590I actually learned about the word 'secessionist' from this thread since I have never heard it before, not even in my native language. I feel like at least here (in my country), the way we use 'separatist' in radical feminist spaces overlaps a bit with the definiton and examples you gave of 'secessionist'. I'm actually interested to know where my vision of a micro-society falls under. I feel that for example, writting our own history books and having our own flag and symbols is something we should try to achieve, and that's one of the points that my group and I actually share in common.