Once one becomes a radical feminist or even a feminist, one often recognizes the danger of continually immersing oneself in systems, structures, and societal groups that are predicated on the intentional or unwitting collusion with the patriarchy. Yet the problem is that because the world is organized around patriarchy as the foundational, primary, and only acceptable culture, finding a radical feminist counterculture can be challenging. However, it doesn’t have to be thanks to radical feminist readings, writings, and thought. For example, numerous radical feminist organizations, including Women’s Declaration International, have developed a culture in which women can gather and discuss our dissident and dangerously ungovernable ideas. WDI hosts a show called Feminist Question Time on Saturday mornings for the purpose of discussing key issues that are impacting women such as the perpetuity of pedophilia and the perpetuity of sexual assault. WDI also produces videos that are organized around meaningful topics. In many cases the content produced by WDI includes discussion and mentioning of important radical feminist texts, and this reality helps us understand that the anarchic, non-assimilationist ideas produced by radicals are positively impacting the world by contributing to the development of countercultures in which women can engage with one another in non-patriarchal ways which do not involve them subjecting themselves to the multifarious forms of degradation and dehumanization that they would experience in virtually any other setting that unfolds in material reality.
Similarly, WOLF (Women’s Liberation Front) is a radical feminist organization that places primacy on the liberation of women and girls from patriarchal domination. In addition to hosting a plethora of women-centered events that involve actively fighting against male supremacy, WOLF hosts weekly virtual coffee meet-ups in which women can gather and discuss key feminist issues. These events are organized from a radical feminist perspective, and organizational leaders such as Lierre Keith avidly read texts from within this ideological milieu and can be seen collaborating with other radical feminist thinkers in contexts where the works of women writers are subjected to intense and meaningful analysis. That the thought processes of WOLF’s organizational leaders is deeply informed by radical feminist ideologies is important because it shows us that, as opposed to prototypically patterned patriarchal organizations whose male leaders value traditional, non-progressive ways of doing things (such as non-inclusion and unilateral decision-making), there are feminist organizations whose representatives remain grounded in practices that are adamantly opposed to the patriarchal norms which perpetuate sexism and the protection of narcissistic interests.
