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The porn industry is looking to reinvent itself and monetise both the ‘nudes’ phenomena and the patriarchal images that sexualise women’s bodies, instilled in imagery emerging from many sectors of society. OnlyFans is a platform marketed primarily towards young people in a very sex-positive way, and young women should know the dangers of this platform and how the whitewashing of the sex industry allows for such platforms to exist.
We are fascinated by the figure of the hummingbird described by Wangari Maathai. “I will be a hummingbird, I will do the best I can”. To some extent, when we have gathered and created Radical Girlsss, we knew from the very scratch that we are like hummingbirds, doing the best that we can to build, gather and connect with migrant young women and girls.
I am always told etymologies do not matter. No one knows the origins of the words they use anyway, just like they seem to forget where the origin of the world is. If words are not that important why have we been using the same ones for thousands of years? If our perceptions around women had changed surely our words would have changed?
This article is part of a reflection developed for the first panel of Radical Girlsss called ‘Radical Courage: Can We Be Young, Feminist and Radical?’ hosted by the 2019 FiLiA conference. I would like to thank my fellow Radical Girlsss for their insights and contributions.