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Weekly Women’s Circles Sessions 💬
by Mya000
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 January 24th
...See more Join us for a space to connect, share, and support each other ✨ 🗓️ When: Every Saturday at 12 PM EST 📍 Where: In the Adult Support Session room This is an open space for women to come together, share their experiences, and support one another. Whether you’re looking for a sense of belonging, a place to voice your thoughts, or just a calm moment of connection, this circle is for you. What to expect: 💛 A safe, welcoming environment where all voices are valued. 💛 Weekly topics focusing on women’s issues and challenges. 💛 Guided conversations facilitated by thoughtful questions. 💛 A chance to connect with like-minded women and build genuine support networks. Each week, we’ll explore a different theme. Come as you are, whether you want to share or just listen, you are warmly welcomed here. We hope to see you there, and feel free to invite others who might benefit from this space! Let’s create a community where every woman feels supported and heard.  Hosted by @ShadowFaerie and @Mya000
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Women's Issues Community Taglist! Stay Updated
by SoulfullyAButterfly
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 January 9th
...See more The Women's Issues Community Tag List is a way to stay connected with new discussions, resources, and posts shared by our forum supporters. By joining the tag list, you’ll receive notifications when important updates are posted (up to 4 times a week). These updates can include everything from wellness tips and discussions to helpful resources that align with the community’s focus on women’s issues. If you'd like to be added or removed from the tag list, simply leave a comment below. Being part of the tag list helps you stay engaged and ensures you don’t miss out on opportunities to connect and share your thoughts! ------------------------- Current taglist - updated by Mya on 17th October @adventurousBranch3786 @ashleybell415 @ASPIRINGCOUNSELOR @Aylathegreat @azuladragon34 @blxepxndx @calmmoon2104 @Callmetanya5 @creativeTalker5179 @DaisyBeeBlooming @daydreammemories @decisivePapaya238 @Eddy94 @emotionalkitty101 @fluffypickles123 @GentleLily3 @gentleWater9634 @GoldenRuleJG @halcyonCloud2036 @HarmonyBlossom @iloveyouxx @Jaeteuk @janiewanie423 @K87 @Kala @KarmaTheRascal @KaylaMaulfair @KindnessMatters2020 @lalabrowni @listenwithempathy @LittleSunshine2036 @littleLemon4973 @LovingPeacefulHeart @MoreThanJustMe @Mya000 @Noorahmed89 @OptimisticMoon1124 @PFord79 @pioneeringShade8010 @purpleTree4652 @RainbowRosie @RobinNew @shyMoon8539 @sincereSkies9563 @SirenOfSerenity @sky2Ocean20 @Smilintru67 @softSummer7903 @SomeHope2022 @SoulfullyAButterfly @tealPark1424 @TheCucumberry @trueconfidant123 @victoriousLily5344 @woMango9097 @zaramerch
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Join Our Team: We're Looking for Forum Supporters!
by Mya000
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 November 18th, 2024
...See more Hello everyone! We’re thrilled to announce that our Women's Issues Community Forum is on the lookout for Forum Supporters to join our team. If you’re passionate about women’s issues and eager to make a positive impact, this could be the perfect role for you! 🔍 What We’re Looking For: * Preferably Female: While we value all contributions, having female supporters helps ensure our discussions reflect direct lived experiences and viewpoints. * Knowledgeable About Women’s Issues: A strong understanding of discrimination and related topics is crucial to effectively contribute and support our community. Official Requirements for the Role: * Forum Supporter Responsibilities: * Focus on 1 or 2 sub-communities. * Maintain engagement by posting and replying to threads with empathy. * Uphold a record of zero behaviour points. * Active participation in the community prior to application is required. * For Members: * 50+ forum upvotes. * 50+ forum posts. * Make 10+ forum posts per month. * Have taken the Member Oath. * For Listeners: * Verified Listener status. * 50+ forum upvotes. * 50+ forum posts. * Make 10+ forum posts per month. * Have taken the Listener Community Guide & Listener Oath. 🌟 Why This Role Matters: * Informed Discussions: Your contributions will help guide insightful and supportive conversations about women’s issues. * Supportive Space: By fostering a compassionate environment, you’ll help ensure that every member feels heard and supported. If you’re ready to make a positive impact and meet the requirements, click the link below to apply! 👉 Click here to apply! [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefNgW-Va7dyBx67M3d27INmkndnwm1C3Ywa7NJoFa2EscQkA/closedform] Thank you for your dedication and commitment to our cause. We look forward to working with you to make our community a better place for everyone!
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Body Issues
by raccooncutie30
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 3 hours ago
...See more How do I convince my mom to let me have breast reduction surgery? I’m a D cup but I want to be flat so men will stop sexualizing me.
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PCOS Awareness
by InsightfulPhoenix
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 5 hours ago
...See more Tw:PCOS Awareness/Health issue/Infert./Period issues Goodmorning everyone, and I hope all of you lovely ladies are doing well today! This morning I wanted to bring some awareness to PCOS by displaying some imagery. I find that topics such as PCOS are hardly brought up, and they should me. Below are some images that have information that might surprise you or make you feel validation! Feel free to share your experiences below! 
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My partner upset me today
by librastar29
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 15 hours ago
...See more Hey everyone. This is very embarrassing to talk about but today my partner and i were having sex. He had known I am on my period right now and thats never really stopped us. In fact, he has made it very clear in the past that us being intimate should not be affected by my period, as long as i am ok with it. However, today we were changing positions and i had noticed there was a decent amount of blood and i immediately apologized and we started to get back to it, but he stopped us and said, "I'm sorry i cant." I apologized again, we cleaned up and i burst into tears. I cried for at least an hour, and he comforted me, cuddled me, and reassured me that everything is okay and he was sorry he upset me. I told him it was okay and I tried my best to act as normal as possible. He left my house and i tried to go on about my day as usual, but to be honest, ive been holding back tears all day, trying to distract myself from how the situation made me feel. Although my partner reassured me he is still attracted to me and isnt disgusted by me, unfortunately, that reassurance didnt make me feel any better about myself. Ive always struggled with gender and body dysphoria and i guess today just stirred up those feelings again. i feel embarrassed, ugly, and disgusted with myself. I am sorry this post is so long, just needed somewhere to put my feelings and im too insecure to talk to anyone in my personal life about it. thanks to anyone who has read this, please respond with any thoughts
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Looking for Co-Hosts & Forum Supporters!
by Mya000
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 1 day ago
...See more Hi everyone!   We’re looking for feminist women who would like to help co-host our Women’s Circle from time to time. If you're comfortable with these topics and would like to support the community, we’d love to have you! No prior hosting experience is needed—we can guide and support you.   We’re also always looking for Forum Supporters to help respond to community messages and create posts.   Let us know if you’re interested or if there are any topics you’d like to see discussed in the forum or a Women’s Circle.   Take care! 💜 
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March is Women’s History Month! 🎉✨
by CheeryMango
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 1 day ago
...See more This month, we celebrate the incredible contributions, strength, and resilience of women throughout history and in our everyday lives. From trailblazers who changed the world to the women who inspire us personally such as mothers, sisters, mentors, and friends. This is a time to recognize and honor them. 💜 Who is a woman that has inspired you the most and why? Tell us about her in the comments below and share how she’s made an impact on your life! Let’s uplift and celebrate the amazing women around us! 💪💐 
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TRIGGER WARNING: *Another day, another rape in India*
by charmingBranch7954
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 2 days ago
...See more Headlines like these jolt you to the core, especially if you have a mom and a sister at home. Wondering if they could be the next, simply because they exist.  While we can all shift the blame, that it happens in every country. Or that it was men from a particular community. It was *that* time of the day. It was *that* place. Very rarely do we stop to think, why India? There was once a time, when a naive little me would proudly proclaim myself to be an Indian. Proud of the culture, values, diversity. Now I am afraid to even mention the country I belong to, especially when I introduce myself to someone abroad.  Once upon a time Indians were seen as one of the jolliest communities worldwide. Now we're seen as extremists, rapists, and downright filth. Incidents like these have nosedived our reputation to the extent companies that work on a multinational level would rather hire a monkey than an Indian. And if you're an Indian guy, good luck! I know I'll get a few comments why don't you just get a job in India, knowing full well the existing conditions for a working individual here. India is a land of cheap labour, our own lead corporates expecting us to work 70 hours a week for a salary that's peanuts compared to what a foreign country would pay. And cases like these drag your value to inhuman levels of low. After all, who would want to associate with someone belonging to a land where inhuman acts like these are a regular? For the first time (in a long time), I'm ashamed to call myself an Indian. I feel suffocated as I see opportunities dimming out. I feel scared that someone from my own family might be next. There are times when I sincerely hope I scroll down my feed without seeing a crime against women, which in fact, is a crime against humanity. I pray that my countrymen who possess a cheap mentality like that learn to see women as humans first before elevating them to goddesses, something we so smugly advertise.  I hope one day I'd open eyes to a different reality, and find myself to be proud of being an Indian again. Or I'm afraid I might end up going the Absolute Batman route.
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new here...lost on life, big relationship stuff, just everything
by bestMaple4303
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 2 days ago
...See more I am in my late 30s and I have no friends, I have mental health issues from years of deep trauma and I do see a psychologist but I just feel like I need to hear from a regular person who might relate but I have no one to talk to. I am married but my husband doesn't feel like a safe space. I have learned through the years that I just can't talk to him. We communicate very poorly and he takes everything I say as criticism and only seems to get defensive or shifts blame on me and doesn't really hear me, so I stopped talking as much. He also has anger issues, always has since he was a kid, so that is his first and usually his only reaction to any kind of "negative" issue. It feels so lonely. I think my husband sees me as a mom. I do everything for the house, cook, clean, laundry, pay the bills, take care of my teenager, make his dr appointments and work full time and he does what he's always done and rarely takes any of that off my shoulders. He thinks (he has said this) that by working and providing more money than I do that that should be all he has to do and that house chores etc. aren't his responsibility. Also taking my son to the doc or something is my job because I bring in less income so if I miss work it’s not as big of a deal. I am burnt the heck out. I feel there is resentment and there is definitely unresolved conflict and I really don't know if it will ever be addressed, even my therapist thinks he may not be someone who can be reasoned with. He would never do therapy with me he thinks therapists are "quacks". I just can't bring things like this up to him because he gets upset and I end up feeling like it's my fault for ever opening up. He tells me he struggles with me because I am not happy all the time like I once was and I don't smile much anymore.... but I feel this strain on me and I can't talk to him, so yes, I would agree that I am not as happy anymore. Sometimes I feel like I need to fake smiles so he is happy. He doesn't put in effort anymore; not like he did to get me. He has big hobbies that he spends most of his extra time doing. He will get home from work and eat what I cooked then go out to do his side work he enjoys and come home anywhere between 9 and 11 or 12. We are rarely intimate, definitely not outside the bedroom anymore and I noticed very recently I don't even want to. Honestly it scares me that I have that feeling. I used to all the time and I craved his affections, cuddling etc. but it just became less and less over time and I got tired of kind of asking for it so it just is this way now and no one does anything to change it. I am noticing I feel a disconnection. I honestly don't know how he feels all the time because he wont talk about emotions even when I set up a space for him to unload and ask him how he is doing. He seems very disconnected with his emotions and I am very connected to mine so it is tough. I think all the time he spends doing his work is a big distraction for him.  I don't know much of who I am and I am almost 40. I have no passions, my job is just a job I got one day and I am not happy in it but I live in a small town with very little options, also, I would love to move to be around more things or jobs but my husband wont because it would mean not living close to his parents...of which he has a very very close relationship with and they are always involved (he lived with them until his mid 30's and I was the reason he finally moved out)...all my family is very far but I have not been close to many of them since my parents were a big part of the trauma I experienced, my dad died years ago anyway. I also have ADHD and this has been tough, I found out a little over a year ago and it explains a lot about me but my husband is struggling to accept some of that still. I feel he thinks some of it is not real or is an excuse. He is the "just get over it" or "just don't think about it" type. It is hard to make friends, I am such an introvert. I had a bunch some years ago because I was a heavy drinker after losing my sons bio-father to suicide when we were 24 years old. It is easy to be surrounded by people when you are always drunk at a bar...I quit drinking about 6 years ago when I met my husband (he has never drank before) and now I have no one except my husband, my son and my sister who is 3 hours away.  I am learning through therapy I don't know how to set boundaries or really even know what healthy ones are. I don't know how to stop pleasing or put myself first and it is hurting me mentally, I don't feel like I know who I am or what I am here for. Sometimes things feel so empty and I feel like I am missing my spark. 
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March 8th: A Day of Remembrance, Not Celebration
by Mya000
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more Today is not Women's Day—it is International Women’s Rights Day. This is not a celebration. It is not a day to give flowers or to compliment women on their strength and beauty. It is a day of struggle. 📖 Where Does This Day Come From? March 8th has its roots in workers' and feminist movements of the early 20th century. * In 1908, 15,000 female workers marched in New York, demanding better working conditions, voting rights, and equality. * In 1910, socialist and feminist activist Clara Zetkin proposed the creation of an international day of action for women’s rights. * In 1917, in Russia, a strike led by female textile workers helped spark the February Revolution, ultimately leading to women gaining the right to vote. It was only in 1977 that the United Nations officially recognized March 8th as International Women’s Rights Day. ❌ Why Is This Not a Celebration? Because, according to UN data, approximately 85,000 women were intentionally killed in 2023. That’s an average of around 233 women killed per day, or one woman murdered every 6.25 minutes.  Among them, 60% were murdered by their partner or a family member. That’s around 140 women per day, or one every ten minutes. This is not a day of joy. It is a day of mourning. #March8 #WomensRights #NotACelebration #Feminism
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Ladies, Don't Let Anybody Stop You from Being Your Best Version💖
by resilience2025
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more Heyaaaaaaa You Beautiful & Confident Women of All Times!  Introducing myself, I am Resilience! 🤗 I have been a woman myself and this "International Women's Day", I find the perfect opportunity to support you in leveraging your inner power leading to becoming the best version of yourself!  So, my lovely ladies, what I am gonna state here can be quite discomforting and unrealistic to you!  I guess it's been for most of us because of the upbringing and social mindset we are brought up in!  But I tell you, perceptions and patterns developed over a long time period are always uncomfortable! Only those who have the courage to be who they are meant to be, take up the tougher, unpredictable and "practically impossible" pathway!  So, the choice is always yours!  Do you wish to settle or compromise for the less or do you keep your standards high enough and automatically get them respected by the rightest people in your life!  I would ask you some questions! You don't need to answer them here but ask yourself internally and be honest to your authentic self! How many times have you blamed yourself or felt guilty for disappointing others by disagreeing with them? How many times have you over-explained yourself to people to seek validation? How many times have you not spoken up and stood for yourself when your heart was actually shouting for it? How many times have you said yes when actually your body was crying to say no? How many times have you heard in life, be the good girl?  How many times have you felt being unheard, taken for granted and running behind people to seek assurance? How many times have you waited for the perfect moment to speak up for yourself? How many times have you stopped yourself from asserting just because you felt you were unprepared? How many times have you felt that standing up for yourself makes you arrogant or selfish? Ladies, I can write a series of questions like these! Now, this post is not for those who have adapted themselves to live life this way and silenced their inner potential that will remain unlocked! But for those who have made the very powerful choice to change themselves and unlock their latent power that can disrupt the status quo!  This day is a celebration of all the women who are bold, confident, assertive and secure! This day is a celebration of all the women who know that they are enough, and they have always been enough!  This day is a celebration of all the women who exercise their freedom to choose, to make decisions for their life and who know that they are allowed to be themselves, to take space when needed!  This day is a celebration of all the women who respect and love themselves first radiating the same to the world out there! This day is a celebration of all the women who are clear and don't betray their truest selves for external assurance!  This day is a celebration of all the women who believe that they are magnets for the right people, people who consider them equals, respect them not for being a pleaser but for being who they are authentically!  This day is a celebration of all the women who make people realize that their existence is a privilege, and their availability comes at a cost, the cost of respect!   This day is a celebration of all the women who know what they deserve is nothing less than their standards!  This day is a celebration of all the women who support and inspire rather than hide and escape!  Don't let your inner power die calling out for a change that just requires a bit of courage! Ladies, if you don't stand up for yourself, nobody will do it for you!  So, fly high with your dreams and let your confidence radiate out to the world not as an outcome of superficiality but deep internal transformation!  Let your walk into the room be full of true humble yet brave boldness!  Don't let your soul dwell on frustration and being stuck for not doing what you should have done!  So, when you realize this, start now!  Don't overthink, don't wait for the right moment, just do it now!  Take one step ahead and be the woman who leaves a legacy behind to be cherished for generations to come!  Be the woman you look up to! Why wait for others when you have it all in you?💓 Regards,  Resilience! 💞💞
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Happy Women's Day!
by PsychPrashansa13
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 3 days ago
...See more On this women's day write down 1 fact about feminism that amazes you! I will go first:  If in today's world, I can give my opinion no matter if it's good or bad or even against feminism THAT IS BECAUSE OF FEMINISM.  Lots of love! Muahhh!!
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Little Tips for Cultivating a Better Body Image!
by Mya000
Last post
 Friday
...See more Last Saturday during our Women's Circle, we shared powerful conversations about body image and self-love. We discussed how challenging it can be to break free from societal pressures and unrealistic standards. I wanted to share a few tips that can help us on this journey toward body acceptance. 👏 Celebrate What Your Body Can Do: Instead of just focusing on how your body looks, celebrate what it enables you to do. Whether it’s dancing, feeling the warmth of the sun on your face, or simply moving through your day with strength, your body is a powerful vessel for experiences that go way beyond appearance. 🗣️ Practice Positive Self-Talk: When negative thoughts about your body arise, try replacing them with affirmations like “I deserve to feel good about myself, just as I am.” This practice helps shift your mindset toward compassion, acceptance, and respect. Treat yourself the way you would treat a loved one—with kindness and understanding. 📲 Challenge Unrealistic Standards: It’s easy to fall into the trap of comparing ourselves to edited images we see in the media, but remember, those images are not real. One thing that can help is curating your social media feed with accounts that prioritize authenticity—surround yourself with content that uplifts. 🧘‍♀️ Nourish and Care for Yourself: Focus on well-being through holistic practices. Nourish your body with foods that make you feel good, and engage in activities you love—not out of obligation, but because they bring you joy. Self-care isn’t about perfection; it’s about honoring your body and mind. 💕 Seek and Offer Support: Join a supportive community (like this one!) that encourages you through the ups and downs. Let’s lift each other up and create spaces where we can share our journeys. Let’s continue to support each other and nurture a healthier, more loving relationship with ourselves!
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Women's Circle: Menopause Awareness Session
by Mya000
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 Wednesday
...See more This Saturday at 12 PM EST, we’ll be hosting a Women’s Circle session about menopause in the Support Session Room for Adults. Whether you’re directly experiencing menopause or want to learn more, this will be a safe and open space to discuss, share, and support one another. Come join us for a meaningful conversation! 🗓 Date: Saturday 8 March 2025 🕛 Time: 12 PM EST 📍 Location: Support Session Room for Adults Co-hosted with @ShadowFaerie 💜 We look forward to seeing you there and creating a supportive space together!  #WomensCircle #MenopauseAwareness

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