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Apr 20, 2021 21 tweets 3 min read
A thread on the disappeared radical feminist groups: 1. The Bankrupt Academy / 破产版雅典学院 (“Academy” as in Plato’s Academy)

Set up a year ago with 50K members. Originally for women to rate pop fiction, the group saw members start discussing feminism as they realized entrenched misogyny in society, and fiction is no exception.
Apr 13, 2021 9 tweets 2 min read
Chinese radical feminists just suffered a devastating blow. On April 12, the Chinese government disbanded all radical feminist groups on Douban, a popular social networking website. Those are the only discussion forums that Chinese feminists could find. Hundreds of thousands of discussion threads vanished in a second and never can be retrieved. They also banned key words like “6B4T," a radical feminist movement persuading women to turn their backs on sex, child-rearing, dating, marriage, etc., with men.