Where does the term femelliste come from?
The terms "femelliste", "femellism", or "femellinity" are not new. They have been used for several years by different people and groups. We therefore do not claim to be their mother. However, we think that if many women around the world have started to use it, it is because its function is more and more necessary to remind and describe the realities that women live, the term "femininity" not being sufficient, and the term "feminism" being currently misused. For femellists, a woman is an adult human female.
Campaigns organized by Posie Parker and by Women's Liberation Front
The term "Femalism" is mainly used by the English feminist Posie Parker (Kellie Jay Keen) who popularized it in the English-speaking world. One of her Youtube videos published in 2020 is entitled "The future is #femalism". The hashtag #Femalism has been seen more than one and a half million times on the social network TikTok.
Psychologist Nicole Roelens has written a manifesto for the decolonization of female humanity in 5 volumes. Volume 1, released in 2013, is entitled "Femaleness and the prosaic reality of human life", published by l'Harmattan. In 2020, during a conference, psychologist Nicole Roelens states:
"The femaleness designates the female sexual power, as virility designates the male sexual power. The very fact of naming the female power lifts the denial of it. Women sometimes secretly experience a jubilation of their femelleness, but because of sexist colonialism, this jubilation is more often than not covered by the shame of their female bodies, chosified, humiliated and assaulted by the colonizing males."
The Boucherie Abolition collective frequently uses the terms "femellism" and "femellinity".
Many animalist groups use this term to describe the oppression and violence suffered by female living beings - beyond the human hope: cows, goats, sheep used to produce milk, chickens used to produce eggs, etcetera.
In his anticipation novel "Krasnaya", the philosopher Raphaël Enthoven describes a group "femelliste".
In a poem dated 2020 posted on her Instagram account, Dora Moutot uses the term "femellity" to describe the relationship she has with her female body. She also uses the term femelleness several times in her book "Mâle baisées, the book that denounces patriarchy under the sheets."
Excerpt below.⤵
Extract from the book by Dora Moutot "Mâle baiséesthe book that denounces the patriarchy under the sheets".
