Welcome to my blog.
Lavender Blume is my nom de plume. This pseudonym allows me to express my views freely. I wish I were in a position to speak publicly as myself, but I’m not. Those who do are legends.
I’m a non-partisan Canadian radical feminist. Born and bred in a small, isolated northern town, I moved to Toronto for university and lived there for about 20 years until picking up once again and moving to a another small town in Ontario. I work in regulatory compliance in the financial industry. Proudly approaching spinsterhood in my early 40s, I’m happily single with no children. I have a sweet, adorable cat. I love animals, gardening, hiking, reading, writing, cooking, mystery, and horror.
I’m drawn to radical feminism by its comprehensive, insightful analysis on issues that neither liberal feminism nor the left want to talk about, including the sex trade, male violence, and gender identity.
I’ve become disillusioned by the left’s swift and wholesale acceptance and imposition of ideologies that have no resemblance to materialist or class analysis and a culture that’s hostile to free thought, free speech, women and girls, and LGB people.
More to come…
Lavender Blume 
I really enjoyed your post critiquing choice feminism and the illusory picture it paints of feminism. -Chelsea, Johns Hopkins University, Political Science major
Thanks for reading. Feminism is an ongoing project and one that isn’t immune to doubling back on itself in the larger social context. Please feel free to add your own insights!
Just came upon your site. I will be keeping tabs on your like minded opinions. I prefer web over social media and have extended discussion on relevant topics.
I’m fascinated by your nom de plume, a name of the feather. With a feather women can write and fly.
Blume means flower in German. The plant, the colour and the lavender water is called Lavendel
And there is a famous DaDa-poem with the title An Anna Blume by Kurt Schwitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Anna_Blume
Lavender breaks the tropes and the misogyny of the poem. Red, yellow, blue, green is mentioned, but not the lavender menace.
Anna Blume is compared with an animal, a bird and dripping
Lavendula is female, a plant is female, a flower is female and Lavendel was female until the 20th century. Today Lavendel is male in German, the grammatical gender.
That’s fascinating! Thanks for your input, Barbara. Now I like my nom de plume even more. Cheers!