Introducing
The F Word
Our first capsule is called The F Word.
In The F Word, we trace how the meaning of feminism has shifted over time - across cultures, movements, identities. From anti-feminist women to TikTok aesthetics, from academic theory to real-world resistance, this capsule explores the distance between the label and the lived experience.
It’s not about reclaiming feminism for the sake of it. We set out to name the friction and fatigue of this word. Through essays, interviews, art and poetry, we behin our first transmission with one of the most misunderstood signals of them all.
The F Word - Recommendations Library
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Below is our gift to you - all the things that have inspired and helped us educate ourselves along this journey. Our favourite education pieces that we used to create this capsule, challenging us or giving directions along the way.
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Is Feminism Still Needed? Penny East Has No Doubt
As global rights regress and younger generations grow wary of the word “feminism,” Penny East leads the Fawcett Society with evidence, empathy, and defiance. In this conversation, she makes a case for why feminism remains both necessary and deeply personal.
The F Word Isn’t Dead - But We Are Still Afraid To Say It
The F Word: But We’re Still Afraid to Say It
Feminism changed the world - so why does it feel like it’s vanished?
In a time when far-right ideology is rising and nuance is dead, the word feminism sits uneasily between overuse and erasure. It’s printed on t-shirts or weaponised as branding, then dismissed as outdated, irrelevant, or worse - radical noise.
Radical Signals was born to cut through that noise. We exist to discuss topics overlooked by mainstream media through interviews, essays, poetry, science and art.
Capsule 01: The F Word explores how feminism went underground, what we lost along the way, and why reclaiming it still matters.
Are Women Upholding the Patriarchy?
From Unity to Division: The Women Who Undid Feminism
The feminist movement in America was never a monolith. While one camp fought for full emancipation from gender roles, another emerged from the same roots - educated, independent women who believed in traditional hierarchies and saw the right to vote as enough.
Michelle Vaughan’s solo exhibition, A Movement of Women, dives deep into this divide. Through pastel portraits, Cold War memorabilia, and biographies of 40 conservative women from 1920–2020, she builds an archive of anti-feminist resistance.
‘Them’ - a Poem
“Them” was written in response to a moment many women know too well: sitting in rooms where your silence isn’t noticed, and your voice, when it does surface, is filtered through the lens of someone else’s authority. It’s tired and it happens daily to too many of us.
This poem threads together quiet frustration that many of us experience, asking:
What happens when even your capability must be announced by someone else?
Obedience Isn’t The Opposite Of Power: Pola Rader
In a world that often equates silence with submission, artist and filmmaker Pola Rader invites us to listen differently. Her photographic series Icon & Mirror captures Orthodox women in Russia navigating tradition, faith, and identity.
Rader’s work challenges the Western feminist assumption that power always looks loud. What if obedience isn’t a sign of weakness but it instead a way to survive?