INTERVIEW: Angela C. Wild of #GetTheLOut on Pride in London and Lesbian erasure
Mark that day in your lesbian herstory book. This is the day we rise! Enough of the misogyny of the transmovement. #lesbiannotqueer #getthelout #pride #pridelondon pic.twitter.com/XAUbt1eQ2t — Angela...
View ArticleWhen anti-feminists attack, women are blamed
we are disgusted & disappointed to learn that @ReadingsBooks is actively giving a platform to Islamophobia, transphobia, biphobia, whorephobia by hosting an event with Julie Bindel tomorrow. we...
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South Korea’s ‘take off the corset’ movement should inspire feminists...
A before-and-after transformation picture captioned, “I became a human after ditching the regime of looking sexy or fragile.” The #MeToo movement has reached countless women around the world, morphing...
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INTERVIEW: Renee Gerlich on the fight for women’s rights in New Zealand
Renee Gerlich Renee Gerlich is an independent writer and feminist activist based in Wellington, New Zealand. She was a researcher for the 2016 social history documentary The Heart of the Matter. Her...
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‘Nazi TERF’ misunderstands fascism and ignores the brutal truth about women...
Jewish women being deported in Russia in July 1941. (Image: Wikimedia Commons/German Federal Archive This month will see the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a word that, translated, literally...
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Radical feminism paves the way for a resurgent South Korean women’s movement
On October 6, the fifth molka rally was held in Seoul, near the Hyehwa subway station. Sixty thousand women took to the streets of the capital to protest police inaction over molka — the trend...
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PODCAST: Sheila Jeffreys on neoliberalism, identity politics, and the women’s...
Image: The Age/Simon Schluter Feminism has suffered a significant loss in recent decades. The impact of “queer studies,” neoliberalism, and identity politics was substantial. Renowned radical...
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PODCAST: Radical feminism for men? Robert Jensen makes the case
In Robert Jensen’s new book, The End of Patriachy: Radical Feminism for Men, he asks one question: “What do we need to create and maintain stable, decent human communities that can remain in a...
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‘The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men’ forces liberals and the...
Now far in the rear view mirror, the (Bill) Clinton years seem like a turning point for contemporary social movement strategy. For that generation of young people onward, progressive politics was...
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No, feminist speech is not the same as inciting genocide
Paris Lees (Image: BBC) Poor ol’ Paris Lees is running out of ideas. Luckily, an obsession with Germaine Greer will take you a long way! Back in 2015, Lees argued that Greer should be no-platformed...
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Meet the feminist playwright who’s castrating rapists Off-Broadway
Alicen Grey GYNX (pronounced jinx) is a new play by Alicen Grey, currently in production and premiering Off-Broadway this August. It tells the story of five women who find common cause in fighting...
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Robert Jensen on Millennial men, climate change, and the increasing need for...
This month, I had the fantastic opportunity to speak to Robert Jensen while he was in Australia to launch his new book, The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men (2017, Spinifex Press). As a...
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PODCAST: Finn Mackay on the revolutionary past and future of radical feminist...
The feminist movement is still going strong, though today’s young third wave feminists could learn a thing or two from the activists of decades past. In her book, Radical Feminism: Feminist Activism...
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It’s no mystery why ‘the queerest generation ever’ hasn’t managed to address...
At The Establishment, Tori Truscheit asks, “How can the queerest generation ever still believe in gender roles?” If that question seems jaw-droppingly lacking in self-awareness, congratulations: you...
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The pitfalls of trying to get in with the male left
Following in the tradition of Leftists Explaining Very Rationally That Women Are Doing It Wrong, Jacobin, America’s preeminent brocialist rag, published a piece by a graduate student named Erica West,...
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PODCAST: Eleanor Pam remembers the late, great, Kate Millett
In 2003, Andrea Dworkin wrote, “The world was sleeping and Kate Millett woke it up.” Indeed, Kate Millett was a game changer. In 1970, she published Sexual Politics, which catapulted her to fame, both...
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Radical feminism is the only solution to men’s ongoing ‘sexual misconduct’
“I’m not surprised,” women say, in response to the flood of revelations of sexual “misconduct” by men, especially men in positions of power. But none of us — women or men — should be surprised,...
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Making the political personal: how psychology undermines feminist activism
We are told that mental health problems are on the rise in the Western world, particularly among young women. Supposedly, these issues will only be exacerbated if “left untreated.” In an article at...
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Life without limits: The delusions of technological fundamentalism
In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? Living in the United States, I’m tempted to focus on the delusion that the US is the greatest nation in the history of the world —...
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Daisy Kler on the way racism and misogyny play out in Canada to doubly harm...
Take Back the Night/Friday, September 18, 2015. We talk about intersectionality a lot these days, but what does it really mean to combine our analysis of race, class, and gender? While we know women...
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Drawing lines: A review of Renate Klein’s ‘Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation’
Reading Renate Klein’s elegantly argued Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation, it’s difficult not to keep repeating to oneself, “How did we get here?”, all the while trying to keep at bay a sense of...
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On International Women’s Day, let’s remember that feminism isn’t really about...
Ashley Judd, Annabella Sciorra, and Salma Hayek at the 2018 Oscars. On Sunday night at the Oscars, the big #MeToo moment was brought to us by Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek, and Annabella Sciorra. While...
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Tolerance has taken over feminism, and it threatens to destroy the movement
“We have become reluctant to be labelled as moral crusaders in an age when human potential has degenerated to “doing your own thing”. We are conditioned to making bland observations and cynical jokes...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Attacks on radical feminists reach Argentina
pic.twitter.com/r4VzMd3n1E — RaquelRosarioSánchez (@8RosarioSanchez) March 26, 2019 On February 15th, during an assembly of the Argentinean Violence Against Women Collective, Ni Una Menos, a male...
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Andrea Dworkin’s legacy lives on: A review of ‘Last Days at Hot Slit’
Image: MIT Press Maligned in life and in death as anti-man and anti-sex, Andrea Dworkin believed writing “could move the earth and raise the dead — at least, the living dead.” According to her friend...
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Heterodox women: feminism needs independent thinkers, or we lose
Marie Shear coined the phrase “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people” in her review of A Feminist Dictionary in New Directions for Women in 1986. Feminism has a problem. And it’s...
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The South Korean women’s movement: ‘We are not flowers, we are a fire’
Image: https://twitter.com/XYfreeWorld/status/1010870088633741312?s=19 Last fall, Jen Izaakson travelled to South Korea to document the rise of the radical feminist movement as part of a Cambridge...
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Social media crackdown on Chinese feminists mimics Western trends
On April 12, the Chinese government removed radical feminist groups from a popular social networking website named Douban. Similar to Reddit — which banned feminist groups critical of gender ideology...
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Radical feminism has a humanity problem
Radical feminism has shaped my worldview, my politics, my relationships, and my work over the past two decades. When I was in my 20s, its approach to things like pornography and prostitution empowered...
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How I found the women: Reflecting on women’s space after Michfest
Michfest 1977 (Image: Facebook/Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival/Joan E. Biren) When I found the women, my entire world shifted. It had been a rough decade. Patriarchy had kicked my ass, and I was still...
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