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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...
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An open letter to the left regarding silence
Yuly Chan, a founding member of Chinatown Action Group I can’t remember the exact words, who said it or when, but the general message was: courage isn’t the lack of fear, but doing something even when...
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PODCAST: The MRAs vs. Rad Fem 2013
Rad Fem 2013 is a radical feminist conference set to happen in London, on June 8th and 9th of this year at the London Irish Centre. When Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) caught wind of the conference,...
View ArticleThe divide isn't between 'sex negative' and 'sex positive' feminists — it's...
I’d prefer not to draw hard and fast lines between feminists and have tried, lately, to avoid painting what feels like an overly simplistic “liberal feminist” vs. “radical feminist” wall that divides...
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The no platforming of radical feminists: A talk by Julie Bindel
This is an edited transcript of a talk given by journalist, Julie Bindel, on June 6, 2015 at the Quaker Meeting House in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The event was recorded by UK Indymedia and was...
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In real life
A year and a half ago I wrote that the internet was magic. “I can’t stand the luddites who romanticize the days where people talked. Face to face. Or called each other,” I complained. Why meet when...
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Maybe what feminism needs is separatism, not inclusion
In a time where inclusion has become one of feminism’s key priorities, a founding idea has fallen particularly out of favour: separatism. The mere accusation of not being “intersectional” (something...
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Amoja ThreeRivers, separatist space, and MichFest
As with all MichFest magic, there seems to be a rhyme and reason to the rhythms of the Land. After 40 years of creating a lesbian culture and gathering place like none other, the Michigan Womyn’s...
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