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An open letter to the left regarding silence
Cherry Smiley 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 you’re afraid. I am writing this with...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: 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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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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Conflict on campus: UVic Women’s Centre becomes ‘Third Space’
Tweeted by Alison Chapman: “Seen outside the uvic women’s centre. And another reason why feminists need to be radical #uvic” https://twitter.com/alisonfchapman/status/609092471482556416 After 35...
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Women grieve the loss of Michfest online, look forward to new gatherings
Image: Facebook/Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival It’s been one year since the final Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. Forty years strong, Michfest was a pillar of lesbian culture, a bastion of...
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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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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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