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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticlePODCAST: 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...
View ArticleRadical 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,...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleLife 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 —...
View ArticleDaisy 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...
View ArticleDrawing 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleTolerance 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 ArticleAn 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: 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...
View ArticleAndrea 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...
View ArticleHeterodox 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleSocial 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...
View ArticleRadical 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...
View ArticleHow 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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