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Women’s Health forced to apologise after semi naked painted models sports award stunt - An insult to Cathy Freeman and other sportswomen Collective Shout posted the piece below on the fiasco that was this years ‘I support women in sport’ award...

Trans Rights are Penis Rights! -

Contradiction in Terms - This post is written for feminists – to say it is a contradiction in terms to call being inside the sex trade sex work. This post is a rallying call to sto...

Transgender Stealth Anxiety Disorder - With inept diagnoses, unthought-out monstrous treatment, no forethought or care for post treatment day to day living, tragic though it is, we shouldn't be ...

QotD: “Anita Sarkeesian cancels talk at Utah State University over threats of ‘the deadliest school shooting’ in US history” - Originally posted on Anti-Porn Feminists: The feminist pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian has been forced to cancel a talk at Utah State University, after ...

There but for the grace of Goddess - Originally posted on motherhood is a feminist issue: Once upon a time there lived a young woman. She was happy and successful. She met and married her Princ...

There are no identities lurking in the shadows of the psyche - Originally posted on Third Way Trans: Some people theorize that people can have a “repressed transgender identity” and that the process of deciding to trans...

In Other Words Feminist Community Center - In Other Words Feminist Community CenterIn Other Words' former location on Hawthorne Boulevard (2006) Location: 14 North East Killingsworth Street, Portlan...

Heterosexuality/Selling Out Is Not Compulsory - Chapter Three How Patriarchy Uses Heterosexual and Bisexual Women against Lesbians – Heterosexuality/Sell...

OutLIARS (or menmenmenmenmen) - *This piece was a joint effort with the ever-genius Hypotaxis. Unsurprisingly, Dana McCallum, a man who identifies as a woman, was given a little slap on t...

UTOPIA: what would a women’s society look like? - I haven’t been writing in a while, and it’s not because I don’t like writing any more but things have accelerated elsewhere in my life and I can’t be invol...

One Evening - “This whole thing is actually pretty awkward,” Lena whispered to me. I looked around, at people standing in little groups, gossiping in hushed tones. “I t...

Not a “Gender Critical” Feminist - Lately a disturbing big shift in how radical feminist politics regarding gender, transgenderism and trannsexuality has been reframed as “gender critical”. ...

I Know - “What? Why?”, I ask him. The time and place vary, the questions vary, his specific displays of stress, shame and discomfort vary. His answer does not. He d...

THE 21st CENTURY BACKLASH AGAINST FEMINISTS IN PUBLIC SPACES - In landmark UK cases, successful criminal prosecutions have taken place against those who menacingly threatened feminists on the internet for daring to hav...

WTF is “Sex” Anyway? - Originally posted on Feed the Fishes: (WARNING: The following post contains a plethora of quotation marks.)* I was reading a friend’s social media page rece...

FRANK HAS COME OUT TO ‘PLAY’ - Let’s go back to the beginning, shall we? Let’s imagine a world which never forces someone’s subjective reality on to the rest of us or else we’re ‘offendi...

Dear Laverne Cox and SRLP: Ebony Nicole Williams Matters - Originally posted on GenderTrender: The Fabulously Mean Mutineer Queen of Power Kitty Glendower:Laverne Cox puts extra time in to decide what dress to parad...

On Not Shutting the Fuck Up - There are people out there who would love me to shut the fuck up, to roll over and die, metaphorically or literally. The men who used me. The people who le...

Sex Segregated Spaces: Where and Why - Women’s-only spaces serve a multitude of purposes depending on the context. For example, [public] women’s BATHROOMS AND LOCKER ROOMS are not a space for wo...

The Power of Cherokee Women - In February of 1757, the great Cherokee leader Attakullakulla came to South Carolina to negotiate trade agreements with the governor and was shocked to fin...

Motherhood - 1. Introduction Quick note: This is written mainly for Lesbians, from a Lesbian Radical Feminist viewpoint. This piece should also be read after the two la...

Assimilation and Emancipation - Liberalism will never succeed at eliminating patriarchy or any other system of oppression. Never. This is because liberalism is inherently assimilationist....

Russian News reader can't keep a straight face while breaking the news o... -

Tell UNISON to……. - If you were following the #uNDC14 hashtag on Twitter last week you’ll have seen that despite our best efforts we didn’t manage to get the violence against ...

A feminist critique of “cisgender” - Originally posted on Liberation Collective: Consistent with common usage of the term “cisgender,” the graphic below explains that “…if you identify with the...

Elliot Rodger and the Pandemic of Masculinity - I read Elliot Rodger’s manifesto yesterday. It was, without a doubt, the least surprising document I’ve ever read. It wasn’t hard to follow; it wasn’t biza...

Redefining Realness by Janet Mock: A Book Review - Originally posted on Liberation Collective: -Janet Mock, Author of Redefining Realness- Janet Mock is a transwoman author who has strong opinions on gender ...

Redefining Realness by Janet Mock: A Book Review - Janet Mock is a transwoman author who has strong opinions on gender and the sex industry shared in this memoir. Mock discusses many topics, but this review...

WordPress.com / Automattic censors Lesbian and Feminist Blogs - If you are a blogger with multiple million readership, do take notice that Automattic who hosts WordPress.Com will censor you and freeze your blog, suddenl...

Wild Women and The Untamed Heart - It’s been a long time since I posted here. I’ve posted a bit on Tumblr, but have been struggling with what to say on WordPress, so here it is. This blog ne...

“Political Lesbianism” is Identity Politics - Identity politics is, in part, the act of adopting an identity for the purpose of making a political point. In the case of “political lesbianism,” lesbian ...

White People: Missing the Point Since Forever - I guess this should be considered “Dear Defensive White People: Part 2″ since this will cover the same ground as “Dear Defensive White People.” Only this t...

Doublethink Nation - Quite some time ago now, I wrote a piece entitled Queer2Trans about what I saw as the increasing dominance of trans politics within queer ideologies. Inter...

Acceptable Losses - It is a fact, not a conjecture, that women are harmed in the making of porn, not just in the making of illegal porn, not just in the making of foreign por...

It’s our feminism, our language, our liberation - Descriptions and defenses (or dismissals) of feminism have filled thousands of books and comprise billions of words in journals, manifestos, novels, videos...

Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation? - I’m quite sure the young woman did not mean to insult me, I don’t think she believed that what she said to me was anything but just one of those simple fac...

Male Bullshit Stories: Porn (Part V) - Part five of a seven part series. View parts one, two, three and four. Necrophilia Explained, or Trust Your Perceptions Unifying Theory of Standard Male B...

A Final Analysis - this might be a multi-part post, im not sure yet! recently ive become aware that there are costs to doing this kind of work, and that this should never be...

Change of politics - I’m going to leave most of the posts up for people to read if they’re interested. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do with this blog, and mused ove...

Why so serious, trans men? - I mentioned in my last post that a lot of radical feminist blogs have gone silent. Well it would have been more accurate to say that many radical feminist ...

Vote. ‘Cause you just know these guys do. -

Interview with a blogger from Radfem-ological Images - Originally posted on radical wind: I had the chance to interview one of the bloggers from Radfem-ological Images shortly after the project ended. Radfem-olo...

Thank you, Ms Gillard - Like many other Australian feminists, I have spent the last few days reeling in shock and horror over the ousting of our former prime minister, Julia Gilla...

australian politics: leadership spill - Three years ago I published a post titled June 24 to mark the fact that finally, a woman was working in the role of prime minister. That woman is Julia Gil...

Silencing - Big blogging hiatus recently and I’ve missed a lot of important stuff. However, today I caught up with Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen’s article – “The Emp...

Hey, what happened to Bra-Busters!?!? - Reblogged from when women were warriors: ##Update## I just received a THIRTY DAY BAN for posting this photo on Facebook. Quick recap, then the spill. On ...

men dont have a gender. only women do. - see convo here.

Lawrence University invokes shocking last minute BAN on Earth Day Keynote Speaker Lierre Keith due to her Feminist views on Gender - Originally posted on GenderTrender: In a shocking last minute decision Lawrence University representatives no-platformed Deep Green Resistance founding memb...

Flappers, Suffragettes and Civility on Streetcars - A quarter of a century ago, before Los Angeles became such a busy mart of trade, there was more sociability, more friendliness, more pleasant words and smi...

Just a link - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/18/steubenville-misplaced-sympathy-jane-doe-rapists

- Reblogged from Lishra: My new Liberation Collective post

- Originally posted on Liberation Collective: Among the lies women have to tell in order to save themselves from harm, saying “I have a headache” as a way to ...

‘Transilience’ – Joelle Ruby Ryan University of New Hampshire Harassment Campaign Against Women : Call For Action - I am writing this today out of a deep concern for the rights of women, feminists and lesbians to speak publicly about issues that effect us. Specifically, ...

‘Transilience’ – Joelle Ruby Ryan University of New Hampshire Harassment Campaign Against Women : Call For Action - I am writing this today out of a deep concern for the rights of women, feminists and lesbians to speak publicly about issues that effect us. Specifically, ...

Survivor-informed policies and programs - by Victims2Survivors March 2013 For the past fifteen years I have worked side by side with survivors of prostitution and trafficking. Without a doubt, surviv...

- Yet again, I find myself leaving long comments on other people's pages and then reposting them here. It seems kind of vain, but fuck it. I've been meaning ...

This blog will now be on hiatus. - I first want to let my readers know that I am doing well. I hope all of you are, too. But due to various circumstances in my life right now, I will not be ...

this site is no longer active -

I’ve been struggling; sorry for a lack of radfem posts - I’ve been struggling with my PTSD and so have little time to think about radical feminism, or fighting patriarchy. I’ve been preoccupied with the idea of r...

The Female Brain – Part Two - Start quoting- In 2000 Kruijver published a study into BTSc neurons in 7 transsexuals and 1 gender dysphoric man. The study does not provide any evidence o...

Am moving to wordpress, in the hope that it will be less bad. - The new address is awreathonhergrave.wordpress.com

Pussy Riot: whose freedom, whose riot? - Recently there has been lots of noise around the arrest of three members of Pussy Riot, a Russian anarchist female punk band. The media almost unequivocall...

Ongoing submission acceptance for Don't Dis My Ability #2 - I am putting together a print-zine about living with disabilities. It is called Don't DIS My Ability and will be the second issue. The only requirement ...

Cathy Brennan, I salute you. - It’s been ages since I’ve posted. I don’t even have an excuse. I was thinking that I really should get around to doing something about my blog, and I came ...

Excellent Post on Quantum Consent by Eve Bit First - “The concept of ‘rape’ is almost always discussed and analyzed in terms of the victim (not from the perspective of the victim, but in terms of the victim)....

Study shows media headlines more like The Onion all the time - And like all modern skienterrific “discoveries,” it’s because of evolushun, and mating, doncha know.

Who are the good “johns”? - An argument I’ve been hearing lately against the “end demand” model is that by criminalizing the purchasers of sex, men are less likely to come forward if ...

Nasty and Nice: The F-Word covers the Transsexual ‘debate’ - Recently the F-Word, with much trepidation, interviewed Sheila Jeffreys and Lee Lakeman, for their feminist analysis and insight into the issue of transgen...

Shout Out to Sinfest - Sinfest is a webcomic by the somewhat reclusive Tatsuya Ishida. The comic started out with pretty standard dudebro jokes relying on sexist stereotypes, jok...

Beauty and Sexuality in Mythology (Full Version) - ...beauty and sexuality are neither specifically a blessing nor a curse, they are merely cursed for both being born women in a misogynistic culture.

Cynicism as a survival tactic: “Baby, who hurt you?!” - Sometimes I think the biggest thing that puts people, especially women, off of feminism is — it requires constant critical engagement with the world, it re...

Tobit 3-5 - *The Facts (Chapter number: Verse)* 3:7-17 - [The beginning of the book mirrors a similar prayer given by Tobit, who wishes for his life to end because his...

Is paleo eating an eating disorder? - Last week was National Eating Disorders Education Week. In recognition of the suffering caused by eating disorders and disordered eating, I’m going to addr...

Happy International Women’s Day 2012 - Emmeline Pankhurst knitting in prison. From the tricoteuses knitting beside the guillotine to Emmeline Pankhurst I feel grounded in a long tradition of rev...

Porn and intercourse - I wanted to share a quote. Porn users have long stated that porn and sex are divorced, that porn has no impact on them, their sex lives, or their view of w...

an Open Letter to a Radical Pro-Feminist and other male bullshitters… - This is an open letter about men who claim to be feminist and to the women who believe them. This letter is directed at women who — without any analysis or...

Second Episode of Feminism Now! is up! - Fans of Dialectical Spin will want to listen to the second episode of Feminism Now! In this show we speak with Jasmine Burnett of SisterSongNY and Trust Bl...

Yahoo News Gets Something Right - Amazingly Yahoo News has finally published something about the double standards where women are concerned without completely failing. The title of the arti...

the price of revolution - Do men ever consider the consequences of their consistent and predictable political upheavals? Or do they just take to the streets and women and girls be ...

Let’s Make Money (2008) - A fascinating, engaging and beautifully filmed documentaryacross dozens of countries. Here the director takes us on a global tour. Along the way, he lets h...

Goodbye Bunny! - The Game is over. I no longer care about posting, and haven’t for a while, so if you wanted to comment, that might be why it didn’t get approved. So yeah. ...

Well……. Hello :-) - Goodness, hasn’t WordPress changed since I was last here?! I’m revisting today via a circuitous route, prompted initially by mention of my ‘Witchy-Woo hat’...

One Radfem’s Experience with Gynecology - This is just an experience babble, because I feel like I have to get it out. Not much political in here, so if you dun like personal stuff feel free to sk...

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BEFORE you transition - There's a lot of "stuff" involved in moving toward "transitioning" - a lot of "science" and people telling you "transitioning" is *the* thing that's goi...

Transgender non-logic #4739 - Which is quite a peculiar stance for a supposedly mentally stable individual, but there's more; and if you as a transperson take away nothing else after re...

The Falsifiability Talk - We need to talk about falsifiability. This isn’t an easy conversation, so let’s talk first about why we need to talk about it. There are many different com...

Hi, Sisters. - I’m sorry but I’m seriously gonna need a bit more of a longer break away from the Internet. I’ve got quite a few things to sort out in my life right now. B...