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Susan Hawthorne talks with Thistle about Lesbian: Politics, Culture, Existence - Susan Hawthorne is a founding member of Spinifex Press, a publishing company that began in 1991. She spoke with Thistle last month about her latest book,...

5 Reasons Why Hardwood and Stainless Steel Garden Tools Are Best - Gardening is a rewarding pursuit, connecting us with nature and providing a sense of accomplishment. But the right tools can make all the difference in y...

Questions about Property Taxes and calculations based on no realization of gains. Where protesting these Property Taxes is high time. -

Sarah Owen, MP, newly elected chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, on Woman’s Hour - Sarah Owen, MP (Labour) for Luton North was elected Chair of the parliamentary Women and Equalities Select Committee (WESC) on 11th September 2024. The fol...

I’m coming back. - New posts are currently making their way through my mind, but I’ll need a minute to futz around with the site. All the old posts are private until I can si...

Women are Blamed for Cowardly Cops - Even being a coward and not engaging an active shooter and preventing further murders is the fault of women according to many Florida police officers. Pol...

Harmful sexual behaviours in schools: How should educators respond?  - Leading child safeguarding expert Maha Melhem joining me in high-level staff PDs in 2024 For many years in my engagements in schools around the country, I ...

Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Marxist feminist speaking out against gender identity in Sweden - In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Kajsa Ekis Ekman, author of "The Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman" The post Kajsa Ek...

Football’s Woman Problem - I haven’t witnessed this much good old-fashioned sexism since the NoMorePage3 campaign brought all the unreconstructed thugs out of the woodwork to call us...

Translation: Camille’s #LetWomenSpeak speech in Geneva - "I want to tell girls and boys that gender - the roles society imposes on you - is a prison. To be free is to let go of it. And don't be afraid to say so t...

WoLF’s Statement on Malicious Rumors (2017) - I need a place to host this pdf so that I can reference it in podcast notes. The original webpage has been removed from the internet. “At the beginning of ...

War on Two Fronts - This was written when Trump was still in Office, but the tactics are still true, of how both the Rightwing and TRA Movements still act. Both very patria...

Open Letter to Edinburgh Rape Crisis Staff and Trustees - With thanks to Jean Hatchet for her feminist documentation and transcription work. This one is for Sally, and all the other women in too vulnerable a posit...

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pronouns vs adjectives - So I’ve decided to ask people to recognize my “identity” by my chosen adjectives. Pronouns are so limiting, don’t you think? And still “binary-ish” (as if ...

Public Service Announcement - Take note, ye denizens of Social Media™: to bawl = to cry loudly, sloppily, or in an uncontrolled manner to ball = something else The more you know.

Missing Person Kristin Snyder: Lost in a Sea of Myths Pt 4 - Next up in our series on the The Lost Women of NXIVM mockumentary is Joseph O’Hara of Albany, NY. O'Hara was an attorney who worked for NXIVM from October...

Tell HUD: protect women’s single-sex shelters! - U.S. residents have until this coming Tuesday, September 22, to tell the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that it should allow shelte...

More than 20 questions - So you’re part of an online movement! Congratudolences. Here are some questions that the interested reader can use for private rumination. You’re welcome, ...

How should a feminist be? - I lived through the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s and it deeply affected me, as I believe it affected all women at the time. For ...

Time of the Plague - During this Coronavirus crisis, I want to focus on the prostituted. Of course everyone is vulnerable to this virus – but I write coz the prostituted as usu...

When Is a Lesbian Not a Lesbian? - When Is a Lesbian Not a Lesbian? Bev Jo Recognizing who is actually a Lesbian and who is an imposter is crucial for us, our Lesbian communities, relationsh...

Fuck, I’ve just realized why we need to know who the father is - https://cherryblossomlife.wordpress.com/2019/10/14/fuck-ive-just-realized-why-we-need-to-know-who-the-father-is/ Advertisements

The Stage (only they unpublished it like cowards) | The Old Vic has made an incomprehensible decision about toilets, and women are angry about it - This article appeared briefly on the Stage before reactions to it convinced them to unpublish both this, and the article it was responding to. The features...

Don’t trust your feelings. They are patriarchy’s strongest weapon. - Feelings come from the most basic part of our brain, the limbic system. This brain area contains many structures that not only faithfully maintain the inte...

There is literally no wrong way to be female - A commenter by the name of Thomas Reyes stopped by to say hello on my Leaving the Trans Cult post. Here is my answer to his comment: “Just bc a couple of t...

Pittsburgh Dyke and Trans March, Revisited - With it being Pride Month and all, I started to wonder about the state of the Dyke March this year. And that got me thinking about what is now called the ...

Stimuno untuk mengobati anak alergi - Bagi Anda atau pasangan Anda yang memiliki riwayat alergi, Anda tentu akan memiliki kekhawatiran tersendiri tentang hal ini. Alergi menjadi salah satu jeni...

#SpaceWoC: Women of Colour Against the Sex Trade - Originally posted on Sister Outrider: A brief foreword: I believe wholeheartedly in feminist documentation. And so I have decided to write about Space Inte...

You Can Police Language But You Can’t Police Thought - via You Can Police Language But You Can’t Police Thought Advertisements

This Blows Our Lives Apart - Interview on BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06xvbsc Advertisements

WordPress censors GenderTrender. Gallus Mag responds - Originally posted on 4thWaveNow: 4thWaveNow reached out to Gallus Mag of GenderTrender after WordPress dumped the site yesterday. In her most recent post, ...

The Annals of the TERF-Wars - Originally posted on Jane Clare Jones: So, yesterday this turned up in my feed, which struck me as something of an, um, mispresentation… and somehow, I end...

Artificial Intelligence Indeed (Ex Machina) - So I first heard of the movie Ex Machina when I read a review (by Chris DiCarlo) in Humanist Perspectives—and was so disgusted that I wrote a letter to the...

What Do Girl Guides UK, Extreme Porn, and BDSM Have In Common? - In my last post ‘Gender Whisperers’ I talked about transgender ideology permeating organizations, institutions and schools. One such organization, Girl Gui...

Pride (or Gay For a Day) - This is a joint post with Hypotaxis. Hypotaxis and I recently had dinner at a Japanese place, the kind where they seat you with a table full of strangers a...

Trans-Inclusive Feminism Here - All trans people everywhere are 100% welcome and even invited to do whatever they can to stop female oppression. Advertisements

Death Is Not Art - Dear San Francisco Public Library, You have sent me a message, and the message you have sent is: Please step up for your re-education now, Lesbian TERF. Su...

When You Can No Longer Consume, Conform, Reproduce, Obey. What “Disability” Means Under Capitalism & Patriarchy - Originally posted on Cannabis Refugee, Esq.: “Consume, conform, reproduce, obey” is a reference to the 1988 American science fiction film “They Live” which...

Some basic questions about sex and gender for progressives - 1. Do you believe that being born with the kind of body that has the potential to gestate children – a body with a uterus, ovaries, and a vagina – is of an...

JO MARCH IS NOT TRANS - A UK TV adaptation of the classic ‘Little Women’ this winter has reminded me of how much I loved the book when I was little. How I read it and re-read it, ...

Of Ducks and Drakes: Male Violence Across Species - Mothers Day, several years ago, I went with a friend to feed the ducks (and possibly nutria) at a local park. It was supposed to be a pleasant excursion to...

I should not have to bring up your sister/mother/aunt/wife in order for you to give a fuck…. - The title of this post summarizes my thoughts whenever I have a discussion with men who seem to proudly display their ignorance about the constant attacks ...

A Rapist’s View of the World (repost) - This is a really long rant about Joss Whedon’s Firefly. Why? Because I’m angry and I think it is really important that feminists don’t leave popular cultur...

One Woman Cracks the Pedo Elite. Chapter 4. - Preface & Chapter 1 here. Chapter 2 here. Chapter 3 here. Trial 3: Succar Kuri’s trial for child pornography, in which Lydia Cacho is to appear as a witnes...

MichFest: One Year Ago - One year ago, I arrived at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival for the first time after hearing about it for years. It was an amazing experience and it cha...

What is gender, anyway? - Originally published by Sarah Ditum at the New Statesman This can be perplexing terrain, in which it’s not at all clear that everyone is speaking the same ...

Social work professor speaks out on behalf of her FtM autistic daughter - Dr. Kathleen “Kelly” Levinstein, PhD, LCSW, LMSW is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan, Flint. Among many other accomplishments, Dr....

A man’s most sensitive skin is at the tip of his ego - Guest post by Solveig Lehmann Everyday feminism wants the women’s liberation movement to be terribly worried by the alleged anti-feminist harm done by litt...

Owen Jones. Again. - In February 2015, The Guardian published a commentary by Owen Jones on gay rights charity Stonewall’s decision to campaign for trans equality. In his artic...

Women riders risk their lives to reach stranded horses and lead them home. - Note, that the men have already tried a mechanised approach, attempting to remove the 200 horses by boat and failing! Eighteen of the horses have already l...

Stomping Johns: The Demand Side of Prostitution - Interview with Mickey Z published at World News Trust September 19, 2015 My Interview with Samantha Berg Mickey Z. — World News Trust “Marie Antoinette nev...

Michfest Was - Michfest was many things to many people. This is a goodbye. It was a haven. It was a cocoon. It was a place of healing. It was a place of affirmation. It w...

Not Respecting Women’s Boundaries is Rape Culture - Originally posted on loving lily: Recently I was talking to a radical feminist. She was organizing a march or some sort of public event and asked me if I co...

Trans* Women in My PTSD Group and Performing Femininity - Originally posted on loving lily: Recently I was trying to get help for my PTSD. After a long wait, I was finally admitted to a publicly funded PTSD therapy...

CouponsTweet is the new discount site.. - It’s startup time and i am going to review a discount site called couponsmonk (The site is now called couponstweet.com). couponstweet is one shop stop for ...

Problem and Solution? Transwomen’s Access to Private Women-Only Spaces - The political demand for transwomen’s access to private women-only spaces is predicated on a certain problem-and-solution logic. It can be summarized like ...

“individualism” and relational deprivation - I’ve been thinking quite a lot about relational deprivation between women in Western countries recently, and even more so since I’ve been spending some tim...

Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory, by Cheshire Calhoun - Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory written by Cheshire Calhoun Ethics Vol. 104, No. 3 (Apr., 1994), pp. 558-581 Published by: The University of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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-ol...

Radfem Hub is now an archives - After almost two years of herstorical collective blogging, Radfem Hub is now reopened as an archives. “The Hub” was a collective radical feminist blog and ...

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...

- 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, ...

- Originally posted on Liberation Collective: Last week, when the U.S. Secretary of Defense lifted the nominal ban on women serving in military combat roles, ...

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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 ...

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)....

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...

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...

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the admin ...

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...

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. ...

9/11/11 - Thanks to television, several generations of Americans have grown up with violence coming straight into their homes in vivid color — but whereas people my ...

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...

More on husbands and their ‘entitlement’ to sex - I pointed out in my roundup of 2010 that this oldie – Your husband has a right to expect regular sex – is still one of the most popular posts on this blog....

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...

Butch Nature & Medical Mythology - *MEDICAL MYTHOLOGY – or, “Pay no attention to that doctor behind the curtain!”* *How are butch lesbians supposed to become who we truly are, by artificial...

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...

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