2025
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We have recorded at least 92 UK women and girls aged 13 and over who have
been killed in 2025 in circumstances in which a man or men are primary
suspects. ...
The Paternity of Prostitution
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published by AMSA (Alternative Mobile Services Association) on February 4,
2025 I moved to Portland in 2001 as a New York liberal. Witnessing
prostitution ...
I’m coming back.
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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...
Football’s Woman Problem
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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...
Tell HUD: protect women’s single-sex shelters!
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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
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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, ...
Message to the City — and the Chemo diary continues
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Well, today is day, um, 7 of round four of chemo. And I’m nearly a week
into my medical leave from work. So far today i took the dog for a walk,
went to a ...
Voice Unheard
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This post is tribute to all the exited women who write and speak out. It
may appear we are shouting to the wind, but it is bringing about real and
permanen...
When White Women Close Ranks
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A brief foreword: It’s been a while since I’ve updated this series of
essays on racism in the feminist movement. The racism has kept on
happening, as predi...
My Butch Career, a memoir by Esther Newton
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I was absolutely delighted to read My Butch Career, a memoir by Esther
Newton. I had never heard of Newton before but I saw a recommendation for
this book ...
Speech: the power of feminist writing
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This is the text of a speech I gave at an event organised by Women Talk
Back at the University of Bristol, 28 May 2019. Women Talk Back is the sole
female-...
Gay Bars for Grownups?
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This is a slightly different topic than what I usually post on. It's not on
a lost place for women per se, but a place that is seemingly no longer
defined ...
International Women’s Day is a Scam
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Mainstream discourse tells us that if only women would change, everything
would be fine. But the first step to liberation is understanding, and
there’s ver...
#SpaceWoC: Women of Colour Against the Sex Trade
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Originally posted on Sister Outrider:
A brief foreword: I believe wholeheartedly in feminist documentation. And
so I have decided to write about Space Inte...
Tips Pesan Kaos Family Gathering Berkualitas
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Mengadakan gathering bukan cuma untuk mengumpulkan orang, namun panitia
harus menyiapkan tema acara dan desain kaos gathering. Pembuatan kaos
biasanya meli...
Fixing Feminism
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Who broke feminism? And how, and really, why? Is it just feminism, or is
the collective fight against oppression equally broken? And isn’t that
still a r...
The Annals of the TERF-Wars
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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)
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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...
Gender Whisperers
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The PM of Australia had some wise words this past month when he tweeted ‘We
do not need ‘gender whisperers’ in our schools. Let kids be kids.’ ‘Gender
whis...
Open Letter to Stonewall
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Originally posted on RADLESFEM Survivor:
Open Letter to Stonewall Dear Ruth Hunt Remove the L from LGBT We demand
that Stonewall removes lesbians from the ...
Class Signifiers
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Class signifiers are all around us. And people use them too, most often by
the people who benefit the most. I was thinking today how simple, yet
enmeshed,...
Pride (or Gay For a Day)
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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
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All trans people everywhere are 100% welcome and even invited to do
whatever they can to stop female oppression. Advertisements
Lesbian Visibility Day
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April 26 is Lesbian Visibility Day. Let’s celebrate lesbians. We’re here,
we’re lesbians, fuck off we don’t suck dick. Yep, that sounds like a
celebration ...
Of Ducks and Drakes: Male Violence Across Species
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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...
It’s all about sex
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“I just wanted to get fucked like a woman…
https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/the-gay-consolation-prize-by-juno-dawson/
Owen Jones. Again.
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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...
Gaslighting Culture
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Lately I am really coming to terms with the fact that patriarchy is a
gaslighting culture, and for the most part, messages do not need to be true
in order ...
The Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize
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I was hugely honoured yesterday to be one of two women awarded the Emma
Humphreys individual prize, which this year was focused on “women who have
challeng...
Michfest Was
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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
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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...
CouponsTweet is the new discount site..
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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 ...
“individualism” and relational deprivation
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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...
FRANK HAS COME OUT TO ‘PLAY’
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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
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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...
Wild Women and The Untamed Heart
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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
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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
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Descriptions and defenses (or dismissals) of feminism have filled thousands
of books and comprise billions of words in journals, manifestos, novels,
videos...
Why so serious, trans men?
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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 ...
Radfem Hub is now an archives
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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 ...
Flappers, Suffragettes and Civility on Streetcars
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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...
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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...
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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,...
Pussy Riot: whose freedom, whose riot?
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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...
Excellent Post on Quantum Consent by Eve Bit First
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“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
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*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
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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
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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 :-)
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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
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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...
Transgender non-logic #4739
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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
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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
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*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.
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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...
