Try to guess context from this bit from a conversation I had with my friend Ènziramire:| Traverse Fantasy
Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Cooper v. USA Powerlifting, affirming that transgender athletes have the right to compete in sports without discrimination under the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA). The decision also clarified the harmful precedent set in Goins v. West Group only applies in the employment context, and the court did not consider whether to overturn Goins because Cooper’s case is not an employment case.| Planet Skeptic
I wish people would stop running to Richard Dawkins for quotes defending regressive policies in science. He has nothing worthy to add, and it just damages his reputation more. Leave him in peace, to fade away gracefully.| Planet Skeptic
Sharon Bong explores faith, feminism, and queerness in Southeast Asia, and calls for context-rooted rights activism that bridges religion, resistance, and belonging.| E-International Relations
In the clip from I Love You, America (2017–2018), comic Sarah Silverman talks to a conservative family about their beliefs regarding gun control, Donald Trump, and climate change over dinner. The comic exchange prompts reflection on María Lugones’s ideas about “world-traveling” and the role of playfulness in speaking across differences. In her article “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling,| Blog of the APA
The rest of the story about the 3 Karen Factories in the West. Continue reading →| Σ Frame
“Fake it ‘til you make it” applies to Wimmin too, except it’s NOT “The Winner Effect”. Continue reading →| Σ Frame
Here’s a book I’d never have encountered, let alone read, if not for this project: Bread Givers by the Polish-American writer Anzia Yezierska (1880-1970). That’s despite the fact that it ticks a lot of my boxes. Stories of New York Jewish immigrant life are one of my great weaknesses. But I’d never heard of Yezierska, … … Continue reading →| Somewhere Boy
More shock and awe stories from the trans wars: Thirty years ago no one was talking about trans this or trans that. Now there is… The post On the Trans Frontlines appeared first on CultureWatch.| CultureWatch
Despite our different feminist allegiances, I’ve always admired Youtuber and video essayist Lindsay Ellis’s prowess for media analysis. One of her standout videos, released in 2018, was a retrospective look at the Twilight mania of the mid-to-late noughties. Her focus is not so much the mania of the franchise’s fandom—overwhelmingly adolescent girls—but rather the hysteria […]| Fairer Disputations
On Recovering a Woman’s True Calling The post Sidelined appeared first on American Reformer.| American Reformer
This week, NüVoices host and board member Solarina Ho and Hong Kong filmmaker Elizabeth Lo discuss the director’s award-winning new documentary, Mistress Dispeller, which premiered at the 81st Venice International [ … ]|
Paola Ferrante’s Her Body Among Animals is a collection of short stories that examine women’s place in western society, the artificial limits placed on us because of our gender, and the…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
In South Carolina, the state legislature is currently considering a bill that poses an immediate threat to the reproductive rights of millions. The Unborn Child Protection Act is aimed at creating and regulating stricter access to abortions and contraceptives at large. The bill aims to define stricter limits on reproductive rights language, as well as […] The post New South Carolina Bill Sparks Concern Over Criminalization of Abortion and Contraception appeared first on Feminist Majority ...| Feminist Majority Foundation
FEBRUARY, 1917. Scores of women textile workers take strike action on their own initiative. The strike mushrooms into mass meetings and demonstrations throughout Petrograd. Slogans rapidly evolve from the demand for bread to the end of the war and the … The post Daughters of Rabotnitsa: Lessons From The Russian Revolutionary Women’s Movement first appeared on Reform & Revolution.| Reform & Revolution
The assassination of Charlie Kirk was not just evil, it was cowardly—and above all, dishonorable. That an action might be dishonorable used to bother men, dissuading them from perpetrating such an act. When Themistocles was on the run from both the Spartan authorities and his own Athenian countrymen, he fled to the royal court of... Read more about: No Honor Among Assassins The post No Honor Among Assassins appeared first on The American Mind.| The American Mind
Founder of the Order of the Fire, Jack Donovan, on Vicious and Virtuous Conversation: How much is gossip driving engagement in male online spaces? L'articolo Gossip’s Carrion Call proviene da IM—1776.| IM—1776
The refuge and intimate space that was once the bedroom has become the stage for digital exposure and patriarchal surveillance.| CCCB LAB
After weeks of restless promotion and the release of her lead single Manchild, on the 11th of June, Sabrina Carpenter posted the cover for her new album on her social media, and the response has been nothing short (and sweet) of controversy. At the centre of the picture, Carpenter, in a tight black dress, is […] The post The Un-Feminism of “Man’s Best Friend” Album first appeared on The Badger.| The Badger
Donald Trump’s electoral victory last year, driven in part by rising support from young men, was the culmination of a backlash against the girlboss feminism and intersectional rhetoric that had dominated the culture over the prior decade.| Compact
Metzineres, based in El Raval, Barcelona, is a feminist, harm reduction–focused cooperative supporting women and gender-expansive people who use drugs. It challenges punitive, stigmatizing policies by fostering community, autonomy, and mutual care while addressing structural violence rooted in patriarchy, capitalism, and prohibition. Its model merges advocacy, empowerment, and collective care to transform exclusion.| Chacruna
What’s striking is not Solanas’s revolutionary extremism per se, but the flippancy with which she justifies it. Life under male supremacy isn’t oppressive, exploitative, or unjust: it’s just fucking boring. For Solanas, an aspiring playwright, politics begins with an aesthetic judgment. This is because male and female are essentially styles for her, rival aesthetic schools distinguishable by their respective adjectival palettes. Men are timid, guilty, dependent, mindless, passive, ani...| n+1
Here’s my recent interview by Rafael Flores of the Orthodox Pill Podcast. Rafael is a very bright young fellow with a natural talent for interviewing guests about difficult topics. We covered…| Brian Patrick Mitchell
Free Permaculture What is ecofeminism and how is related to permaculture?| Free Permaculture
We all know the type, or at least the meme. The tote-bag sporting, wired-headphone wearing, matcha latte drinking, ‘performative’ men .| Cherwell
In the September edition of The Evidence, Josephine Lethbridge explores the rise of the “tradwife” lifestyle – and why it demands serious […] The post The Tradwife to Far-Right Pipeline appeared first on Social Science Space.| Social Science Space
Symbolic wins for a select few won’t save us when the systems that brutalize the global majority of women, especially poor women and racialized women remain intact. Read more via Scalawag: Liberal feminism will never liberate us.| Scalawag
What happens when 50 top (women) managers (working in Germany) publicly share what really happens in zones of power (C-level and board rooms)? … Continue reading →| Katri Bertram
I suspect most of my readers are not manly, masculine “he-men,” according to this declaration by Edward K. Strong. Although…how can you trust Dr Strong? He was neither an engineer or fa…| Pharyngula
One of the goals the Cucumber team have set ourselves this year is to increase the number of recent, regular contributors who are non-white or non-male from 0 to 2. This post describes why we want to do this, what we’ve learned so far about the systemic barriers that keep the community of people who contribute to open source so utterly imbalanced, and outlines how we’ve started tackling the problem in our own project.| Cucumber Blog
Guest Entry by Poorti Dua Introduction Why do some nations become rich while others remain poor? Economists Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson claimed that it was because of institutions; the rules of the game that decide who is included and who is excluded from access to opportunities. But here lies a twist in the story. Whenever […]| Arthashastra
The “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement has exploded in recent years, blending wellness culture, political populism, and deep distrust of mainstream medicine. Under current federal leadership, MAHA is reshaping health policy. But behind its promises of empowerment and clean living lies a troubling pattern: shifting responsibility onto women, amplifying shaky science, and ignoring systemic […] The post The Rise of the MAHA Movement and Implications for Women appeared first on Fe...| Feminist Majority Foundation
by Tucker Hoffmann Tucker J. Hoffmann is a Graduate Student at the University of Georgia achieving his master’s degree in communication studies through the Rhetorical Studies program. Tucker …| Righting America
I’m taking part in the Readers Imbibing Peril (RIP) challenge for the fifth time this year! This challenge runs from 1st September to 31st October, and involves reading books classified as mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, gothic, horror or supernatural. You can find my earlier round-ups here: 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024. To kick off, I’m reviewing two … Continue reading RIP XX: Short Reads| Laura Tisdall
Christine Murphy, Notes on Surviving The Fire. Sarah is trying to finish her PhD in religious studies at a university in southern California, considering the threefold nature of Buddhist justifications for violence. Her fellow student and best friend Nathan has spent time in a Catholic monastery in the Dolomites and been celibate for over a … Continue reading Reading Diary, September 12th to 23rd, 2025| Laura Tisdall
Lisa of ANZ Lit Lovers is hosting Short Story September this year, and it fits beautifully with the upcoming Novellas in November, hosted by Rebecca and Cathy, and the new challenge I’m hosting this year, Doorstoppers in December. Lisa has prompted us to focus on one story from each collection we review, but I’m also giving … Continue reading #ShortStorySeptember: Graham Swift & Leone Ross| Laura Tisdall
Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project. This Booker-shortlisted novel purports to be a collection of papers concerning a (fictional) notorious murder case; in 1869, a seventeen-year-old crofter c…| Laura Tisdall
(How is it the middle of September already, that’s what I want to know!) Kristin DuMez, on resisting moral collapse from the very beginning: A new religious resource from Freedom Church of th…| Gaudete Theology
My choice is to leave all planning, preparation and worrying about food to my husband. That feels like a radical feminist act.| The Persistent
What does the phrase “disability culture” make you think of?| The Persistent
I’ve been interested in Pauline theology for a while: first, for his emphasis on community organization against the norms of 1st century Greco-Roman politeia; second, his relatively egalitarian and universal outlook on gender/sex and nationality (in as much as nationality could be said to exist at the time whether on the basis of ancestry, geography, or politeia); third, his self-understanding as a Pharisee and apostle of Jesus to the Gentiles, which was contrary—or at least orthogonal—...| Traverse Fantasy
Peter Ramsay reviews a new book that explains the transnational character of queer politics and the national character of gay and women’s rights. Book Review: Alexander Stoffel, Eros and Empire: Th…| The Northern Star
The Saudi Arabian artist displays performance work alongside Iranian Shirin Neshat in Cartographies of Presence in London| 1854 Photography
For many men who identify as women, nothing is more arousing and “gender affirming” than being treated as a sex doll. When trans activist Paris Lees was “catcalled, sexually objectified and treated like a piece of meat by men,” his response was very different from that of the average woman. To him, “it was absolutely […] The post “Protect the Dolls”: The Porn to Trans Pipeline appeared first on Fairer Disputations.| Fairer Disputations
Let’s say you’re a particularly driven girl. You grew up thinking you’d do the best of everything, find the best of everything, be the best of everything. You have setbacks here and there—even some glorious failures—but overall, you find a way to come out on top in most situations. Ambition can be directed at any […]| Fairer Disputations
Mythos is built around a set of assumptions about what is important, relevant, fitting, and proper, AKA themes.| Σ Frame
Tender is the debut novel by Lauren Du Plessis. It plunges the reader straight into the life of archaeobotanist Nell, an anxious young woman who has lost her stable job documenting finds on pre-con…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
At the final hour… I’m reviewing the last of my 20 Books of Summer. While it was by no means my least favourite, it was definitely the hardest to get done in time! I discovered the femi…| Laura Tisdall
A variety of professors came together to discuss feminist issues within their disciplines at the Christian Feminisms: Faith, Gender, and Justice panel on Thursday afternoon.| The Baylor Lariat - The official student news source
Ever since I was a little kid, I noticed a peculiar gendering of dogs and cats in just about every single aspect of children’s products. One extremely specific memory I have is my mom, my sister and I shopping at our local Gymboree and my eye catching a pair of thick, crochet slipper-socks with a...| a magazine
By Ethan “6’3 Champion of Women’s Rights” Blevins Listen, I love women. In fact, I think I love them more than they love themselves. I read feminist literature, attend womens’ rallies and correct other men when they talk over women. Unless, of course, a little extra context is required, purely... The post DEAR PERIODS: STOP IT! appeared first on The Slant.| The Slant
Yes, they're hard to do. But our narrow moral vocabulary for describing non-professional pursuits is making our lives worse.| The New Republic
This history of the first feminist movement in the UK is terrific. The Bluestockings were an informal group of eighteenth-century middle- and upper-class women of talent, distinction, wit and intel…| Kate Macdonald
Cutting up the canon of photographic images gave Justine Kurland an interest in collage that has blossomed into The Rose, a celebrated exhibition on show and in print this summer| 1854 Photography
UMMAH: Divine Oneness, Worship Plurality brings together 50 contributors whose work speaks to spiritual intimacy, exile, resistance, memory, and belonging| 1854 Photography
Carrie Mae Weems is an iconic figure and yet, argues a new retrospective in Turin, there is still much more to say about the universality and magic of her extensive body of work| 1854 Photography
Wait, no, that’s not true — the Republicans are gunning for everyone who is tolerant of other people’s sexual orientation. The gays are just next in line. This is reminding me of …| Pharyngula
So much of the nonsense about the gender binary is projection, and imposition of cultural biases on top of biology. Case in point: this very silly post that claims that putting feathers on dinosaur…| Pharyngula
Some poor people have more reproductive agency than others.| Family Inequality
I picked up Natural Enemies of Books from the excellent independent book and magazine shop Rare Mags. I’m interested in the history of printing and typography and wanted to know more about women’s roles in a male-dominated industry. Natural Enemies of Books is a response to the 1937 publication Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
This is the first book I’ve read by Hanne Ørstavik. Stay With Me is her sixteenth novel. She has won multiple awards in her native Norway and her novel Love, translated into English by Martin Aitken, was a finalist in the 2018 National Book Awards for Translated Literature in the US. Aitken is the translator […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
The first in a series of articles on photography, Richard Kuehl discusses Ruth Orkin's image of 'An American Girl in Italy'.| The Oxford Student
Quakers are just one step removed from humanists, but with an even greater commitment to social justice. I like that, although I could never join a group with any vestige of god-belief. Still, I ap…| Pharyngula
How social media interactions are contributing to the crisis of masculinity| IM—1776
Timestamp, by Emilee Lord and Karen Cecilia, is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time.| Cherwell
Feminism has a metaphysics problem. This isn't specific to feminism: it's just that feminism is a label applied to a variety of discourses which all claim to have the same political premise or subjective vantage, while differing in both respects—usually this is visible when describing white feminism, bourgeois feminism, liberal feminism, cishet feminism, in contrast to some idealized black feminism, proletarian feminism, radical feminism, trans feminism. It's a hall of mirrors no matter whe...| Traverse Fantasy
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Jean-Claude Larchet has a new book out entitled Renewing Gender: An Orthodox Perspective. It is not a very Orthodox book, however. How can you be Orthodox and publicly accuse the Orthodox Church of…| Brian Patrick Mitchell
One of the best interviews I’ve seen this year came out last week. In it, Benjamin Boyce interviewed Dr. Dani Sulikowski, a faculty member and researcher at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Australia. Dr. Sulikowski researches how evolved social and reproductive strategies can account for modern sociopolitical ideologies, among other things. Importantly, she is a … Continue reading The End of Elite Overproduction| It's About Empathy – Connection Ties Us Together
Frankie Miren’s novel The Service follows three women involved in the sex industry in different ways. Lori is an illegal sex worker trying to forge a better life for herself and her daughter.…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
While many radical bookshops across the UK fold under the increasing costs of running a small business, Housmans in Peace House has remained a community pillar for readers and activists alike. The post Prose and pacifism: Cally Road’s radical booksellers appeared first on Artefact.| Artefact
The best-selling true crime author discusses her latest book and how murder can reveal the lives of ordinary people and expose the underlying attitudes of wider society. The post Kate Summerscale: True crime as social commentary appeared first on Artefact.| Artefact
I am relieved that I am not a gay or trans person, since this country is getting worse and worse at dealing with its raging homophobia/transphobia. Even in Minnesota we’ve got self-righteous …| Pharyngula
I’ve been racing through my 20 Books of Summer partly because I went on a holiday with lots of long bus journeys and partly because a lot of them were NetGalley ARCs that publish in June or J…| Laura Tisdall
Rose Mason details her love for the British icon Billie Piper, from her popstar days to Doctor Who, to her feminist auteurship The post Billie Piper is the only celebrity with an unconditional invite to my dinner party appeared first on The Culture Sift.| The Culture Sift
The woman who devoted herself to the creation of a national holiday to honor overworked, underappreciated mothers regretted the commercial juggernaut it became. Was Anna Jarvis stubborn and crazy, as many came to believe, or misunderstood?| BuzzFeed
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…when Margaret Thatcher took voice- lowering lessons, she was told to speak as if she had a penis and a cold.| Vox Populi
A new book by Angeleri tells the story of revolutionary feminist economist Nora Castañeda and an innovative state bank to empower women.| Venezuelanalysis
Yoda suggested the title. I ran with it. From Vox via Sharkly, It’s fascinating to observe that the importation of Western feminism has proven to be even worse for Chinese fertility than the notori…| Spawny's Space
Agustín Fuentes has published a new book, Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary. I just started reading it last night — and it’s very good so far — so don’t…| Pharyngula
In recent years I’ve provided a few written endorsements for cool books and other publications. I’ve decided to start sharing them to this site so more people are aware of these works! …| Dr Ruth Pearce
Resistance as a response to structure has been—and will be—an answer as long as structural systems, power dynamics, social frameworks, and institutional frameworks govern bodies. Scholars lik…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere wellIt were done quickly. Miranda is a college theatre director working on a production of All’s Well That Ends Well, one of Shakespear…| Laura Tisdall
This is a furry blog, where I write about whatever interests me and sign it with my fursona’s name. I sometimes talk about furry fandom topics, but I sometimes also talk about applied cryptog…| Dhole Moments
Martin Schoeller is a photographer known for his unique portraiture. Schoeller was born in 1968. He was raised in West Germany residing in Munich. Martin Schoeller came to the US in 1993. His photo…| Femuscleblog
A review of Enemy Feminism: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis (Haymarket, 2025), £14.99 I finished reading Enemy Feminism on the day the British Supreme Court ruled that equal rights legislation applied exclusively to biological sex. Watching… Continue Reading → The post Contesting two centuries of reactionary feminism appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
The 2025 Wellcome Photography Prize highlights global health challenges through powerful images spanning domestic abuse, climate migration and microscopic disease| 1854 Photography
Even if the worst-case scenario occurs and the interim guidance becomes law, Pearce emphasizes that laws “only make sense if people uphold them.” People and organizations must be willing to fight for trans rights, and make the laws essentially impossible to enforce. As Pearce puts it, “We need intentional, aggressive, extremely homosexual non-compliance.” Earlier this […]| Dr Ruth Pearce
Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It is customary to begin such closing essays with an acknowledgement of the thoughtful efforts of the contributors, and fulsome appreciation of the same. We are indeed indebted to … Continue reading Feminist Peace In Question| The Disorder Of Things
Today’s piece for our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is from Laura Sjoberg. Laura is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and Kloppenburg Official Fellow and Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Exeter College, Oxford. Her research addresses issues of gender and security, with focus on politically violent women, feminist war … Continue reading Women, Peace, and Security as Argument and Tension| The Disorder Of Things
The next contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Helen Berents. Helen is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffiths University. Helen is a feminist scholar centrally concerned with both representations of young people in contexts of crises and conflict, and with engagements … Continue reading Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace| The Disorder Of Things
This third contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Mohamed Sesay. Mohamed is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the African Studies Program in the Department of Social Science at York University in Canada. His research and teaching interests are in development, transitional justice, international criminal justice, rule of law, customary justice, … Continue reading Governing the Feminist Peace to Deflect from Decolonial Peace in Africa| The Disorder Of Things
This second contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Nicole George at the University of Queensland. Nicole is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, where she is also Director of Research. Nicole’s research focuses on the … Continue reading Governing the Feminist Peace: From Institutionalism to Ecology| The Disorder Of Things
A guest post from N.E.. N.E. is a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the University of Sussex (UK), researching militarism and ecological injustice. She is also an Advisor to Scientists for Global Responsibility, Associated Researcher with the World Peace Foundation and author of the new report Resisting Green Militarism: Building Movements for Peace and Eco-Social Justice. **Disclaimer: none of the people … Continue reading Sex, Power & Play at Europe’s Largest Arms Fair| The Disorder Of Things
