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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
It’s another anatomical atrocity from the bowels of the internet. Be amazed at the magnitude of the physical differences between men and women (although I hope this was exaggerated by some online comedian.)| Planet Skeptic
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
Black queer feminist writer Roxane Gay will receive the 2025 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, a lifetime achievement award, the National Book Foundation announced Wednesday. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter. Gay is an author of both novels and nonfiction, including the essay collection Bad Feminist and the memoir Hunger. She is also the author of Ayiti, An Untamed State, Difficult Women...| Advocate.com
FROM THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE FINERY’ COMES A BLAZING FEMINIST TALE OF PERSECUTION AND MAGIC… In medieval Locklear, Agnes harbours a dangerous secret—she can touch fire without being burned. As war rages beyond the town and whispers of witchcraft echo through its streets, Agnes navigates arranged marriages, rivals’ schemes, and the threat of the hangman’s noose. When a desperate bargain with a local widow goes awry, Agnes’s world erupts in flames—she is accused of witchcraft. In a s...| Fantasy-Hive
In a political and scientific landscape that is becoming ever more arid, tense, and hostile to the struggles for transformation and social justice, it is with great joy and enthusiasm that we present this series of four posts written by Brazilian feminist anthropologists and intended for academic readers specializing in STS, as well as for readers in broader feminist networks and activist/grassroots communities.| Platypus
Benches found in Canet de Mar, with an image behind celebrating Empowerment, Sisterhood and Feminism. Incidentally, how many benches can you spot? There are more than you might at first think. For …| From Pyrenees to Pennines
The most vulnerable scene in Materialists, Director Celine Song’s sophomore feature, isn’t a love scene. It’s not when John, a down-on-his-luck artist played by Chris Evans, repeatedly declares his love for Lucy, his ex and matchmaker for New York’s elite played by Dakota Johnson. Nor is it during one of the many dates Harry, Pedro […] The post Jane Austen Did It Better appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
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
105 years ago, on August 26th, 1920, the 19th Amendment was certified, granting women the right to vote – at least on paper. In reality, this victory just benefitted white women, while women of color continued to face systemic disenfranchisement. Since that historic day, women have made tremendous progress in political, economic, and social spheres […] The post This Women’s Equality Day, the Fight Continues appeared first on Feminist Majority Foundation. No related posts.| Feminist Majority Foundation
American Girl in Italy reflects Ruth Orkin’s attempts to push at the boundaries of a male-dominated profession (photography) and to call out the unique challenges faced by women in everyday life. The image is an embodiment of a philosophy lived by Orkin herself since she successfully managed to assert herself as a creative figure in a society that discouraged such activities for women. The post Picture this: American Girl in Italy appeared first on The Oxford Student.| 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
From Albany insider to card-carrying socialist, former Cuomo aide, whistleblower reflects on her political journey| The Indypendent
★★★★☆ Timestamp is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time. Brought to the Edinburgh Fringe after a successful run in New York City by Emilee Lord and Karen Cecilia, it unpacks, in an hour, the ways in which the performers have dealt with being held to certain standards in their own lives, and […] The post ‘Timestamp’ at the Fringe: Existing in the ‘now’ appeared first on Cherwell.| Cherwell
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Timestamp, by Emilee Lord and Karen Cecilia, is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time.| Cherwell
#SudanWarSeries: Asset making and keeping as a women empowerment precursor The post Renegotiating Patriarchy: Women’s Assets and Shifting Gender Roles During the Sudan War appeared first on African Arguments.| African Arguments
This recently happened, So we see her in action. The question is: would she have acted this way if she was a fella? Did she think that she was invincible because she was a woman AG? Was that idea ruminating…Read more ›| Spawny's Space
This has been a common theme for Deti for sure. But, of course, none of the right people could admit as such. By right people, we for sure don’t mean those incels. Don’t listen to them. Anyway, so we have…Read more ›| Spawny's Space
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own […] The post Savage Wolves Among Us appeared first on Voice of Reason.| Voice of Reason
There is little question today about our culture being deeply divided. Anti-Christian ideologies in the form of secularism, feminism, critical race theory, and more have worked to isolate people into groups which are then pitted against one another. Furthermore, these ideologies are all working to destroy God’s institutions of marriage and family, primarily by blaming […] The post Monkeys With Machine Guns – The Danger of Unchecked Youthful Zeal appeared first on Voice of Reason.| Voice of Reason
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
A conversation with Luis Juárez, editor of LATAM’s first queer photography magazine, on its latest issue and collaboration with Nan Goldin The post Balam Magazine N11 pays tribute to archives as spaces of resistance, memory and collective identity appeared first on 1854 Photography.| 1854 Photography
Page count: 480 pagesRating: 4.5 stars| Malin's Blog of Books
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
What does a focus on biblical assemblages together with the far-right allow us to see anew? The post Bibles Belong to All of Us: Masculinity, Civilization, and the Bibles of the Far Right appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
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
Of all the classics of the Golden Age of Hollywood, the most overrated is His Girl Friday (1940) — and I say this as a great lover of Howard Hawks’s movies. This is his big clunker. It’s frenetic, regularly unfunny, and completely lacking in the vivid and memorable supporting-actor parts that are so important in the true classics. (And in other Hawks films.) The only way you could possibly rescue the movie is by seeing it as a very different kind of story than its self-presentation woul...| The Homebound Symphony
My choice is to leave all planning, preparation and worrying about food to my husband. That feels like a radical feminist act.| The Persistent
There’s no way of knowing what Margaret Fuller might have achieved if she hadn’t died in the summer of 1850.| The Persistent
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The 21 Step Gallery at Rumriver Art Center presents Making Waves, featuring intricate fabric artwork by Jill Whitney-Birk. Jill’s work invites you to look closer—at the stitches, the stories, and the strength of femininity. Blending tradition with rebellion, her pieces challenge us to reconsider the narratives we hold about women. Join us for the opening... Read More| Rumriver Art Center
…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
3.75/5 (Good) Zoë Fairbairns’ Benefits (1979) charts the struggles of the British women’s liberation movement in a dystopic near future. An anti-feminist fringe political party called FAMILY comes to power, simultaneously proclaiming family values while systematically dismantling the welfare state. Benefits effectively eviscerates governmental doublespeak and champions the need to organize and educate in order … Continue reading Book Review: Zoë Fairbairns’ Benefits (1979)| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
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
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
By budgeting better, building savings, and learning how to improve credit reports, women are breaking the debt cycle. Here's how.| When Women Inspire
Politics on showbright pink and purple colourssure to get my vote| Ruth's Reflections
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
On my recent holiday to Norway, I was lucky enough to read three books that proved to be excellent company (plus some others that were less so, but will not be spoken of here). While I, as usual, had some critical thoughts about each of these books, they were all gripping, extremely enjoyable, and perfect … Continue reading Holiday Reading Guide, 2025 (& 20 Books of Summer, #11 and #12)| Laura Tisdall
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
Decolonial scholarship pushes the critique of the secular/modern beyond the analysis of idolatry by engaging with the question of religion and colonialism through a robust interrogation of racialization. The post The Urgency of Idolatry Critique: A Synthetic Response to Yadgar and Cavanaugh appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
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
From Palestine to Iraq, from Lebanon to Syria and Afghanistan, seven women recount how foreign powers promised liberation—only to deliver devastation, blood, and betrayal.| Untold Mag
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
Thus, coming late into feminism, Jewish women were advantaged by the fact that many Jewish men had already achieved a raised consciousness, had returned to a Jewish ethnic base and had become interested in the spiritual side of life, even insofar as they might be willing to alter a form for the sake of a more perfect substance. The post From 1975 | A Song for Women in Five Questions appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
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
There’s a recent series of author biographies by Wiley called ‘The Life of the Author‘. They’ve got eight volumes out so far, with another on F. Scott Fitzgerald coming in December this year, and lately I’ve been reading their volume on Milton. The Life of the Author: John Milton (2021), by Richard Bradford, is split […]| Death is a Whale
These memoirs center women thriving in the most technical, filthy, physically arduous, dangerous, male-dominated professions| Electric Literature
Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) was a landmark victory for transgender rights. The Supreme Court ruled that employment discrimination on the basis of| University Press of Kansas
Alanis Morissette's breakout album Jagged Little Pill is three decades old, but just as relevant today as it was when it debuted.| Jenny
My thoughts on how aggression and "Masculine Energy" have played out in my career, with references to recent bullshit from Meta and Zuckerberg| Ideas.Offby1
Ira Hybris and Ricci Galianoargues argue that true communist revolution demands embracing the full diversity of the proletariat—queer, racialized, disabled, feminized and beyond—as essential to building a liberatory politics of totality that leaves no one behind.| Spectre Journal
There is this one question that is always out there. That is, why do the chicks never seem satisfied? I am sure that some of you will say that it started with Eve, and as such, it was/is built-in. …| Spawny's Space
Musicologists assemble! This is a great group biography, of four British women composers of the twentieth century. One is still well-known: I say ‘still’ because she is now, but Dame Et…| Kate Macdonald
I haven’t published a good think piece for quite some time, but I’ve found myself increasingly irritated by many things to do with the book reviewing space of late. On a recent trip to …| Theresa Smith Writes
I’ve gotten comments from people asking questions that I thought would be nicer to answer in longer form! Thank y’all so much for your interest and responses :)| Traverse Fantasy
Instead of simply reading about the politics of censorship or gender studies, I am living them.| jGirls+ Magazine
If we fix the financial rules of the electoral game in Canada, we’ll widen the pool of players—and that's a winning move for all of us.| Analysis Archives – The Independent
Théophile Richard. Le Quartet d’Oxford (traduction de Metaphysical Animals), par Clare Mac Cumhaill et Rachael Wiseman propose une biographie croisée de G. E. M. Anscombe (1919-2001), Philippa Foot (1920-2010), Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) et Mary Midgley (1919-2018). Le récit de l’amitié des quatre philosophes, qui s’étend de 1938 à 1955, a pour centre de gravité l’Université d’Oxford où elles ont étudié et se sont retrouvées après-guerre.| Implications philosophiques
The current administration of the federal government in the United States has launched an official campaign against diversity, equality, and inclusion in| University Press of Kansas
Without critical analysis of the gendered, racialized, and sexualized asymmetry of power . . . interreligious peacebuilding serves only a heteropatriarchal neocolonialism.| Contending Modernities
If you’re looking for a book that draws you in right from the beginning, this is it. As a teacher, this book really pulled at my heart strings. 3/5 stars ★★★☆☆ Read about it: https://amzn.to/40h4CXk Published on: June 17th, 2025 My Thoughts on Hazel Says No: With so much hope of moving to a new […] The post Hazel Says No By Jessica Berger Gross appeared first on TBD Teacher.| TBD Teacher
What is the tone of this literary-theoretical tone? Take away anything from reading these books together and it’s their similar vibe: something quietly persistent, invested in its own disinvestments, obsessive rather than obsessed; something that can’t notice without feeling implicated in what’s been noticed and so isn’t prone to anger. Hard as it is to wrap one’s hands around the vaporousness of tone, I’d still risk a label. The tone of the moment, if you take these books as a gu...| n+1Articles – n+1
By Peyton Bond This piece gestated as a review of Sophie Lewis’s Enemy Feminisms, though I see now it has become something a little different. The book so struck me that I quickly joined the dialog…| blindfieldjournal.com
Women and the gender dynamics behind Sudan's revolution and war. The post Shifting Feminist Narratives in Sudan—A Conversation with Raga Makawi appeared first on MERIP.| MERIP
n March 3, 2025, MERIP and the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies partnered with Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies to host a roundtable on […] The post Gender, Politics and Scholarship—A Roundtable appeared first on MERIP.| MERIP
How a group of artist-mothers quietly rejected the reigning taboo of their era and forged a thriving practice of creativity and caregiving.| The MIT Press Reader
Estimated reading time: 35 minutes| The Red Clarion
I am collecting stories of people who escaped secular delusions, like sexism, misogyny, racism, antisemitism, transphobia, or even, just more generally, alt-right, anti-feminist or “anti-SJW’ worldviews. These are the kinds of delusions that trap atheists. And even when their victims are religious, the stories are still often the same, or similar enough that you will […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
At first he barely notices the children. They’re waiting for the bus, a small boy, and a girl of about ten with braided hair. He’s twenty-three, too close to childhood and too far from …| This Reading Life
“Women are going to die” because of the Trump administration’s latest action on abortion, correctly asserts former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill. Showing that the anti-abortion movement is ready to sacrifice pregnant women’s lives in its zealous quest to grant fetuses legal personhood is the Trump administration’s recent cruel decision to rescind federal guidelines to hospitals […]| Freethought Now
Hannah Geiser felt the need to hide her feminine side to excel at soccer, but then she realized that she was hiding part of herself.| Mennonite Church USA
From Ai Weiwei to the Guerrilla Girls, these 7 artists use public space, performance, and protest to challenge systems and spark dialogue.| Art Sprouts
Discover the transformative power of art in creating social change. Learn how art teachers can inspire activism and teach art for social change. Enhance your art education by understanding the broader context of art and its ability to address social issues. Explore the ways in which art can serve as a powerful tool for advocating social justice and empowering marginalized voices.| Art Sprouts
