The neoliberal concept of freedom has opened up a space where a patriarchal authoritarianism, exemplified by gender iden…
Tag: transwomen
Penises don’t kill people, people with penises do
Everyone — including trans activists and allies — should demonstrate zero tolerance for perpetrators of violence and sex…
INTERVIEW: Angela C. Wild of #GetTheLOut on Pride in London and Lesbian erasure
Meghan Murphy interviews Angela C. Wild about the recent Lesbian protest at Pride in London and the state of the LGBT mo…
Leftist women in the UK refuse to accept Labour’s attempts to silence critiques of gender identity
Working class women and Labour Party members are incensed at being harassed and silenced in their attempts to discuss ge…
Munroe Bergdorf would like you to please keep your vaginas out of his feminism
Female bodies in feminism? Not on our watch!…
Rose McGowan is not a perfect rape victim; no woman is
We claim to be ready for women’s anger, as a society, but we clearly still expect women to express it in ways we are com…
PODCAST: What happens when your husband decides he’s a woman?
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Shannon Thrace, a woman whose husband came out as transgender after 14 years …
The pact between trans rights advocates and the sex trade lobby
In Julie Bindel’s new book, “The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth,” she explores …
Lesbianism is under attack, though not by the usual suspects
Pressuring lesbians into dating people with penises is all too similar to the practice of corrective rape, wherein it is…
In the Oppression Olympics, women always lose
In their efforts to champion trans rights, liberals are effectively working to nullify the sex-based protections previou…
The third wave’s tokenization of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is anything but intersectional
“How could she say such a thing?!” Behind every response to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s recent remarks about transwomen w…
Young feminists reflect on their experiences, critiques, and future hopes stemming from the Women’s March
The election of Donald Trump inspired the largest demonstration in U.S. history. Three million people in more than 500 A…
Today’s shameless lesbians won’t be queered
We seem to have reached something like the opposite of a critical mass. A critical lack, rather — wherein people a…
Why I no longer hate ‘TERFs’
When all else fails, call your opponents TERFs. Regardless of the subject matter of the disagreement. TERF = Witch. pic.…
Laverne Cox’s objectified body ’empowers’ no one
What the fuck are you trying to sell us, America? This month, Allure featured a nude photo of transgender actress, Laver…