In 2015, two years before Me Too erupted in Hollywood, 5 female farmworkers won a 17 million dollar judgement against Moreno Farms in Florida for horrendous sexual harassment and the retaliation they experienced by speaking up. https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/09/moreno-farms-eeoc/. A moving letter…
Category: Women’s Liberation / Feminism
Talking about the Female Sex Now Tantamount to Bigotry
Repression against feminists for speaking out on behalf of women as an oppressed sex class has been increasing at an alarming rate. An extensive compilation of victims in various countries and situations is available here. Ann Menasche, a feminist lawyer in California who was…
A Left Male Critiques Transgender Ideology and Drag Shows
Selections from writings by Robert Jensen It is rare to hear men on the Left speak out well and strongly in support of radical feminists in their many-layered critique of transgender ideology, pornography, prostitution and drag shows. Many Left women…
Is Your Local School Teaching the Pseudoscience of Gender Ideology?
by Kathy Scarbrough Just when it looks like some progress is being made against transgender ideology infringement on women’s hard won rights—at least in the UK and in Spain—we were alarmed to learn of the inroads it is making in…
Supporting Porn Is Sexist, not Socialist!
by Carol Hanisch The Women’s Liberation Movement has a long history of having to criticize the Left for the hypocrisy of its sexism. Jacobin Magazine, which describes itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on…
Let Them Eat Text: The Real Politics of Postmodernism
Although this article by Karla Mantilla appeared more than two decades ago in the radical feminist newspaper OFF OUR BACKS (August/September 1999, Vol. 29, #8), it remains relevant as we try to hang on to — and base our political…
How Radical Feminism Has Changed!
An interview with Carol Hanisch by FRESA in Chile . The Interview FRESA: In 2011, you wrote an article for On The Issues Magazine, called “Women’s Liberation: Looking Back, Looking Forward”. In one of the paragraphs about “the feminist bandwagon”,…
“The Whole Feminist Theory Upside Down”
An Interview with Carol Hanisch by Ksenija Kordic and other members of Femrevolt in Croatia In the past two years, interview requests and articles have come from radical feminist writers and actitivist groups in Brazil, Portugal, Croatia and Chile. From the exchanges…
Theory and Practice Within the WLM in Portugal
by Aline Rossi Aline Rossi is a Brazilian radical feminist living and organizing in Portugal. We have faced similar challenges in our own organizing in the WLM. We invite you to share yours in the comments section. — The Editors…
Whatever Happened to Radical Feminism?
An Interview by Brazilian Radical Feminist Aline Rossi with Carol Hanisch and Kathy Scarbrough Brazilian radical feminist Aline Rossi recently interviewed Meeting Ground editors and long-time activists Carol Hanisch and Kathy Scarbrough for her Portuguese-language blog Feminismo Com Classe .…