SHORT TAKES: February 5, 2016 Introducing a new MEETING GROUND feature We often have links or brief comments that we want to share with our readers that do not really fit an article format. We will try to post at…
Dangerous Federal Decision Claims Being a Woman Is a “Choice”
by Margaret LeClair Reactions to the November 2015 U.S. Department of Education ruling that a transgender youth who identifies as female must be allowed unrestricted access to girls’ facilities have, for the most part, focused on what this means for…
In Commemoration of the Montreal Massacre
On December 6, 1989 –26 years ago– a heavily armed man entered an engineering class at the University of Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique. After shouting a diatribe against feminists at the women in the class, he opened fire, killing six women…
Capitalism, Consciousness Raising, Housework, Reproduction, Taking Action, Women's Liberation / Feminism, work
Housework, Reproduction and Women’s Liberation
by Carol Hanisch PART II: Who Benefits from Housework? In a city of 500,000 people, containing, say 100,000 working and lower middle class homes, 100,000 women are planning how to get the windows washed, the curtains cleaned, the clothing washed…
Women Refusing Erasure by Transgender Activists Ask for Support
by Kathy Scarbrough While, of course, all people deserve basic respect for their humanity, I am getting tired of the demands of trans activists that serve to erase the existence of women and I’m tired of the liberal response to…
In Real Life…
by Meghan Murphy EDITOR’S NOTE: More and more feminists are seeing the value in meeting together face to face instead of depending wholly on the internet. We see this as positive and a reason why liberation movements are taking an…