by Kathy Scarbrough and Carol Hanisch A shortened version of the following piece was submitted to the New York Times in response to a Guest Essay on its Opinion Page. Christine Emba’s New York Times opinion piece, “The Delusion of…
Is Biology “Nonsense”? Trump Actually Gets One Thing Right
The following is a response to an article complaining that Trump’s executive order on transgender defines male and female as adult human beings and claiming that his was a “new” definition. The original article appeared on Mother Jones under the…
Capitalism, Drag, Identity Politics, Left Critique, Male Backlash, Reproduction, Sex, Women's Liberation / Feminism
The Modern Anthony Comstocks: Right, Left and Transgender
By Carol Hanisch & Kathy Scarbrough What do current anti-abortion and transgender activists have in common with Anthony Comstock of the late 1800s? A lot, it turns out. First, a reminder of who Anthony Comstock was since his activity was…
Campesinas: “Me Too”
In 2015, two years before Me Too erupted in Hollywood, 5 female farmworkers won a $17 million judgement against Moreno Farms in Florida for horrendous sexual harassment and the retaliation they experienced by speaking up. A moving letter of support…
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…
Drag, Identity Politics, Left Critique, Male Backlash, Sex, Transgender, Women's Liberation / Feminism
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…