by Carol Hanisch Anti-Abortionist Legislator Grateful His Grandmother Was Raped? The ongoing attack on abortion rights continues to bring forth revealing anti-woman sentiments from male-supremacist legislators. This week’s doozy came from Texas State Representative Jason Isaac, co-author of the Texas…
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Video: Unequal Opportunity Race
SHORT TAKES: February 20, 2016 by Kathy Scarbrough This link http://eepurl.com/bQmOdf takes you to a statement from the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) discussing how their four- minute video called the “Unequal Opportunity Race” has been censored by a…
Julie Bindel on Identity Politics
SHORT TAKES: February 13, 2016 By Kathy Scarbrough From a BATTLE OF IDEAS panel “The Personal Is Political: Is Identity Politics Eating Itself?” Julie Bindel sums up quite well, and with humor, what The Personal is Political means and how…
Ros Baxandall on Day Care
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…
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…
Transgender / Transracial: Why is one “courageous” and the other “outrageous”?
The transition of Bruce to Caitlyn Jenner and the”outing” of Rachel Dolezal who is of Czech, German and Swedish ancestry but strives to be perceived as a black woman are particularly interesting in terms of the similarities between transgender and…
Support Purvi Patel’s Right to Control Her Own Body
by Carol Downer In our rush to support Purvi Patel, the woman sentenced to 20 years in prison by an Indiana Judge on the charges of child neglect and feticide (inducing her own abortion), many have adopted Patel’s claim that…