A Black feminist, Ree Walker, got in a whole lot of trouble for a frank critique of the message communicated by the organizers and platform speakers in Washington, D.C.. Published on the Daily Kos website, her article, headed “The…
Author: Kathy Scarbrough
Medical Establishment vs. Women
A recent article by Rebecca Grant on Mic.com is a timely reminder of the work that feminists have done to literally take abortions into our own hands. She explains the procedure called menstrual extraction that was developed and popularized in…
Transgender Solidarity?
“This absolutization of identity, this quick abrogation of universality, strikes me as politically very dangerous. For a start: if in the constitution of your identity, I have no rights of cognition, participation, criticism, then on what basis may you ask…
Feminism Almost Always Needs a Modifier
By Linda Burnham Introductory remarks by Kathy Scarbrough A really terrific critique of Lean In, the bestseller by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandburg (see below), has been written by Linda Burnham, who was active in the Third World Women’s Alliance in…