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…
Category: Identity Politics
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…
“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…
Feminist Consciousness: Race and Class
By Amanda Martins, from Brazil Among the most controversial topics in feminism are the race and class questions, which have motivated many women to develop new theories that encompass multiple realities taking into account region, race, economy and sexuality. Meanwhile…
The Left Colludes with Capitalism on “Gender Identity”
As feminists who have been critical of the concept of “gender identity” for many years, we have been exasperated and concerned that groups and individuals on the Left, who claim to be materialists, have embraced this ideology with little or…
A Challenge to the (Still) Male-Dominated Left
Who’s the Materialist Here? by Kathy Scarbrough and Carol Hanisch Nearly fifty years after the Women’s Liberation Movement exploded in the U.S., much of the male-dominated Left (including female members) is still claiming economic class and capitalism as the primary…
A Letter from France
INTRO The following is from a response from a Meeting Ground reader in France. Much of what she writes about the situation there is similar to what we have been experiencing in the United States with the feminist movement, the…
Black Feminist’s Critique of the January Women’s March
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…
Responses to the Election
Thoughts the Morning After by Sinead • Random, angry thoughts. Yesterday and today were write-offs as far as work is concerned. • Trump was the FUCK THOSE GUYS candidate. The Democrats were stupid and irresponsible to run an Establishment candidate whose…