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…
Category: Women’s Liberation / Feminism
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…
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…
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…
Supporting Porn Is Sexist, not Socialist!
by Carol Hanisch The Women’s Liberation Movement has a long history of having to criticize the Left for the hypocrisy of its sexism. Jacobin Magazine, which describes itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on…
Let Them Eat Text: The Real Politics of Postmodernism
Although this article by Karla Mantilla appeared more than two decades ago in the radical feminist newspaper OFF OUR BACKS (August/September 1999, Vol. 29, #8), it remains relevant as we try to hang on to — and base our political…
How Radical Feminism Has Changed!
An interview with Carol Hanisch by FRESA in Chile . The Interview FRESA: In 2011, you wrote an article for On The Issues Magazine, called “Women’s Liberation: Looking Back, Looking Forward”. In one of the paragraphs about “the feminist bandwagon”,…