Four members of the Women’s Liberation Front presented different aspects of the problem that gender identity poses for women at the Left Forum held in New York City in May. We provide separate video links below to both the panel presentations…
Category: Women’s Liberation / Feminism
The Judge Said
By Kathy Scarbrough Judges often fail to hold men accountable for rape, even when the evidence is overwhelming. We just saw it play out one more time as Judge Aaron Persky let convicted felony rapist Brock Turner, walk out…
Human Rights Groups Approve Prostitution of Women
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, & New York Times Writer Emily Bazelon Oppress Women. Canadian Indigenous Women Fight Back and France says “Non” to “Sex Work” by Carol Hanisch “The new French law further recognizes that prostitution harms all women (in…
Sloppy Science Invoked to Support Trans Ideology
by Kathy Scarbrough Not a day goes by lately when loving parents can’t be heard spouting some hackneyed sex stereotype (“my son likes pink; my daughter prefers trucks to dolls”) as evidence that their child is the opposite sex “inside”…
#More Than Mean
By Kathy Scarbrough This short video, #More Than Mean, has 3 million hits. What a wonderful way to expose the sexist harassment all women face online! The men on camera have agreed, unaware of what is to come, to read…
Speech by Kathie Sarachild
“Feminist Revolution: Toward a Science of Women’s Freedom” a speech by Women’s Liberation Movement pioneer Kathie Sarachild of Redstockings Using her experiences in the Women’s Liberation Movement, in the Civil Rights Movement with SNCC, and as the child of radical…
“Oh, Hillary” Revisited
By Carol Hanisch Listening to Hillary Clinton attack Cuba for human rights violations in an attempt to redbait Bernie Sanders during the March 9 Democratic Party Presidential Primary debate in Miami took me back to her similar haranguing of China…
Girls and Sex
By Kathy Scarbrough “Usually the opposite of a negative is positive, but when you are talking about girls and sex the opposite of slut is prude, both of which are negative” said a young woman being interviewed by Peggy Orenstein…
“A Special Place in Hell”: The Political Record of Hillary Clinton
by Carol Hanisch “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!” – Madeline Albright, first female U.S. Secretary of State (1997-2001) appointed by President Bill Clinton, hectoring women to support Hillary Clinton for U.S.…
Short Takes • March 4, 2016: Abortion
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…