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…
Interview with Carol Hanisch
The following is an excerpt of a 2013 interview of Carol Hanisch by Gabrielle Tree for her blog, Menantum, which unfortunately is no longer available. GT: How did you become associated with the famous feminist phrase: “the personal is…
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…