Posts tagged: feminism

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  Remembering 1968: The SCUM Manifesto for the Society for Cutting up Men

  “I feel sorry for nothing," Valerie Solanas told reporters after shooting Warhol. “Read my manifesto and it will tell you what I am." 

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  Trans Ethics, Not Gender Ideology: Against the Church and the Gender Critics

  While the Catholic Church and transphobic feminists alike paint trans activists as propagandists of "gender ideology," trans people have achieved gains in recent years by working not as ideologues, but ethical instructors.

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  Spirituality as a Force of Rebellion: The Movement for Legal Abortion in Argentina

  Today in Argentina we see a battle for political spirituality in the streets, in houses, in beds, and in schools.

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  Racialized Erotic Capital and the New York City Strippers' Strike: An Interview with Siobhan Brooks

  Sociologist Siobhan Brooks discusses the New York City Strippers' Strike, her experience organizing the Lusty Lady, and racism in sex work.  

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  Localizing the Global Me Too Movement

  While gender-based violence in Ghana and elsewhere may not seem vastly different from the issues addressed by #MeToo, women around the world must define their own movements. 

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  Rethinking the Cultural History of Chinese Film: A Conversation with Dai Jinhua

  Marxist Feminist film scholar Dai Jinhua, one of the preeminent cultural critics of China's New Left, historicizes the rapid cultural and intellectual developments that took place in China during the 1980s and 90s. 

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  Cis Fears and Transphobia: How Not to Debate Gender

  A recent call for philosophical debate on gender illustrates how purportedly neutral analyses can be mobilized to reproduce run-of-the-mill transphobia. 

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  ‘Not a workplace’: Julie Bindel and the school of wrong abolitionism

  Sophie Lewis on bodies, work and the misguided school of feminist abolitionism.

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  Sweden and the Long 1968

  Sweden's 1968 can be most clearly registered in the context of a wave of radicalization that stretched from the 1950s to the 1980s. 

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  Reading 1968: The Great American Whitewash

  By ignoring African American intellectual history, many accounts of 1968 consolidate the very segregation 1960s youth were once so determined to undo.

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  Daughters of the Strike: A May Day Statement

  We were born from the confluence that is taking place between workers in neighborhoods, in factories, in the popular economy, between domestic workers, care workers, precarious workers, among those organized in unions and multiple other feminist collectives, among those who don’t have a visible boss but engage in piece work in their homes and those who are unemployed workers.

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  The Wound: Effeminacy Against Manhood, Mountain Against City

  South African film Inxeba (The Wound) reveals the developmental power male spaces hold over those coerced into passing through them.