The political interests of women are often overlooked by both the right and the left. The bullshit that goes on because we cannot advance the idea that females are a distinct class of individuals in society who exist solely for themselves. Not in relationship to the family, not in relationship
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Steven Lewis writes that the Saskatchewan Party’s mealy-mouthed messaging around the coronavirus looks to be a calculated political choice which is having devastating public health consequences: There has been a pattern in Saskatchewan’s communication about COVID-19 throughout the pandemic. The language is
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NEW RELEASE: Remembering the Armed Struggle: My Time with the Red Army Faction
Available for pre-order. Shipping in late March. Margrit Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction, the West German urban guerrilla group. In 1971 she was captured and charged with a murder she did not commit, and upon her release she returned to the underground, being captured again
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: THE COSTS OF CARING AND THE ERASURE OF ITS EXISTENCE
Last week I happened to read a fascinating article by Jordan Kisner in the New York Times Magazine about 78 year old feminist and scholar, Silvia Federici. I kept thinking about what Federici said about domestic work and caregiving being a form of gendered economic oppression – “an exploitation upon which
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Speaking Against Female Erasure – Philip Hunt
Speaking up for women comes with a price. We’ll see if Lord Hunt will be forced to pay it.
Continue readingwmtc: further to rebecca solnit: angry men attack me online
I recently completed three booklists for library customers, part of a system-wide readers’ advisory project. The lists use good gender balance, and a strong representation of people of colour and LGBT themes. I did classics, award-winning nonfiction, and essay collections. I love readers’ advisory, and I really enjoyed the challenge of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mild Disagreement is Hate Speech!
It is tough to illustrate sometimes what feminists have to deal with when trying to discuss politics and policies that directly affect them. Here is an example of a correspondence between a feminist and a ‘tech writer for the Atlantic’ on a piece that, when published, amounts to little more
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Newsflash – Man Discovers The Left is Hostile to Traditional Leftist Ideals
The bullshit has finally start to overflow the gunwales. Lefty dudes that are not directly part of the high trans-inquisition are feeling – all at once – perturbed and miffed that they are not being heard and even villified for believing in what was once considered the ideals of the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Suzanne Moore – Why I Had to Leave the Guardian
Go to unherd for the full article. It is brilliant. “This also might explain some of the utter gender gobbledegook we run about how HRT has taught someone to cry and all categories are porous. Whatever. As a feminist, I have limited interest in all this, in the holes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Black Birthing Bodies?
Women are adult human females. That is all.
Continue readingwmtc: first celebrate, then organize: good things that happened in the 2020 u.s. election
United States Vice Presidents After the positive result in the US election, so many of my fellow leftists refuse to find joy in the occasion. They seem determined to not admit that something good happened. The worst president in the history of the United States has been handed his walking
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Censorship on the Left: Irreversible Damage – Abigail Shier
This excerpt from Megan Mackin writing on the Feminist Current: “This review grew out of a discussion with a dear friend who, at the time, supported gender identity ideology. I, on the other hand, had become increasingly frustrated with the loss of women’s rights to female-only spaces and laws
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transgender Ideology Rests on Toxic Gender Stereotypes
This is a key feature of almost every debate with the queer woke theorists – their arguments are based on a keenly negative facet of our society: gender stereotypes. To be a woman (or man) is to like and do X. It is the at the very root of oppressive
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Judith Butler Defending Patriarchal Norms – The Legal Feminist Retort.
Sometimes one doesn’t have time to cut through the academicese to right proper call out the bullshite, the Legal Feminist had the energy and time to do so. A million thanks to her. Here are her words. [JB] …[W]e can see that a domain of fantasy is at work,
Continue readingwmtc: international safe abortion day: abortion is healthcare
September 28 is International Safe Abortion Day, a day to reflect on how many women around the world do not have control over their reproduction — that is, do not have control over their lives. Abortion is the sine qua non of women’s liberation. Without the ability to choose whether and
Continue readingwmtc: ruth bader ginsburg, rest in power
These highlights of Ginsburg’s decisions and dissents on the SCOTUS are a joy to read. I used two sources, and decided to keep the overlap. Many highlight the reason she was affectionately known as the Notorious RBG. United States v. Virginia, 1996 In United States v. Virginia, Ginsburg wrote the majority
Continue readingKersplebedeb: A review of a review: Joining the conversation with Petronella and Butch on Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Role of White Women in Struggle, by Veronica L.
available from leftwingbooks.net see also: On Reading Petronella Lee’s Anti-Fascism Against Machismo: gender politics and the struggle against fascism (Review by Butch Lee) I finally got a chance to sit down and study both of your texts. I read them both when they first came out, but I hadn’t read them
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Gender-Woo in Philosophy – Gendergate and the End of Philosophy – M. G. Piety
The profession can change, the venue can change, but the gender-woo methodology remains the same. Personally attack the person who dares to speak about biological reality, libel and defame their character while poisoning the well as to prevent discussion of an import issue facing women. The bullshit doesn’t change. It
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When Stating Biological Fact is Heresy –
Douglas Murray writing in Unherd describes the penalty and betrayal foisted on J.K. Rowling for having the audacity to speak about verifiable facts. “This is because on that issue of minimal importance but maximal rage – the Trans debate – Rowling has taken the same view that the majority of
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