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LESBIAN VISIBILITY DAY: Lesbophobia is not Homophobia, it's Misogyny
LESBIAN VISIBILITY DAY: Lesbophobia is not Homophobia, it's Misogyny
Lesbophobia is, like lesbianism itself, invisibalised in favour of more respected social forms. The wider amorphous ‘homophobia’ serves today as a catchall for any anti-gay sentiment, but it only r…
Third Gender Categories, Homosexuality and Transgender Identity
Third Gender Categories, Homosexuality and Transgender Identity
Netflix, Cuties, and the Disturbing Rise of Paedophile Culture
Netflix, Cuties, and the Disturbing Rise of Paedophile Culture
The Gender Debate: A Marxist Feminist Perspective
The Gender Debate: A Marxist Feminist Perspective
This article is written in response to an article entitled ‘Are All Marxist Feminists TERFs?’. The article can be found here. The author of the above article argues that Marxist femi…
From Foucault to San Francisco: The Enduring Roots of Queer Theory
From Foucault to San Francisco: The Enduring Roots of Queer Theory
Today Queer Theory is taught within the Humanities subjects of the Western academy as a matter of consensus, but its historical roots half a century ago tend not to be included on the syllabus. We …
‘Not All Men!’ and Other Responses to Sarah Everard’s Death
‘Not All Men!’ and Other Responses to Sarah Everard’s Death
A Marxist Analysis of Violence Against Women
A Marxist Analysis of Violence Against Women
Though the coronavirus pandemic continues to dominate public attention, rising rates of domestic abuse, rape and femicide suggests that women are experiencing a dangerous and deadly pandemic of our…
Losing Lesbians: The Strange Disappearance of Ellen Page
Losing Lesbians: The Strange Disappearance of Ellen Page
Today, many lesbians are choosing to avoid lesbophobia and misogyny by identifying as men and transitioning to replicate a ‘male appearance’. Of course, it is not possible to change sex, but the ap…
Women Behaving Badly: Meghan Markle, Meekness and Misogyny
Women Behaving Badly: Meghan Markle, Meekness and Misogyny
Women, Wages and Labour during the Industrial Revolution
Women, Wages and Labour during the Industrial Revolution
Book Review: Dangerous Relationships: Pornography, Misogyny and Rape
Book Review: Dangerous Relationships: Pornography, Misogyny and Rape
WAP: Women As Property
WAP: Women As Property
The internet is awash with reaction to Cardi B’s new music video for her song Wet-Ass Pussy (WAP), known mainly by its radio ‘clean edit’ version Wet And Gushy. The reaction has largely been …
Difficult Women: The Silencing of Alexandra Kollontai
Difficult Women: The Silencing of Alexandra Kollontai
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: Engels on The Origin of Women’s Oppression
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: Engels on The Origin of Women’s Oppression
The great significance of Friedrich Engels’s Origin of the Family, Private Property & the State is that it is one of the first Marxist analyses of development of family and origins of women’s o…
Sex Work Is Not Work: A Marxist Feminist Analysis of Prostitution – PART III
Sex Work Is Not Work: A Marxist Feminist Analysis of Prostitution – PART III
Part III: We cannot abstract labour from its social context ‘value converts every product into a social hieroglyphic.’ Marx, Capital Vol I In light of the enormous sex disparity between producers a…
Sex Work Is Not Work: A Marxist Feminist Analysis of Prostitution – PART II
Sex Work Is Not Work: A Marxist Feminist Analysis of Prostitution – PART II
Part II: Can ‘sex work’ be considered ‘labour’? ‘all [commodities] are reduced to one and the same sort of labour, human labour in the abstract.’ Marx, Capital Vol I Marx tells us that ‘human labou…
Sex Work Is Not Work: A Marxist Feminist Analysis of Prostitution - PART I
Sex Work Is Not Work: A Marxist Feminist Analysis of Prostitution - PART I
Where Did Gender Identity Come From?
Where Did Gender Identity Come From?
Linda Bellos on Oppression
Linda Bellos on Oppression
Prostitution or Sex Work? Language Matters
Prostitution or Sex Work? Language Matters
Marxist Feminism Part IV: Historical, Material Oppression
Marxist Feminism Part IV: Historical, Material Oppression
Marxist Feminism Part III: Division of Labour
Marxist Feminism Part III: Division of Labour
Marxist Feminism Part II: Social Reproduction
Marxist Feminism Part II: Social Reproduction
Marxist Feminism Part I: Fragmented Feminism
Marxist Feminism Part I: Fragmented Feminism
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