Category: Gender & Gender Politics
I am writing from Afghanistan, where days end with fear and nights end with anxiety. We Afghan girls no longer know whether life should be called life or simply “survival.”
Every day upon awakening, I hope not to hear more bad
Every day upon awakening, I hope not to hear more bad
Nancy Holmstrom argues that socialist feminists should critique the institution of prostitution in a capitalist society, while supporting sex workers.
Nancy Holmstrom discusses her political and intellectual history and the main themes in a new collection of her essays with the book’s publisher, Haymarket Books.
Peter Drucker positively reviews Alan Sears’ latest book Eros and Alienation, a theoretical contribution to queer Marxism.
Frieda Afary recommends Nancy Holmstrom’s From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View, an edited collection of her philosophical essays.
Netflix’ Adolescence is a flawed but powerfully crafted drama. The acting and particularly the dialogue is superb – its poignant, witty in places, and offers up a powerful evocation of working-class family life. The existential flaw in the program, however,
Trump’s executive orders on trans rights is not just an attack on trans and intersexed individuals, but an attack on human freedom. We must continue to work to theorize and enact the means to make individual self-development possible for everyone.
I don’t think the election of Trump runs straight along the lines of White racism alone. It reflects racism, sexism and self-hate that includes Black, Brown and Women that voted for
In order not to forget on the Mexican Day of the Dead, which is commemorated every November 1 and 2, feminist groups will honor the victims of femicide with marches, masses and offerings.
The situation of women and LGBTQ folks in Cuba and the challenges facing queer and feminist activists.
Zoe Zhao and Olia Shu analyze many forms of exploitation of women workers in China, such as in family workshops and digital platforms, and their resistance.
Teamster President O’Brien recently promoted on X (formerly Twitter) a racist, transphobic article by Missouri Senator Josh Hawley.
Marian Jones analyzes many forms of resistance for abortion rights, including grassroots abortion funding, underground networks for medication and shield laws for doctors.
In this panorama, different organizations and collectives of the independent left see the need to form an Independent, Anti-capitalist and Anti-Patriarchal Left Bloc to strengthen the organization and mobilization independent of the government and the right.
On Afary’s compelling case for socialist feminism as an urgent response to twenty-first century crises.
Review of Bettina Aptheker’s recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s
Interview with Abundia Alvarado, a co-founder of Mariposas Rebeldes and a member of the movement to protect Weelaunee Forest from the construction of Cop City.
At this time, international solidarity with women in Iran is critically important in order to help the continuation of the current courageous wave of protests in defense of women and against state brutality.
There is no question that “cancel culture” is a legitimate tool of a vibrant democratic culture, especially as it allows the powerless to redress the abuses and the offensive behavior directed at them by powerful public figures.
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