Sex Discrimination Without Sex Sex, according to the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner, means almost nothing at all. Holly Lawford-Smith 15 Sep 2023 · 10 min read
On Political Hatred On everything from Syrian refugees through Brexit and climate change to so-called gender-affirmative medicine, people take a totalizing approach to disagreement: either you agree with me, or you are despicable. Holly Lawford-Smith 24 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
What Even Is ‘Trans’? A new book on gender leaves no space for gender non-conformity that is not defined as 'trans' Holly Lawford-Smith 26 Jun 2023 · 7 min read
Campus Speech and Compromised Safety As universities try desperately to serve two masters (knowledge production; diversity and inclusion), they will increasingly end up sanctioning speech that should be protected. Holly Lawford-Smith 31 May 2023 · 9 min read
The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Continue Dissecting a lengthy YouTube attack on gender-critical feminists Holly Lawford-Smith 26 Apr 2023 · 14 min read
Mobbed but Unbowed: An Interview with Kellie-Jay Keen Holly Lawford-Smith sits down with the women’s rights activist now leading the charge against gender ideologues. Holly Lawford-Smith 4 Apr 2023 · 9 min read
Is There Such a Thing as a Good Academic-Activist? The problem isn’t that some academics are activists. It’s that some academics do activism badly. Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Mar 2023 · 9 min read
The Ethos of Female Prisons A philosopher breaks down the debate over how to treat male criminals who self-identity as women. Holly Lawford-Smith 16 Feb 2023 · 12 min read
Vices of Mainstream Feminism The movement no longer spares a thought for women who fail to claim additional oppressed identities. Holly Lawford-Smith 18 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
Ending Discrimination by Twitter Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction. Holly Lawford-Smith 28 Nov 2022 · 8 min read
How Automatic Gender ‘Affirmation’ Hurts Girls and Women We’ve lost sight of a basic feminist insight: To be gender ‘non-conforming‘ isn’t unusual. It’s perfectly normal. Holly Lawford-Smith 13 Jul 2022 · 11 min read
How the Trans-Rights Movement Is Turning Philosophers Into Activists Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Sep 2019 · 16 min read