‘Shameless Beyond the Curse of Shamelessness’ In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile. Joan Smith 12 Dec 2024 · 16 min read
Are Board Gender Quotas a Good Idea? The more we try to limit freedom in the interests of desirable social change, the less effective we will be in the long run, and the greater the number of additional problems we create. Silvia G. Poratelli 9 Dec 2024 · 8 min read
I Thought Being a Gay Man Would Save Me From Womanhood (It Didn’t) Queer theory transformed me from a depressed, weird, intellectually curious child into a brainwashed teen who disfigured her body. Laura Becker 18 Nov 2024 · 11 min read
Feminism and Free Speech Victoria’s proposed hate speech legislation forces feminists to choose which is more important to them: the restriction of misogynistic speech, or the protection of their own political speech. Holly Lawford-Smith 21 Oct 2024 · 5 min read
In British Columbia, Censorship Wears a Pronoun Pin Even by Canadian standards, the province has become a hostile environment for women seeking to advocate for their sex-based rights. Meghan Murphy 2 Oct 2024 · 10 min read
Mandatory Denunciations and the Case of Deeming v Pesutto That the political opponents of Let Women Speak call them ‘the far right’ doesn’t make them the far right. And the actual far right showing up to their rally uninvited doesn’t make the far right feminists, either. Holly Lawford-Smith 26 Sep 2024 · 8 min read
Ladies in Leotards Exploring the implications of beauty standards in women’s gymnastics. Holly Lawford-Smith 12 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of ‘Trans Inclusion’ For three years, Edinburgh’s rape-crisis centre was run by a male CEO who lectured sex-assault victims and staff about their ‘prejudice’ against the male body. How was this allowed to happen? Joan Smith 4 Aug 2024 · 17 min read
What Heterodox Feminism Is Not It's not enough to be a dissenter: it also matters what you are dissenting from and what you're getting out of it. Holly Lawford-Smith 25 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
Rebalancing the Gender Narrative with Dr Warren Farrell: Quillette Cetera Episode 35 The couples therapist and men's rights activist discusses his new book and the current landscape of gender discourse. Zoe Booth 21 Jun 2024 · 36 min read
How Women Can Become Worthy Opponents It may be unpalatable to consider that part of what holds women back is our own nature. But if part of the problem is within us, then we have the power to fix it. Lisa Marchiano 15 Apr 2024 · 8 min read
Young Women Need to Stop Oversharing Online: Quillette Cetera Episode 32 A conversation with Freya India. Zoe Booth / Freya India 23 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Toward Ruin or Recovery? The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all. Larissa Phillips 20 Mar 2024 · 35 min read
Is G Flip A Woman? If we siphon off all female diversity into categories like 'non-binary' we narrow the idea of what it means to be a woman. Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Mar 2024 · 7 min read
Podcast #233: Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy, a ‘community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations’ Quillette / Meghan Daum 15 Mar 2024 · 29 min read
