Feminism - Quillette (Page 3)

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 · 10 min read

The Stanford Rape Hoax

Jennifer Gries used claims of rape to punish a co-worker. Activists at Stanford used her lies for their own purposes.

Lona Manning

3 Apr 2023 · 21 min read

Do We Still Need a Women’s Prize for Fiction?

It is time to consider retiring awards segregated by the sex of the author.

Josh Allan

10 Mar 2023 · 7 min read

Marching Backwards

Mary Harrington’s proposed solution to the excesses of modern feminism is an overcorrection.

Marilyn Simon

3 Mar 2023 · 14 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

Podcast # 195: Meet the 80-Year-Old Feminist Who Got Banned From the YMCA for Protesting Male Bodies in the Women’s Locker Room

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks to Port Townsend, WA-area swimmer Julie Jaman, the octogenarian whose efforts to keep biological men out of a changing area reserved for girls and women led to accusations of transphobia, a visit with the police, multiple town-council debates, and an ongoing Twitter campaign called

Quillette

12 Aug 2022 · 1 min read

Children of the Counter-Revolution

Sexual liberty reconsidered.

Cathy Young

8 Jul 2022 · 16 min read

Female Empowerment Shouldn’t Mean We Have to Imitate Men

I recently started work in a male-dominated field, and I’ve been getting a lot of sympathetic remarks about my being “a woman in X.” But something has started to feel a bit off about this line. I’ve realized that being a woman in my field doesn’t actually

N. Russell

11 Apr 2022 · 6 min read

I’m Being Investigated by the British Columbia College of Nurses Because I Believe Biological Sex Is Real

In November 2020, the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) informed me that I was under investigation for my “off-duty conduct.” My disciplinary hearing is scheduled to take place from May 30th through June 3rd, and my career as a nurse hangs in the balance. I have been

Amy Eileen Hamm

8 Apr 2022 · 8 min read

The Ironies of Sex

Young people are still discovering their sexual selves and are often lost when exploring the sexual terrain of someone else’s body and mind.

Gregory Gorelik

22 Sep 2021 · 8 min read

Judith Butler: Enough Already!

Maybe Butler is an anti-identitarian when it comes to gender, but she sure defends her political identity most rigidly, indeed, in an obscurantist way.

Lama Abu-Odeh

12 Sep 2021 · 7 min read

Life as a Stand-Up Comic Can Be Brutal. ‘Safe Space’ Call-out Culture Is Making it Unbearable

“Cancel culture” has become a trendy term in recent years. But public shaming has always existed. It’s a social tool, and like all tools can be used for good or ill.

Jessica Pigeau

1 Aug 2021 · 35 min read

Gender Transition and Desistance in Teenage Girls: Two Psychotherapeutic Case Studies

Detransitioners and desisters can also feel angry at psychiatric and medical specialists, who they understandably believe have not adequately assessed their motivations for requesting medical intervention.

Susan Evans and Marcus Evans

30 Jul 2021 · 27 min read

Rescuing the Radicalized Discourse on Sex and Gender: Part Two of a Three-Part Series

Our choice of words affects the way we think. That’s why we spend so much time fighting over which terms to use, whether it’s “undocumented immigrants” versus “illegal aliens,” “foetuses” versus “unborn babies,” or “militants” versus “terrorists.” In recent years, the question of word choice has figured prominently

Allan Stratton

27 Jul 2021 · 17 min read

Interview with Slavenka Drakulić—the East-West Doyenne of the 1990s

Living under a totalitarian regime one knows censorship in and out. One can smell it from far away and I smell it in this terror of political correctness—or, if we turn it around, in the danger of expressing different, unpopular views.

Robin Ashenden

20 Jul 2021 · 13 min read