How Australian Law Pushes Vulnerable Women Towards Hiring Male Carers The law prioritises a man’s sense of his identity over women’s safety, bodily integrity, privacy, dignity, and comfort. Holly Lawford-Smith 2 Jan 2024 · 8 min read
Betraying Their Maverick Roots, Fringe Festivals Have Become Ideological Gatekeepers A former artistic director of the Nanaimo Fringe Festival describes how transgender activists engineered her ouster. Bryony Dixon 24 Oct 2023 · 9 min read
Oppressed or Oppressor? Quillette Cetera Episode 16 Debating feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith Zoe Booth / Holly Lawford-Smith 7 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
In Praise of Gender Crits “Gender-critical” is a jargonny way of describing the ordinary views held by the vast majority of the planet’s population. The Quillette Editorial Board 16 Jun 2023 · 8 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
Fictionalizing Māori History in the Name of Gender Ideology Around the world, trans activists are cynically attempting to drape their faddish colonial theories in the garb of timeless Indigenous wisdom. Dianne Landy 4 May 2023 · 8 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
Philosophy’s No-Go Zone An MIT professor describes the outraged reaction from fellow philosophers when he argued that a woman is an adult human female. Alex Byrne 17 Apr 2023 · 18 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
An Auckland Mob Shut Down a Women’s Rights Activist—And Proved Her Point The violent treatment of Kellie-Jay Keen betrays the fanaticism and misogyny that has infected progressive gender politics. The Quillette Editorial Board 28 Mar 2023 · 8 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
A Mob Stormed a Feminist Event at McGill Law School—in Defence of Gender Justice, of Course Intended as an expression of trans rights, the fracas instead illustrated why many LGB feminists want to escape their ‘forced teaming’ with trans activists. Jonathan Kay 12 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
Once a Man, Never a Woman In an extraordinary new book, Shannon Thrace describes her disintegrating marriage to a man consumed by narcissism and gender dysphoria. Jonathan Kay 16 Oct 2022 · 10 min read