Feminist Current

New Title IX rules threaten female sports and due process

27 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On April 19th, the Biden Administration released new rules "broadening the scope of Title IX," the 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination i...

Emma Thomas' father 'came out' as trans when she was nine—now she fights to protect kids like her

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's only recently that we are beginning to hear the stories of family members of men who have begun identifying as women, from the “trans widow...

Sasha Ayad: When kids say they're trans

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sasha Ayad⁠ is Licensed Professional Counselor who has treated adolescents for over 13 years. She began feeling concerned about the trans trend re...

A 'trans widow' on how her husband went from abuser to trans activist

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The so-called "trans widow" has become the woman best able to reveal the truth about the trans trend. She is the woman who lost her husband ...

The woman punched by a counter protester at the 1millionmarch4kids speaks out

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Canadians have begun pushing back against gender identity ideology in schools. But it has not been easy. The first 1millionmarch4kids in Victoria, BC ...

Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Marxist feminist who is speaking out against gender identity in Sweden

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kajsa Ekis Ekman published Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy, and the Split Self in 2013 and has worked as a prominent and respected jou...

Helen Joyce on how the Labour Party changed its stance on gender identity

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Helen Joyce is a journalist, editor, and the author of Trans: When ideology meets reality. Helen is also a founder of Sex Matters, a campaign gro...

Jennifer Bilek on the true roots of the transgender movement

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Bilek is a writer, a journalist, and an artist. As many of us struggled to understand the seemingly sudden onset of gender identity ideology ...

Jill Ovens resigned from New Zealand's Labour Party to start the Women's Rights Party

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After women's rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen was mobbed and assaulted in New Zealand on March 25th, longtime feminist and socialist Jill Ovens deci...

Why are dangerous men still being housed in women's prisons?

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In recent years, prisons across the Western world have been allowing men who identify as women to be housed alongside female inmates, leading to sexua...

Pornhub was hosting videos of minors and trafficking victims — what's next?

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In February 2020, Laila Mickelwait, Exodus Cry’s Director of Abolition at the time, published an op-ed titled, “Time to Shut Pornhub Down,” brin...

Beyond a woman's choice: the real story of prostitution in Canada

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The issue of prostitution in Canada has been left mostly uncovered. The debate in the public sphere tends to centre around questions of "women’s cho...

The truth about OnlyFans, with Alix Aharon

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Porn and people’s relationships to porn has changed immensely since the advent of the internet — even moreso with apps like OnlyFans and other soc...

Are trans rights really human rights? Robert Wintemute on the trans rights debate and how we got here

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Wintemute, a professor of human rights law at King's College London and a lawyer for the LGB Alliance, was scheduled to give a talk called call...

Scottish women face a bigger fight as gender self-ID bill passes

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Scottish women suffered major blow in December when the SNP government passed a bill that will allow anyone to get a gender recognition certificate th...

Marissa Darlingh was fired as a school counselor for speaking out against gender identity ideology

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Marissa Darlingh was an elementary school counselor with over a decade of experience working with students in culturally diverse public school distric...

Maryam Namazie on the women's revolution in Iran

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Two months ago, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini traveled from her hometown in the province of Kurdistan to the Iranian capital, Tehran, to visit her brother. ...

Sall Grover wanted to create a female-only app — she didn't know that would make her a target

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today, women only spaces are highly controversial. Thanks to gender identity legislation, “female only” has become practically obsolete. When Sall...

Beyond Fantasy — Benjamin Nolot exposes the truth about porn, and it is dark

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pornography has been wholly normalized in our society. It is expected that men and boys use it, is joked about, and is treated as a harmless pastime —...

Do feminists need to pick a side? Katy Worley on political purity and Standing for Women

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Infighting is not new to feminism — who is doing things right, who is doing things wrong, who is toxic, who is good, who is a phony, a grifter, not ...

The Business of Birth Control

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

  The pill has long been heralded as a win for women — a path towards freedom, a woman’s right, a pivotal aspect of the sexual revolution —...

Are gun rights women’s rights? Antonia Okafor Cover offers a feminist argument for gun ownership

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Most feminists don't think of guns as means to empower women — rather, we tend to see them as a danger. Antonia Okafor Cover, the founder and presid...

Julie Jaman was banned from a pool for telling a male to leave the change room, but she's not backing down

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this month, Julie Jaman, an 80-year-old resident of Port Townsend, Washington, was banned from her local community pool. Her crime was to ask ...

Louise Perry thinks sexual liberation didn't liberate women at all

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The sexual revolution is generally understood to have been liberating for women — we could enjoy sex free from social consequences as well as outsid...

Christina Ellingsen is facing prison time for saying that men aren't women

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Norwegian feminist Christina Ellingsen is facing a prison sentence of up to three years for saying that men cannot be lesbians or mothers. Country con...

Katherine Deves on Australian politics, modern feminism, and why she stood up for girls' and women's sport

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Katherine Deves is a Sydney-based lawyer and mother of three daughters. In 2020, she realized no one was standing up for female athletes in Australia,...

Mary Lou Singleton on Roe v Wade, the abortion debate, and how we got here

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in 1973. ...

Maya Forstater on her Employment Tribunal win, #respectmysex, and JK Rowling

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2018, Maya Forstater was subject to an internal investigation at her place of employment, the Center for Global Development, after complaints about...

Does Twitter hate women? Holly Lawford-Smith on 'Gender Critical Feminism,' hate speech, and the future of Twitter

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Twitter has a history of banning those who fail to toe the line in terms of progressive political orthodoxy. In particular, the social media corporati...

Feminists in Quebec are fighting to curb surrogacy

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Surrogacy has become a relatively mainstream practice. Celebrities and those with means treat surrogacy as a harmless option to aid women who cannot o...

Andrea Heinz worked as an escort, a dominatrix, and a brothel owner in Edmonton — now she educates people about the harms of 'sex work ideology'

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The stories of those who exited prostitution tend to be wildly different than those still working in the industry and identifying as "sex workers." An...

Child marriage in Mexico persists, despite legislative changes

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Child marriage may be a thing of the past in many Western countries, but remains a reality for many girls in Mexico. While the law has changed, the pr...

Milli Hill on the Positive Birth Movement and how she was banished from her own community

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Milli Hill is a freelance journalist and author The Positive Birth Book, Give Birth like a Feminist, and a new book for preteens, My Period. She fo...

Natasha Chart on her new book, 'Practical Politics for Bold Women'

14 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most common questions I receive from women is, "How can I take action?" So many women are concerned about the legislation and ideology bein...

The Famous Artist Birdy Rose

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with The Famous Artist Birdy Rose, a UK-based artist from Essex who has been subject to an ongoing slander campa...

Feminist Current: Carol Dansereau on gender identity in schools

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

While kids once would (perhaps awkwardly) learn about the birds and the bees in school, sex ed has changed suddenly and rapidly, without consultation ...

Feminist Current: Men are being transferred to women's prisons and the Liberals don't care

25 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On Saturday, women gathered at Fraser Valley Institution, a prison in Abbotsford, BC, to protest the housing of men in women’s prisons. Since Bill ...

Jess de Wahls can't be cancelled

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On June 17, Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts published a post on Instagram, saying: “Thank you to all those for bringing an item in the RA Shop by ...

Trans Mission — an interview with Jennifer Lahl

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The transitioning of kids is ever more common these days, despite growing concerns about physical, mental, and social impacts of encouraging youth to ...

Beth Stelzer is on a mission to save women's sports

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A key concern for women, in terms of the impact of gender identity legislation, has been new policies being rolled out in various countries around the...

PODCAST: Donna Hughes was denounced by her university for questioning gender identity

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Donna Hughes is a Professor at the University of Rhode Island (URI) in the Gender and Women's Studies Department. She is the founder and editor-in-chi...

Feminist Current: The Limitations of Social Media Feminism

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Social media has become central to most of our lives — even moreso as Covid restrictions have prevented us from meeting and organizing in person. Bu...

Feminist Current: Women Picket DC

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On January 20 2021, President Biden signed the “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual...

Will President Joe Biden's Executive Order erase women's rights?

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Last month, on inauguration day, President Biden signed the “Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Ident...

Phyllis Chesler on Aileen Wuornos, America's 'first female serial killer'

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aileen Wuornos, often labelled America’s “first female serial killer,” was executed by lethal injection in Florida in 2002. Her life was one of ...

PODCAST: The Transsexual Empire revisited — Janice Raymond on transgenderism, yesterday and today

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In 1979, Janice Raymond published The Transsexual Empire, the first and probably most well-known book articulating a radical feminist analysis of tr...

PODCAST: The Women’s Human Rights Campaign launches in the US, fighting to save women’s sex-based rights

18 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On August 16, the Women’s Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) launched its United States chapter. WHRC is an international group of women dedicated to pr...

PODCAST: Daphna Morell and Luba Fein on the feminist movement in Israel

06 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The global women’s movement is a force to be reckoned with. The fight against the sex trade has been particularly successful in Israel, where femi...

PODCAST: Susan Hawthorne — In defense of separatism

04 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Hawthorne (Photo: Nick Walton-Healy) The word “separatism” may lead some to recoil. But what does it really mean, from radical feminist per...

PODCAST: Prof Kathleen Lowrey didn’t hide her views on gender identity ideology, and was punished for it

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

University of Alberta associate professor Kathleen Lowrey was dismissed as associate chair of undergraduate studies in the department of anthropology...

PODCAST: Stella Perrett on why free speech and satire should matter to feminists

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Credit: Stella Perrett Stella Perrett was a political cartoonist for the UK’s only socialist daily newspaper, The Morning Star, from 2015 to 2020. ...

PODCAST: Women as ‘breeders’ — Renate Klein on the harms of surrogacy

11 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Renate Klein, author of “Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation” We hear about surrogacy routinely in the media, almost consistently in a celebrator...

PODCAST: A global feminist perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic is needed

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on everyone. But imagine if you were impoverished, a migrant, or living in close quarters with no way to sociall...

PODCAST: Michelle Mara on the truth about the decriminalized sex trade in New Zealand

14 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Mara is a British-born survivor of the sex trade in New Zealand. She is a single mother of four who writes and speaks about her experiences...

PODCAST: Indian filmmaker Vaishnavi Sundar made a film about sexual harassment, then got cancelled by liberal feminists

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Vaishnavi Sundar Last month, a scheduled screening of Vaishnavi Sundar’s film, But What Was She Wearing? was abruptly cancelled. Vaishnavi was told...

PODCAST: Authorities ignored the girls being exploited by grooming gangs in Northern England; Julie Bindel didn’t

29 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Over a decade ago, Julie Bindel was the first to report on the so-called “grooming gangs” exploiting working class girls in a number of towns in...

PODCAST: Carol Downer revolutionized the women’s health movement, and refuses to quit, decades later

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Born in 1933, in Oklahoma, Carol Downer is nothing less than a legend. She is not only a lawyer and an author, but she revolutionized the women’s ...

PODCAST: Toxic Beauty — an interview with Phyllis Ellis

17 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We know that companies have been putting toxic chemicals in things like cigarettes, and are beginning to get tuned into the fact many other products...

PODCAST: We Can’t Consent To This — Fiona Mackenzie’s campaign to challenge the ‘sex gone wrong’ defence

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Fiona Mackenzie There have been a rash of media reports, in recent years, about women who were killed due to “sex gone wrong.” As of August, ther...

PODCAST: Dr. Jen Gunter is busting myths about women’s bodies and health

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Despite all of our modern medicine and science, knowledge about the female body is seriously lacking. Myths abound, and even women themselves often ...

PODCAST: Coercive control is a key aspect of abusive relationships, but still misunderstood

21 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“Coercive control” is something we’ve only just begun to hear about, yet it plays a key role in domestic abuse. Campaigner and journalist Juli...

PODCAST: Mary Kate Fain has found a woman-centered solution to Twitter censorship in Spinster

14 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Massive social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have come under criticism, of late, for censorship, as well as for failing to support women...

PODCAST: Caroline Criado Perez on how living in a world made for men hurts women

04 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us already know that the world is biased in favour of men — we’ve been aware that patriarchy exists for some now… But what does this m...

PODCAST: Deborah Cameron on feminism — the idea, the theory, and the political movement

13 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We hear the word “feminism” a lot. But what does it really mean? And, in our modern times, why do we still need it? In her new book, Feminism: A...

PODCAST: What is ’emotional labour’ and why are women sick of doing it all themselves?

03 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We often talk about women’s unpaid labour — the work women do in the home, in terms of child rearing, cleaning, cooking, grocery shopping, and s...

PODCAST: Lesbians at ground zero — Angela C. Wild on gender identity ideology and lesbian autonomy

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The conflict between trans activists and lesbians is reaching new heights, as lesbians are being shut out of their own events, movements, and spaces...

PODCAST: Dagny of The Pique Resilience Project on detransitioning

26 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

  A key concern many share about the issue of “trans youth” is that minors are too young to make such a big and impactful decision to trans...

PODCAST: Why sex-segregated sport matters

13 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I have nothing against anyone who wishes 2be transgender. However I believe there is a fundamental difference between the binary sex u r born with &...

PODCAST: On International Women’s Day, Indigenous and Women of Colour Rise

05 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

  March 8th is International Women’s Day — a day to honour women as well as to acknowledge the work we still have to do, in terms of fighti...

PODCAST: Kathleen Stock and Natasha Chart discuss the issue of feminists ‘allying with the right’

22 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Julia Beck, Jennifer Chavez, Kara Dansky, and Hacsi Horvath speak on a panel hosted by The Heritage Foundation on January 28, 2019 The question of wh...

PODCAST: Why are we still pretending porn is harmless?

08 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Porn is everywhere nowadays. It is one of the primary ways young people learn about sex, it is fully mainstreamed — we see pornographic imagery in...

PODCAST: Posie Parker — Standing for Women

24 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull — aka Posie Parker — is the founder of Standing For Women, a global women’s rights campaign group, and the creato...

PODCAST: Phyllis Chesler remains steadfast in being ‘politically incorrect’

15 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Phyllis Chesler is a best-selling author, a longtime feminist activist, and a retired psychotherapist. She has organized political, legal, religious...

PODCAST: Nicole Jardim on hormone health and how to understand your cycle

13 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Nicole Jardim Women’s bodies are complex — our hormones, our fertility, our periods, the way our bodies function and change depending on what poi...

PODCAST: Dawn Wilcox is counting women murdered by men in the United States, and the results are grim

13 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

  In 2017, Dawn Wilcox founded Women Count USA, a national database and femicide census of all women and girls murdered by men in the United St...

PODCAST: The Pussy Church of Modern Witchcraft is coming soon to a town near you

29 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this month, a number of media outlets published pieces about a new “lesbian-run church” having been officially recognized by the IRS as ...

PODCAST: What does the Trump administration’s refugee policy mean for women and how can Canada help?

27 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Embed from Getty Images Many people are rightly horrified by the Trump administration’s recent move to begin separating children from their as...

PODCAST: Canada’s Divorce Act may be changing — how will women be impacted?

05 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Liberal Party of Canada recently introduced Bill C-78, which proposes a number of changes to Canada’s Divorce Act, including better addressing...

PODCAST: Serah Gazali on escaping Saudi Arabia, the guardianship system, and how Saudi women are fighting back

15 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Embed from Getty Images A decade ago, Serah Gazali escaped Saudi Arabia, leaving behind a life where her every move was monitored and controlled. She...

PODCAST: Why sex matters in law

11 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The notion that sex matters, in terms of the law, is a fairly new one. It wasn’t until recently that discrimination against pregnant women was con...

PODCAST: Heather Brunskell-Evans wants to talk about the idea of ‘trans kids’

19 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Embed from Getty Images As the debate around gender identity intensifies, it seems more and more people are asking questions about the impact of tran...

PODCAST: What can humans learn from female-centric animal societies?

27 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We often point to nature in order to defend our own behaviour and patterns in human society. People will defend everything from violence, to rape, t...

PODCAST: ‘Good, giving, and game’ — how sex advice and sex therapy perpetuate rape culture

20 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Too often, when women are not interested in sex at the same levels their male partners are, they are told either that there is something wrong with ...

PODCAST: What happens when your husband decides he’s a woman?

12 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Transgenderism is often discussed in terms of personal identity — a person expressing themselves, becoming their true self, connecting their outer...

PODCAST: Hillary McBride on body image, eating disorders, and feminist therapy

28 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Girls learn, from the time they are young, to hate their bodies. We learn to focus on and work to fix so-called “flaws” — everything from weig...

PODCAST: Daisy Kler on the way racism and misogyny play out in Canada to doubly harm women

09 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Take Back the Night/Friday, September 18, 2015.  “Male violence against women is still considered a distraction [by the male left], rather tha...

PODCAST: Eleanor Pam remembers the late, great, Kate Millett

20 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 2003, Andrea Dworkin wrote, “The world was sleeping and Kate Millett woke it up.” Indeed, Kate Millett was a game changer. In 1970, she publi...

PODCAST: Ninotchka Rosca on intersectionality, the Philippine women’s movement, and the future of feminism

24 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Image: ninotchkarosca.com In this episode, I speak with Ninotchka Rosca, an incredibly accomplished activist and writer from the Phillippines. She is...

PODCAST: Toward reproductive sovereignty, not reproductive rights

03 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Women’s bodies have always been have always been the focal point of patriarchy. Liberals and conservatives alike have both worked to ensure women d...

PODCAST: ‘Birthright: A War Story’

14 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Women’s reproductive rights are under attack, yet again. In the United States, women are being jailed, physically violated, traumatized, endangered...

PODCAST: Finn Mackay on the revolutionary past and future of radical feminist activism

22 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The feminist movement is still going strong, though today’s young third wave feminists could learn a thing or two from the activists of decades pa...

PODCAST: Why feminists care about sex robots

20 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

“Harmony” “I don’t see technology as neutral — I see technology as driven by cultural forces. And the cultural forces that are driving this...

PODCAST: Are American millennials becoming more resistant to women’s equality?

11 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Despite being a century into the women’s movement, it can, at times, feel as though progress has stalled. Indeed, old stereotypes about the roles ...

PODCAST: Cordelia Fine pokes holes in old-fashioned ideas about testosterone and sexed brains

31 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Despite feminists’ best efforts, many people today believe that inequality between the sexes is natural, not cultural. They will often point to the...

PODCAST: From academia to pop culture to body hair, porn culture has permeated almost every aspect of our lives

23 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Today, pornography is inescapable. It shapes our self-image, our relationships, our sexualities — even our body hair removal practices. In academi...

PODCAST: Julie Bindel on growing up a working class lesbian

15 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Working Class Movement Library When the Working Class Movement Library — a small, volunteer-run library in Salford, England that holds records ...

PODCAST: The Women’s March was a powerful feminist uprising — what comes next?

26 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Women’s March – Vancouver. (Photo: Jess Martin) On January 21st, three million people across the globe — a majority of whom were women — ...

PODCAST: The Women’s March was a powerful feminist uprising — what comes next?

26 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On January 21st, three million people across the globe — a majority of whom were women — took to the streets. A response to the election of Donald...

PODCAST: Radical feminism for men? Robert Jensen makes the case

01 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In Robert Jensen’s new book, The End of Patriachy: Radical Feminism for Men, he asks one question: “What do we need to create and maintain stable...

PODCAST: Title IX, trans rights, women’s rights, and ‘bathroom bills’

21 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Image: Women’s Liberation Front v. United States Facebook page On August 11th, 2016, Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) filed a lawsuit against the ...