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‘Paterson’: Indie quirks can’t hide masculinist frameworks

Beneath its quiet indie surface, venerated U.S. filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s new film Paterson relies on so many clichés — about people of colour, about women and men, about artists, about relationships...

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‘Female Erasure’ sheds light on contemporary misogyny and the value of...

During a time when the popular focus on trans rights has led queer activists to question and ultimately condemn the concept of a biological woman, feminists need to pay attention. And this is exactly...

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The new Zelda video game is improved, but can’t escape the industry’s...

Princess Zelda and Link Save the princess! Beat the bad guy! Win a woman as your prize! This sexist cliché has driven the plot of many video games, including those in The Legend of Zelda series, for...

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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ offers a terrifying warning, but the hijacking of...

Last week, two new series were released which, at first sight, seem to tell very different stories about women. Netflix’s Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On (HGWTO), produced by the same team as the 2015...

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‘Kill All Normies’ skewers online identity politics

Angela Nagle’s Kill All Normies derives its title from a slogan originated on 4Chan that labels anyone who has made a life outside their mother’s basement as a “normal fag” or “normie.” The book,...

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The real reasons Get Out was the most profitable film of 2017: White...

Image: Daniel Kaluuya as “Chris” in Get Out *spoilers* Get Out is a delightful, genuinely scary “social thriller,” as its director Jordan Peele calls it, that cost $5 million and grossed $172 million....

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‘The Deuce’ is critical of the sex industry, whether liberal America likes it...

  Despite being a fan of David Simon, my anticipation for The Deuce, his HBO series about the rise of the porn industry in 1970s New York, was restrained by nervousness. The trend today is to...

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Julie Bindel’s ‘The Pimping of Prostitution’ destroys sex trade myths with...

“Listen to sex workers” has become the rallying cry of those who oppose legal restrictions on the sex trade. Well, Julie Bindel has listened. The Pimping of Prostitution is built around 250...

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Blade Runner 2049 warns us of an impending future without love, connection,...

  *spoilers* “Sometimes to love someone you gotta be a stranger,” Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford) gruffly professes over whiskey (that most masculine of drinks) after a rousing but nonsensical...

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Was Margaret Thatcher a ‘rebel girl’?

Image: rebelgirls.co A follow up to the hugely successful Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women is due out soon, which has me wondering if another apartheid apologist...

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Life without limits: The delusions of technological fundamentalism

In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? Living in the United States, I’m tempted to focus on the delusion that the US is the greatest nation in the history of the world —...

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‘It’s not the laws that kill our women. It’s not the streets that kill our...

  Bridget Perrier speaking at Julie Bindel’s book launch. Image: YouTube Prostitution or sex work? Your choice of words gives the game away, marks out where you stand on the issue. Violence against...

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If misogyny exists to punish rebellious women, why are obedient women...

When Kate Manne was five years old, a boy in her class strangled her with a piece of yarn, causing her to lose consciousness. After she came to, she was told that he had chosen to attack her because...

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Drawing lines: A review of Renate Klein’s ‘Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation’

Reading Renate Klein’s elegantly argued Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation, it’s difficult not to keep repeating to oneself, “How did we get here?”, all the while trying to keep at bay a sense of...

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The art of avoiding definitions: A review of ‘Trans*: A Quick and Quirky...

  “Let me define the terms, and I’ll win any debate,” a friend told me years ago, an insight I’ve seen confirmed many times in intellectual and political arenas. But after reading Jack Halberstam’s...

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‘SCUM Manifesto’ is your perfect summer vacay read

What to take on holiday to read? I don’t like anything too serious or weighty when I am lying on a sunbed, but a relaxing time off is a perfect time to reread favourites or catch up on classics. That...

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Andrea Dworkin’s legacy lives on: A review of ‘Last Days at Hot Slit’

Image: MIT Press Maligned in life and in death as anti-man and anti-sex, Andrea Dworkin believed writing “could move the earth and raise the dead — at least, the living dead.” According to her friend...

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Review: ‘Love Lives Here — A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family

How does one write a compelling life story when convinced that those with significant interest in the details are bigots? You don’t, as Amanda Jette Knox proves in Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving...

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‘Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982’ offers Western #MeToo activists a chance to catch up...

Jamie Chang’s English translation of the best-selling Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 will soon be available to Western readers, and its film adaptation is already screening throughout Asia. The novel,...

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REVIEW: ‘Boys & Sex: Young men on hookups, love, porn, consent, and...

Peggy Orenstein insists that we not flinch in uncomfortable conversations with boys and men about the dark side of sexuality. In her new book, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn,...

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Blasphemous ideas and the silencing of dissent: A review of Abigail Shrier’s...

This review grew out of a discussion with a dear friend who, at the time, supported gender identity ideology. I, on the other hand, had become increasingly frustrated with the loss of women’s rights...

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The end of gender… identity

You might expect an author of a book whose title proclaims “the end of gender” to be clear on what gender is. Unfortunately, this is not the case for Debra Soh, author of The End of Gender: Debunking...

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‘Material Girls’ breaks taboos, criticizing ‘gender identity theory’ from a...

When The God Delusion was published in 2006, it was a deeply controversial bestseller. Though Dawkins’ book was applauded by many, it also prompted several book-length rebuttals and a lawsuit in...

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The Hope of Helen Joyce’s Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

An ideological movement at odds with reality has swept the world, taking over government, public institutions, progressive politics, international organizations like the United Nations, and NGOs such...

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Critiquing transgender theology: A review of Janice Raymond’s Doublethink

There’s a sad irony at the heart of Janice Raymond’s new book on transgenderism and feminism. After decades of research and activism, she is uniquely qualified to contribute to the polarized debate...

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In defence of Pamela Anderson’s right not to be revictimized 

Sebastian Stan and Lily James as Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson It may seem odd for a person who knows little about Canadian actress Pamela Anderson, who has never seen an entire episode of Baywatch,...

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The ground-breaking 1917 birth control film the world never got to see

A few years ago, I was hired to help write a book about the history of film exhibition. It wasn’t a subject I knew a lot about, but the abundance of research materials at my disposal allowed me to get...

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Call Jane offers a timely reminder around the historic fight for abortion rights

Uplifting, inspiring, empowering movies for female viewers that promote the advancement of women’s rights aren’t typical theatre fare, but this is precisely what the newly released independent film,...

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‘Dead Name’ shines the spotlight on parents of kids taken in by the gender...

“No debate” is a common response offered to those who challenge gender identity ideology, yet a debate is happening at last. A new documentary has been released — then promptly censored — giving a...

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‘Affirmation Generation’ tells truths about ‘trans youth’ the media won’t touch

Proponents of “transgenderism” would have us believe medical transition is the only path for children identifying as “transgender,” but a growing number of detransitioners belies this stance. On...

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