1A. The Politics of Women’s Rights; Community Organizing, Activism, Advocacy. The Sexism of the Left
Feminist Current
“…a unique perspective on gender, women’s rights, violence against women, pop culture, politics, current events, sexuality, and many other issues that are often underrepresented or misrepresented by mainstream, progressive, and feminist media sources.”
https://www.feministcurrent.com
https://twitter.com/feministcurrent
The Gender Critical [UK]
“…working to build an ecosystem for gender critical activism”
https://gcritical.org
Gender Critical Greens PAC
https://www.facebook.com/gcgpac
The Andrew Goodman Foundation
“Stengthening Women’s Voices in Politics”
https://archive.ph/wip/amW3W
Meeting Ground Online
“For the liberation of women and working people”
“This blogzine is dedicated to organizing: please discuss! argue! write!
http://meetinggroundonline.org
Period Action
"We aim to advocate for systemic change through policy and legislation regarding menstrual equity. Reaching out to state representatives, canvassing, and lobbying are all important in making period poverty a mainstream issue and one that our legislators will prioritize."
https://www.period-action.org/advocacy
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Julie Bindel. Julie Bindel. “Men on the left hate women, men on the right hate women, but who has the power to take our rights away?” [2022]
https://archive.ph/81GLI
_____. “The sly sexism of Left-wing men: Supporting porn and prostitutes doesn't make you a feminist.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/LBVdT
Carol Dansereau. “Hitchhiker's Guide (Part V): Undermining the Movement Humanity Needs.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/Xcyge
Kara Dansky. “Democrats like me are furious with our party for pushing gender insanity.” [2021] https://archive.ph/W2MAn
Defend Feminists Campaign. “Inciting violence has no place on the Left.” [2020] https://archive.ph/wip/YGPlQ
Sarah Ditum. "How the Left betrayed feminism: Who needs women's sex-based rights when you have authoritarian utopianism?" [2020]
https://archive.ph/0AtXT
Jane Egerton. “Women and the religious right in the USA.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/pfYHp
Zach Elliot. "Misogyny is revisionism. Part 1: On the Left’s 'woman' problem." [2017]
https://medium.com/@zacharygeorgenn/misogyny-is-revisionism-part-1-on-t…
_____. "Misogyny is revision. Part 3: in defense of feminism." [2017]
https://medium.com/@zacharygeorgenn/misogyny-is-revisionism-part-3-in-d…
Linda Gale. “The Greens Party is too important to abandon it to social media mobs.” [2022] https://archive.ph/TK29F
Mary Harrington. “The sexual revolution killed feminism: Fetishising freedom harms us all.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/6hN4M#selection-453.0-457.32
Jane Clair Jones. “Purity spirals, political alliances, and movement building.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/Sh6E8
Sirin Kale. “The legendary women's rights activist who mailed Obama a coat hanger: Laura X led the campaign to outlaw marital rape across the USA in the 1970s and 1980s.” [2016]
https://archive.ph/JMmPY
Laura Kamienski. “For us: In defense of women’s only spaces.”
https://archive.ph/U0WXL, or
https://www.academia.edu/9374766/For_Us_In_Defense_of_Womens_Only_Space…;
Graham Lineman. "From a Green Party insider." [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/IT3eJ
Claudia Lucas and Julia Diana Robertson. “NY Democrats quietly dismantle “1 male, 1 female’ rule. [2019]
https://archive.ph/4ddMg
Catherine MacKinnon. “Where #MeToo came from, and where it’s going: The movement is moving the culture beneath the law of sexual abuse.” [2019]
https://archive.ph/3tDA7
Ian Millheiser. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg probably just dealt a fatal blow to the Equal Rights Amendment: A half-century long fight for equality is likely at an end.” [2020]
https://archive.ph/2rYEC
Thistle Petterson. “Feminist ejected from 'Queer' workshop at Feminist Party's Presidential Nominating Convention.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/D7h75
Carli Pierson. “Remind me why the Biden administration is in court fighting publication of the ERA?” [2022]https://archive.ph/OFn39
Kat Rosenfield. “How feminism ate itself: The call for intersectionality was the beginning of the movement's end.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/jjPH7
Michael Savage. “Labour accused of ‘silencing’ women in row over sex-based rights group.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/hrUIF
Sex Matters. “Lib Dems revise transphobia definition.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/pH6dK
They tried to bury us; they did not know we were the seeds.
― Mexican Proverb
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner. Keep marching: How every woman can take action and change our world. [2018] BOOK
https://iwpr.org/member/kristin-rowe-finkbeiner/
Weird, isn’t it, but I struggle to remember any other progressive movement that attracted so many men who love fantasising about the brutal deaths of women.
― JKRowling