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2025-12-12 15:41:21 GMT

>Today’s FFS Friday celebrates Isabella Cêpa, who has been charged with “criminal transphobia” by Brazilian authorities, threatened with 25 years in prison, and granted political asylum in Europe.
>In 2020, a man who calls himself a woman named Erika ran for office in Sān Paolo, and won. Cêpa said she was “disappointed to hear that the most voted-for woman in São Paulo … was a man.” He reported her, and she was charged with five counts of “social racism” due to her “transphobia,” and threatened with 25 years in prison. She fled to Europe, where she was granted asylum. Notably, “transphobia” is not an actual crime in Brazil, in that it’s not in the criminal code; the only way for the authorities to charge her was by relying on a 2019 Brazilian court decision making “transphobia” a form of racism (which is a crime).
>“Erika” has now been named “woman of the year” by Marie Claire Brazil.
>Isabella, I am so sorry. I’m happy that you’re safe in Europe, but as you said in your interview, this entire situation is utter madness. None of this should be happening. Male physical and sexual violence against women and girls is a real thing, and we should be able to discuss it plainly and openly. You shouldn’t be having to speak out about this, but I’m glad you are. Today’s FFS Friday is for you.
https://open.substack.com/pub/karadansky/p/ffs-friday-isabella-cepa?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

2025-12-07 01:10:03 GMT

Who's ready to play TERFOPOLY?
https://open.substack.com/pub/sofasrus/p/terfopoly?r=dfyz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

2025-12-07 00:30:07 GMT

"Stacy" is a *particularly nasty* autogynophile & unfunny comedian...
https://media.spinster.xyz/2e93c26d916755f7c99920a500218447e4fad8157ffb33ff9169f3382235e860.webp

2025-12-07 00:26:05 GMT

Now *this* is my kind of iconography!
Tokuhiro Kawai - "Love for Cats"
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2025-12-04 15:09:52 GMT

Emily Kam Kngwarray
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-12-04 15:09:16 GMT

Emily Kam Kngwarray, Aboriginal artist and Anmatyerre elder
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-12-02 01:07:35 GMT

These testimonies of surrogate mothers are truly *cautionary tales*!
>In Paris, France, and Brighton, UK, women committed to fighting violence against women listened attentively and empathetically to the testimonies of former surrogate mothers.
>Both conferences concluded with a standing ovation, reflecting a firm and collective commitment to protecting all women from surrogacy.
>**Yes, surrogacy must be abolished everywhere in the world.**
https://abolition-ms.org/en/ressources-en/events/surrogacy-hear-the-voices-of-those-on-the-frontline/

2025-11-23 23:16:41 GMT

"Tangle Wolves" by Kelly Louise Judd
https://kellylouisejudd.com/
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-11-23 23:14:17 GMT

Morning Glories & Crow by Kelly Louise Judd
https://kellylouisejudd.com/
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-11-23 23:11:11 GMT

"Betixt & Between", by Kelly Louise Judd
https://kellylouisejudd.com/
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-11-23 22:49:03 GMT

I don't know the name of either the author or the artist (let us know if *you do*), so I apologize. These words & the graphic are *so* beautiful, however, that I want to share them with my fellow Spinsters.
THE WINTER SISTERS’ PROMISE
In the hush of the cold season,
the spirit world drifts closer—
its breath a soft reminder
that endurance is a sacred song.
Those who walk together
share more than footsteps;
they share the fire
that refuses to die beneath the snow.
The old teachings say
that unity is a circle of warmth,
a shelter woven from stories
older than any winter wind.
So they move as one,
carrying hope like a steady ember,
trusting that even in the deepest frost
the heart of the earth
beats with them—
promising that light
always finds its way home.
~ Author Unknown
~Artist Unknown
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2025-11-23 22:22:12 GMT

"The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist" (1988) by the Guerrilla Girls (formed in 1985).
https://media.spinster.xyz/5cacdc40483b959f45b49385c54b7fa1ac703cd30d40e97f73db881a689ab4dd.webp

2025-11-23 01:28:47 GMT

OK, Spinsters - how many of you *need* a chair like this?
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2025-11-21 22:52:18 GMT

Edmonia Lewis - "The Death of Cleopatra"
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-11-21 22:50:59 GMT

>Edmonia Lewis (c. 1844–1907) was a groundbreaking sculptor and one of the first women of African American and Native American heritage to achieve recognition in the art world during the 19th century. Born in Greenbush, New York, to a Haitian father and a Mississauga Ojibwe mother, Lewis faced significant racial and gender barriers throughout her life. Despite these challenges, she pursued her passion for art and eventually studied at the Oberlin College in Ohio, where she first garnered attention for her work. Lewis moved to Italy in the 1860s, where she created many of her notable sculptures, including "Forever Free" and "The Death of Cleopatra," which reflected themes of freedom, identity, and empowerment. Her works often incorporated African American and Native American themes, celebrating her heritage and conveying powerful messages about emancipation and dignity. Her unique perspective allowed her to bridge cultural gaps, and she became known for her ability to capture the human experience in marble. Lewis's work gained prominence, and she exhibited at various venues, including the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where her piece "The Old Arrow-Maker" was met with acclaim. Despite the adversity she faced, including discrimination and funding challenges, Edmonia Lewis remained a pioneering figure in American sculpture.
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonia_Lewis
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2025-11-21 14:46:27 GMT

>For six years, she was married to one of the most famous musicians in the world. Nobody knew. Not his fans. Not the press. Not even most of his friends.
>Her name was Carolyn Dennis, and in 1986, she quietly became Mrs. Bob Dylan.
>No announcement. No wedding photos in magazines. No celebrity gossip. Just a private ceremony, witnessed by a small circle, creating a family that the world wouldn't learn about for fifteen years.
>Carolyn wasn't some starry-eyed fan who stumbled into Dylan's orbit. She was an accomplished vocalist in her own right—a sought-after backing singer who'd worked with Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, and Michael Jackson. When she joined Dylan's touring band in the late 1970s, she brought serious talent and gospel roots that elevated his sound during one of his most transformative periods.
>Her voice became essential to Dylan's gospel era. On albums like "Saved" and "Shot of Love," her rich, soulful vocals didn't just support Dylan—they lifted entire songs, adding emotional depth that defined that chapter of his career.
>Somewhere between the tours, the recording sessions, and the shared stages, a relationship developed. And in January 1986, they had a daughter: Desiree Gabrielle Dennis-Dylan.
>That same year, they married. And then... silence.
>While the world obsessed over every detail of Bob Dylan's life—his music, his beliefs, his past relationships—his actual marriage remained completely hidden. Carolyn continued touring with him. She sang on his albums. She raised their daughter.
>But publicly? She was just another backing vocalist.
>For six years, they maintained this extraordinary secret. Think about that: In an era before social media, yes, but still—Bob Dylan, one of the most scrutinized artists in the world, managed to keep his marriage completely private. Why the secrecy?
>Partially to protect their daughter from the invasive spotlight that follows Dylan everywhere. Partially because both valued privacy in a business that trades in publicity. And perhaps partially because Carolyn Dennis never wanted to be known as "Bob Dylan's wife"—she was an artist with her own identity, her own career, her own voice.
>The marriage ended in 1992. Quietly, like everything else about it. No tabloid drama. No public statements. Just two people who'd shared something profound, choosing different paths forward.
>Not until 2001—nearly a decade after their divorce—when author Howard Sounes was researching a Dylan biography and uncovered the truth. He found the marriage certificate. He confirmed the facts. And suddenly, a secret that had been kept for fifteen years was public knowledge.
>But here's what's most remarkable: even after the secret came out, Carolyn Dennis maintained her dignity and privacy. She didn't write a tell-all book. She didn't do media tours. She didn't capitalize on her connection to one of music's greatest figures.
>She simply continued being what she'd always been: a gifted vocalist who happened to have shared part of her life with Bob Dylan, but whose identity was never defined by that relationship.
>In recent years, Dennis has stepped back from the spotlight, but her musical legacy remains. Her voice is embedded in some of Dylan's most important work. Her professionalism and talent earned respect from every major artist she collaborated with. And her handling of an impossible situation—being married to Bob Dylan in secret—demonstrated remarkable strength and grace.
>There's something powerful about Carolyn Dennis' story that goes beyond the celebrity intrigue. She reminds us that not everyone wants the spotlight. That you can be connected to fame without being consumed by it. That some people value their privacy more than their proximity to greatness. In an age where everyone shares everything, where privacy seems almost obsolete, where being connected to fame is often leveraged into its own brand of celebrity—Carolyn Dennis chose differently.
>She chose her daughter's privacy over publicity. She chose her own identity over "Bob Dylan's wife." She chose a quiet life over a public spectacle. And maybe that's the most radical thing of all.
>Her voice shaped the music millions loved. Her presence influenced one of music's most important artists during a crucial period. Her daughter grew up protected from a spotlight that could have been overwhelming.
>But she never needed the world to know her name to know her own worth.
>Carolyn Dennis proved that sometimes the most powerful voices really do resonate from behind the scenes—and that you can share your life with a legend without letting it define you.
>The next time you hear those gospel-infused Dylan albums from the early '80s, listen for her voice. It's there—rich, soulful, essential. Just like it always was. Quiet, powerful, and completely on her own terms.
#WomenSingers #WomensCreativity
https://substack.com/@monty905410/note/c-179530361?r=dfyz&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
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2025-11-15 23:19:45 GMT

Rupy C. Tut, "Where Dreams Flow", detail
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-11-15 23:18:56 GMT

Rupy C. Tut, "Where Dreams Flow", detail
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-11-15 23:17:53 GMT

Rupy C. Tut, "Where Dreams Flow", detail
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-11-15 23:16:42 GMT

Highly detailed painting by contemporary woman artist Rupy C. Tut (b. 1985, Chandigarh, India) currently based in Oakland. "Where Dreams Flow", 2024. Handmade pigments on linen.
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-11-08 02:01:06 GMT

#FridayFunnies
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2025-11-07 23:02:58 GMT

#FridayFunnies
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2025-11-07 22:32:33 GMT

#FridayFunnies
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2025-11-07 22:20:15 GMT

#FridayFunnies
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2025-11-06 00:36:09 GMT

Ato-Obong Ini-Abasi Akpama
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-11-06 00:35:15 GMT

Ato-Obong Ini-Abasi Akpama, "My Intuition Warned Me about You", 2025, gouache and colored pencil on paper.
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-11-05 23:19:30 GMT

Kiwako Suzuki's Cat
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2025-11-05 23:07:45 GMT

>Shirley Slade. Twenty-two years old. Flight jacket, boots, goggles perched like a challenge — the kind that says just watch me fly.
>In 1943, the U.S. military faced a crisis: thousands of planes needed delivering across the
country, but combat pilots were overseas fighting. So the government turned to a group still
underestimated, still boxed in by stereotypes, still told where they did — and didn’t — belong.
>Enter the WASP — Women’s Airforce Service Pilots. Shirley Slade trained on fighters like the P-47 Thunderbolt and B-26 Marauder, aircraft so powerful they earned nicknames like “Widowmaker.” She learned them fast, flew them hard, and delivered them with the confidence of someone who knew aviation had no gender — only skill and courage. No guns. No dogfights. No medals waiting at home. Just miles of sky, roaring engines, and flight orders stamped in ink instead of glory.
>WASP pilots ferried over 12,000 aircraft, towed gunnery targets, and even tested planes fresh
off the assembly line. They flew despite dismissive officers, jealous male pilots, and a country
that saluted them with words — not military status. Thirty-eight never came home. They received no flag-draped coffins. Families paid for their burials. And when the war ended, the WASP program was quietly shut down.
>Shirley Slade retired without fanfare, her uniform folded while the country she served tried to
fold her story away with it. But legends don’t stay grounded. Decades later, the WASPs were finally recognized as veterans. Their wings — once brushed aside — now shine in museums and memory. Shirley’s photo isn’t just a snapshot. It’s a reminder that courage doesn’t always roar — sometimes it taxis quietly to a runway, pushes the throttle, and proves an entire nation wrong by taking off.
~TimeFold
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2025-11-05 22:54:23 GMT

Dr. Anne Lanier (born 1940) is a public health researcher and advocate in Alaska who created the Alaska Native Tumor Registry in 1974 to collect information about cancer among Alaska Native people. It is one of 18 registries used by the National Cancer Institute to determine cancer rates and patterns across the US. Dr. Lanier founded other research centers in Alaska and her efforts inspired many to pursue careers in medical research.
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2025-11-03 17:24:01 GMT

>I was invited to speak about my favourite topic – women’s sport. I’d like it if I never had to say anything on this subject ever again but that won’t happen because of a combination of Government inaction, Sports Councils’ blind adherence to the Cult of Woo and sports’ governing bodies being run by probably the most incompetent people on the planet (and that’s putting it politely).
>To a background of lusty insults from the rent-a-mob anti-women activists I told the assembled company outside The Senedd, that numerous sports in Wales still allowed males into the female category – including some of our most popular sports. How have we arrived at a situation where grown men can self-identify as a female footballer and be picked for teams that include teenage girls? And believe me, if these men have the balls to larp into sports, they’ll definitely be using the changing room ‘that most aligns with their gender (sic)’ – and that won’t be the male changing rooms.
>I’ve met a lot of sports’ NGB CEOs, Chairmen, DEI officers and with a few exceptions they generally fall into two camps: fully signed-up to the ‘be kind to the menz’ fraternity or plain clueless. They’re in the ‘nice work if you can get it but please don’t make me do any actual work’ category. From their plush offices they plan their next round of glad-handing the dignitaries and securing free tickets for fixtures – the more international the better because then you can claim generous expenses paid by… the taxpayer generally – but when a truly difficult issue crosses their desk, they’ll hand it down the food-chain for action, which results in no action at all.
>That’s been the case with women’s sport. Usually filed in the ‘too difficult’ pile.
<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">The speech that no one could hear… by Rowing Geek</p><p>Drowned out by TRAs at the 199 Days Action, here are some highlights from my speech...</p><a data-post-link href="https://rowing.substack.com/p/the-speech-that-no-one-could-hear">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2025-11-02 14:58:22 GMT

I've had long hair since it first grew in as a child. It's comb, braid & go for me. I have always been disinclined to having a "hairdo". Too much fuss & expense over something not terribly important.
But I *often* like the look of short hair on other women. There are women who are *so* beautiful or interesting-looking that the shortest hair highlights their best features.
> There’s something about very short hair on a woman that feels like a slap in the face — to expectations, or the patriarchy, or even just to the husband who liked her hair long. This latter preference isn’t so hard to understand; long hair connotes not just femininity but youth, vitality. fertility. A woman with closely cropped hair has been stripped of something vital, even sacred. It’s why women condemned to the guillotine would have their hair cut off first, before their heads; it’s why women who slept with the Nazis during the Second World War were dragged into the public square and forcibly shaved.
>As such, the most radical thing of all is a lady who has lopped off all her hair by choice, and they have long been objects of fascination in both fiction and in history, seen in their choice of hairstyle as representative of something greater: spiritual purity, sacrifice, empowerment. The short-haired woman is Joan of Arc, or the wife from The Gift of the Magi, or Fantine from Les Misérables; she’s Gwyneth Paltrow debuting a chic blonde chop to mark the end of her relationship with a cheating bastard in Sliding Doors; she’s the child star who marks the end of her Disney era with a punk-rock fauxhawk.
>Whatever the circumstances, it’s understood that a woman who cuts her hair short must have a reason for doing it, and that the reason can never be “because it looks good” — which a howling chorus of male commentators invariably squirm out of the woodwork to announce that it certainly does not...When Emma Stone flaunted a pixie cut on the red carpet in January of this year, the most viral response was from a man on X who wrote, “Women, I can’t stress this enough, gay hairdressers love this and women that are competing with you love it because it knocks you down multiple pegs. Men hate it.”
https://unherd.com/2025/10/why-men-hate-short-hair/

2025-10-31 13:21:48 GMT

Many men seem not to be able to disagree with women without reducing them to their genitals (like the "c" word) or insulting their looks. Sourpuss Don is truly *a lemon* for doing so!
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2025-10-21 18:16:23 GMT

Title is all wrong - *should* read "Photographer Alice Austen was the LESBIAN Star of the Gilded Age"!
>Though her father abandoned her mother when she was an infant, Austen enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle with extended family in their home called Clear Comfort, overlooking the coastline of the New York City borough of Staten Island. She perfected imagery of her natural surroundings, social doings and “the sporting society set” in a darkroom fashioned from a closet. Her photos serve as a portal to the Gilded Age, with images of the annual regatta, boathouse bathers, charity balls and lawn tennis, a sport newly open to women who were too restricted by corsets to actually run for the ball.
>When cycling took off, so did Austen, similarly constrained by long skirts that could catch in the spokes; even so, with heavy camera equipment mounted on her bicycle, she ferried to Manhattan, where she famously documented turn-of-the-century urban life, enshrining the likes of street sweepers, rag pickers, egg sellers and messengers to gelatin print — producing her 1896 “Street Types of New York” portfolio.
>“She created clubs with these new activities that women were able to do, unchaperoned by men — and they were safe spaces for her and her circle of women friends who were, many of them lesbian, able to be together and have fun and really celebrate,” Munro said. “There was also a certain amount of freedom in the 1880s and 1890s, because women weren’t yet considered to even have a sexuality … so they weren’t even suspected of this kind of perceived bad behavior.”
#WomenPhotographers #WomensArt #WomensCreativity
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/photographer-alice-austen-was-queer-star-gilded-age-rcna235895

2025-10-17 22:51:49 GMT

(Hope no one here takes this the wrong way...)
#FridayFunnies
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2025-10-17 16:14:44 GMT

- reply

Yes, the presentation surely was choppy, but I stuck with it, and came away with much food for thought.
I don't know how other women want to deal with positions taken by those women with whom we do not agree, but I choose to keep our most essential issues front & center. *I don't expect to agree with every woman on every issue*. And while I may express some criticism with how some women express themselves, or disagree with a certain point of view, I try not to spend my energy getting angry or spouting vitriol at them. "Standing with women", for me, means putting differences aside in order to advocate for all of us.

2025-10-17 13:40:49 GMT

>Firstly they “uninvited” a feminist legend who has just released a book. Sheila Jeffreys had been effectively banned from Filia and so she set up an alternative event. The banishment was a childish act from an organisation which clearly underestimated how adored Sheila is. Hundreds of women signed up and it became a “must see” very quickly. The event was a great success and Sheila gave everyone free booze and laughter. Legends are like that.
>Filia’s problems intensified on Saturday when “trans” activist blokes and pro-Palestinian feminists joined together to shout at women going to and from lunch.
>“No no! That isn’t what happened! We were not with the TRA!” came the denials.
>People were rightly annoyed about this offensive display and voiced it. It was a vain and pointless political posturing, intended solely to intimidate Jewish attendees who could not exit the building without walking into this giddily hateful lot. You could hear it from inside the venue too. Intimidation and harassment such as this had been outlawed a few days earlier by Filia in an email. Many of the demonstrators were on the panels of Filia. Filia bear direct responsibility for them therefore or they should have moved this bollocks further away at the very least. Unless they condone them doing this because their politics align.
>Don’t ask security. They were all taking the bins out or something. In their absence women took to the stage to dance. A Jewish elder was surrounded by rabid Palestinian activists jabbing flags at her and waving Keffiyehs towards the crowd aggressively. It got massively out of control, other women rushed the stage to help her and try to stop the offensive “free free Palestine” chanting with flags which was strangely at odds with Aretha Franklin’s lyrics to “respect”. I was one of the women grabbing down the flags to stop the offensive bullshit. This was not dancing and it could easily have turned into something much worse given some of the statements that have been made by those women.
<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">Filia 2025 by Jean Hatchet</p><p>if you weren't banned were you really there at all?</p><a data-post-link href="https://jeanhatchet.substack.com/p/filia-2025">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2025-10-16 23:02:02 GMT

Another fine piece by Susan Pickard, exploring the thinking behind the work of Simone de Beauvoir.
>To call Beauvoir “woke” because she spoke of becoming is to misunderstand her completely. The “becoming” of The Second Sex — when she wrote, “woman is not a fixed reality but a becoming” — was not a declaration of trans-affirming identity politics but a process of existing within constraint. You become a woman through the social meanings imposed on your body; you don’t simply decide to be one. The body is not a costume, and freedom is not fantasy. Beauvoir had already seen how her ideas could be hollowed out by those eager to escape the body. In the 1970s, French feminists re-cast her existential materialism into a language of symbols; today, some trans-affirming theorists repeat the gesture, mistaking her philosophy of embodiment for a licence to disown it.
>Beauvoir would have recognised genuine suffering in those at odds with their embodiment — she took suffering seriously, as the price of existence itself. But she would never have confused that suffering with the cultural play of self-invention that now passes for liberation. She would have insisted that freedom is lived through material reality, not in denial of it.
>Those who claim her today under the banner of “intersectional” or “queer” feminism inherit her vocabulary but strip it of its weight. Beauvoir’s philosophy was existential and material; theirs, often, is linguistic and performative. She believed that ambiguity is the human condition, but she did not take that to mean that truth itself dissolves.
>When people call Beauvoir “woke,” what they often mean is that she cared about justice. She did. But she also cared about the conditions of reality that make justice difficult. She saw that freedom and the body are not enemies but uneasy companions. She refused the consolations of purity — ideological, moral, or sexual.
<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">Would Beauvoir Have Been Woke? by Susan Pickard</p><p>The answer, in a word: no.</p><a data-post-link href="https://susanpickard.substack.com/p/would-beauvoir-have-been-woke">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2025-10-15 14:40:57 GMT

“Tired of ALL Gender”, Preeti Pathak, Acrylic, Marker, Ink, 2025
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-10-13 12:41:24 GMT

Now *this* is a *real* horror story! I think Baby-farming is heinous & immoral! Women should not be incubators. Babies ought not to be products.
>American surrogacy is an enormous industry, taking in approximately $5 billion in 2024, and the practice is expected to explode globally almost tenfold in the next decade. It seems especially popular in Silicon Valley, where a growing cadre of investors and executives, from OpenAI’s Sam Altman to Dropbox’s Drew Houston, have used it to grow their families. More than a dozen big tech companies provide five-figure subsidies to any employee who needs or wants to outsource gestational labor. A shocking number of techies now believe growing a baby can be a straightforward business transaction.
>But intended parents and gestational carriers—IPs and GCs, as they’re somewhat dehumanizingly known—are often uninformed about the dearth of regulation and completely unprepared for what can go wrong. Only one state, New York, requires agencies to be licensed. Although America is the world leader in surrogacy, it’s also the developed nation with the highest maternal mortality rate and one of the highest stillbirth rates, a situation described by many as “a public health crisis.” Compared to natural conception, carrying a genetically unrelated fetus more than triples the risk of severe, potentially deadly conditions, a statistic surrogates are rarely given. IPs do not always have to disclose complete medical information, including histories of certain conditions that may harm their GCs. They don’t have to be honest about how many kids they have, why they are hiring a surrogate, or how many other surrogates they have simultaneously pregnant. Do you really know who is carrying your child—or whose child you are carrying?
>Meanwhile, the US is torn over who controls a pregnant woman’s body. The increasing acceptance of “fetal personhood” means that, in many states, losing a pregnancy can be charged as a felony and potentially punished with life in prison. This is thorny enough when it’s a woman’s own baby. It’s exponentially more fraught when the carrier isn’t the parent.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-baby-died-whose-fault-is-it-surrogate-pregnancy/

2025-10-12 20:52:52 GMT

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"It's foolish to think that atrocities towards women don't happen on both sides all the time or that MEN don't lie about their war crimes".
The truth!
I almost didn't watch this WDI video, because I'm not into war or the military, and don't understand why women would want to be involved (aside from financial considerations). But I'm glad I did. *The military encourages male aggression, which leads to rape of the women of their enemies, women on their own side, and the women who serve along side them*.
https://youtu.be/10EBHIsKN3M?si=g-6modCjsrkE8OG_

2025-10-09 16:54:11 GMT

>For reasons unknown, YouTube decided it didn’t like a discussion about the book The Transsexual Empire hosted by WDI, and removed the podcast from their platform. The book shows that some women were onto the ‘transgenderism’ phenomenon well before it became a social issue in the 21st Century. Seemingly, YouTube considers that a forbidden topic to expound on.
>Lierre Keith, executive director of the US organisation Women’s Liberation Front, answers the question often asked as to why so many feminists have taken up the cause of so-called “trans rights” at the expense of hard fought-for women’s rights, while overlooking the misogyny and patriarchy behind transgenderism.
>In this episode of Radical Feminists Perspectives, a webinar series hosted by Women’s Declaration International, Lierre and Marian show how ethical values of choice, freedom and autonomy came to be replaced by what Janice Raymond called “health values” of therapy, hormonal treatments and surgery (i.e. the medical model).
>Critical examination of sex, sexuality and sex stereotypes in women’s studies was replaced by what is now known as ‘gender studies’ following the release of Gender Trouble, Judith Butler’s 1989 book, unintelligible as it is. Lierre Keith argues that anyone who went through gender studies programmes from the 1990s was lost to feminism, as this was replaced by the “be kind” liberal feminism.
<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">YouTube cancels 'The Transsexual Empire' conversation by Women's Declaration International (WDI). by Women's Rights Party NZ</p><p>The NZ Women's Rights Party hosts this cancelled YouTube conversation, held by WDI about the book 'The Transsexual Empire', on their own website.</p><a data-post-link href="https://wrpnz.substack.com/p/youtube-cancels-the-transsexual-empire">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2025-10-06 19:56:55 GMT

Full "supermoon" in Aries tonight...
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2025-10-05 23:10:23 GMT

Australia is completely captured by Genderism...
>By imposing the criminal profile of a woman on the male pedophile, the court was able to mask the deviant nature of the pedophile and the paraphilic dynamic between the two pedophiles involved in abusing the little girl.
>By framing BDSM roleplaying as legitimate female oppression, an Australian court has validated violently misogynistic pornographic narratives in the service of affirming a pedophile as a vulnerable woman. Importantly, the pedophile was characterised, through this ideology-sodden psychology, as someone of no substantive danger to society, and more specifically, no substantive danger to women or children.
>Worse than that (I know it doesn’t seem possible), Judge Nola Karapanagiotidis said that the pedophile’s “gender identity was not fully accepted” by the women in his life, and this lack of affirmation was a mitigating factor in his crimes. In this scenario, pedophilia was accepted as a desperate act of gender affirmation by the court, and therefore, the victim’s mother and grandmother are given some responsibility for the crimes against the little girl, because they failed to affirm the girl’s father as a woman.
>Judge Nola Karapanagiotidis was at liberty to impose a sentence as long as 25 years for the crime, which is described in graphic horror in the court documents, but taking into account the mitigating circumstance, Karapanagiotidis sentenced the man to 4 years and 9 months, to be eligible for parole in 2 years and 6 months. This sentence is being served in a women’s prison.
>Among the transphobes, we sometimes sit around the fire, sharpening our broomsticks, wondering what issue may finally break the spell of trans insanity. No one guessed, not even the most cynical of the hags, that it would be a man performing sex acts on his own daughter, and that a court of law would accept that this horrific sexual violence was a gender affirming practice, reduce his sentence, and send him to a women’s prison, all because he engaged in BDSM with another man, while abusing his daughter.
<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">Victorian Feminists Predict the Future by Edie Wyatt</p><p>Repeal the injustice of Self ID</p><a data-post-link href="https://msediewyatt.substack.com/p/victorian-feminists-predict-the-future">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2025-10-04 19:11:06 GMT

>“Someone” saw the men and saw “something” that looked like rape, even if it was not. Initial police press statements mentioned “a number of locations” including the church yard. If this is a case of “the woman does not want to support a prosecution” then that is completely understandable and always is given our broken criminal justice system around sexual violence. No one should judge a woman who does not want a criminal justice outcome after rape and simply wants to pretend it did not happen.
>There are far too many “maybes” in this incident and that is not the fault of the public, or the woman in the incident, it is the fault of the police.
>Their initial communication with the public gave a clear indication of an horrific crime having been committed, there was no doubt for them or anyone reading their statements that there had indeed been a crime of sexual violence.
>The police need to be very much clearer about why there is “no evidence” and why they have closed the case so abruptly. If it is because they could not find the perpetrators, then they must say so. If it is because the woman refused to co-operate then they should say so, and this would be completely understandable on her part. If they found no evidence because the woman withdrew her complaint and wouldn’t provide it, or they could not find the third party reporter, perhaps that there was evidence but that it would be insufficient to obtain a prosecution by CPS, then they should say so.
>If, of course, the murkiness and lack of clarity is because police wanted attention to quickly go away from something that might have caused an eruption of public outrage which they would find hard to control, then they may find that is just a postponed event in any case.
<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">The 'Banbury Gang Rape' which "didn't happen". by Jean Hatchet</p><p>Something is amiss and women who are raped will pay the price. Don't they always?</p><a data-post-link href="https://jeanhatchet.substack.com/p/the-banbury-gang-rape-which-didnt">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2025-10-03 12:43:07 GMT

Living artist deserving more recognition: Erin Hanson’s modern Impressionism.
"Wildflowers in Lilac"
#Women'sArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-10-03 01:04:31 GMT

>...it’s become painfully clear how spaces once created for plus-size women to celebrate our bodies and find flattering clothing have been infiltrated by men pretending to be women. This is not a trivial annoyance; it’s part of a calculated campaign of female erasure, cloaked in the rhetoric of “inclusivity.” Companies that once catered to women’s needs are now prioritizing male fantasies of womanhood, betraying the very women who built their brands.
>Take Lane Bryant, a brand I once patronized regularly. My first job after college came with a wardrobe lovingly provided by my mother—business attire from Lane Bryant that made me feel confident and capable. For years, I was a loyal customer for all my work-wear needs. But that loyalty ended in 2021 when I saw that Lane Bryant’s Pride campaign chose to elevate a male drag queen—not bisexual or lesbian women from their actual customer base—as the face of their inclusivity efforts. Instead of celebrating the diversity of real women, they erased us entirely, replacing our lived experiences with a caricature of womanhood.
>This pattern is not confined to marketing. Online reviews, meant to provide practical insights for women, have been hijacked by men in garish makeup and ill-fitting wigs. These exhibitionists turn review sections into personal stages for validation, undermining their purpose and forcing women to navigate a grotesque display of male entitlement. What should be a supportive and helpful space for women has devolved into yet another platform for the colonization of women’s spaces.
>What’s even more troubling is the strategic exploitation of marginalized groups—such as incarcerated women and Black women in addition to plus-size women—to justify the normalization of transgender-identified males invading women’s spaces. During Georgia Senate Special Committee on the Protection of Women’s Sports meetings this fall, advocates of gender ideology argued that excluding trans-identified males from women’s sports would disproportionately harm Black and brown women. As a Black woman, I found the argument lazy, offensive, and a blatant misuse of Black and Brown women’s struggles to silence discourse. Worse, it distracts from the core issue: males, regardless of their self-identification, have no place in women’s spaces.
<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">Hijacked Sanctuaries: Reclaiming Plus-Size Women’s Spaces from Male Invasion by Kristin Zebrowski, MPA</p><p>From sanctuaries to stages for male validation, our spaces are being invaded—and it’s time to push back.</p><a data-post-link href="https://peachyradfem.com/p/hijacked-sanctuaries-reclaiming-plus">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2025-10-02 02:41:29 GMT

>Under the banner of “gender identity” kids who claim trans identities are told that they are entitled to constant affirmation, validation, and inclusion for their opposite-sex identities. They are told that any failure by others to affirm, validate, and include them based on their claimed identity is equal to hate. But let’s be clear, the values of affirmation, validation, and inclusion are not universally good or moral values. They are only good and moral in certain situations.
>Affirmation and validation are good things to offer when it comes to someone’s emotions. Someone tells you they are hurt or angry, and you can say “I acknowledge that you are hurt/angry.” But this scenario does not ask the validator to deny or abandon their own sense perceptions of reality. But when affirming and validating means going against the evidence of one’s own eyes and ears, then it becomes harmful. Sex recognition is a primal animal instinct that is engrained in all animals. Infants as young as 9 days old can distinguish between the sexes. Having a high-functioning safeguarding impulse relies on being able to trust one’s instincts. Any practice of behavior that is counter-instinctual creates dissociation and dissonance and dulls the instinctive response system. Our responsibility to ourselves is to stay grounded in reality, the primacy of our senses, and to trust our body’s signals. Teaching kids to deny these signals is a safeguarding failure.
>Inclusion also sounds like a wonderful value, and it is if you’re talking about inviting all the kids in your 3rd-grade class to your birthday. But when it comes to safeguarding boundaries are needed. And boundaries are necessarily exclusive. When boys are taught they are entitled to violate girls’ boundaries when it comes to their privacy in intimate spaces, it teaches them to practice predatory and abusive behavior. And when girls are taught by teachers and school boards that their boundaries around their bodies don’t matter, it teaches them that there is no one to turn to to help them uphold their boundaries. It teaches them to dissociate and deny their own discomfort in order to emotionally support boys. This is the opposite of healthy bodily autonomy, authority, and boundaries. This creates a vulnerability to future predation. This teaches them to accept abuse and become the caretaker of their abuser.
https://www.theknownheretic.com/p/trans-entitlement-and-sex-based-violence?r=dfyz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

2025-10-01 21:03:49 GMT

Two pigeons with falling ginkgo leaves by Japanese artist Ohara Koson, c. 1900-1930
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2025-10-01 21:03:24 GMT

Long-eared owl in ginkgo by Japanese artist Ohara Koson, c. 1900-1930
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2025-10-01 16:45:15 GMT

I spent a couple of days with a Women's Community, near the Catskills in the late 1970s, to do a performance of a Feminist theatrical piece I put together. These women's lives were full, living with respect & simplicity, because they wanted to feel a connection to each other & the Earth. Building & repairing things themselves. (I *must* mention the *huge* record collection of *only women* performers; the first time I heard Alix Dobkin). Their example stayed with me. They are still my teachers, decades later. This is why I am motivated to live as simply as possible, to acquire things second-hand rather than new, etc.
Eco-Feminists saw the connection between how the Earth & Women's Bodies are treated. No people, place or thing is *sacred* when it comes to PROFIT. If the the "powers that be" want YOU, what's on your land, or what you have *they will just take it*. Land-theft is happening *all over the world*, today. And *women's voices are always among the loudest pushing back* against the insanity of it.
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2025-10-01 14:47:53 GMT

A big hulking dude kicking an Elder? Sounds about right to me!
https://media.spinster.xyz/758c576a346fb8cac52b06e9eece35d15cef7ca14e53eb3bb31039b9ed9e46b9.webp
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2025-10-01 14:20:15 GMT

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I'll take those large ameythst clusters (because having *only* two is not enough) *and* the black cat, please!

2025-10-01 01:30:03 GMT

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I stand with you for good quality potatoes. Potatoes cooked deliciously is *a very important issue*, whether they are chips or french fries. As an American, I assure you that my homemade french fries are too tasty to be stuffed into nasal cavities.

2025-09-30 18:28:13 GMT

#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-30 18:16:51 GMT

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That's it! No French Fries for me today!

2025-09-30 12:40:52 GMT

"Perfect Timing" by Wilma Hurskainen
#WomensArt #Womens Creativity #WomensPhotography
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2025-09-30 01:54:25 GMT

Sofia Perina-Miller - Rowan Tree
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-29 19:19:55 GMT

Let's see the whole painting, shall we?
‘Birthday,’ painted by American surrealist Dorothea Tanning in 1942.
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-25 23:21:22 GMT

Flora Yukhnovich
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-25 23:13:05 GMT

Flora Yukhnovich
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-25 22:56:54 GMT

Prima ballerina Anna Pavlova and her pet swan, Jack
#WomenDancers #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-25 01:29:09 GMT

Maya Angelou
#WomensWriting #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-25 01:21:40 GMT

Audre Lorde
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2025-09-24 23:55:37 GMT

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I think "word problems" in math are *exactly used* to test both reading comprehension *and* math - which is not at all a bad thing. Also, to show math is useful in our lives. I just personally disliked combining words & numbers, *especially in a test!* Arg! It made my head hurt. I'd rather solve for "X" in a polynomial.

2025-09-24 23:24:48 GMT

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2025-09-24 22:56:49 GMT

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2025-09-24 22:52:06 GMT

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Yes! I always hated those "word problems" in Math class...

2025-09-24 22:45:32 GMT

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2025-09-24 14:23:21 GMT

Ponder the insanity of it: a woman faces jail time for calling a MAN, (who “identifies as a woman”), a MAN. Which is what he is, pre-op or post-op, down to his XY chromosomes & his male privilege demanding that all of society participate in his fetish.
Rex, and other women like her, are being punished for telling the truth. Our “secular” governments have been taken over by Genderism, which is a belief system, complete with zealots, who want to hurt - anyway they can - women who won’t play along & pretend.
Truth is not hate, and women around the world support Rex, whose right to free speech in a supposedly Democratic society, is at stake.
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2025-09-21 02:27:35 GMT

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2025-09-21 02:16:20 GMT

#WomenScientists #WomensCreativity #StolenCredit
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2025-09-21 01:14:16 GMT

Siamese cat by Yelena Bryksenkova
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity #Caturday
https://media.spinster.xyz/96bd007d54945873c5e79521c5f5b04782271c8311d773e5adfcf4e8a77d4279.webp

2025-09-21 00:55:14 GMT

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2025-09-16 14:24:26 GMT

Paula Mela
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-16 14:21:40 GMT

Paula Mela
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
https://media.spinster.xyz/c80984804df6386d222aa6dd7d1ab4c56dbe997339b80add06b206465597930a.webp

2025-09-14 23:45:25 GMT

Jane Austen - Nikoleta Sekulovic
From her Rossetti Collection https://www.nikoletasekulovic.com/rossetti-collection
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-14 23:41:31 GMT

Vita Sackville-West - Nikoleta Sekulovic
From her Rossetti Collection https://www.nikoletasekulovic.com/rossetti-collection
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-14 23:30:12 GMT

Virginia Woolf - Nikoleta Sekulovic
From her Rossetti Collection https://www.nikoletasekulovic.com/rossetti-collection
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-14 23:27:08 GMT

Collette - Nikoleta Sekulovic
From her Rossetti Collection
https://www.nikoletasekulovic.com/rossetti-collection
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-14 23:16:21 GMT

>I am an artist and mother to two young daughters, presently living and creating in Madrid. I was born in Rome to a German mother and a Serbian father - raised in Switzerland, fluent in five languages, and married to a New Zealander. I have lived and worked in Paris, London and New York. Thanks to this diverse background that has enabled me to see the world from a broader standpoint I have come to the conclusion that - if you don’t have any roots, you can grow yourself a pair of wings.
Artist Nikoleta Sekulovic in her studio
# WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-14 18:30:48 GMT

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*But, but, BUT*...the male-cross dressers & supporters don't *want* this murder to be attributed to *their* position...and if they *really believe* in something (such as actually being the opposite sex), it *must* be so!

2025-09-14 18:18:40 GMT

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Did you see the narrative little MISTER Labelle is spinning?
Personally, I am not terribly interested in the motive. A man was murdered, let the murderer be tried *for murder*.
People have shown us their capacity for outrage, violence & *schadenfreude* & polarization has deepened. Political chaos has been achieved.
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2025-09-14 17:48:41 GMT

I know this look; I see it everyday. *Those eyes*. I don't even have a glass table - I can *feel* those eyes, which *compel* me to *share*...
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2025-09-13 17:54:18 GMT

Cats with Puppy
#Caturday
https://youtu.be/DqDSkxDA7nI?si=UtGWPVjq0JE7SWJH

2025-09-13 15:10:02 GMT

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An *excellent* article. I encourage other women, when they have time for a *slower* & more careful read than we usually do on the internet, to do so. Thank you for posting!

2025-09-12 21:22:54 GMT

This is funny...and yet *not quite* funny at the same time...
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2025-09-12 21:09:05 GMT

Laura Wheeler Waring, Girl in Pink, 1927, oil on canvas.
#WomensArt #WomensCreativity
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2025-09-12 20:48:06 GMT

It took Italian astro-photographer Marcella Julia Pace 10 years to capture these 48 colors of the Moon.
#WomensArt #Womens Creativity
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2025-09-12 15:01:25 GMT

FFS (Free Female Speech) Friday, courtesy Kara Dansky!
>I first met Kellie-Jay Keen virtually, in 2018, while we were planning her trip to the US with Dr. Julia Long and Venice Allan. Then, we met in person in early 2019 during that trip. We have met in person several times since then, either in London or in Washington DC. I have forgotten the number of times.
>For anyone who doesn’t know, she runs the group Let Women Speak and founded the Party of Women in the UK. She runs events all over the world where women are invited to speak about the harms that “gender identity” poses in their lives (and generally). She is a powerhouse.
>Kellie-Jay and I do not agree on everything. In 2024, she encouraged American TERFs to vote for Donald Trump. I was not about to do that, and I didn’t (though I didn’t vote for Harris either). Regardless of any political disagreements, there can be no doubt whatsoever that she has been one of the loudest and strongest voices in standing up for women and children, globally. She doesn’t compromise and she doesn’t take any shit. I have nothing but the deepest admiration for her, for what she has accomplished, and for her commitment to women and girls as a sex class.
<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">FFS Friday: Kellie-Jay Keen by Kara Dansky</p><p></p><a data-post-link href="https://karadansky.substack.com/p/ffs-friday-kellie-jay-keen">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2025-09-12 14:51:14 GMT

>Estrogen is prescribed to trans-identified males off-label to feminize the body through breast growth, fat redistribution, and softening of the skin – cosmetic enhancements of secondary sex characteristics. Because estrogen is prescribed off-label, it has not been subject to FDA approval, nor are outcomes closely monitored. Informed consent forms list some adverse effects, but the risks are quickly minimized by statements like “The risks are rare”, which appears in Planned Parenthood’s informed consent form. The following sentence on the form, “There may be long-term risks we don’t know about,” is truer, albeit because medicine has not asked the question, monitored patient outcomes, or does not want to know the answer.
>Are doctors too arrogant, lazy, or ideologically captured to learn about estrogen’s adverse effects on males? Who will educate our brilliant sons, who are naïve and believe that doctors know best?
<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">Yes, Estrogen is really bad for men by PITT</p><p></p><a data-post-link href="https://www.pittparents.com/p/yes-estrogen-is-really-bad-for-men">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2025-09-12 12:19:30 GMT

>Just as surrogacy contracts eroded the surrogate’s agency and dignity, this robotic alternative isolates the human connection even further. The child develops in a machine, devoid of maternal touch. The woman—already harmed in surrogacy by loss of privacy, loss of maternal connection, and loss of control—would be absent altogether. If we treat reproductive functions as commodities, is it any surprise that technology would make those functions replaceable? This raises urgent ethical questions: What is lost when gestation shifts from bodies to machines? When reproduction becomes an assembly line rather than an encounter?
>In my work as a perinatal nurse, I see every day how vital the bond between mother and baby is—even before birth. Fetal development is profoundly intertwined with the mother’s own body—shaped by the steady rhythm of her heartbeat, the sounds of her voice, and even the emotions she experiences and conveys. At the same time, pregnancy is not simply a biological process; it is a human relationship in which touch, sound, and presence shape both the mother and the child. No machine, however advanced, can replicate the embodied experience of carrying a child—the rhythms of heartbeat and breath, the shared vulnerability, the reciprocity of human life knit together in the womb. To strip away that relational reality is to risk severing one of the most essential threads of our humanity.
>Artificial wombs and pregnancy robots may transform fertility landscapes—but they threaten to erode what it means to be human.
https://cbc-network.org/2025/08/mechanized-womb/

2025-09-12 00:34:07 GMT

Menopause has been wonderful! In many ways, I have returned to that spark of a being I was once as a girl. I like being an Old Lady. I feel free. This a lovely article by Milli Hill:
>Oestrogen, in some ways, derails us. It softens our judgement and encourages a more forgiving nature. It blinds us to faults. It urges us to reproduce. Under oestrogen’s spell, we obey, only to feel shocked at the scene that surrounds us when menopause shakes us roughly awake. For many of us, some of the struggle of ‘The Change’ has a ‘morning after the night before’ vibe: why did I do that? what was I thinking? We look at the choices we’ve made and where they’ve led us with fresh eyes, and many of us feel awakened to a sense we’ve been exploited, and determined to be a lot less tolerant. No wonder Robert Wilson, as well as countless other doctors and mental health experts, have explored a variety of ways to numb women of this age and put them firmly back to sleep.
>Amidst this time of revision, I also feel a sense of return. Who was that girl in the 1980s, what were her priorities, what were her dreams, before puberty changed her? I remember being her...At that point I had no limits on my sense of what I could become. Nor did I particularly think about what I would become, because for the most part, I was absorbed in the present moment, and carefree. When adults asked what I wished to be when I grew up, my answer would depend on what book character I’d most recently fallen in love with: I’d be a nurse, a show jumper, a stable boy, a detective, I really had no idea.
>There is a ‘what now’ feeling about this time of life. There is a pressure to ‘grow’, but what if we already ‘are’. Rather than becoming someone new, maybe we simply need to return to the person we always were, before love, sex, motherhood and oestrogen distracted us? Who was that core person; what pleased her; what were her needs? Were there dreams she had that are yet to be fulfilled? Were there activities she enjoyed that have long been abandoned? Now, there is space for her again. But who was she then, and who is she now?
<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">Menopause as a return by Milli Hill</p><p>Thoughts on going back to the person we were before that surge in oestrogen</p><a data-post-link href="https://millihill.substack.com/p/menopause-as-a-return">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2025-09-12 00:15:55 GMT

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2025-09-10 19:59:03 GMT

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2025-09-10 17:56:08 GMT

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2025-09-07 12:39:13 GMT

>We know that girls cannot be educated beyond 12 years of age, women cannot attend university and working is difficult because women have to have a male chaperone to appear out in public. They must be completely covered in loose clothing. They cannot attend gyms to exercise. They cannot speak in public and cannot read aloud even in their own homes. They can be stoned to death if a male relative accuses them of a transgression against him. Girls can be “married”, effectively traded to other men for sex, at eleven or twelve. They can be routinely beaten, raped and no man really cares if they are killed. They cannot be seen through windows and one Taliban representative has suggested that a woman only really needs one eye, though this is not, as yet, official law.
>If women are being rescued on mountain villages, and few are, then it is only by a male relative, but most of those men are running down the hills to be rescued by other men, scrambling for rescue helicopters. We have seen them. Cowardly, self-serving and misogynist from the top of their heads to the tip of their fleeing heels.
>I do not think these village men are victims of the Taliban regime, I think they are beneficiaries. They have complete control of women domestically and sexually. They may not have much, but they have the right to unrestrained sex with the woman in their home as often as they like, and she must fulfil his every other physical need too. She cannot leave the house if he says no, he can kill her if she objects. If these men wanted they could rise against the Taliban, form or join a resistance network, but they do not. They are not all cowards, most are colluders. Men are benefiting from the degradation of women in Afghanistan. This is the patriarchal dream. Delivered by Akhundzada straight to their door and they have grabbed it with both hands.
<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">Dead untouchable. by Jean Hatchet</p><p>Women in Afghanistan are left to die beneath Earthquake rubble because they are simply broken possessions and can be replaced. </p><a data-post-link href="https://jeanhatchet.substack.com/p/dead-untouchable">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2025-08-26 18:05:16 GMT

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2025-08-20 00:33:52 GMT

I don't watch sports involving cheerleaders, so all I'll say is that while I loathe *men pretending to be women* as cheerleaders, males cheerleading alongside women doesn't much bother me. But if you're interested in some depth in the matter, Helen Joyce has some good points.
>So, to recap. The Minnesota Vikings American football team shared a video of its cheerleaders, most of them the usual perky, fit, athletic young women, but now with the addition of two men, Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn.
>I’m sure that there’s a whole discourse among NFL fans that I’m not alert to. But the first I saw of it was Billboard Chris, a Canadian man who for some years now has travelled the world wearing sandwich boards with slogans such as “no child can consent to puberty blockers”, and engaged in conversations with all and sundry, many of them filmed and put on social media. Chris is a social conservative who blames most or all of transgenderism on “feminists”. For him, the problem with these young men is that they are dancing “like girls” and that’s not OK.
>By one analysis, Billboard Chris is a “gender conservative”– he thinks that only women (female people) should be permitted to do “feminine” things, in this case to bounce and wiggle and shake pompoms. Transactivists are “gender essentialists” – they think that if you bounce and wiggle and shake pompoms then whatever you were “assigned at birth”, you’re a girl. The path of wisdom, therefore, is to eschew “gender” entirely and accept that both female and male people should be permitted to move like this without it meaning anything about them, about the two sexes or about anything else.
>A man dancing “like a girl” while not pretending he’s actually a girl isn’t inherently an issue for anyone else; a man forcing his way into all-female spaces where women are vulnerable on the basis that he really is a woman certainly is a problem for the rest of us...
<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">Reflections on male cheerleaders by Helen Joyce</p><p>Why people pretend not to know what it means to dance like a girl</p><a data-post-link href="https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/p/joyce-activated-issue-116">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

2025-08-20 00:10:17 GMT

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2025-08-14 11:47:41 GMT

>A one-month-old baby girl just died after suffering female genital cutting. She was rushed to a hospital with severe bleeding, but was pronounced dead on arrival.
>This is sparking global outrage – and showing, in the most devastating way, the urgent need to protect every girl from this brutal practice.
>Right now, there is momentum in Sierra Leone to ban female genital mutilation. West Africa’s highest court JUST ruled that FGM is a form of torture and ordered Sierra Leone to outlaw it.
>Sierra Leone’s President Bio is sympathetic, and he has the power to push for it — but Parliament is blocking. Let’s show him the world supports a ban! If enough of us sign, we’ll take our call directly to his office, together with Sierra Leone’s youth, and launch a hard-hitting ad campaign. Sign now:
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/sierra_leone_loc/?copy&utm_source=copy&utm_medium=social_share&utm_campaign=55121&share_location=post_action