The name of the site is a play on words that cannot be translated into Italian. The site's creators inform that it has already been used by animal feminists such as Posie Parker, Nicole Roelens and the Boucherie Abolition collective. It would make one think of anti-specism, it is actually more and in some respects a little different. 'Femelle' in French means the female animal (for the human one, the same word as woman, femme, is used). Since they fight for sexual rights [...]

With the decree of the Directorate-General for Social and Socio-Health Policies No 349 of 12/11/2021, published in Burc 108 of 15/11/2021, the Campania Region intends to finance projects to combat violence exclusively in favour of 'victims of violence determined by sexual orientation and gender identity'. We have nothing against the support of fragile or discriminated against groups. On the contrary, we expect the same intention towards women and children, specifying that violence against women cannot be included in a repertoire [...].

"Spinning" and "weaving": the time of the crisis Covid, by slowing down the pace of everyday life, has offered us this precious opportunity, opening up unusual spaces for reflection and attentive looks at the present-future. "Spinning and Weaving: Radical Feminism for the 21st century", edited by Elizabeth Miller, collects contributions from women around the world outlining Radical Feminism for the 21st century. What is the text about? What findings emerge? What are women in the world saying? We ask Elizabeth Miller who [...]

Disaster of identitarianism: I was supposed to interview the American essayist at Mantua's Festivaletteratura but, 24 hours before, she cancelled the meeting, opting for a speech without a debate. They told her I was 'transphobic' and that she would get into trouble. Here are my questions, which she had wanted in advance: you judge When I announced on Twitter that I would be interviewing Rebecca Solnit at the Festivaletteratura in Mantua, one user warned me: "A transfeminist open to debate?". I would never have imagined that 24 [...]

When I announced on Twitter that I would be interviewing Rebecca Solnit at the Festivaletteratura in Mantua, a user warned me: "A transfeminist open to debate?". I would never have imagined that 24 hours before the meeting, with no respect for my work, Solnit would have refused the dialogue - opting for a short speech without a debate - because, according to her, I am 'transphobic'. Dear Twitter friend, I should have listened to you. Things like this have happened to many others, and many times. JK Rowling, a [...]

When someone questions the fairness of male-born athletes competing with women, they usually reply that their performance has deteriorated since the 'gender transition'. Apart from the fact that sports competitions are divided by gender according to the sexual difference of men's and women's bodies and not according to performance parameters, is it true that lowered testosterone levels would worsen the results of male athletes who say they 'feel like women'? [...]

The Court of Appeal of the Employment Tribunal in England issued its judgment in the Forstater case on 10 June today. The Court ruled that belief in the immutability of biological sex is a form of opinion protected by Article 9(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights. What had happened, and what will happen now to Maya Forstater? Let's take a step back. In 2019 Maya, a researcher at the Center for Global Development in London, expressed in a series of tweets some criticisms [...]

For years, free thought has been under attack in academies all over the western world, including Italy, with particular regard to the discussion of sex and gender issues. The spread of cancel culture, tribalistic-identitarian posturing, safe spaces and the obsession with "political correctness" are strangling freedom of expression and research almost everywhere, contributing significantly to building a society terrorised and dumbed down by censorship and self-censorship. That teachers are being silenced, threatened [...]

Feminism, which is critical of the Zan bill, has recently issued a communiqué -see here- listing once again the reasons why we are opposed not to a law against homotransphobia, but to THIS law against homotransphobia. Reasons that are always the same, since months, and as such perfectly debatable in a confrontation -if it was accepted, but so far it has not happened-. It is rather depressing that instead of considering these reasons, instead of confronting them [...]

"There is a stubbornness in me that does not tolerate being intimidated by the will of others. My courage rises at every attempt to frighten me'. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813 An earthquake is shaking Anglo-Saxon universities. Gender-critical female professors have provoked it, risking their careers by denouncing the loss of academic freedom and the intimidating climate in which sex, gender and gender identity are discussed. "The gender identity movement is erasing people's freedom of speech and the academic freedom of anyone who does not [...]

I think a lot of us are feeling pretty down right now. Covids, stressful political changes, lockdowns, having to wear a mask everywhere we go (and hardly ever leaving the house!) and I could go on. But if there is a glimmer of light in the midst of all this misery it is the remarkable success of feminism worldwide - in particular, radical feminism. Don't get me wrong: feminism still has its work cut out for it, both in the ongoing struggle for [...]