Tag: feminism

The Spanish feminist association Rapiegas is launching a campaign against advertising for the 'donation' of egg cells in universities with the aim of recruiting as many young women as possible (to join the campaign click here). Egg cells are a scarce and valuable material, in great demand for both heterologous assisted reproduction and research. The 2006 Spanish law on Human Assisted Fertilisation Techniques prohibits "advertisements or campaigns encouraging the donation of human cells and tissues... in [...]

Radical feminism around the world is discussing the need to stop having illusions about the left's support for the women's movement. Today, on the contrary, left-wing transhumanism (free sex work, free uterus for rent, support for gender identity, hormones for girls and boys and all the rest) is creating many problems for women. Here is an example of left-wing anti-feminism of these very days: the newspaper Il Manifesto which reduces to a brawl between envious hysterics (Carmen [...]

Today in Italy as in the rest of the world is the day of chocolates, flowers and soft toys. The day that if you're single you hate all couples and if you're engaged you start planning two weeks in advance where you'll have dinner, what you'll wear and what you'll give him as a present. Instead, today, with a feminist conscience, I want to propose something to you. I propose that you ask yourself: what do you do to love yourself? Ask yourself if you give yourself the self-love you deserve and how you give it to yourself. I believe there is no better day [...]

Another dimension. Looking for an image of how I feel after learning of Nadia Riva's sudden death, two come to mind: a kind of chasm, in that courtyard of the railing in Via Col di Lana, Milan, where she lived. As if a meteorite had struck, no less. And then I feel I've entered the dimension of no-more-Nadia, a dimension of which I currently understand very little. I'm talking about Nadia on the sidelines, I'm certainly the last to have the right to do so. But [...]

A wonderful testimony from our new contributor Valentina Beoni. When I was still identifying as a transgender man, I often reacted badly to comments on social media and in particular those from radical feminists (whom I called "TERF"). I'd even fallen out with Magdalen Berns, a gender critical British youtuber who passed away in 2019, because at her statement "you are not a male" I'd heaped insults on her. As soon as I decided to stop transitioning I [...]

Feminism is neither right-wing nor left-wing. To anyone who doubts the continuing influence of the American Empire, the international response to Ruth Bader Ginsberg's death should give pause for thought. Twitter in Britain - always focused on American events - was immediately filled with feverish speculation about who might replace her on the US Supreme Court. Glasgow City's women's football team announced that they would put her name on a banner as a tribute to [...]