Time dedicated its latest cover to Elliot Page (formerly Ellen). 'I am entirely what I am,' he says. Pale, emaciated, his features already hardened by the hormone treatment, his chest flattened by a double mastectomy, the air not exactly happy - let's hope that the rest of his life will go better - Elliot tells of the suffering of having had to undergo the hyper-feminisation imposed by Hollywood. He says that even at the age of 9 he felt like a boy and that it was hard having to accept the roles that [...]

In the Japan of 2020, women's bodies are still a kind of comfort that can be bought and consumed when needed. "Comfort women" first for the Japanese army, then for allies, then for employees on company outings, and now for other women as well. It is the so-called "lesbian prostitution" (lesbian fūzoku). This is not prostitution within the lesbian community, but an attempt to expand the prostitution "market" to women. A [...]

Never as much as in these days Italian women should feel close to British women: the feminicide of Sarah Everard, 33 years old kidnapped and killed for whose death a policeman, Wayne Couzens, has already been arrested, has made the vase of oppression, abuse and male violence against women and girls of all ages overflow (the number of feminicides in the UK is similar to the Italian one: on average a woman killed because she is a woman every three days). The remains [...]

For those who don't believe in the violence of queer transactivists: this video shows the brutal trans-square assault on Christophe Elston, a man from Vancouver (Canada) who has long been in the crosshairs of the ARF for his support of JK Rowling and his fight against puberty blockers for girls and boys. A poster made and put up by Elston, simply with the words "I love JK Rowlings", was vandalised and immediately covered up by Vancouver City Council billboard officers [...]

Senate President Maria Elena Alberti Casellati is a distinguished lady with a polite smile and a bombastic name. Politically, she is on the right. In other times we would have defined her as a conservative Christian Democrat. She is also a stranger to feminism, which did not prevent her, in her inaugural speech, from speaking firmly and non-rhetorically about the phenomenon of misogynistic violence. I happened to think of her again after the webinar on Veil and Freedom with Marina Terragni, Sara Punzo and Maryan Ismail. [...]

While the Italian left, women included, silently suffers Cirinnismo and Boldrinismo and its transcult (just in these days the news of an appeal by the International House of Women in Rome in support of Monica Cirinnà as mayor, see here), the militants of the Spanish left, Podemos and Izquierda Unida, are revolting en masse against the Ley Trans (see here) proposed by the Minister of Igualdad of their own party, Irene Montero, the local Cirinnà (Psoe has always opposed the law), denouncing the "imposition" of [...]

Two judgments of the Constitutional Court - issued on 28 January, the reasons for which have been made known in the last few hours - invite Italian legislators to identify devices which, in the name of the "superior interest of the child", allow so-called "intentional parents", including those who commission a surrogacy, to be recognised as parents for all intents and purposes even in the absence of biological ties and even if they have committed a crime. While rejecting as "inadmissible" the questions posed by the first section of the Supreme Court regarding two cases [...]

Yesterday in Florence during the 8th of March demonstration some young radical feminists protesting against the prostitution system and in favour of the Nordic abolitionist model were attacked by a group of Non Una di Meno activists who tore down their placards. The group also included a man who had spoken during the demonstration (see here) and whom the girls point to as this person. Non Una di Meno is invaded by men who carry out the [...]

Being against trans ideology does not at all mean hating trans people or being trans exclusionary, as queers shout. Far from it. Like women, transgender people do not benefit from trans-ideology. Columnist Debbie Hayton explains this very well and definitively. Who - incidentally - is trans. Readers of the New York Times might wonder how trans people survive in the UK. On the other side of the Atlantic, the paper speaks of a hostile climate in which both the left and the right [...]

Starting on 9 March, the Academy of Spirituality and Ecology is promoting a cycle of six meetings entitled "As on earth, so in heaven" with the aim of illustrating the profound connection between the way we think about nature, the earth, the universe and our relationship with the environment that nourishes us and surrounds us. A unique training opportunity to rediscover "the need for a cosmic spirituality, which allows us to recover the sacredness of women's bodies and the earth, in a situation where [...]

I am only mentioning this now, after the judge has ordered the case to be filed. I was sued by Alexander Schuster, a well-known exponent of the Lenford Network - Advocacy for Gay and Lesbian Rights. The subject of the lawsuit was a Facebook post in which I merely quoted (in inverted commas) the statements of a member of Arcilesbica, Giovanna Camertoni, regarding a stormy evening on the uterus for rent organised in Trento by Arcigay and Famiglie Arcobaleno. Here is the post: TRENTO, UTERUS FOR RENT: GIOVANNA CAMERTONI OF ARCILESBICA CENSORSED BY ARCIGAY AND FAMILIES Arcobaleno [...]

Despite the opening monologue, perhaps Good Girls, a series produced by Jenna Bans (visible on Netflix) is not exactly feminist. But it's still worth a mention. The series is about three busy Detroit mums grappling with an impromptu career in crime and the struggles of being a woman in a patriarchal world. We'll recognize ourselves in familiar details, for better or worse: the struggle of dealing with one's mother-in-law, the insidious bonds that trap us, the toxic relationships with men who [...]