Marguerite, Matisse's daughter, always portrayed with a black collar. Michelina, Balthus' child model. Costanza Bonarelli, Lorenzo Bernini's model and lover, whom he scarred after an affair. Who are the women we see portrayed in many famous paintings, and what is their story? He tells them in The Hidden Muses. Forgotten protagonists of great works of art by the journalist Lauretta Colonnelli, who discusses them with Tiziana Ricci, owner of the programme I girasoli on Radio Popolare (whom we thank for the [...]

A letter to be signed immediately! (In the United States, the Equality Act, which has already passed the House of Representatives, is about to be approved in the Senate. As Feminist Post has repeatedly reported, the Equality Act, strongly supported by the Biden administration, effectively replaces the concept of "sex" with that of "gender identity", erasing women, girls and children and making being a woman a "choice" available to men. Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights, which has a network of 15,000 adherents [...]

The American Democratic Party is being torn apart by the Andrew Cuomo affair, the New York state governor accused of harassment by three women, and by other important issues such as the diatribe between moderates and Sanders' left wing on the failure to raise the minimum wage. But it regains its unity on the issue of transgender rights, to which Joe Biden has been devoting extraordinary attention since the very first hours of his mandate, to the point of threatening sanctions against those countries that have [...]

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 [...]

In Great Britain, despite the increase of domestic violence during the lockdown -one feminicide every 3 days, the same average as in Italy- two shelters for battered women were dismantled because they were not 'gender neutral' enough. Brighton City Council told Rise that despite 25 years of shelter and despite being trans-inclusive, it remains 'much more accessible to women'. In order to include "both heterosexual and gay male survivors" council services will have to become "gender-neutral". In the [...]

A very intense text. It is the sharing in writing of the work of self-consciousness that A., a twenty-year-old native Peruvian immigrant girl in Italy, is doing on herself in order to process the fatigue and pain of having grown up in the strongly patriarchal context of her family of origin. A.'s intention is to get rid of self-sexism, recognising in her mother a "sister" who is a victim of the same violence she suffered, forgiving her for her apparent "complicity" and for her silent acceptance [...]

This article by Julie Bindel analyses why in every case of feminicide one always empathically looks for 'reasons' that can somehow justify the murderer (better said: one looks for ways to give him some reasons). He was depressed, unemployed, distressed, exhausted, blinded by jealousy. Exasperated. So he killed her. Of course, he shouldn't have done it: but that's why he did it. The media constantly and methodically do this job: they look for the "reasons", they try [...]

Caroline Fourest (La Génération Offensée) explains: 'Patriarchy is cunning. It has more than one ace up its sleeve, otherwise it would have disappeared long ago. In our day, it has found the mask of "intersectional feminism" to explain to young feminists that the fight against genital mutilation or against the veil plays into the hands of racists, and that it would be better to accuse secular and universalist feminists of being dirty white bourgeois and Islamophobic. Even when they are of Muslim culture and denounce [...]

What you see in the picture are not dolls. They are child-shaped sex toys used by fetishists who insert them inside their bodies in order to 'give birth' to them. The fact that there is an online trade in these objects testifies to the widespread popularity and social acceptance of this type of paraphilia, which the clinic calls autogynephilia. In addition to using women's clothing and accessories, as in the practice of cross-dressing, autogynephiliacs fetishise menstruation for erotic purposes -using tampons found at the [...]

In the beginning was Second Life! Second Life is an online digital virtual world that saw the light of day in 2003. Anyone can enter the game by assuming an avatar (a likeness/character), move, relate, act using that avatar, and create the content of the entire virtual world through interactions. One can get lost in this virtual reality of 'total immersion' and 'parallel reality'. It is difficult to say whether 'Second Life' generated the phenomenon, predicted it, foretold it or inspired it. The fact is that [...]

It seems that nowadays it is the colossal private companies (from Amazon to Twitter to Facebook) that decide what is permissible to think-say-write, punishing you with a ban or censorship if what you think-say-write 'violates standards' (this is usually the formula). In the last few days it has been the turn of the well-known British activist Posie Parker, whose Zoom account has been temporarily suspended, with the threat of definitive blocking, for her gender-critical positions. Sometimes you're not even told in [...]

Gender studies, which was born to welcome female knowledge and represent it in the academies, has long since become a transfeminist and queer reserve (Julie Bindel explains it here). Provincially, Italian universities are in line with the trend - the phenomenon is consolidated in the Anglo-Saxon world and indeed shows some signs of abating - and in their educational offerings they do not fail to include proposals such as this one from the University of Turin, Department of Law: "Seminar on Lgbtq+ Law" (?), a compendium of the themes of that subculture - [...]