In the current UK academy, the deployment of the ‘No Platform’ policy now seems to have migrated to a ‘No Journal Editor’ policy as evidenced by the pressure put on two academics last week to stand down from their editorial roles. In the first instance, Sarah Honeychurch, one of the editors of the journal Hybrid…
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Declaration of Women’s Sex-Based Rights NYC March 2019
Read morefeaturing Dr. Sheila Jeffreys, Dr. Heather Brunskell-Evans, and Maureen O’Hara SUMMARY DECLARATION ON WOMEN’S SEX BASED RIGHTS The Declaration outlines current international laws and policies on women’s rights and how they are being threatened by organisations that are trying to change the definition of woman. It reaffirms existing women’s rights and suggests ways that states…
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Trans Activism vs Feminism (and the Wider World): Heather Brunskell-Evans in Conversation with Julian Vigo
Read moreTHE COTO CONVERSATION At Culture on the Offensive, one of the goals is to showcase new conversations that have trouble being heard in the wider political discourse. Identitarian movements speaking on behalf of minorities and vulnerable groups are developing a reputation for attempting to stigmatise and prohibit many of these conversations. These prohibitions are done…
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FiLiA meets Carol J Adams : The Sexual Politics of Meat
Read moreCarol J. Adams is an American activist and author who has written extensively on the sexual politics of meat. Here she discusses how a culture of meat-eating and the objectification of women as flesh to be consumed are intimately connected. Carol argues that veganism and the dismantling of misogny go hand-in-hand. Here is Carol’s…
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The Ministry of Trans Truth
Read moreThe language of transgenderism is designed to silence dissent. I’m fascinated by the way that concepts apparently arise from nowhere, take hold in the popular imagination, then become naturalised and beyond question. One such idea is that individuals can be ‘born in the wrong body’, so that men can be women. Since there is no…
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Upcoming C4 Talk with Stella O’Malley
Read moreI joined Stella O’Malley to talk about the issue of transitioning our children and young people, and of the sheer violence that can occur if anyone even suggests there may be a safeguarding issue. In my view we are morally obliged to discuss ALL aspects of this topic. This talk will be screend on C4…