Author: Sarah

  • Transphobia and patriarchy in action: Jason Wong

    On Tuesday night, I wrote and published this piece on transphobic feminism, and how it’s inherently part of the patriarchy. On Wednesday morning, I woke up to find out about a comment piece written by LSE student Jason Wong that was printed in London Student on the subject of gender-neutral toilets:

  • Transphobic feminism as patriarchy

    This is a follow on from Erica‘s brilliant piece on trans-exclusive radical feminists, “Doing the Patriarchy’s Work and Calling it Feminism“, which I highly suggest people read before reading this. It’s a brilliant post and should only take you a few minutes. Finished it? Okay.

  • Sisterhood of the Oppressed

    Yes, I know I’m writing this… four? weeks late. Deal with it. Truth be told, I’ve had a problem putting the words together. Something that has really come to a head in the skeptic community recently is its intersection with other social justice causes. Especially feminism, but also, to an extent, anti-racism, LGBT activism, and…

  • Those homophobic Lib Dems and those gay-friendly Tories

    “Homophobia”, cried Conservative Future on Friday, the day after the Lib Dems won the Grove Ward by-election in Kingston. “A return to 1983!”, cried the Lib Dem bashers around the internet (including famous opponent of equal marriage Ben Summerskill, but that’s for the next post). Why? Because the election was described as a “straight fight”,…

  • Why I’m Out4Marriage

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    Please consider supporting campaigns such as Out4Marriage and the Coalition for Equal Marriage. It was World Pride Day in London yesterday and I’m stuck in Yorkshire. So I thought I’d do a few posts over the following days about LGBT stuff. This is the first one. It’s something I think I should’ve done a long…