Her writing was met with admiration but her personhood met with indifference. She was praised as a writer fighting against confines of gender, only to have that very label weaponised against her.
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I want women to feel empowered to take a stand in Pakistani societies for their rights and freedoms. I think the best way is if we start conversations about such topics and bring awareness and acceptance towards these issues as cruelty towards women.
No one ever told those boys in the playground that you don’t show a girl you like her by shoving her down and pulling on her pigtails until she gives into you.
This article has been written to address the whorephobic and transphobic narratives put forth by the article “Postfeminism is a plague” published in the 2024 Autonomous Women’s edition of Honi Soit.
TERFs are not feminists — they are anything but. They have nothing on the topic of women’s rights to discuss except for their unfounded hatred of trans people.
The University of Sydney Philosophy Department has listed Holly Lawford-Smith, Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, as one of its speakers in its Semester 2 seminar series.
My first year art history subject, ARHT1001 Style and Substance: Introducing Art History, discussed “women artists’ as a ‘theme’ in…
People talk about feeling a pull from the ocean: its call, their response, and a splendid union. I can’t say I’ve felt the same. My pull comes from within, it is manic and obsessive. Every other thought is suffocated by my desperation for submersion. Returning to the water is a compulsion.
In our current era, choice feminism and postfeminism collide inside an online algorithm which favours therapy-speak and is designed specifically to dissuade nuance and maximise profit margins, creating a toxic narrative: the widespread and mindless glorification of values and behaviours that uphold patriarchy, using the language of ‘feminism’.
If we leave animals out of our liberation struggles, then we are taking the playbook of our oppressors, and using it to subjugate others.
