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There’s a version of feminism out there that wears a pussyhat, clutches her pearls, and still calls the manager when a sex worker speaks at a panel. She’s the board member who proudly posts “women supporting women” selfies, yet signs off on policies that systematically exclude trans women, criminalized mothers, and survivors who sell sex just to stay housed. She believes in women’s empowerment - as long as it arrives wrapped in a college degree, a polished LinkedIn profile, and a sworn rejection of OnlyFans.

  1. The Lesbian Feminist Who Refused to Abandon Sex Workers: Pat Califia and the Politics of Sexual Dissent

    May 27

    The Lesbian Feminist Who Refused to Abandon Sex Workers: Pat Califia and the Politics of Sexual Dissent

    One of the strangest recurring patterns inside institutional feminism is how efficiently it forgets the women who challenged its boundaries most aggressively. Not accidentally forgets - the forgetting tends to be too consistent and too convenient to be accidental. The women who are quietly edited out of official histories are usually the ones whose existence raises questions the institution is not prepared to answer. The ones whose politics could not be absorbed without requiring something to change.

    13 min
  2. The Woman Behind the Protest Signs: Margo St. James and the Politics of Naming Yourself

    May 27

    The Woman Behind the Protest Signs: Margo St. James and the Politics of Naming Yourself

    One of the strangest recurring patterns inside institutional feminism is how efficiently it forgets the women who challenged its boundaries most aggressively. Not accidentally forgets - the forgetting tends to be too consistent and too convenient to be accidental. The women who are quietly edited out of official histories are usually the ones whose existence raises questions the institution is not prepared to answer. The ones whose politics could not be absorbed without requiring something to change.

    13 min

  3. May 27

    What Is Carceral Feminism?

    Carceral feminism is a branch of feminist politics that relies primarily on policing, prosecution, incarceration, and other punitive state mechanisms as the main tools for addressing gender-based violence, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and abuse. It treats punishment as a path to liberation  -  but critics argue that in practice, it often strengthens the very systems that harm the people feminism claims to protect. Carceral feminism didn't begin as a conspiracy. It began as a strategy.

    15 min

  4. Apr 22 ·  Video

    Not Your Mama’s Feminism: The Policy in Practice - The Magical Thinking of Nordic Model Interventions

    On paper, buyer criminalization is sold as a feminist compromise. Sex workers won’t be punished, the story goes. Only buyers will be targeted. Demand will shrink. Exploitation will end. Everyone claps. Grants are written. Panels are booked. The theory is neat, morally satisfying, and endlessly fundable. On the ground, that story collapses almost immediately.

    9 min

  5. Apr 22

    Why Carceral Feminism Gets Consent Wrong (Again)

    Spoiler: If your feminism relies on police and prisons, it's not protecting us—it's punishing us. For a movement that claims to be rooted in liberation, carceral feminism sure loves a cage. Carceral feminism is the belief that the best—or only—way to address gender-based violence is through criminalization, policing, and punishment. It rose to prominence in the 1990s alongside tough-on-crime legislation and second-wave calls for legal reform. On the surface, it sounds reasonable: violence against women is bad, so we should punish the people who commit it.

    8 min

  6. Mar 12

    First Wave Feminism: The Birth of a Movement

    The term feminism entered the political landscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as these long-standing struggles began to cohere into identifiable movements - particularly in Europe and the United States. Historians refer to this period as first-wave feminism, a label that is tidy in theory and messy in reality. It reflects a movement shaped by its time, its geography, and its proximity to power.

    10 min

  7. Mar 12

    Fourth-Wave Feminism, Power, Platforms, and the Fight Over What Comes Next

    Fourth-wave feminism didn’t arrive quietly. It emerged loudly, online, and mid-crisis - shaped by social media, economic instability, racial reckoning, and a growing refusal to pretend that representation alone equals justice. Emerging in the early 2010s, this wave is defined less by a single ideology than by its tools and terrain. Digital platforms became the organizing space. Hashtags became rallying cries. And long-ignored forms of harm - sexual violence, state violence, economic precarity - were suddenly impossible to look away from. If earlier waves argued over who women are, fourth-wave feminism returned to a harder question: who holds power, who is harmed by it, and how that harm is enforced. In theory, this was a correction. In practice, it’s where things get messy.

    8 min

  8. Mar 12

    Third-Wave Feminism: Identity, Agency, and the Turn Toward the Individual

    Third-wave feminism emerged in the 1990s as both a continuation of and a reaction against the second wave. By this point, many of the second wave’s gains - legal protections against discrimination, expanded access to education and employment, and public conversations about violence and reproduction - were formally in place. But it was increasingly clear that those victories had not translated into liberation for everyone. The dominant feminist narrative is still centered on white, heterosexual, middle-class women and treats race, sexuality, class, disability, and culture as side issues rather than foundational ones.

    8 min
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There’s a version of feminism out there that wears a pussyhat, clutches her pearls, and still calls the manager when a sex worker speaks at a panel. She’s the board member who proudly posts “women supporting women” selfies, yet signs off on policies that systematically exclude trans women, criminalized mothers, and survivors who sell sex just to stay housed. She believes in women’s empowerment - as long as it arrives wrapped in a college degree, a polished LinkedIn profile, and a sworn rejection of OnlyFans.

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