Holly Lawford-Smith
[This article was published at Areo, 23rd November 2020].A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from Medium, saying that my account had been suspended because it was in violation of their rules on hate speech. I’m an academic, who has been using Medium since October 2018 to post public essays related to…
In the Women's Human Rights Campaign AU/NZ October Webinar, gender critical feminist philosophers Kathleen Stock (Sussex) and Holly Lawford-Smith (Melbourne) discuss some hard questions for gender critical feminists.Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights
The Women’s Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) UK group [now Women's Declaraction International (WDI)] take down the video of a webinar I did with Kathleen Stock for WHRC Australia & New Zealand, where we talked about some hard questions for gender-critical feminists. (This is my first deplatforming by my own side).The video is still available…
This is my side of a recent debate over the proposition "Gender identity should replace sex in policy". I argued that it should not.
This is a replica of the talk I gave at the Australasian Association of Philosophy conference on the 8th of July 2019. I ask whether women have the right to exclude all male people--regardless of their gender identity--from women-only spaces. I argue that they do.
Radical feminist philosophers Kate Phelan (RMIT) and Holly Lawford-Smith (UniMelb) discuss the RNZ Kim Hill & Judith Butler interview (aired 17th October 2020).Timestamps0.00-6.52: 'Gender ideology' and the religious right 6.52-10.52: Biology as destiny 10.52-18.30: 'TERF' as a derogatory term 18.30-26.30: Whether 'TERFS' are feminists 26.30-46.16: SUFW NZ's Q: queer theory / postmodernism vs.…
This video presents the section "Science" from the (2019) paper "Transwomen in elite sport: scientific and ethical considerations", written by Taryn Knox, Lynley C Anderson, and Alison Heather.In the full paper the authors discuss the International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines on transwomen athletes competing in women's sports, and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in…
Permanently suspended from Medium for ‘Hate speech’. No details provided, appeal rejected without explanation. I was on the platform from October 2018 – October 2020 and had posted 35 gender-critical essays.
Holly from Feminist Heretics and Jean from Actual Feminism talk about Abigail Schrier's new book 'Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters'. You can buy the book here, and read a review at Feminist Current here.
An introduction to Mary Daly's feminist conceptual engineering project, starting in 1968 and culminating in the 1987 book Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language.Online access to the Wickedary here.
Kate & Holly talk about whether Andrea Dworkin has been fairly claimed by contemporary trans activism as an example of a radical feminist who thought transwomen were women. They draw on some of the ideas presented in the videos 'Intercourse' and 'Androgyny'.
In Chapter 9 of Andrea Dworkin's book Woman Hating (1974), she talks about androgyny, her vision for a future without sexual subordination.
A discussion of the ideas in the first chapter of Andrea Dworkin's (1987) book Intercourse.
[The text of this video was posted to Medium 2nd September 2020. An edit (adding two sentences) was made 7th September 2020. A further note was added 24th November 2021. Anyone interested in more detail can also consult my book Gender-Critical Feminism (2022)].Abstract. Gender critical feminists are described in popular media outlets as 'anti-trans…
Shulamith Firestone was one of the first radical feminists. This video introduces some of the ideas from her (1970) book The Dialectic of Sex (1970).
Shulamith Firestone was one of the first radical feminists, with four essays in the magazine Notes From The First Year (1968), published by New York Radical Women. In this video ideas from her essay 'On Abortion' are introduced.
Ti-Grace Atkinson was arguably the first radical feminist, and the inventor of the idea of 'political lesbianism'. In this video, her understanding of the idea, from her three most relevant essays, is presented.
Ti-Grace Atkinson was arguably the first radical feminist. In this video, ideas from her essay 'Radical Feminism' are introduced.
