Holly Lawford-Smith
Clara and Courtney discuss women's experiences of misogyny and abuse on Twitter and what can be done about it.
Holly talks with Renate Klein about the shift from Women's Studies to Gender Studies in universities, and about Renate's time in the Women's Studies programme at Deakin University from 1991-2002 (founded in 1982).Renate's work that is mentioned in the video:Klein, Renate. 'The 'Men-Problem' in Women's Studies: The Expert, The Ignoramus, and The Poor…
‘The meaning of feminine attire is clear: it is a question of decoration, and decorating oneself is offering oneself; heterosexual feminists were formerly as intransigent as lesbians on this point: they refused to make themselves merchandise on display, they wore suits and felt hats; fancy low-cut dresses seemed to them the symbol of the social…
Holly Lawford-Smith talks to Melbourne detransitioner Ollie Davies, for the LGB Alliance Australia. (A 'detransitioner' is someone who has transitioned and then detransitioned, which means, has stopped identifying as transgender. This term is usually reserved for someone who had transitioned medically or surgically, rather than only socially. For those who have transitioned only socially, and…
The longer version of a speech I gave on Sunday at Melbourne's first gender-critical Speaker's Corner event, talking about the 2022 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) & potential conflicts of interest created by employer participation in the index, with a particular focus on my own (UniMelb).
Holly Lawford-Smith returns to the show for a discussion about her new book, Gender-Critical Feminism (OUP). Following a quick tour of significant developments in the transgender space since Holly and Jonathan last spoke (December, 2021), the pair delve into gender norms, including their connection to sex, distinction from identity, cultural and political significance, the balance…
Australia’s National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) passes a motion which incorporates the commitment that “NTEU will: … Condemn the use of gender critical ideology when used to promote or defend transphobia”. They do not give their definitions of ‘gender critical ideology’ or ‘transphobia’, and they do not say how they will determine when gender-critical views…
Kate & Holly discuss last week's ABC Q+A episode, which included a segment on transwomen competing in women's sport. Holly is in a very bad mood.ReferencesRoberts, Timothy., Smalley, Joshua., & Ahrendt, Dale. ‘Effect of gender affirming hormones on athletic performance in transwomen and transmen: implications for sporting organisations and legislators’, British Journal of…
Kate & Holly discuss Joanna Russ's feminist sci-fi novel 'The Female Man', published in 1975.
There's not a book called 'Left Wing Men', we're just talking about left wing men. The papers & books we discuss:Willis, Ellen. ‘Women and The Left’, Notes from the Second Year (1970), pp. 55-56. Archived.Morgan, Robin. 'Goodbye To All That' [1970], in The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches (New York: Open Road,…
YouTube channel The Dissenter decides not to post the interview we recorded about my new book.
Strike 1: sex-based pronouns | 12-hour suspension | 22nd December 2018Strike 2: distinguishing sex from gender identity, and using the only terms there are for referring to sex, to refer to sex | 7-day suspension* | April/June 2019. *I tried to appeal, but got no reply, and once it had been longer than 7 days…
De Australische filosofe Holly Lawford-Smith schreef een omstreden manifest voor radicaal feminisme. „Transactivisten claimen rechten van een andere gemarginaliseerde groep.”
Critic(al Friend) rather than critic, because that's what happens when all your opponents #nodebate you. Kate & Holly discuss Holly's new book Gender-Critical Feminism (published by Oxford University Press, in May 2022).
Oxford University Press emails me to say that they will not be publishing Sex Matters: Essays in Gender-Critical Philosophy, despite the fact the book was under contract and had been positively reviewed. (The matter was ultimately resolved and the book is due to be published in July 2023). Alex Byrne describes our experiences with OUP…
Philosophy Compass rejects a paper written by Kate Phelan & I after it has been commissioned, peer-reviewed, and revised. (The paper is about women-only spaces).
