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Holly Lawford-SmithPolitical Philosopher

Holly Lawford-SmithPolitical Philosopher

Holly Lawford-SmithPolitical Philosopher

Holly Lawford-Smith

416 articles published

The New Flesh: Holly Lawford-Smith on Gender-Critical Feminism. December 2022

Ricky and Jon interview Holly Lawford-Smith. Holly is an Associate Professor in Political Philosophy in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her controversial book "Gender Critical Feminism" resulted in a campaign to get her canceled.

December 6, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

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Twitter account reinstated after 3.5 years

My account @aytchellesse is reinstated to Twitter (as a result of a policy change introduced after Elon Musk bought Twitter). Total Twitter-ban length: 3.5 years.

December 1, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

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Ending Discrimination By Twitter

November 29, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

Feminist Law: Misogyny on Twitter with Dr. Holly Lawford-Smith. November 2022

Clara and Courtney discuss women's experiences of misogyny and abuse on Twitter and what can be done about it.

November 28, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

Renate Klein: From Women’s Studies to Gender Studies

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…

November 25, 20220Comments

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Concerns raised about government relationship with LGBTQ group

November 17, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

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Achieving a sex-equal workplace: how did we do it?

‘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…

November 3, 20220Comments

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Gender critical feminism with Holly Lawford-Smith,

October 26, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

LGB Alliance Australia interviews detransitioner Ollie Davies

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…

October 19, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

UniMelb x ACON: Pride in Diversity

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).

October 18, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

The Political Animals: Are Women Fully Human? Gender Norms and the Politics of Feminism, with Dr Holly Lawford-Smith. October 2022

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…

October 2, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

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Australia’s National Tertiary Education Union passes a motion which incorporates the commitment that “NTEU will … condemn the use of gender critical ideology when used to promote or defend transphobia”

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…

October 1, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

‘Picnic’, ‘women’ on list of words deemed too offensive

September 17, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

Q+A “Sports, Inclusion and Redemption”

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…

September 1, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

Joanna Russ: The Female Man (1975)

Kate & Holly discuss Joanna Russ's feminist sci-fi novel 'The Female Man', published in 1975.

September 1, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

Cancer charity omits ‘women’ for ‘body with a cervix’ in health information

August 29, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

Left Wing Men with Caroline Norma

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,…

August 29, 20220Comments

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The Conflict Over Privilege and Disadvantage in Leftist Politics

August 15, 20220Comments

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YouTube channel The Dissenter decides not to post the interview we recorded about my new book

I recorded an interview with Ricardo Lopes for his YouTube channel The Dissenter, about my book Gender-Critical Feminism. When I emailed a little while later to ask when the video would be posted, I received the following reply:"I was going to post it next Monday, August 22, but I will take some time this…

August 1, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

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Twitter ban

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…

July 16, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

Deze filosoof pakt zonder handschoenen een gloeiend heet onderwerp aan: gender

De Australische filosofe Holly Lawford-Smith schreef een omstreden manifest voor radicaal feminisme. „Transactivisten claimen rechten van een andere gemarginaliseerde groep.”

July 14, 20220Comments

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How Automatic Gender ‘Affirmation’ Hurts Women and Girls

July 13, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

Erasing Women: Why Are Feminists Destroying Feminism?

July 9, 20220Comments

ByHolly Lawford-Smith

Gender-Critical Feminism: Author Meets Critic(al Friend)

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).

July 6, 20220Comments

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