Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Helen Joyce on slippery slopes, Mary Harrington on Kanye’s twisted power fantasy, and Nina Power and Louise Perry on images. Plus: maternal mortality, radicalization problems, purity culture, OnlyFans exploitation, our Flowers of Fire book club—and more!
First, Featured Author Helen Joyce writes about the danger of the slippery slope in legislating on issues ranging from assisted death and gender identity to abortion and surrogacy.
Next, Featured Author Mary Harrington argues that we have lost the language to meaningfully criticize Kanye’s treatment of Bianca Censori after their scandalous Grammy entrance.
Finally, on the Maiden Mother Matriarch podcast, Featured Authors Louise Perry and Nina Power discuss feminism, pornography, and the power of images.
More Great Reads:
- The OnlyFans Exploitation Trap, MaryRose Somarriba, First Things
- Radicalization Problems, Eliza Mondegreen, gender:hacked
- Making Sense of America’s Maternal Mortality Crisis, Rachel Roth Aldhizer and Susan Bane, Public Discourse
- Democrats Should Support Hospitals’ Gender Care Rollback, Jamie Reed, UnHerd
- Purity Culture Isn’t the Problem, Carl Trueman, First Things
- Trump Bans Biological Males from Women’s Sports, Adriana Azarian, The American Conservative
Flowers of Fire Book Club
Our Flowers of Fire book club has kicked off, and you’re welcome to join in the discussion! Here’s a a quick roundup of what you may have missed:
Kickoff post from Leah Libresco Sargeant & Patrick T. Brown: “Flowers of Fire” Book Club, Week I: #MeToo, #WithYou
South Korea’s Rape Culture, Leah Libresco Sargeant, Other Feminisms
Roundup post from the week: “Fascinating and Depressing”: Discussion Highlights from Week One
On Tuesday, March 11, at 1pm EST, we will be hosting a live Zoom discussion of the entire book, with Featured Authors Leah Libresco Sargeant, Patrick Brown, Eliza Mondegreen, Spencer Klavan, Rachel Lu, Nadya Williams, and Editor Serena Sigillito. All are welcome, even if you haven’t read the book! Register Now.
