Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Katherine Dee on why surviving the online otherworld requires keeping one foot planted in the realm of bodies, Patrick T. Brown on the fertility crisis as a marriage crisis, and Serena Sigillito and Angela Franks on the history of modernity’s identity mess. Plus: puberty blocker trials, the story of two scientists persecuted for their rape research, motherhood nightmare movies—and more!
First, Featured Author Katya Ungerman (better known as Katherine Dee) writes that interacting with AI and the internet is a passage into an enchanted universe—its gifts come at a cost, and we run the risk of losing sight of reality.
Next, Featured Author Patrick T. Brown argues that the American fertility crisis stems from an American marriage crisis.
Finally, Editor Serena Sigillito and Featured Author Angela Franks explore how modern identity struggles reflect centuries of shifting ideas about the self, and discuss Franks’s new book, Body and Identity: A History of the Empty Self.
More Great Reads:
- Why Puberty Blockers Are Bad Medicine. The King’s College Drug Trial Puts Children at Risk, Mary Harrington, Unherd
- The Unwelcome Truth about Rape, Peggy Sastre, Quillette
- Do We Really Need More Motherhood Nightmare Movies?, Elissa Strauss, MADE WITH CARE
- Does It Really Cost Women Nothing to Use Incorrect Pronouns?, Victoria Smith, The Critic
- What Progressives Won’t Say About Abortion: The Sanitized Narrative Ignores Ethical Truths, Kathleen Stock, Unherd
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