Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: David Polansky on similarities between deaf and transgender activists, Holly Lawford-Smith and Louise Perry on feminism beyond left and right, and Elizabeth Kulze on fertility and estrangement. Plus: denying biology and the motherhood penalty, emancipating women, Lauren Southern’s memoir, a webinar with Eliza Mondegreen—and more!
First, David Polansky writes about the unexpected similarities between deaf anti-cochlear-implant activists and today’s pro-gender-transition activists.
Next, Featured Authors Holly Lawford-Smith and Louise Perry discuss Holly’s new book, Feminism Beyond Left and Right, and the need for a more definition of expansive feminism.
Finally, Elizabeth Kulze writes about how her own experience of fertility treatment made her realize the extent of her alienation from her own body.
More Great Reads:
- Denying Biology Leaves Women Unprepared for the ‘Motherhood Penalty’, Debora Soh, The Globe and Mail
- Lauren Southern’s Bombshell Memoir, Mary Harrington, UnHerd
- Some Massachusetts Parents Face Hurdles to Access Paid Medical Recovery Time After Childbirth, Stella Tannenbaum, The Boston Globe
- Neither Side Wants to Emancipate Women, Maren Thom, Compact
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Fairer Disputations Featured Author Eliza Mondegreen is speaking for an upcoming webinar for Therapy First:
Tuesday, July 22nd
12pm EDT
“This talk will explore the ways online trans communities handle questions and doubts about gender dysphoria, trans identification, and transition/detransition. Concepts like internalized transphobia and imposter syndrome function as socially acceptable ways to express and minimize or dismiss questions and doubts that emerge at all stages of questioning, transitioning, and detransitioning, in ways that keep collective bonds, as well as personal narratives, intact.”
