The first part of my travels into the populist mirror world looks at the uncanny doubling between Epstein/Trump and QAnon. open.substack.com/pub/culturew...

"You told a lie about them. Do you regret that?" -- Raskin grills Noem about her comments that Good and Pretti were domestic terrorists

"As we draw together the threads linking tech-fascists, MAGA-fascists, the British far right, and Russian interest in undermining democracy...remember that this is *all* steeped in misogyny and resentment about women’s exercise of their humanity." open.substack.com/pub/culturew...

New post on why men think they have the divine authority to rewrite feminism, and what it might have to do with the murder of Renee Good. open.substack.com/pub/culturew...

What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

I cannot believe we are back in the world of "cultural relativity" when we are talking about child abuse. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar... Last week I was hearing direct from African women about the work they are doing on the ground to end FGM. Listen to African Women!

The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.

This is literally my cat.

Highly Recommend! ✊ ♀️🤓🥳

Dear Sisters, New courses for the New Year at The Centre for Feminist Thought! Introduction to Feminism Part 1: Thursday Feb 19. Introduction to Feminism Part 2: Wednesday Jan 21. Book now at feminist-thought.org

New piece on the response to Charlie Kirk's murder, the dynamics between the woke left and authoritarian right, and the danger to democracy. culturewarblues.substack.com/p/free-speec...

Happy birthday dear man. May the goddess bless you and your delightfully silly six-inch-pink-stiletto dancing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU0W...

I don't think women saying to other women 'excuse me this is the ladies' if they are not sure, which is usually resolved as soon as the woman opens her mouth, is a massive human rights violation that means we have to put men in women's prisons no.

The bit where you claim a person's sex is changed for all purposes in law. In the GRA itself there are exceptions (mostly benefiting males, btw) plus there's S9(3) that disapplies S9(1) where that's necessary to achieve the purpose of "another enactment"(eg the EA 2010)

Always with the winning arguments.

The ability to sex other members of the species homo sapiens with our eyeholes. It's something animals can do, and the idea we are the only species that can't do it is egregious human exeptionalism. As I repeatedly have said, humans can distinguish the sex of other humans

Trans women are female. It's a precondition of being a trans woman. Female is a gender.

We are aware that many of you seem to believe that humans do not have the capacity to recognise the sex of other humans without gender cues. We genuinely have a really really hard time understanding how you believe this to be true. None of us are particularly worried about this alleged indignity

Everyone on Twitter right now.

You deleted because that “missed nuance” made the headline and intro defamatory, along with your earlier post sharing it. I’m sure you were also warned that you needed to draw attention to the correction - downplaying the misrepresentation as a nuance nixes the benefit of doing so.

The SC ruling means that it is a point of law that they didn't exist before. Your presentation of the comments was staggeringly dishonest. The trans rights movement attempted to arrogate themselves rights they had not been granted in law by disseminating a false interpretation of the law.

✨ Quel bonheur de voir @janeclarejones.bsky.social avec Le sexe, le genre et Judith Butler, une sélection de ses essais traduits en français ! 💜 Merci à elle pour sa confiance et ses analyses essentielles. ✊ Hier encore, les féministes britanniques l’ont prouvé : nos luttes comptent.

‘We are staring into the abyss. Any person, citizen or not, can now be shipped off to a gulag from which they have no hope of release, no opportunity for judicial review, no protection of any law.’ open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

Stumbled on this by Octavia Randolph on how women enjoyed more rights in Anglo Saxon than Victorian England. It hit home. Because it reminds me that feminism is never done & won. We resist, we move forwards, the backlash pushes back, we resist again... we never give up. octavia.net/womens-right...

'On what feels like an annual basis, Judith Butler is dispatched to the British press, mostly for the purpose of reminding us that anyone who thinks that humans come in two sexes is basically the Pope.' 🤣🤣🤣 Excellent from @janeclarejones.bsky.social culturewarblues.substack.com/p/judith-but...

New post on Judith Butler's critique of Trumpian authoritarianism, but refusal to understand her own. open.substack.com/pub/culturew...

French-speaking sisters, Very excited to announce that there is a new book available with a collection of my essays translated into French. They arrived yesterday and they are really gorgeous!

Sisters, Still some places available for courses in April at The Centre for Feminist Thought. Intro to Feminism Part 1 - The Second Wave - Wed 23 April, 7pm Intro to Feminist Part 2 - The Amazing Disappearing Woman - Mon 21 April, 7pm feminist-thought.org/registration/

In issue six of The Radical Notion, @janeclarejones.bsky.social interviewed @maxdashu.bsky.social – Matricultures and the Matrix of Life: An Interview With Max Dashu 🔗➡️ theradicalnotion.org/matriculture... #FiLiA2025 #WomensHistory #MothersDay

Yep

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

“There is no administration in the world — beyond this one — where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.” www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The fact that the Department of Justice has not, and will never, launch an investigation into this massive national security breach tells you all you need to know about this lawless and profoundly corrupt Administration.

We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.

"...feminism is not identity politics. It is a critique of patriarchal power, its social structure, its rhetoric, and its dehumanising, dominating operations. Women can also be its agents. And they are not exempt from critique for being so just because they are women."

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

This is terrific👇

New post on populist 'red pill' propaganda. Am very interested in the way that the populist right is using the old form of the lefty critique of ideology, while peddling patriarchal domination and racism as if it is countercultural and cool. open.substack.com/pub/culturew...

anyway, this is Curtis Yarvin talking expressly about the motivation underlying the Trump Pentagon's shift to drone-centric warfare: they want a cryptographically verifiable thousand-year reich which excludes the possibility of popular revolt or democracy forever.

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

New: The Alien Enemies Act hearing with Judge Boasberg is about to begin. I'll follow along here

NOW: motion hearing underway in Judge Boasberg's court on whether to vacate his TRO barring the Trump admin from deporting people under the Alien Enemies Act. JUDGE: "Did you not understand my statements in that hearing? Did you tell DHS it was an order from me to turn the planes around?"

It seem insane for a US Senator to say we've all been subjected to "a relentless bombardment of Marxist propaganda." But what he means by this is 1) there was a Burger King ad with an interracial couple and 2) Star Wars Episodes VII-IX had a female lead.

No better society is possible where, whenever sacrifices need to be made, the burden is placed (yet again) on those least able to bear it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Here. I wrote about the point of deciding to just fight and die on a hill rather than endlessly calculating the best moment to put up an opposition. othermeans.io/p/going-down...