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Where are all the feminists? We’re right here, being erased by you

Approximately 700 protesters gathered outside the Toronto Public Library in 2019 to protest my talk. Back when feminists began trying to warn about the dangers of gender identity ideology, few would...

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The body positivity movement doesn’t help women — it lies to them

A recent report in the Wall Street Journal shows Old Navy’s sales plummeted after launching their BODEQUALITY campaign. This new approach to retail offered sizes 0-30 and XS-4X in all women’s styles,...

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Why do children need ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’?

Image: Today’s Parent/YouTube Making children vulnerable to adult predators is something most would like to avoid, but you wouldn’t know it judging by the actions of Canadian politicians, policymakers,...

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Feminist Current is 10 — here’s to another decade of cancellations!

Somehow, it has been 10 years. On July 1, 2012, I launched Feminist Current, with the help of my friend, Ernesto Aguilar, who worked tirelessly to get the site up and running — an endeavour that would...

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Veronica Ivy has a point

Last week, the mediocre Canadian cyclist named Rhys McKinnon who won the world title in the women’s 35-44 sprint at the 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships as Rachel McKinnon, and has...

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Queensland wants to deregulate the sex industry because it’s cheaper not...

Image: DecrimQLD Over the last three decades, the sex industry has managed to forge for itself a near regulation-free operating environment in Australia. Its first success was in New South Wales in the...

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It turns out pronouns don’t mean anything after all

Demi Lovato, a singer, apparently, revealed last year that she was non-binary — “another level of vulnerability” for her. Lovato required “they/them” pronouns to convey that her “masculine and...

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Debut women’s fiction prize welcomes men

From top row: Jane Urquhart, Karen Mcbride, Meghan Bell, Natasha Trethewey. Anne Giardini, Carol Shields, Margaret Atwood, Jael Richardson, Susan Swan. Janice Zawerbny, Jodi Picoult, Alice Munro,...

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The corset never went out of style; it’s just been reinvented

Image: Instagram/@kimkardashian We live in an era where the most famous people on the planet are icons for an unattainable beauty standard. The Kardashians — reality TV royalty — downplay their...

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The unbearable coolness of porn

Image: @riotheatre/Instagram I’ve spent over a decade embroiled in an ongoing battle with Vancouver wokes, once called hipsters (or desiring to be, at least…), perhaps better described as progressive...

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Why are Canadian schools allowing men to advertise their fetishes in the...

I don’t remember my shop teacher looking like this pic.twitter.com/pHHr58Zspa — King Royce Lopez II (@hippojuicefilm) September 14, 2022 Where did you all think this was going? The “transwomen are...

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2022: The year Terfing went mainstream

For years, Terfs laboured mostly on their own — many isolated across the world, ostracized by friends, ignored by the media and government, vilified by activists and the left. Until quite recently,...

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‘I am a lesbian who doesn’t believe men can be lesbians: Take me to court’

Tonje Gjevjon and Christine Jentoft My name is Tonje Gjevjon. I am an artist, a woman, and a lesbian. I am currently under investigation for breach of the Norwegian Hate Speech Law for refusing to call...

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‘It’s because there’s no consent — that’s what the problem is’

Last week, a scandal errupted after a male Twitch streamer known as Atrioc (Brandon Ewing) was caught watching AI-generated deepfake porn of two female Twitch streamers. The two streamers were...

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Happy International Women’s Day! Women are over

And with a disturbing rise in anti-transgender hate here in Canada and around the world recently, I want to be very clear about one more thing: Trans women are women. We will always stand up to this...

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Money Shot’s big lie

On Wednesday, Netflix released a new documentary looking at how Pornhub came to be and the controversies (and lawsuits) that ensued. Directed by Suzanne Hillinger, Money Shot: The Pornhub Story...

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Adam’s Rib: I escaped a fundamentalist religion only to find women’s rights...

It is just over 200 years since the women’s suffrage movement began in Canada. Not even 100 years has passed since we were declared legal persons, and all women, regardless of race, won the right to...

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A letter to Judy Rebick, from Lee Lakeman, on changing one’s mind

Attacks against Trans women are attacks against the women’s movement and the fight for better equality and justice.#TransDayOfVisibility #TransRightsAreHumanRights Read the full story by...

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It’s the funding, stupid

A common galvanizing trope among progressives claims the good and open-minded among us are in a constant battle against the evil right, who wishes to stamp out the struggling and marginalized. This...

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There is a reason men feel shame about their porn use, and it’s time for them...

For many years now, I have been accused of “shaming” people for their sexual pastimes. This is in large part because of my criticisms of porn and the sex industry. To be fair, I probably have written...

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My mother is courageous, but faced with a man in her change room at Ottawa’s...

For the past 40 years, my mother, Lynne Cohen,* has gone swimming several times a week at her local pool in Ottawa. Beginning in her teens and continuing off and on throughout her life, she swam...

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The Pride industrial complex ignores threats against women and doubles down...

NYC Pride – 6/25/2023 My name is K. Yang, I’m a former trans rights activist & LGBT non-profit whistleblower. I was just kicked, hit, pushed, mobbed by dozens of people in Washington Square Park....

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Transgenderism doesn’t disrupt the ‘gender binary’, it reinforces the most...

A common claim from defenders of gender identity ideology is that transgenderism subverts “gender binaries,” freeing individuals from rigid ideas about what it means to be a man and what it means to...

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Spain’s leftist government may be renewed, leaving women’s rights behind

Yolanda Díaz, leader of leftist party, Sumar (Image: Twitter/https://twitter.com/sumar/status/1682477508627759105) Many feminists in Spain looked at the new left coalition government formed in 2019...

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The trans movement is a lie

I spoke at Let Women Speak Austin, organized by Michelle Evans, on Saturday, August 12, 2023. Our mics and megaphone were drowned out by trans activist chants, including “Trans rights our human...

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