Tag: the backlash

PODCAST: Julie Bindel on growing up a working class lesbian

When the Working Class Movement Library — a small, volunteer-run library in Salford, England that holds records and stories of working class people’s lives and activism — announced they would be hosting…

Why I no longer hate ‘TERFs’

When all else fails, call your opponents TERFs. Regardless of the subject matter of the disagreement. TERF = Witch. pic.twitter.com/x4sLBhlOZZ — Becca Reilly-Cooper (@boodleoops) November 8, 2015 I used to hate so-called…

Julie Bindel: ‘We are part of a global movement’

Jess: You’ve been active in the feminist movement since the ‘70s. A lot has happened since then including the so-called “sex wars” of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, the ongoing rise…

Let's all listen to Janeane Garofalo now

Bitch magazine interviewed feminist comedian, Janeane Garofalo recently and I found a number of her comments pertinent. Maybe Toxic Twitter will hear them from Garofalo or Bitch instead of from the rest…

The trouble with Twitter feminism

I love the internet. I really do. And I can’t stand the luddites who romanticize the days where people talked. Face to face. Or called each other. The phone? Really? Please. Fuck the…

Slutwalk NYC: More of the same

I’ve got to be honest here. I truly believed that Slutwalk NYC was going to be different. Not different enough to lose the ‘slut’, and therefore, not different enough to convince me…

Equalism? Bootylicious? Let’s call the whole thing off

Ever since Beyonce opened up her mouth about feminism, saying: “I don’t really feel that it’s necessary to define it. It’s just something that’s kind of natural for me, and I feel…

Feminists hate naked ladies and other tales from the backlash.

Man, the internet is a funny place for feminism. Because burlesque is, apparently, the favorite topic of all those who wish to berate feminists without actually knowing anything about feminist theory,  feminist…