The horror of Big Porn
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Why pornography apologists are wrong
Julie Bindel
Julie Bindel is a feminist campaigner against sexual violence. She is the host of The Lesbian Project podcast, with Kathleen Stock.
Tuesday
Friday
The simple truth about domestic violence
I am at a conference on domestic violence today, entitled Stand up to Domestic Abuse, listening to story after story of violent men murdering women they had professed to love. Men who slayed their victims because they had the audacity to attempt to leave them. I hear the dreadful tale told by Luke Hart, whose mother
Sunday
Lauren Laverne is a national treasure
Change, for some people, is difficult. Hearing voices on the BBC that differ from the Etonian baritone of old must rankle for some. Lauren Laverne, who took over Desert Island Discs (DID) is about as different from a stuffed shirt as one can imagine. Bright, lively, and witty, her fabulous north-east accent makes Laverne a
Thursday
The Tories are streets ahead of Labour on tackling prostitution
As a life-long Labour voter and campaigner against Tory policies, particularly when it comes to issues relating to violence against women and girls, I find it odd to be writing this sentence. But today, the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission published a report into prostitution that is so progressive, so comprehensive, and so practical that
Wednesday
Why are boringly straight women claiming to be lesbians?
Lesbian tourism has long been a thing — women who once kissed a girl trying to appear more interesting while living a heterosexual life. Anne Heche, Madonna, Britney Spears and Ariana Grande have used lesbian/bisexual hints to titillate fans and sell more records. But nothing riles me like the Miley Cyrus approach which is to
Thursday
Straight talk
Lesbian tourism has long been a thing — women who once kissed a girl trying to appear more interesting while living a heterosexual life. Anne Heche, Madonna, Britney Spears and Ariana Grande have used lesbian/bisexual hints to titillate fans and sell more records. But nothing riles me like the Miley Cyrus approach which is to
Friday
Camille Paglia vs the trans-Taliban
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The feminist thinker has a fight on her hands
Friday
Good riddance to Amsterdam's disgraceful red-light district tours
The city of Amsterdam is to finally ban guided tours around its most notorious window brothel area, the sex tourist trap known as De Wallen. Since Holland legalised its already burgeoning sex trade back in the year 2000, it has become apparent that if you display women in windows, wearing nothing but a bikini and
Wednesday
It’s high time to butcher PETA
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After its tasteless attack on Karl Lagerfeld yesterday, we’ve all had enough of the charity’s cheap shock tactics
Thursday
Meghan Murphy’s war on Twitter
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The feminist is suing the social media site. Good on her!
Sunday
What gives the trans lobby the right to chastise Martina Navratilova?
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Never has any so-called social justice movement in the past commanded such authority and instilled such fear
Monday
Meghan Murphy, Twitter and the new trans misogyny
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A Canadian feminist journalist is the latest casualty of the transphobia crusade
Wednesday
Let’s speak ill of Dennis Hof
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The now dead Trumpist candidate was a vile creature for whom women were nothing but a commodity
Tuesday
Oh God: ‘lesbian-feminism’ is a religion now
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The Pussy Church of Modern Witchcraft has been given Tax Exempt Status as a ‘place of lesbian faith’
Wednesday
Isle of Dogs is a sexist disgrace
Over the rainy bank holiday weekend, I decided I would go to see what I assumed was a ‘feel good’ film, Isle of Dogs, a stop-motion animated comedy. I love dogs so much that it looked like my ideal film, despite being aimed at kids. I get to see a story with a serious slant being told by
Thursday
The ‘sex worker’ myth
In the midst of all the outrage about modern-day slavery, usually vulnerable men forced into manual labour, there is actually a far worse form of abuse going on in the UK. It happens in every city, town and even village. It’s endemic to every culture and region of the world, and yet these days we
Tuesday
A report from the porn Oscars
The annual XBIZ Awards, which I attended as a journalist last month in Los Angeles, is regularly portrayed by its organisers as the Oscars of the porn industry. And it has many of the trappings of the Hollywood ceremony: a catalogue of nominations, gushing acceptance speeches, a jokey host. But the sheen of respectability cannot disguise the reality.
Friday
24 Hours in Police Custody: a C4 programme that finally tells the truth about 'honour crimes'
Settling down to watch 24 Hours in Police Custody, the new Channel 4 programme brought to us by the team behind the excellent 24 Hours in A&E, I was expecting some proper gripping telly. What I did not envisage was to be further educated about the level of plonkery that some men are capable of. And I
Monday
Why I love this feminist who hit nuns and shot Andy Warhol
Just as I was feeling frustrated about the lack of robust books on feminism I spot a real corker: Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol). Solanas, for those of you who have never had the para-sexual pleasure of reading her work, was not your fun feminist.
Wednesday
Let me introduce you to 'sick chick lit'
Chick lit has its place. On long-haul flights, for example, when you’re a bit pissed and bored with the films on offer, and all you wanted is some literary fast food. I recall one flight back from Colorado where I read Bridget Jones’s Diary from start to finish with it hidden between the covers of a National Geographic
