About our guest Lierre Keith
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Lierre Keith has been a radical feminist for 40 years and is the founder of WoLF (Women’s Liberation Front).
She is the author of seven books, including The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” She is coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Max Wilbert, of Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It. Lierre lives in northern California with giant trees and giant dogs. She’s also been arrested six times for acts of political resistance. |
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Discussion items from today's show:
GREAT ARTICLE FROM 2018 THAT EXPLORES THE MOTIVATION BEHIND THE TRANSGENDER TREND:
Who Are the Rich, White Men Institutionalizing Transgender Ideology? (thefederalist.com)
Gender and Sex are not the same!!!!!!!!!!!
If you are tired of fighting over this topic. The answer is: There might be multiple genders but there are ONLY TWO SEXES
gender /jĕn′dər/
noun
- A grammatical category, often designated as male, female, or neuter, used in the classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on characteristics such as sex or animacy and that determines agreement with or selection of modifiers, referents, or grammatical forms.
sex /sĕks/
noun
- Sexual activity, especially sexual intercourse.
The sexual urge or instinct as it manifests itself in behavior. - "motivated by sex."
- Either of the two divisions, designated female and male, by which most organisms are classified on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions
MAP - Minor Attracted Persons
https://mapcommunity.org
Open MAP Community is a safe, inclusive and democratic space for minor-attracted persons (MAPs) to discuss their sexuality, rights and experiences. Learn about the MAP definition, community guidelines, blog, policy and how to join or donate.
TERF
TERF is an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist. First recorded in 2008, the term TERF was originally used to distinguish transgender-inclusive feminists from a group of radical feminists and social conservatives who reject the position that trans women are women, including trans women in women's spaces, and transgender rights legislation.
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What the hell!!!!
One of today’s most original thinkers on gender offers a provocative take on the current feminist movement, exploring “desire as the force shaping our identifies, the paradoxes of liberation politics, and her own gender transition” (Bookforum). “[Females] is always smart, sometimes sincere, and unpredictable about when it will pinch your arm or clutch its nails around your heart.” --Vice Everyone is female, and everyone hates it. Females is Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and the punishing force of desire. Drawing inspiration from a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas—the woman who wrote the SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol—Chu aims her searing wit and surgical intuition at targets ranging from performance art to psychoanalysis, incels to porn. She even has a few barbs reserved for feminists like herself. Each step of the way, she defends the indefensible claim that femaleness is less a biological state and more a fatal existential condition that afflicts the entire human race—men, women, and everyone else. Or maybe she’s just projecting. A thrilling new voice who has been credited with launching the “second wave” of trans studies, Chu shows readers how to write for your life, baring her innermost self with a morbid sense of humor and a mordant kind of hope. |
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