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Out of the Fog: Book launch talk and summary

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Press release: New book, OUT OF THE FOG, available now!

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On Finding Spirit (My story of reading and radicalising: Part II) 

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On Finding Solidarity (My story of reading and radicalising: Part I)

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Transgenderism, Neoliberalism and Rape Culture: Brisbane talk

Below is the text of a twelve-minute talk I gave in Brisbane on October 12, 2019. The talk...

Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance.

— Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

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