Written by JLM; Published by GENDER FOCUS on May 18, 2015 I wrestle intellectually from time to time with the issue of god and gender. Maybe you do, too. Over time, I’ve grown skeptical about the importance of gender to divinity, as gender seems like a human issue, whereas God, to me, is unfathomably beyond…
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Free-Diving Off the Banks of Normal: A Review of Debbie Taylor’s Herring Girl
Written by JLM; Published by GENDER FOCUS on September 7, 2014 Debbie Taylor’s release of Herring Girl takes us where we’re not yet comfortable but dying to go: beyond normal. The novel interweaves lives, past and present, in a saga that will make you scoff at the absurdity, sigh at the humanity, and sink into…
Radical Feminism is for Sisters, Not Just Cisters: Why We Need an Overtly Trans-Inclusive Radical Feminist Resurgence
Radical Feminism is for Sisters, Not Just Cisters: Why We Need an Overtly Trans-Inclusive Radical Feminist Resurgence Abstract This paper engages with the idea that radical feminism is inherently transphobic and exclusionary, exploring gray areas in what some have criticized as radical feminism’s promotion of a biologically essentialist position on the concepts of sex and…
Headmistress Press + Hexmistress Jess 