Don't say that Margaret Thatcher never did anything for feminism. I started...
More specifically, I started it because of the vitriolic, misogynist responses to her death from male socialists.Disclaimer: I despise Thatcher, who was a monster for her atrocities against various...
View ArticleA MF Response to Silvia Federici's "Wages Against Housework" (1975)
Since my self-identified women only feminist discussion group explored the text, several folks have expressed an interest in my response to Silvia Federici's "Wages Against Housework" (Power of Women...
View ArticleHow Capitalism Failed Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight
Three young women go missing from a working class Cleveland neighborhood and are held captive in ropes and chains, beaten, and raped for nine to eleven years, one bearing a child and one having five...
View ArticleA Cautionary Tale for Black Females Who Experiment with Science under Capitalism
Sixteen-year-old high school student Kiera Wilmot was recently expelled and charged as an adult with a felony: possessing or discharging weapons or firearms at a school sponsored event or on school...
View ArticleImplications of the Frozen Female Face
Botox, a type of botulism toxin, is used cosmetically by millions of individuals every year to freeze their facial muscles in order to smooth wrinkles in the skin. Women use it in far greater numbers...
View ArticleHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the NSA
Our first guest post, by John Wolfe.The recent leak of NSA documents by Edward Snowden has confirmed what nearly everyone has long suspected about the extent of the surveillance conducted by the U.S....
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The Green Scare, Prism, and the Rise of the Surveillance of Women
And I have known the eyes already, known them all—The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I...
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LGBT Pride, Gay Marriage, and the Reproduction of the Center
Pride is a magical time of year when progressive organizations unite to celebrate diversity and demand full equality for our LGBT brothers and sisters. I intended to make this post a carefree field...
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On Left Unity
A guest post by John Wolfe. One of the most fraught topics on the Marxist left is the ideal of “left unity.” We have all heard it called for more than once, and most hope for it in some form or other....
View ArticleHow to Disappoint Kathi Weeks
Kathi Weeks's The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (2011)is a well-written, insightful text that caused me to critically examine my position on...
View ArticleAbortion Barbie, Neutralizing Radicals, and the Gains of Excess
Typically, I don't pay much attention to the remarks and activities of partisan hacks, but the Abortion Barbie kerfuffle caught my interest. When Erick Erickson referred to Wendy Davis as "Abortion...
View ArticleScattered Observations on Orange Is the New Black
Surveillance of WomenThe most important revelation in my blog so far has been the observation that the rise of the surveillance state, as embodied by the Prism program, has resulted in the first...
View ArticleThe Theory and Gains of Excess, Expanded
There has been a long pause in my posts; life has interfered with my writing, as it tends to with the less disciplined of scribes. I will spare you the details and leave it to your collective...
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Bernie Sanders Sucks — Now Love Him
Another guest post by John Wolfe, the theoretician behind the post that has been trending on Reddit since it was first published, and reigns as the second-most read BAMF post (behind my response to...
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Toward a New Abortion Rights Rhetorical Strategy and Lexicon
There is a vacuum of relevant leftist rhetoric about abortion. The left has no cohesive abortion stance. We call for more militant feminism, we hold safer spaces workshops, we volunteer at abortion...
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Pro-Abortion Activism: The Most Dangerous Type
All Apologies, Again.Many apologies to BAMF readers. Both of our current contributors are working on long-form pieces that make consistently generating content in a timely fashion for BAMF challenging....
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Rushed Late Night Scribbles on Student Loan Debt Strike Strategy: Part I
When does the student loan debt strike start? I asked that question a few short hours or long minutes ago. For some it has already begun. There are anecdotal claims that a third of student loans are...
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Glorification of Grand Juries: Stop. Now. And Publicly Renounce Your Error.
Commence Oblivion Stop glorifying grand juries. Even if they're "on your side." Stop it now. Just stop. Trust me. Never trust anyone who says, "Trust me." But trust me: full stop.Grand juries are rogue...
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#GTFOFRSO International Women's Day Action and a Discussion of Left Strategy
#GTFOFRSO: Celebrating International Women's Day the Correct Way Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Fight Back (FRSO) recently held an International Women's Day (IWD) event at University of South...
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ERADICATION: Unified Leftist Strategy to Rid Activist Spaces of Sexual...
The ProblemOnce again the working class has been repeatedly endangered by a sexual predator. A regionally notorious rapist posted a photo on social media of himself leading a sizable march in a city...
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