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Articles · Oct 2024
Breaking Free: Why 'Equality' Is a Patriarchal Lie
Amelia Hruby (Based on Breaking Free book)New book 'Breaking Free' reveals how 'equality' is a racist, patriarchal ideal that keeps women and marginalized communities chasing an unattainable goal. True liberation requires not equality, but freedom.
02Articles · Jul 2024
Project 2025: A Dystopian Future for Women's Rights in America
Feminist Majority FoundationLed by the Heritage Foundation and supported by over 100 far-right organizations, 'Project 2025' is an 887-page policy blueprint calling for the deletion of terms like 'gender equality' and 'reproductive rights' from federal regulations. This document is a comprehensive declaration of war on women's rights.
03Articles · Mar 2024
Patriarchy Is Regaining Ground: UN Chief Warns of Unprecedented Threats to Women's Rights
United NationsUN Secretary-General António Guterres issues stark warning at the 2024 Commission on the Status of Women: 'Patriarchy is far from vanquished; it is regaining ground.' From Afghanistan to America, from digital spaces to political stages, women's rights are under systematic attack and decades of progress are being reversed.
04Articles · Feb 2024
How Feminism Ends?
Ginevra DavisThis article starts from bodily experience to critique contemporary feminism's over-abstraction of 'gender,' exploring the inescapability of the female body, the predicament of gender theory, and the tension between women's freedom and self-exhaustion.
05Articles · Jan 2024
The 4B Movement: Political Practice as Radical Negativity
The CutThe 4B movement (no marriage, no childbirth, no dating, no sex with men) is not merely a defensive retreat from extreme patriarchy, but a courageous 'political strike' aimed at paralyzing the mechanisms of patriarchal reproduction.
06Articles · May 2023
Online Opposition to Gender Equality
UN Women Asia and the PacificResearch from Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines maps how anti-feminist narratives circulate online, showing that digital misogyny is organized through culture, platform incentives, and political identity rather than isolated bad behavior.
07Articles · Dec 2022
South Korea's Gender Gap: The Paradox of Inequality and Backlash
Haeryun KangAn analysis of South Korea's complex gender landscape, where deep-seated structural inequality coexists with a powerful anti-feminist movement and political shifts that threaten existing protections for women.
08Articles · Feb 2020
Fighting the Tyranny of 'Niceness': Why We Need Difficult Women
Helen LewisThis article critiques the expectations of 'perfection' and 'likability' in contemporary feminism, calling for recognition of the complexity and contradictions within feminism, and embracing those 'difficult women' who are nonconformist, hard to categorize, but drive change.
09Articles · Mar 2018
The Crisis in Modern Masculinity
Pankaj MishraThis article traces the historical evolution of modern masculinity, revealing the politicization and pathologization of the 'strong man' fantasy on a global scale, and critiques how patriarchy shapes oppressive roles for both men and women.
10Articles · Nov 2006
The Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists
African Feminist ForumAdopted in Accra in 2006, the Charter defines African feminism as a political commitment to dismantling patriarchy while demanding accountability inside feminist organizations themselves.
11Articles · Jan 1984
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
Audre LordeIn this electrifying speech, Audre Lorde lays the groundwork for Black feminism and intersectionality. She challenges academia and white feminism for relying on patriarchal logic, arguing that merely seeking reform within existing systems while excluding marginalized women ensures oppression remains intact.