Identity Crisis Episode 3: Facing Despair + Debate on Porn

February 1, 2021

This episode we set out to answer the question, “how do you deal with feelings of despair and hopelessness in this movement?” Part of what we wanted to convey is the importance of cordial disagreements and debate. Our conversation soon became a debate on one issue that we at least partially disagree on: pornography. We decided to lean in to this clash of ideas and see what would happen. This is the result!

MK’s corresponding column: “Identity Crisis: How Do you Deal With Negative Feelings in the Movement?” https://4w.pub/identity-crisis-negativity-movement/

Identity Crisis is a weekly column and podcast for young people struggling with the modern orthodoxy of gender identity ideology—developed in collaboration between Plebity and 4W by Sasha White and M.K. Fain. New episodes every Monday!

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Daughter of Spanish Civil War veteran speaks out about identity politics

Opinion

“I couldn’t be myself,” or words to that effect: It was written in pencil on a piece of scrap foolscap I found amongst my father‘s papers after he died in 1982. He wrote that sentiment in 1977 when he was working on his memoir. My father’s name was Jim Higgins, and his book is called Fighting for Democracy: a Canadian Activist in Spain’s Civil War. It was not published until 2020.

Janette Higgins | Mar 3, 2023

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Butler, Sedgwick and Queer Theory – part 3 in the postmodernism series

REDLINE article

The most influential queer theorist is Judith Butler an American philosopher who draws heavily upon Foucault and Derrida. Butler’s chief contribution to queer Theory was to question the links between sex – the biological categories of male and female – gender- the behaviours and traits commonly associated with one sex or the other – and sexuality – the nature of sexual desire. Butler claims gender is wholly socially constructed, and developed her most well-known concept: gender performativity. She claims gender roles are taught and learned unwittingly through socialisation – as sets of actions, behaviours, manners, and expectations and people perform these roles accordingly.

Daphna Whitmore | Nov 7, 2022

Feminism Transgender Ideology MW

Queer Theory origins – part 2 in the postmodernism series

REDLINE article

Queer theory sees the concepts of sex – male and female – and gender – masculine and feminine- as oppressive. The main objective of queer theory is to subvert these concepts and to break them down. Rejecting the possibility of there being a knowable objective reality, queer theory asserts that language creates the categories, enforces them, and scripts people into them. The boundaries are arbitrary and oppressive according to queer theory. These boundaries can be blurred into apparent absurdity and thus erased.

MW | Oct 12, 2022