Who won? Who lost? The fallout from Kellie-Jay Keen’s tour downunder

Feminist Left Australia write: April 12, 2023 We are a group of radical feminists campaigning on women’s issues from a leftist and anti-racist perspective. Our previous article provoked considerable debate amongst feminist groups about alignment with the right and about Kellie-Jay Keen’s tactics, highlighting divisions over strategy and political approaches. This article reflects on KJK’s Australian and…

What personal choices are open to critique?

Now that Kellie-Jay Keen has announced plans for a UK Women’s Party of some sort, her politics become especially relevant. The UK homes ongoing social prejudice towards many ethnicities, especially Muslims, with women often bearing the brunt of anti-Muslim sentiment and public aggression.

How feminists respond to this is a key test … one to which we should not respond by throwing any/all women’s interests under the bus simply to support a trans-critical candidate.

Feminism In New Terms

Hypocrisy, racism and the political consequences of personal choice in the gender-critical movement

It will not be news to anyone following gender-critical debates that a major cleavage within this movement occurs over the question of alliances with right-wing politics. The majority of people involved in the gender-critical movement appear to support allying with the right due to the mistaken idea that there is agreement between feminists and right-wing ideologues on transgender issues. A minority oppose such alliances, pointing out the right’s consistent misogyny and its deep opposition to women’s liberation. This latter group argue that, despite the misogyny of the left movement in its current form – as manifested most prominently in its support for “sex work”, pornography, and the rights of transgender people over those of women – feminists should continue to adhere to leftist principles. And, despite the practical impossibility of working with the left in many circumstances…

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Is Kellie-Jay Keen of #StandingForWomen anti-abortion and racist, or ‘always quoted out of context’?

The polynymous poser certainly has a talent for building up a support-base of people who will say so. In early 2018, we heard that Ms Keen, aka Posie Parker, had been so passionately upset about the plight of Irish women who had not yet secured the right to abortion, that she allowed herself to be…