Vegetarian Myth, The: Food, Justice and Sustainability (Flashpoint Press)

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Another woman who was pepper-sprayed, Linda, said that “only one or two” witnesses to the assault attempted to intervene on their behalf. Keen’s appearance in Portland, Oregon, had to be cancelled on October 25 after credible death threats were received. Despite Keen’s absence, a small group of women carried out an unofficial demonstration in the event’s place as an act of resistance. The number 46 is the energy density of diesel fuel so it’s 46 mega joules per kilogram. That same number for a lithium battery is 1. For an LED acid battery its 0.17 so it’s 46 times more dense than anything you’re going to come up with for solar or wind or any of the others. It just can’t be done. Gillis, Stacy, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford, eds. 2004. Third Wave Feminism. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

How did you start out, and how did you find your way to your current worldview? Why did you write the book? And what has the response been?As transgender rights gain acceptance, radical-feminist views have been shunned. Illustration by Alex Williamson. Enke, Anne. 2007. Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space and Feminist Activism. Durham: Duke University Press. The truth is that agriculture is the most destructive thing humans have done to the planet, and more of the same won’t save us. The truth is that agriculture requires the wholesale destruction of entire ecosystems. The truth is also that life isn’t possible without death, that no matter what you eat, someone has to die to feed you. BNT: You write “If you hear nothing else in this book, hear this: there is no personal solution.” (p264) Also, “the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible – it’s to dismantle those systems.” (p265) Why do you feel the mainstream emphasizes personal lifestyle choices as the main path to a better future, and why do you believe this path is misleading?

Radfems Respond was originally to have taken place across town from the library, at a Quaker meeting house, but trans activists had launched a petition on Change.org demanding that the event be cancelled. They said that, in hosting it, the Quakers would alienate trans people and “be complicit in the violence against them.” The Quakers, citing concerns in their community, revoked the agreement. It’s a measure of how much perceptions have changed in the past thirty-five years that “The Transsexual Empire” received a respectful, even admiring hearing in the mainstream media, unlike “Gender Hurts,” which has been largely ignored there. Reviewing “The Transsexual Empire” in the Times, the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz called it “flawless.” Raymond, he wrote, “has rightly seized on transsexualism as an emblem of modern society’s unremitting—though increasingly concealed—antifeminism.” Event at Seattle Public Library causes firestorm, group accused of being 'hate group' ". 11 December 2019. We chose to take our message directly to the public. We stood on a sidewalk, with a banner that read ‘Woman = adult human female.’ Within minutes, a vicious mob of men first started screaming at us that we were fascists, and then approached us,” Dansky said.Women’s Liberation at the Grass Roots: A View from Some English Towns, c.1968–1990. Women’s History Review 25 (5): 723–740.