MER is back for 2024! If you’re wondering what the show format will look like this year, please take a look at the 2023 (and early 2024) Director’s Report, which details how we’ll be handling various shows this year. We won’t be publishing every month, but I hope to put out more MER content than…

Okumak üzere olduğunuz makale Spooky tarafından kaleme alınmış, 12 Şubat 2023 tarihinde C4SS’de yayınlanmıştır. Öncelikle bir şeyi açıklığa kavuşturalım: bu sizinle ilgili değil. Bu hala sizin için bir mesaj ve içtenlikle bunu okuyacağınızı umuyorum, ancak açık olmak istiyorum: bu tartışma, bu mesaj, herkesin çok endişelendiği bu “erkeklik” meselesi, sizinle ilgili değil. Ne zaman bir feminist…

First off, let’s make something clear: this isn’t about you. This is still a message for you, and I sincerely hope you read this through, but I want to be clear: this discussion, this message, this issue of “masculinity” everyone’s so concerned about, it’s not about you. I know it feels like an indirect personal…

[Hear an in-depth discussion on this article and its topics in this episode of The Enragés] The Anarcha-Genderist Manifesto The gender hierarchy is a pervasive system of social control across times and cultures. Like other unjust hierarchies perpetuated by state and nation, this system of social control has dramatically restricted the acceptable range of human…

ცოტა ხნის წინ, მე ვუყურე ფილმს “Elysium”, სხვა ჰოლივიდური ფილმების მსგავსად აქაც, მამაცმა და ძლიერმა კაცმა გადაარჩინა უძლური ქალი და ბავშვი. ჩემთვის, როგორც ფემინისტისთვის, ეს გამაღიზიანებელი იყო, მაგრამ, როგორც ქალმა მე სულ სხვა რამ ვიგრძენი, მე გავაცნობიერე, რომ ამ ყველაფერში მე გარკვეულ ხიბლს ვხედავდი. მსგავს ტროპებს ქმნის კულტურული გავლენები, როდესაც მე ან სხვა ქალი აღელვებით…

‘Women still suffer gender pension gap’ is the title of the article published by the Financial Times (whose subtitle is that “In developed and developing countries, the risk of old age poverty falls disproportionately on females”). This is an unsurprising finding when we consider that the gender pay gap largely persists more broadly and so…

The Lego corporation, popular producer of interlocking miniature toy bricks, has recently been making increased efforts to market its toys to girls. Some of these efforts have met with criticism from feminists, who worry about toys that are stereotypically “girly” in a way that reinforces traditional gender roles. In a recent piece titled “Un-PC Lego…

C4SS Feed 44 presents Mikayla Novak‘s “Freed Gender Identity as a Libertarian Issue” read by Athena Roberts and edited by Nick Ford. As I argue in Gender Identity and Libertarianism, presented by the Center for a Stateless Society, libertarians should champ at the bit to be at the forefront of efforts to emancipate gender identify…

There is no doubt that the last twelve months have been a watershed period concerning the greater visibility of transgender, genderqueer, and other gender‑diverse people in both mainstream and social media. Two examples from recent times most readily spring ready to the mind. The actress Laverne Cox graced the front cover of the iconic Time…

Download a PDF copy of Mikayla Novak’s full C4SS Study: Gender Identity and Libertarianism Abstract People who do not identify with a gender status consistent with conventional fixed, binary gender stereotypes remain the target of a complex array of typically intertwining state policies and civil societal norms which greatly inhibit their liberties. Transgender and other gender-diverse…

I recently watched Elysium. And in it, like a lot of Hollywood movies, a strong, heroic man saved a helpless woman and child. And as a feminist I felt irritated. But as a woman I felt something else. I realized I saw the appeal in being saved by a strong, heroic man. Those same cultural…

Goodman: Because libertarians care deeply about aggression, we should seek a world where aggressors are held accountable and the victims of aggression are not shamed and degraded. Slut shaming stands directly in the way of such a world.