The Real Story of Women’s Suffrage
It’s not uncommon to hear people criticize today’s dominant strain of U.S. feminism by invoking a comparison to women’s rights activism a century or more ago. These women fought for equal rights, […]
America Is Recasting the Heroes of the Women’s Suffrage Movement. It’s About Time.
As Americans celebrate and reflect on the fight for women’s right to vote — codified in the 19th Amendment 100 years ago this month — the long overlooked contributions of women of […]
The Radical Fight for Votes for Women
“I think the way we talk about suffrage needs attention,” historian and curator Kate Clarke Lemay told The New York Times recently. It is so often described in a way that makes […]
Reclaiming Feminism for Liberty
“Fourth-wave feminism must be classically liberal to win,” writes Elizabeth Nolan Brown at Libertarianism.org. “Americans tend to talk about feminism as a series of chronological and generational ‘waves,’ but this obscures major […]
On Our Minds: June 2019
What’s on our minds this month? Rising illiberalism on the left and the right, crypto-fuelled political activism, prostitution decriminalization efforts in D.C. and New York, Democratic presidential candidates, Chelsea Manning’s ongoing incarceration, […]
Vice & Feminism
Feminists for Liberty co-founder Kat Murti recently appeared in a short Vice documentary about modern feminism. The piece mostly pits progressive and conservative women against each other about things like Trump and […]
Firearms & Feminism: a Chat w/ Antonia Okafor
VIDEO: Kat Murti talks to activist @Antonia_Okafor, founder of women’s gun rights group @EmPOWERed_2A. Watch on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/KatMurti/videos/vl.410673049443213/508720649531776/?type=1
Feminists for Liberty in The New York Times
“NBC Didn’t Fire Matt Lauer. We Did.” Check out Elizabeth Nolan Brown’s op-ed today in The New York Times about the powers and paradigms making the #MeToo Moment possible: feminism, but also […]