Recent allegations against entertainer Russell Brand have reawakened debates about due process of law, justice, punishment, the production of truth-values in relation to such allegations, & government/corporate control over what information is true and what is not-true. In this video we ask the question, how much process is due Russell Brand by: the state, corporations, and the public at-large? (VIEW MORE)
The Uses & Abuses of #BelieveSurvivors
What Is A Woman?
Since time immemorial, the question of what a woman is has haunted humanity like a specter. How could you possibly even understand, let alone define such a thing? Recently, as trans theories have spread, there has been renewed interest in this question by essentialists that want to restrict womanhood (and all the stereotypes and expressions of women) in an immutable biological essence. (READ MORE)
puberty blockers & chemical castration – #shorts
Many people against the use of puberty blockers (scientifically named gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists) for trans adolescents, will often bring up the fact that some pedophiles use the same drug as what is called chemical castration.
But, this is a red herring that really wants to connect any trans or queer people to pedophilia, which is an age-old trope used to discriminate & criminalize queer & trans people.
Medicines often have multiple applications for a wide-range of unrelated problems.
Puberty blockers = gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists
Red herring fallacy – irrelevant information is presented alongside relevant information, distracting attention from that relevant information
Chemical castration – the use of chemicals or drugs to stop sex hormone production
Other applications for GnRH agonists:
- In vitro fertilization
- Treatment of certain kinds of prostate and breast cancer.
- Children with precocious puberty.
- Management of menorrhagia, endometriosis, adenomyosis, and uterine fibroids for people born female.
- And severe cases of hyperandrogenism.
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ABORTION: Debate of the Century with Philosophy for All
Blood & Gold: The Transition to Capitalism | Caliban & the Witch
Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: End of Feudalism, Transition to Capitalism, Colonization, Globalization, Race and Women: the Invention of a Capitalist Epistemology, The Greatest Land-Grab in Human History, The Price Revolution and the Criminalization of the Working Class, The Patriarchy of the Wage, and The Disciplining of Women
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!
Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
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