The Most Hated French Feminist? The Truth about Marguerite Stern
The Plebity Free Speech Fund has awarded a grant to Marguerite Stern, a French feminist who has been an activist in the trenches for many years. This was our first grant award.
Members of our Patreon site reviewed the details of Marguerite's story and voted to move forward and award the grant to Marguerite, who after more than a decade of feminist activism is out of work and in need of a new living space.
Most recently, Marguerite has been severely targeted and harassed by gender identity ideologues for her woman centered activism.
In 2019, Marguerite began a campaign of posters put up in the streets to publicize the issue of femicide in France. The campaign spread to cities throughout the country and she has become a familiar name and face in France. She was just featured in the French version of National Geographic magazine to illustrate the word justice.
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Free Speech vs. the 21st Century: Can Social Justice Activism Coexist with Free Speech?
Sasha White speaks with Baher Azmy. Baher is the Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he has litigated cases related to discriminatory policing practices (stop and frisk), government surveillance, the rights of Guantanamo detainees, rights of asylum seekers, and accountability for victims of torture.
Baher joins me in this episode to discuss the history and values of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. What are the legal and ethical limits of free speech? What is the value of free speech in a democracy? We talk about these and other questions in this in-depth conversation.
Crossroads with Sasha White is an interview series about free speech, cancel culture, and the gender debates.
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Plebity's moderation policy: Plebity is dedicated to free speech. However, this is not the same as free speech absolutism. We welcome constructive engagement on the issues, whether we agree with your position or not. We don't allow personal attacks, spamming, or off topic comments that derail the conversation. Those kinds of comments discourage others from participating and exercising their own right to free expression. We will remove any comments from our channel that in our opinion fall into these categories.
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Tortured and Held Without Trial by the USA: Attorney Baher Azmy on his Client, Guantanamo Detainee
Murat Kurnaz was nineteen years old when he was arrested by Pakistani authorities and sold to the United States for a bounty. It was 2001 and the United States had distributed fliers in Pakistan promising money in exchange for suspected terrorists. Murat was a civilian who had not committed any crime. He ended up at the United States prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where for five years he was denied the right to due process and subjected to torture. His attorney, Baher Azmy, fought the Bush Administration to help get Murat and others released from Guantanamo.
Baher is the Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he has litigated cases related to discriminatory policing practices (stop and frisk), government surveillance, the rights of Guantanamo detainees, rights of asylum seekers, and accountability for victims of torture.
Baher joins me on Crossroads to discuss Murat’s case, the torture carried out at Guantanamo, and how the US legally and politically paved the way for the prison after 9/11. We also talk about the current crisis in regards to freedom versus security. Baher cautions using this framework without examining underlying assumptions about whose freedoms are lost and whose security is protected when the nation is asked to sacrifice liberty for safety. We also hear from him about the current situation at Guantanamo, how the remaining detainees have been faring during the pandemic, and whether they will be allowed to celebrate the holiday of Ramadan.
-This interview was originally posted to Plebity.org on April 23, 2020-
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Woman's Life Ruined For one Negative Comment on BLM: Worst Case Scenario of Cancellation
On June 9th 2020, Tabitha Morris posted a video on Facebook in which she stated that she does not support the Black Lives Matter organization. When the video went viral, Tabitha’s place of work, a Kentucky hospital, received a flood of complaints and threats, and fired her from her job of twenty years.
In her conversation with me, Tabitha says she was angry when she sat down to make that video, and adds that she “should have used a different tone.” She doesn’t apologize however, for the opinions she expressed, which she discusses again in this interview. The original video is accessible online.
The response to Tabitha’s video prompted catastrophic repercussions for her. She has been unable to find a new job that is equal to the one she lost, unable to procure a lawyer who will represent her, and has been plagued by intense harassment, including threats of rape against her daughters.
All you hear on the news is celebrities that are being canceled, famous people that are being canceled. The story is it’s not just celebrities. It is regular everyday American people—we don’t have millions of dollars to fall back on. – Tabitha Morris
Tabitha has been campaigning to end ‘at will’ employment which means that in many instances an employer can fire an employee for any reason that they want. This is an issue that Tabitha and I were able to find common ground on because this affects all people who are in danger of losing their jobs when the mob decides that they said something undesirable or unforgivable.
-This video was recorded on November 13, 2020-
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Fired and Harassed for Telling the Truth: M.K. Fain
Mary Kate (M. K.) is a feminist writer, activist, and engineer. She is the Founder and Editor in Chief of 4W and the Co-founder of Spinster.xyz. M.K. joined me to compare our experiences of being fired after expressing our gender critical views. We also discussed censorship, radical feminism versus liberal feminism, the left’s problem with class and free speech, and more!
M.K. Fain's links:
Her website and her writing: https://4w.pub/author/mk/
The social media platform she created: https://spinster.xyz/
Her twitter: @mkay_fain
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Is Our Era Destroying Science? The Truth about Science Denialism from a Cancelled Biologist
Colin Wright is Managing Editor of Quillette, an evolutionary biologist, and an outspoken critic of the ideology he calls “the new evolution denialism.”
Colin received his PhD in evolutionary biology from UC Santa Barbara in 2018 before taking a postdoctoral position at Penn State. He eventually left academia after he was the subject of a campaign of online harassment that began when he published a piece called “The New Evolution Deniers.”
His work has garnered him attacks from gender identity activists but has also propelled him into the ranks of those who are actively challenging elements of identity politics.
Colin joined me to talk about the increasingly mainstream movement to deny basic biological facts in the name of ideology. We also discuss his story of why he left academia, what he would say to others who may be thinking of speaking up, and the act of going against the crowd to speak the truth even when it would benefit you to stay silent.
You can find Colin's articles here: https://quillette.com/author/colin-wright/
and here: https://colinwright.substack.com/
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M.K. Fain Responds to Hit Piece in The Atlantic
Writer and programmer M.K. Fain joins Sasha White to discuss a December 8th article in The Atlantic entitled, “The Secret Internet of TERFs.” Kaitlyn Tiffany, the author of the piece, interviewed Fain both over email and the phone.
M.K. Fain and I conduct a thorough forensic examination of The Atlantic article, which you can read here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/reddit-ovarit-the-donald/617320/. We go through it line by line, discussing each assertion as well as looking at Tiffany’s sources and following various links that she included in her piece.
We’re putting The Atlantic’s journalistic process under a microscope. We made every effort to provide a fair, honest and thorough assessment of each claim made in the article, and evaluate the sources that Tiffany relied on.
M.K. Fain's links:
Her website and her writing: https://4w.pub/author/mk/
The social media platform she created: https://spinster.xyz/
Her twitter: @mkay_fain
The website that The Atlantic cited as the "secret internet of TERFs": https://ovarit.com/
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Welcome to Gender Land with Helen Joyce
Sasha White speaks with Helen Joyce.
Helen is an executive editor at The Economist and is currently writing a book about gender identity ideology.
She helps to frame the discussion around the transgender debate that we're exploring in this series.
We discuss the rampant homophobia and misogyny exhibited by proponents of gender identity ideology, the legal and social ramifications of this movement, and the authoritarian nature of the ongoing debate.
Helen breaks it all down in an engaging and meticulous way, from teen transitioners to redefining words to why she herself speaks out on this topic.
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Cancelled for Standing Up For Lesbians: Julia D. Robertson
Julia D. Robertson is an author and journalist. She has contributed to Huffington Post, AfterEllen, Quillette, Curve, Feminist Current and more. She also has her own website, The Velvet Chronicle. She has been a long time critic of gender identity ideology, especially as it relates to the transing of young lesbians. She was an early voice of dissent around the idea that minors can consent to medical and surgical transition. Her first novel, Beyond the Screen Door, was published by Flashpoint Publications (formerly Regal Crest) in 2016.
Julia joins Sasha for a conversation about her current ordeal. We also discuss lesbian erasure, gender ideology, and cancel culture.
Julia is on twitter as @JuliaDRobertson.
The Velvet Chronicle: https://thevelvetchronicle.com/
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Teens Being Pressured to be Transgender? First Hand Account of a Teenager Who Resists Gender Ideology
Sasha White speaks with Amy:
My guest in this episode is Amy, a fifteen year old girl who writes and speaks publicly about her experience as someone who doesn’t subscribe to gender identity ideology. We are in an era where it’s practically social suicide in her age group, particularly in the LGBT community, to disagree with ideas like “trans women are women,” or that being same-sex attracted is problematic because it’s considered transphobic. Amy is a lesbian and she’s faced online threats and harassment just for speaking out about her views on these issues.
After following her on Twitter, and seeing her intelligent and insightful comments, I reached out to Amy and asked if she would be willing to speak with me.
It is important to me that I kept Amy anonymous (you will hear her voice but not see her face or real name‒‒Amy is a pseudonym).
This episode is special because we hear from a teenager who goes against the grain, who is a true independent thinker. Amy describes the culture of some of her peers as one of silencing and thought-policing.
*parental permission was obtained for the recording and publishing of this interview
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