This presentation explores the fusion of anti-trans ideology with ‘the Jewish question’. It seems remarkable to me that those who see and call out antisemitism on the Left have remained so silent for so long about a mainstream propaganda text of gender critical feminism ridden with a transphobic and antisemitic conspiracy theory.
“Any demand that people clearly be men or women, let us be clear, is the patriarchal world view. But from the view that sex is material, that biological sex is immutable, comes a requirement that bodies line up, to appear as men or women. Biological sex is used to create a social line, that we have the right, even moral […]
The extract below from a Workers’ Liberty article by Natalia Cassidy (2019), Transphobia and antisemitism, identifies an interesting and convincing relationship between left anti-Semitism and left transphobia. I repost my audio recording of my book chapter, On Identity Politics, Ressentiment, and the Evacuation of Human Emancipation, after this extract, since it takes up the question […]
The following is a full recording of and written extracts from my book chapter, “On Identity Politics, Ressentiment, and the Evacuation of Human Emancipation”, in Nocella and Juergensmeyer (eds.) Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education (Peter Lang Publishing). My chapter and its podcast examine a neoliberal wave of identity politics in the form of intersectionality and privilege theory. […]
The following is a recording of my lead-off at a Sheffield Workers’ Liberty public meeting on 15th October 2015. I hope you find it of some interest.
Anaemic On A Bike 