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The Strawtran

27 September, 202021 December, 2020Catrìona Faolain

TERFs lie, and perhaps the most frustrating way in which they lie is when they lie about what we think.

Respectful Discussion in the Lions’ Den

29 April, 2019Catrìona Faolain0

“Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence” – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists, 1903 Recently the trans discourse has inevitably turned back to whether trans people are being ‘respectful’ enough. Cis people complain that trans attitudes are “too hostile”, “too confrontational”. Whether that’s Chris McEleny’s self-contradictory victim-blaming bullshit in The Herald, or the accusation that […]

No, You’re the Real Fascists

13 December, 2018Catrìona Faolain0

A quote often attributed to Winston Churchill is something along the lines of:- In the future, fascists will call themselves anti-fascists. There are a few problems with this quote, firstly that Churchill never said it, and secondly that, as Orwell pointed out, it’s not consistent to oppose fascism while (as Churchill did) supporting the way […]

Fight or Flight

18 November, 201812 May, 2020Catrìona Faolain

In Coming Up for Air (published in June 1939, months before the Second World War legitimised it), George Orwell wrote about the impulse to do violence against fascists. He was attending a lecture by an anti-fascist at the Left Book Club in London, and, momentarily, found himself within the head of the speaker:- I saw […]