The Roots of 'Gender-Critical' Fascism: White Supremacy, Reactionary Feminism, and the Far Right

What if the history of feminism wasn’t only a story of
liberation—but also one of betrayal, reaction, and complicity? In
this episode of Acid Horizon, we speak with Michael Richmond and
Alex Charnley, authors of Fascism and the Women's Cause, about
the forgotten histories of white feminist collaboration with the
far right—from the suffrage movement to the Ku Klux Klan and the
British Union of Fascists. Together we explore how transphobia,
liberalism, and racial capitalism converge in today’s so-called
“gender-critical” movements. This is a conversation about
fractures on the left, the dangers of respectable reaction, and
why we must fight for a feminism that refuses fascism.


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