Gender & Sexuality

Women on Strike: Reclaiming Socialism for International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day (previously known as International Working Women’s Day) was created by socialists to commemorate the women garment workers’ strike in 1908. These two aspects of March 8 -- workers’ mobilizations and socialism -- must be forcefully taken up in the Trump era.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
March 8, 2017Rise Up With the Women of the World
The women's movement rejects the fake symbolism of a few wealthy women on top--even women of color--as our inspiration or goal. We--poor, working-class, immigrant, black, trans disabled--are the leaders we have been waiting for.
Julia Wallace
March 7, 2017International Women’s Day in the Land of Femicides
Left Voice interviews Mexican socialist, Joss Espinoza. She is a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and an activist in the socialist women's organization "Pan y Rosas" (Bread and Roses).
Joss Espinosa
March 7, 2017Maquila Workers Against Femicide and Exploitation
The conditions of the Mexican working class are a product of the United States’ imperialist relationship with Mexico which has been perpetuated by both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
Ximena Goldman
March 7, 2017“The Future Is Female” Is Not A Progressive Slogan
“The Future Is Female” is a corporate feminist slogan. It erases queer, trans, and other non-binary people entirely, and it implies erasing men, which is not feminist.
Sam Miller
February 21, 2017The Failure of Liberal Feminism in the Trump Era
The restrictions imposed by the new administration on the right to choose and the promise of new attacks raise the question of how to defend women’s rights in the Trump era.
Celeste Murillo
February 6, 2017The Women’s March and the Democratic Party Trap
The Women's March wants to organize the rage against Trump into a domesticated opposition.
Celeste Murillo
January 22, 2017The Women’s Movement We Need
The Trump administration will mean increased attacks against women. The Women’s March on Washington demonstrates the potential for the creation of a new, responsive women’s movement. Here, I will outline six elements needed for a women’s movement that is up to the task of not only responding to Trump’s attacks, but of wresting our rights from the government.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
January 18, 2017Brazil: Street Vendor Killed for Defending a Trans Woman
On Christmas night, two men were drunkenly urinating outside the Sao Paulo metro when a homeless trans woman let them know that there was a restroom in the station.
Left Voice
January 5, 201727 Years After The Montreal Massacre, We Keep Fighting to End Violence Against Women
Tuesday, December 6th 2016 marks the 27th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, where 14 female students of the École Polytechnique in Montreal were killed and another 10 women were injured by gunshot wounds. They were victims of a misogynistic attack by a student named Marc Lépine.
Bruno Portela
December 7, 2016