'Transition is not an unconstrained choice when we are fast-tracked to medical intervention as if being female was a tumor that required immediate removal to save our lives.'

- Max Robinson, Detransition: Beyond Before and After
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I was being groomed to become a porn star in the bedroom.

—Maggie

'He Chose Porn Over Me': Women Harmed by Men Who Use Porn by @meltankardreist spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925…

Start reading The Rust Red Land by Robyn Bishop here
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This week's Book of the Week is Gender Identity: Lies and Dangers by Laura Lecuona

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#WeStandWithSallGrover

The NSW Book Launch for Jacqueline Rule's new book The Leaves will be held at Gleebooks on Thursday 2nd May.

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“Emotional disconnection of men is socialised in boys to the extent that it becomes their standard for manhood.”

- Kathleen Barry, Unmaking War, Remaking Men spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781876…

As a young unmarried mother in the 1960s, Maureen faces stifling disapproval and condemnation from mainstream society.

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“It seems that some people simply cannot accept that women should legally have something to themselves.”

- Mary Goslett, The Women's Pool edited by Lynne Spender
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'While in the past, they took away the dress from the child with a penis, now they take away the penis from the child with a dress.'

- Kajsa Ekis Ekman, On the Meaning of Sex
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#ICYMI Catch up on the Online Book Launch for the updated version of Flying With Paper Wings by Sandy Jeffs - video now on our YouTube channel
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'Pregnancy is more than just genetic - it is a biological process which involves a woman and baby in a complete way where the mother's blood, hormones, etc. will connect both of them forever.'

- Laura Isabel Gómez García #stopsurrogacynow
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Out of the Fog delivers clarity and guidance in this bewildering time.

Renée Gerlich's insights will help you develop the capacity to speak with an authentic voice and to act purposefully and with impact in the world spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925…

The new definition of sex has been hailed as progressive. But is it really? What ideology is expressed by it? What consequences will it have? And for whom?
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'This is how Annie sees herself now, as a survivor. She jumps at loud noises and keeps a night light burning but she is still here and as whole as she can possibly be.'

- Robyn Bishop in It's All Connected: Feminist Fiction and Poetry spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925…

Faith and Evelyn are close friends, neighbours, and single mothers of Luke and of Mitch – and both bear the scars of the trauma of colonisation and the Stolen Generations.

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“It’s a contradictory and confusing position to champion ‘inclusion’ when inclusion means everyone but women and everything but feminism.”

- Cherry Smiley, Not Sacred Not Squaws
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“My only dream that’s ever come true, and one I relish with a vengeance, is being able to whistle like a man. I was told a woman fit to be married should not whistle. I don’t want to be married so the more they point at me, the louder I whistle.” spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925…

.CATWA is having an in-person event as part of the 30th anniversary celebrations, where Spinifex author Rose Hunter will discuss her memoir Body Shell Girl - details to come soon spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925…

Watch Sheila Jeffreys’ speech at IWD Brisbane Meanjin conference on Femininity as the Behaviour of Subordination youtu.be/ge21QLN5E5g?si…