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Michael Richmond

@sisyphusa

Co-author of Fractured: Race, Class, Gender & the Hatred of Identity Politics (Pluto Press, 2022) and Fascism & the Women's Cause (Ebb, 2025).

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Fractured - Pluto Press An antidote to political infighting and the culture wars

It's currently 30% off as part of Pluto's 'Liberation Reads' sale www.plutobooks.com/product/frac...

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Yes!!! from our first book.

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'Fascism and the Women’s Cause offers a vital and unvarnished insight into the ways in which historical campaigns for women’s rights often intertwined with far right and fascist ideas about gender, race, class, and empire.'

Thank you @drkatw.bsky.social and @reacpolrn.bsky.social for the review.

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Fascism and the Women's Cause β€” Ebb Fascism and the Women’s Cause investigates the tangled roots of the women’s struggle and the manifestations of the women’s cause today in violent moral panics against queer and racialised people as ge...

You can find more information on the reviewed book here: www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/fasc...

16.07.2025 09:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Book review: Fascism and the Women’s Cause - Reactionary Politics Research Network Book review of Charnley and Richmond's Fascism and the Womens' Cause by Katherine Williams

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@drkatw.bsky.social reviews Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond's (@sisyphusa.bsky.social) 'Fascism and the Women's Cause', reflecting on the how tenets of women’s rights and agency are central to contemporary attempts to reinvigorate fascism.

reacpol.net/fascism-wome...

16.07.2025 08:59 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

So pleased to have a first review of our new book! Thank you for this careful reading of 'Fascism and the Women's Cause', @drkatw.bsky.social

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Fascism and the Women's Cause β€” Ebb Fascism and the Women’s Cause investigates the tangled roots of the women’s struggle and the manifestations of the women’s cause today in violent moral panics against queer and racialised people as ge...

The book is still available to purchase here: www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/fasc...

02.07.2025 10:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Roots of 'Gender-Critical' Fascism: White Supremacy, Reactionary Feminism, and the Far Right
The Roots of 'Gender-Critical' Fascism: White Supremacy, Reactionary Feminism, and the Far Right YouTube video by Acid Horizon

When Fascism meets Feminism

Authors of 'Fascism and the Women's Cause,' Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond (@sisyphusa.bsky.social), spoke to @acidhorizon.bsky.social to discuss the forgotten histories of white feminist collaboration with the far right.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=or97...

02.07.2025 10:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

me & Alex are on the latest episode of the excellent @acidhorizon.bsky.social. We talked to Adam about our new book 'Fascism and the Women's Cause', discussing 'fascist feminism', the Women's KKK, the BUF, gender criticals, the Pankhursts & more. Check it out!

01.07.2025 16:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hungary banned anything that β€œpromotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

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We watched activists disrupt a β€˜gender-critical’ meeting dressed as clowns Last night, members of The Dyke Project – a collective of cis, trans and nonbinary lesbians – unleashed a series of surreal disruptions at a trans-exclusionary lecture

Incredible scenes
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

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Los Angeles FC crowd chants, "Fuck ICE."

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Straight from a Chaplin film from 1918.

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105 Kier Starmer, Enoch Powell, Race Relations and the Border Podcast Episode Β· 12 Rules For WHAT Β· 21/05/2025 Β· 52m

Excellent podcast with @sisyphusa.bsky.social on Starmer channelling Enoch Powell

There is pattern in British history of β€œwhiteness riots” which are then followed by state rhetoric and legislation to appease the racists: 1919, 1958 and now 2024.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

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105 Kier Starmer, Enoch Powell, Race Relations and the Border Play 105 Kier Starmer, Enoch Powell, Race Relations and the Border by 12 Rules For WHAT on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

I chatted to the "12 rules for what" podcast about Starmer, Powellism and Border Britain.

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UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid - Israel-
Gaza war live

UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid - Israel- Gaza war live

14,000 babies!

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Fascism and the Women’s Cause by Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond

Book cover: Fascism and the Women’s Cause by Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond

Finally got my copy yesterday and jumped straight into it

Brilliant book as expected and so necessary at a time when reactionaries aim to divide us, cosplaying as defenders of women's rights and the liberal centre conveniently laps it up

Order yours here:

www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/fasc...

04.05.2025 09:23 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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mine and Alex's second book, 'Fascism and the Women's Cause' is out TODAY, published by @ebb.bsky.social

please buy it, read it, share it, order it from your local library. and please help us to spread the word about it as we're too exhausted to do it ourselves lol.

29.04.2025 11:35 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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mine and Alex's second book, 'Fascism and the Women's Cause' is out TODAY, published by @ebb.bsky.social

please buy it, read it, share it, order it from your local library. and please help us to spread the word about it as we're too exhausted to do it ourselves lol.

29.04.2025 11:35 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Joshua Clover speaking to group on microphone.

Joshua Clover speaking to group on microphone.

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of author, poet, and anti-capitalist theorist Joshua Clover. We were lucky enough to speak with Clover in 2017 on our podcast. May his work continue to be an inspiration. itsgoingdown.org/make-world-s...

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Before JK Rowling or Maya Forstater It is a joy to see these two histories appearing within weeks of each other. They are both timely, in explaining the precursors to today’s reactionary feminism. Each book begins with contempo…

tl;dr = A rough-and-ready review of two important books: one published six weeks ago and the other today.

Both of them explaining the trans exclusionary politics of the present by looking for models from the past.

livesrunning.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/b...

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A picture of an endorsement of Charnley and Richmond's 'Fascism and the Women's Cause.' The book cover is on the left and to the right is the endorsement in white font on a lavender background.

The endorsement says: 'This book is a tremendous resource and an exciting, theoretically sophisticated achievement. At a time when certain feminisms have reasserted themselves as one of fascism's forms of appearance, Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond's intervention could not be more critical.'

Sophie Lewis' name is in a larger font and underneath in a smaller font are Lewis' publications, 'Author of Full Surrogacy Now (Verso, 2019) and Enemy Feminisms (Haymarket Books, 2025).'

On the bottom right is a cream coloured badge that says in lavender font 'Preorder now.'

A picture of an endorsement of Charnley and Richmond's 'Fascism and the Women's Cause.' The book cover is on the left and to the right is the endorsement in white font on a lavender background. The endorsement says: 'This book is a tremendous resource and an exciting, theoretically sophisticated achievement. At a time when certain feminisms have reasserted themselves as one of fascism's forms of appearance, Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond's intervention could not be more critical.' Sophie Lewis' name is in a larger font and underneath in a smaller font are Lewis' publications, 'Author of Full Surrogacy Now (Verso, 2019) and Enemy Feminisms (Haymarket Books, 2025).' On the bottom right is a cream coloured badge that says in lavender font 'Preorder now.'

'This book is a tremendous resource and an exciting, theoretically sophisticated achievement...Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond's intervention could not be more critical.' - Sophie Lewis (@reproutopia.bsky.social)

Preorder now: www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/fasc...

22.04.2025 13:36 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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The UK's Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court's attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.

The UK Supreme Court’s transphobic ruling on the definition of woman last week is a defeat for all womenβ€”even, ultimately, the self-described feminists celebrating it, and the women who will gain in the short term from their alliance with the carceral state.

my latest for @thenation.com

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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Such a lovely endorsement from @reproutopia.bsky.social

The book is out soon, April 29th!

Preorders really help out and this is a brilliant, important book too.

22.04.2025 13:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010 The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.

The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010

www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

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There are lots of us and we are well organised and connected to each other. However hostile the conditions get we will be able to look after each other as we already do. We're inventive and the law has never stopped us before nor has it stopped the oppression we face.

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The Equality Act was passed in 2010, it was not the source of the social progress that led to it’s creation and it has not been the source for the progress that followed (nor has it protected us from regression).
The ruling today is a bump on the road towards trans liberation, not the end of it.

16.04.2025 10:42 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Now available for pre-order!

Β£13/$17.50, paperback

www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/fasc...

Available from:

Waterstones (UK)
Foyles (UK)
Amazon (UK)
Barnes & Noble (US)
Amazon (US)

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