FQT 30 April 2022

Discussion of Robin Morgan's book The Demon Lover - The Roots of Terrorism

Feminist Question Time with speakers the US & UK

Sheila Jeffreys and Lierre Keith discuss Author Robin Morgan’s book: ‘The Demon Lover - The Roots of Terrorism’

Women's Declaration International (WDI) Feminist Question Time is our weekly online webinars. It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel. WDI is the leading global organisation defending women’s sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. There is more information on the website womensdeclaration.com where you will find our Declaration on Women’s Sex-based rights, which has been signed by more 30,000 people from 157 countries and is supported by 418 organisations.

This week’s speakers:

Robin Morgan - An award-winning poet, novelist, journalist, and best-selling author, Robin Morgan has published more than 20 books.

Her 1970 anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful has been widely credited with helping to start the contemporary feminist movement, and was cited by the New York Public Library as “One of the 100 most influential Books of the 20th Century.”

Recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Prize (Poetry) among other honors, and former Editor-in-Chief of Ms. Magazine, she founded the Sisterhood Is Global Institute, and co-founded (with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem) the Women’s Media Center. She currently writes and hosts WMC Live with Robin Morgan, a syndicated weekly radio program with a national and international audience in 110 countries around the world.

You can get more info of the book here: https://www.robinmorgan.net/book/the-demon-lover/

Sheila Jeffreys - Sheila Jeffreys writes in the areas of sexual politics, international gender politics, and lesbian & gay politics. She has written ten books on the history and politics of sexuality. Originally from the UK, Sheila moved to Melbourne in 1991 to take up a position at the University of Melbourne. She retired back to the UK in 2015. She has been actively involved in feminist and lesbian feminist politics, particularly around the issue of sexual violence, since 1973. She is a feminist, activist and co-author of the declaration of women’s sex-based rights.

Lierre Keith - Lierre Keith is a writer, radical feminist, food activist, and environmentalist. Her book The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” Her writing and lectures focus on civilization’s violence against the planet, male violence against women, and the need for serious resistance to both.

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