The Last Ditch bar mask row is nothing new. Julie Bindel recalls 1980s lesbian feminism, when disability and illness became badges of authenticity and status.
 
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The Last Ditch bar mask row is nothing new. Julie Bindel recalls 1980s lesbian feminism, when disability and illness became badges of authenticity and status. https://quillette.com/2026/09/28/lesbian-fragility-then-and-now/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Last Ditch bar mask row is nothing new. Julie Bindel recalls 1980s lesbian feminism, when disability and illness became badges of authenticity and status.
 
https://quillette.com/2026/09/28/lesbian-fragility-then-and-now/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Last Ditch Bar's Mask Row Is Nothing New

What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
By Y<a href="https://quillette.com/author/yuki/">uki Zeman</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence? By Yuki Zeman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
By Y<a href="https://quillette.com/author/yuki/" rel="noopener noreferrer">uki Zeman</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The Menace of a Respectable Hatred

The hard Left has once again allied itself with Islamists in the belief that they will help achieve its goals, hence repeating the mistake the communists made in 1979, in revolutionary Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The hard Left has once again allied itself with Islamists in the belief that they will help achieve its goals, hence repeating the mistake the communists made in 1979, in revolutionary Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The hard Left has once again allied itself with Islamists in the belief that they will help achieve its goals, hence repeating the mistake the communists made in 1979, in revolutionary Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Strange Bedfellows

This presentation is written and narrated by Dr Karleen Gribble, a researcher specialising in maternal and child health with particular expertise in breastfeeding and lactation policy.
Dr Gribble argues that the replacement of sex-based language like "women," "mothers," and "breastfeeding" with gender-neutral terms like "pregnant people," "birthing bodies," and "chest feeding" in healthcare represents a failure of evidence-based medicine, cultural imperialism, and abuse of institutional power. She traces how this language shift originated in the United States around 2010–15 and spread globally through academic journals, publishers, health organisations, and funding bodies.
She contends that these changes are being implemented without any research demonstrating benefits, while the limited existing studies show women find the language confusing, offensive, or dehumanising. Dr Gribble argues this is particularly problematic because it violates public health principles requiring clear communication, may harm vulnerable women with low health literacy, and imposes Western gender ideology on non-Western cultures. She documents how researchers and health professionals who question this shift face professional retaliation, and how her own research proposals to study the impact of desexed language were rejected as offensive.
Dr Gribble calls for urgent research on the actual health impacts of this language change and a return to evidence-based practice that prioritises clear, dignified communication in women's healthcare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

This presentation is written and narrated by Dr Karleen Gribble, a researcher specialising in maternal and child health with particular expertise in breastfeeding and lactation policy. Dr Gribble argues that the replacement of sex-based language like "women," "mothers," and "breastfeeding" with gender-neutral terms like "pregnant people," "birthing bodies," and "chest feeding" in healthcare represents a failure of evidence-based medicine, cultural imperialism, and abuse of institutional power. She traces how this language shift originated in the United States around 2010–15 and spread globally through academic journals, publishers, health organisations, and funding bodies. She contends that these changes are being implemented without any research demonstrating benefits, while the limited existing studies show women find the language confusing, offensive, or dehumanising. Dr Gribble argues this is particularly problematic because it violates public health principles requiring clear communication, may harm vulnerable women with low health literacy, and imposes Western gender ideology on non-Western cultures. She documents how researchers and health professionals who question this shift face professional retaliation, and how her own research proposals to study the impact of desexed language were rejected as offensive. Dr Gribble calls for urgent research on the actual health impacts of this language change and a return to evidence-based practice that prioritises clear, dignified communication in women's healthcare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This presentation is written and narrated by Dr Karleen Gribble, a researcher specialising in maternal and child health with particular expertise in breastfeeding and lactation policy.
Dr Gribble argues that the replacement of sex-based language like "women," "mothers," and "breastfeeding" with gender-neutral terms like "pregnant people," "birthing bodies," and "chest feeding" in healthcare represents a failure of evidence-based medicine, cultural imperialism, and abuse of institutional power. She traces how this language shift originated in the United States around 2010–15 and spread globally through academic journals, publishers, health organisations, and funding bodies.
She contends that these changes are being implemented without any research demonstrating benefits, while the limited existing studies show women find the language confusing, offensive, or dehumanising. Dr Gribble argues this is particularly problematic because it violates public health principles requiring clear communication, may harm vulnerable women with low health literacy, and imposes Western gender ideology on non-Western cultures. She documents how researchers and health professionals who question this shift face professional retaliation, and how her own research proposals to study the impact of desexed language were rejected as offensive.
Dr Gribble calls for urgent research on the actual health impacts of this language change and a return to evidence-based practice that prioritises clear, dignified communication in women's healthcare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Erasing the Word 'Woman'

Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The Infinite Reopening of History

Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Routinely reviled by contemporary critics as a celebration of misogyny, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ is among Shakespeare’s most misunderstood plays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Game, Set, Match

The cold allows me to feel alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The cold allows me to feel alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The cold allows me to feel alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

To Winter, With Love

We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price.
By Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price. By Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price.
By Iona Italia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The Hatred We Must Name

The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable. By <a href="https://quillette.com/author/jack-pinczewski/">Jack Pinczewski</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable. By Jack Pinczewski Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable. By <a href="https://quillette.com/author/jack-pinczewski/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jack Pinczewski</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Bondi Was Not a Surprise

Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The New Information Wars

Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

What Is Autogynephilia? An Interview with Dr Ray Blanchard

While the nuclear breakout clock ticks, time may also be expiring on the Ayatollah regime’s grip on the region. The two countdowns are interconnected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

While the nuclear breakout clock ticks, time may also be expiring on the Ayatollah regime’s grip on the region. The two countdowns are interconnected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While the nuclear breakout clock ticks, time may also be expiring on the Ayatollah regime’s grip on the region. The two countdowns are interconnected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Iran's Two Ticking Clocks

Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Ancient Indian Tradition—Or Twentieth-Century European Export?

Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice. By <a href="https://quillette.com/author/andrew-bushnell/">⁠Andrew Bushnell⁠</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice. By ⁠Andrew Bushnell⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Criminal-justice reformers like to say that it is better to be ‘smart on crime’ than ‘tough on crime.’ But sometimes being tough is the smart choice. By <a href="https://quillette.com/author/andrew-bushnell/" rel="noopener noreferrer">⁠Andrew Bushnell⁠</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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