Irish women on Trump’s win: ‘America will be great, but for who? Not for women’
What does the election of Donald Trump as US President say about women? I’m still in shock and find it hard to articulate how I feel, which is probably mostly fear and a total absence of hope. I’ve...
View Article6 Female Illustrators Weigh in on Sexism, Feminism and the Newsweek Fiasco
Illustration industry sexism can't silence the female perspective. Sadly, gender disparity is part and parcel of almost every industry on our little blue planet. According to the Bureau of Labor...
View ArticleStand Up For Heresy
A review of The New Philistines: How Identity Politics Disfigure the Arts by Sohrab Ahmari. Biteback Publishing, (October 16, 2016) 128 pages. Postmodernism might have had a liberating effect on the...
View ArticleVoting for Hillary Because of Her Gender Doesn't Make You a Good...
Sanders is better than Clinton not only on economic issues, but also on reproductive choice and gay rights. The following is an excerpt from the new book False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary...
View ArticleSocial Justice Bullies: The Authoritarianism of Millennial Social Justice
Social justice, as a concept, has existed for millennia — at least as long as society has had inequity and inequality and there were individuals enlightened enough to question this. When we study...
View ArticleMcCarthyite Anti-Semitism Smears and Racism at the Guardian/Observer
I Over the last few years, and as the corporate neoliberal project has started to unravel, the Guardian/Observer news stable has devoted a considerable amount of space to smears on re-emerging...
View ArticleThe Modern Feminist Rejection of Constitutional Government (The Heritage...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) August 8, 2016 | First Principles Series Report on Political Thought By Christina Villegas Many people assume that it is modern feminism, not the Constitution, that...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleIn the News: Webster chess coach and pioneer Polgar featured in ESPNW...
(Source: Webster University) Jan. 6, 2017 Fresh off her team's multi-squad domination at the 2016 PanAm InterCollegiate Chess Championship, Webster University chess coach Susan Polgar was profiled in...
View ArticleArctic Securities Chess Stars begins today
This double round robin rapid chess event is taking place...
View ArticleShrill voice of Oxford Dictionary shows grating gender bias
"She's a wild promiscuous good-time girl." Who, you ask. Never mind that: the real question is why. Specifically, why does the Oxford Dictionary have such a misogynistic reflex when it comes to sample...
View ArticleA chess champ named Nazi is taking a stand on women’s rights in Iran
After years of playing with pawns and bishops, the reigning queen of US chess finds herself in the biggest stalemate of her career. Nazi Paikidze, 22, shook up the chess world over the weekend when the...
View ArticleNorwegian keeps chess crown
The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On a dreary, rainy Manhattan night, a huge, happy roar arose in a crowd of chess fans from around the world. Two-time world chess champion, Magnus Carlsen, had just...
View ArticleBad News: We’re Sexist
Last year, as Hillary Clinton was gathering the endorsements of a coterie of retired generals and admirals, Angie Maxwell thought one of the long-standing sexist barriers to a female becoming president...
View ArticleNigel Short leads foreign GMs in int’l chess open
ENGLAND’S GM Nigel Short (2688) will lead foreign-based grandmasters (GM) in the 2017 Negros International Open Chess Championship on October 11-19 in Bacolod City. It is the first time that foreign...
View ArticleFemale Chess Legend Dismisses Claim Men Are Wired to Be Better Players
Judit Polgar, one of the world's top chess players, has hit back against a claim by another of the game's stars that men are naturally better chess players. "We are capable of the same fight as any...
View ArticleA Queen of Kings: Meet the child prodigy who beat sexism on the black and...
"Before I was born my parents decided that I was going to be a genius." This was the opening line of Judit Polgár's first Ted Talk. She wasn't exaggerating. Judit Polgár was born in Budapest in 1976,...
View ArticleBrussels Chess in Schools Conference (World Chess Federation)
(Source: World Chess Federation) A Chess in Schools Conference, organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) took place in the European Parliament during the afternoon of 24 February. Speakers from a...
View ArticleHarika’s mantra for women’s world chess championship: Go for gold
The year 2016 was wonderful for women’s sports in India. PV Sindhu secured silver in badminton during the 2016 Rio Olympics while Sakshi Malik won bronze in wrestling. In women’s chess, 2016 was a year...
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