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Listen to this podcast at: https://savageminds.substack.com/p/ann-menasche Ann Menasche, a civil rights attorney, discusses the legal complaint she lodged against Disability Rights California earlier this year in response to her being fired from her job of twenty years. Her employer, Disability Continue reading Julian Vigo interviews Ann Menasche for SavageMinds
Justice for Ann Committee c/o Defendfeminists.net January 26, 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (pdf version): Contact: j4a-media@defendfeminists.net Ann Menasche – 619-459-1150 Andrew Hillier – 619-330-5120 SAN DIEGO CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY AND HOMELESS ADVOCATE ANN MENASCHE SUES DISABILITY RIGHTS CALIFORNIA FOR WRONGFUL Continue reading San Diego Civil Rights Attorney and Homeless Advocate Ann Menasche Sues Disability Rights California for Wrongful Termination
“There’s really no such thing as ‘the voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard.” Arundhati Roy
On May 11, 2022, Ann Menasche, a long-time civil rights attorney, lesbian, feminist, and left-wing activist, was fired from her job of 20 years without warning within a few days of sending an email to staff that abortion bans harm women as a sex, despite a strong work record advocating for her clients.
Ann’s case should be deeply concerning to lesbians, feminists, supporters of workers’ rights, and anyone else who believes that employers should not have the right to control the thoughts, opinions, and outside political activities of employees. No democracy can survive if employees are terrified, on pain of losing their jobs, of participating in political activity outside of work of which their employer may disapprove.
And it is impossible to fight to regain the right to abortion, if we cannot mention the one and only coherent group of humans that is directly affected by abortion bans, the only group capable of becoming pregnant- women and girls i.e., biological females, regardless how they identify.
Learn more about Thistle Pettersen and the harassment she has endured.
Thistle Pettersen is a long-time environmental organizer and musician in Madison, Wisconsin who has been harassed, defamed, threatened, and ostracized from her community for expressing feminist beliefs. Read our fact sheet for a timeline of the harassment Thistle has faced.
What does Thistle believe? Like many other feminists, Thistle believes that gender is a patriarchal construct. She advocates for the right of women, as members of the oppressed sex, to have protected and respected safe spaces. She advocates for an acknowledgement of the problem of male violence in society, and the ability to talk about it.
Why is Thistle Pettersen targeted?
Thistle publicly expressed her opinions on sex and gender, and interviewed well known feminist authors/journalists Julie Bindel, Meghan Murphy and Sheila Jeffreys on WORT 89.9 FM via the Access Hour. For more in-depth analysis of gender-critical feminism please see this 2015 article from Common Dreams and this 2014 article in the New Yorker. Since then it has been nearly impossible to get gender-critical journalism published in left-leaning and progressive publications.
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Catch the replay in the archives here. Joy of Resistance Thu, Nov 17, 2022 11:00 AM THE ERASURE OF WOMEN AS A SEX CLASS Ann Menasche will be a guest on Joy of Resistance, Multicultural Feminist Radio at WBAI, this Thursday, Continue reading WBAI – The Joy of Resistence with Fran Luck