by Phyllis Chesler A few days ago, a 16 year-old teenage girl was raped by her 21 year-old neighbor. Heroically, she cried out, she “told,” she did not remain silent. Her punishment was savage. Her family tied her to her rapist and paraded them both through the streets of rural Madhya Pradesh ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler I always order flowers on Friday morning. Roses, often—but they do not seem to last as well as tulips do. This gathering of lovelies arrived small, sweet, and bud-like and the green spears were decorously and artfully arranged. My dentist, retired, has become a passionate gardener. ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler I just joined an amazing, landmark literary festival sponsored by Ananke, based in the United Arab Emirates. The distinguished Sabin Muzzafar organized feminist women writers whose work in Urdu, Hindi, Bangladeshi, and Arabic is rarely translated into other languages. The same ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler On March 14th, some very brave women, mainly mothers, demonstrated ourside Gender Dysphoria clinics in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and New York City. I have not seen their actions covered in the media. Have you? Their focus was on the harm done to children by giving them diagnoses ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler I was working on an opera about a Moroccan Jewish saint named Sol Hachuel but alas, it came to naught. I was about to de-board a cruise ship so I might finally take the measure of Tangier and Casablanca—but that too came to naught. And so, what I know about Morocco is what ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chelser It’s sunny but cold outside, too cold to even sit overlooking the ocean— but just right indoors, by the warming fire. The aged Samoyed is, no doubt, dreaming of snow, and we are watching yet another British crime drama. Despite this moment of domestic harmony, all is not ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler The subject du jour—in fact, the only subject allowed—is that of racism, usually anti-black racism, except for today, when the massacre of women working in two Atlanta massage parlors is All About Race. Every single mainstream/leftstream newspaper and site are spinning this ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler A friend who recently published a book about the UK had this to say: “A man posted the following online: ‘I once was a mammal but now I’m a bird.”’ When he told me this I could not stop laughing. But I stopped laughing when he followed it up with this: “And so Scotland ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Female House Finch My colleague and friend, Donna Hughes, often sends me the most fetching photographs of the birds that grace her 52-acre farm. They are always composed and radiate dignity, the very name of the journal she founded. According to Dr. Donna, she has spent a ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler Monday marked International Women's Day, the start of Women's History Month. And Iran is always on my mind when this day comes 'round. Iran and I go way back, and my history there shapes my views of the country and how to deal with it today. I first visited Tehran in ...Read More...

Dr. Paula Caplan, an amazing feminist psychologist, author, and activist in her own right, insisted on interviewing me at the Association for Women in Psychology’s annual meeting which was held on March 5-7, 2021. AWP is an organization that I co-founded in 1969. We pre-recorded this interview. It covered ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler This cannot be happening spontaneously, this must be part of a plan, a funded strategy of sorts. Cancelling the classics, cancelling books that critique Islamic practices and the aggressive tactics of the transgender cult; challenging professors on how they teach race and gender ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler I am talking about the Bulgarian soprano, Sonya Yoncheva, whose performance I was privileged to enjoy yesterday via Zoom. There she was, wearing an impossibly filmy red gown, with diamonds flashing from her fingers, ears, and wrist, standing in the ornate Schussenried Cloister ...Read More...

by Phyllis Chesler What would you do if you were told you had only three months left to live? That is the subject of Maria Sodahl’s riveting new Norwegian film, Hope. Nicole Kidman has purchased the rights to this story and will star in an English-language series remake for Amazon. Anja, our ...Read More...

The varieties of gender and race have led us to lose all reason and certainty, while our pc society is bannng books that dissent. by Phyllis Chesler Yesterday, I was standing on line, waiting for my second vaccine shot, when I was given a form which asked me to choose among the following: Am ...Read More...