Dear sisters and friends,

So, this is a short post to let you know that I will mostly be retiring this blog, and from now on will be writing over at Substack. My new project is called Culture War Blues, and will be dedicated to analysing the culture war shitshow we find ourselves in from a feminist and materialist POV. Having spent most of the last decade pushing back against the excesses of left identitarian wokery, I have recently become more proccupied with the dangers of right identitarian anti-wokery, and the way the binary opposition between these two culture-war tribes is squeezing the space in the middle for materialist and feminist thinkers, or anyone capable of nuance really.

Critical of both traditional conservative ‘patriarchy 1.0’ and new-fangled ‘patriarchy 2.0,’ Culture War Blues will involve frequent short columns on political events and trends, as well as longer more philosophical essays on the scourge of identity politics, the strands feeding into right wing radicalisation, and the foundations of feminist resistance or ‘anti-domination politics.’ Hopefully, in a few months, there will also be a podcast discussing these issues with various other thinkers also ‘stuck in the middle’ between these binary warring tribes. Please subscribe at culturewarblues.substack.com, and consider supporting the political independence of Jane’s work which, as always, is entirely funded by the (mostly) women who find it useful. It would be wonderful to see some of you over there.

Lastly, as many of you know, The Radical Notion has come to the end of its twelve-issue cycle, and is shutting up shop, both figuratively and literally. We currently have a massive sale on back issues, so if you do want to get your hands on any physical copies you missed please do so before the shop closes down at the end of the month – it will be open until the end of this weekend I believe.

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Hope to see you in the new place.

In sisterhood and solidarity, Jane