This feminist Zoom forum features KARLA MANTILA to lead discussion on this timely topic for feminists. A zoom link will be provided two days before the event for all registrants.
The Forum is schedule for Saturday February 7th at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time/4:00 p.m. Eastern.
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Karla Mantila is a radical feminist whose grounding in feminism coalesced as a collective member of Off Our Backs, a newsjournal by, for, and about women that was published from 1970 to 2008. She is the author of Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral (Praeger, 2015), and she taught sociology at George Mason University, Gettysburg College, McDaniel College, and University of Maryland at College Park. She was the managing editor of Feminist Studies, a women’s studies academic journal, where she was witness to the fundamental erosion of feminist thought throughout the field of academic women’s studies.
FIST’s Feminist forum series are women-only interactive educational events where participants are encouraged to ask questions, express their opinions, and engage in vigorous discussion.



Trans industries need us to accept biology and body parts as “optional” in order to socially engineer society for transhumanism. It is here. The new “conversion therapy bans” actually legally force medicalization! Trans IS medical conversion! The Trans cult spreads by social contagion AND powerful trans pushers. Foster care children are used as trans guinea pigs!

Rather than their homelessness being a “choice” or a “lifestyle”, these women are the victims of factors beyond their control – the skyrocketing cost of housing that has left half the population of San Diego struggling to pay the rent – one illness, one layoff, or one rent raise away from homelessness; and abysmally low female wages. Even women in the professions still make less than their male counterparts.

I just learned that Julia Beck was prevented from leading a workshop on compulsory heterosexuality at the Filia Women’s Rights Conference because she spoke at a forum on gender identity at the Heritage Foundation back in 2019. As someone who was critical of the decision by some feminists to participate in this far Right stridently anti-feminist venue (as were many other FIST members), I believe that “no platforming” someone within the feminist movement is not the way to go. We need more discussion and debate, not less.