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Michael Richmond

@sisyphusa.bsky.social
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Co-author of Fractured: Race, Class, Gender & the Hatred of Identity Politics (Pluto Press, 2022) and Fascism & the Women's Cause (Ebb, 2025).

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Ebb @ebb.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
'Fascism and the Women’s Cause offers a vital and unvarnished insight into the ways in which historical campaigns for women’s rights often intertwined with far right and fascist ideas about gender, race, class, and empire.' Thank you @drkatw.bsky.social and @reacpolrn.bsky.social for the review.
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
You can find more information on the reviewed book here: www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/fasc...
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Fascism and the Women's Cause — Ebb
Fascism and the Women’s Cause investigates the tangled roots of the women’s struggle and the manifestations of the women’s cause today in violent moral panics against queer and racialised people as ge...
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
📣New review📣 @drkatw.bsky.social reviews Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond's (@sisyphusa.bsky.social) 'Fascism and the Women's Cause', reflecting on the how tenets of women’s rights and agency are central to contemporary attempts to reinvigorate fascism. reacpol.net/fascism-wome...
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Book review: Fascism and the Women’s Cause - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Book review of Charnley and Richmond's Fascism and the Womens' Cause by Katherine Williams
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
So pleased to have a first review of our new book! Thank you for this careful reading of 'Fascism and the Women's Cause', @drkatw.bsky.social
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Ebb @ebb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The book is still available to purchase here: www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/fasc...
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Fascism and the Women's Cause — Ebb
Fascism and the Women’s Cause investigates the tangled roots of the women’s struggle and the manifestations of the women’s cause today in violent moral panics against queer and racialised people as ge...
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Ebb @ebb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
When Fascism meets Feminism Authors of 'Fascism and the Women's Cause,' Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond (@sisyphusa.bsky.social), spoke to @acidhorizon.bsky.social to discuss the forgotten histories of white feminist collaboration with the far right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=or97...
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The Roots of 'Gender-Critical' Fascism: White Supremacy, Reactionary Feminism, and the Far Right
YouTube video by Acid Horizon
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
me & Alex are on the latest episode of the excellent @acidhorizon.bsky.social. We talked to Adam about our new book 'Fascism and the Women's Cause', discussing 'fascist feminism', the Women's KKK, the BUF, gender criticals, the Pankhursts & more. Check it out!
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valentine @dozygay.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 27/06/2025
Incredible scenes www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
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We watched activists disrupt a ‘gender-critical’ meeting dressed as clowns
Last night, members of The Dyke Project – a collective of cis, trans and nonbinary lesbians – unleashed a series of surreal disruptions at a trans-exclusionary lecture
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Los Angeles FC crowd chants, "Fuck ICE."
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butterfly. ☭ 🇵🇸🔻🇮🇪 @gothgf.rip · 11/06/2025
Straight from a Chaplin film from 1918.
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While Rome Burns @while-rome-burns.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Excellent podcast with @sisyphusa.bsky.social on Starmer channelling Enoch Powell There is pattern in British history of “whiteness riots” which are then followed by state rhetoric and legislation to appease the racists: 1919, 1958 and now 2024. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
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105 Kier Starmer, Enoch Powell, Race Relations and the Border
Podcast Episode · 12 Rules For WHAT · 21/05/2025 · 52m
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I chatted to the "12 rules for what" podcast about Starmer, Powellism and Border Britain. m.soundcloud.com/12rulesforwh...
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105 Kier Starmer, Enoch Powell, Race Relations and the Border
Play 105 Kier Starmer, Enoch Powell, Race Relations and the Border by 12 Rules For WHAT on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
14,000 babies!
UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid - Israel-
Gaza war live
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 04/05/2025
Finally got my copy yesterday and jumped straight into it Brilliant book as expected and so necessary at a time when reactionaries aim to divide us, cosplaying as defenders of women's rights and the liberal centre conveniently laps it up Order yours here: www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/fasc...
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Fascism and the Women’s Cause by Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond
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Alex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Can’t wait to start reading this new book. Their last book was a pivotal one for me and this one couldn’t be more timely. (and the intro is 🔥) @sisyphusa.bsky.social @ebb.bsky.social
Fascism and the women’s cause

Alex Charnley
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
mine and Alex's second book, 'Fascism and the Women's Cause' is out TODAY, published by @ebb.bsky.social please buy it, read it, share it, order it from your local library. and please help us to spread the word about it as we're too exhausted to do it ourselves lol.
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
mine and Alex's second book, 'Fascism and the Women's Cause' is out TODAY, published by @ebb.bsky.social please buy it, read it, share it, order it from your local library. and please help us to spread the word about it as we're too exhausted to do it ourselves lol.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of author, poet, and anti-capitalist theorist Joshua Clover. We were lucky enough to speak with Clover in 2017 on our podcast. May his work continue to be an inspiration. itsgoingdown.org/make-world-s...
Joshua Clover speaking to group on microphone.
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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
tl;dr = A rough-and-ready review of two important books: one published six weeks ago and the other today. Both of them explaining the trans exclusionary politics of the present by looking for models from the past. livesrunning.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/b...
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Before JK Rowling or Maya Forstater
It is a joy to see these two histories appearing within weeks of each other. They are both timely, in explaining the precursors to today’s reactionary feminism. Each book begins with contempo…
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Ebb @ebb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
'This book is a tremendous resource and an exciting, theoretically sophisticated achievement...Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond's intervention could not be more critical.' - Sophie Lewis (@reproutopia.bsky.social) Preorder now: www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/fasc...
A picture of an endorsement of Charnley and Richmond's 'Fascism and the Women's Cause.' The book cover is on the left and to the right is the endorsement in white font on a lavender background.

The endorsement says: 'This book is a tremendous resource and an exciting, theoretically sophisticated achievement. At a time when certain feminisms have reasserted themselves as one of fascism's forms of appearance, Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond's intervention could not be more critical.'

Sophie Lewis' name is in a larger font and underneath in a smaller font are Lewis' publications, 'Author of Full Surrogacy Now (Verso, 2019) and Enemy Feminisms (Haymarket Books, 2025).'

On the bottom right is a cream coloured badge that says in lavender font 'Preorder now.'
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The UK Supreme Court’s transphobic ruling on the definition of woman last week is a defeat for all women—even, ultimately, the self-described feminists celebrating it, and the women who will gain in the short term from their alliance with the carceral state. my latest for @thenation.com
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The UK's Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court's attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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Sylvia @silbheuig.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Such a lovely endorsement from @reproutopia.bsky.social The book is out soon, April 29th! Preorders really help out and this is a brilliant, important book too.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 16/04/2025
My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
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UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country
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Without History @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
There are lots of us and we are well organised and connected to each other. However hostile the conditions get we will be able to look after each other as we already do. We're inventive and the law has never stopped us before nor has it stopped the oppression we face.
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Equality Act was passed in 2010, it was not the source of the social progress that led to it’s creation and it has not been the source for the progress that followed (nor has it protected us from regression). The ruling today is a bump on the road towards trans liberation, not the end of it.
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Ebb @ebb.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Now available for pre-order! £13/$17.50, paperback www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/fasc... Available from: Waterstones (UK) Foyles (UK) Amazon (UK) Barnes & Noble (US) Amazon (US)
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Fascism and the Women's Cause — Ebb
Fascism and the Women’s Cause investigates the tangled roots of the women’s struggle and the manifestations of the women’s cause today in violent moral panics against queer and racialised people as ge...
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Seems the links broke when copying and pasting from The Other Site... Hopefully this works: www.waterstones.com/book/fascism... www.hive.co.uk/Product/Alex...
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Fascism and the Women's Cause by Alex Charnley, Michael Richmond | Waterstones
Buy Fascism and the Women's Cause by Alex Charnley, Michael Richmond from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
for people in the US, it's available from Barnes and Noble etc but you can also pre-order the book (and order our first book) from radical book store sites like Pilsen or Bluestockings.
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
mine and Alex Charnley's second book "Fascism and the Women's Cause" comes out one month tomorrow! You can now pre-order it from retailers. In the UK, Waterstones: waterstones.com/book/fascism-a… or through Hive: hive.co.uk/Product/Alex-C���
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
mine and Alex Charnley's second book "Fascism and the Women's Cause" comes out one month tomorrow! You can now pre-order it from retailers. In the UK, Waterstones: waterstones.com/book/fascism-a… or through Hive: hive.co.uk/Product/Alex-C���
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This was a really great discussion!
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Proof arrived today! Book coming out April 29th. Yikes.
Front cover of a new book, "Fascism and the Women's Cause", by Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond. Purple cover, with a white binding, being held by me.Back cover with a description of the book and author bios.
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Our new book is out in a couple of months!
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
took Caleb to a stay and play and one of the other carers there was wearing an ACAB hoodie 🥰
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
it's quite clear we're now in a second wave of liberal/left publishing/media onslaught against the idpol/woke boogiemen. afaik, Alex & i have written the only explicit book length critique of this phenomenon and it's on sale now for a tenner www.plutobooks.com/978074534656...
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Fractured
Identity politics has been a smear for decades. The right use it to lament the loss of free speech, while many on the left bemoan it as the end of class poli...
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
a rly shy older irish woman came into 56a on our shift earlier, having been in the food co-op. she was rly impressed with the place but so shy, until I asked about her keffiyeh, then she told us all about her time working as a nurse in the West Bank 20 yrs ago.
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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
246 years ago today, the people of Hawai’i said “Live, Love, Land Back” by executing Captain James Cook for his crimes. Mahalo i ke kānaka maoli! Happy Captain Cooked Day 🥰💕
A painting of the death of Captain James Cook, that has been edited with a bunch of heart and heart eye emojis.
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Alex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Looking forward to this book
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Our new book is out in a couple of months!
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Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
so there's fewer nazis here, is that the main vibe?
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