This Is Not Liberation

An interview with lesbian feminist and organizer Ann Menasche. Topics we discuss include her history and experience as a feminist and activist, the state of women's rights in 2025, the loss of lesbian community, and more. Support the podcast: Buy Me a Coffee Substack Ann Menasche is a lifelong radical feminist, lesbian, socialist, and pro-peace organizer and activist. She is a founding member and co-coordinator of a national member-run multi-issue radical feminist organization, Feminists in Struggle. She works as a civil rights attorney on behalf of tenants and unhoused people. Having been a victim of witchhunting - fired from her job after 20 years - for her belief that women & lesbians exist and have rights, Ann is a big defender of free speech for everyone. She is opposed to all witchhunting whether against feminists or pro-Palestinian activists.Ann is also committed to fighting the ideological enemies of feminism, whether coming from the far Right, from the Democrats (falsely seen as “the Left”) or from otherwise genuine progressives who have bought into the sexist & homophobic ideology of gender identity and have betrayed women.Feminists in Struggle (“FIST”): https://feministstruggle.org/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sourpatches2077.substack.com