Joan Smith

Oct 25, 2024 | timeshudsonvalley.com | Joan Smith

I live in the Town of Montgomery, zip 12549. I would like to start by saying I am a huge supporter of Libraries. I was a public school teacher for 30 years. I am a card holder from Montgomery Free Library and a founding member of Friends of Montgomery Library. We raise funds to pay for many Library programs and the Summer Reading Program every year. I voted early and was very surprised to see a Proposition on the back of the ballot.

Jun 24, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Daniel Martin |Joan Smith

24 June 2024 • 2:35pm Joan Smith is a feminist novelist and non-fiction author - and a former Labour Party member Credit: Simone Padovani/Getty A prominent journalist and author has quit the Labour party, saying it has “betrayed women” with its position on trans rights. Joan Smith, a former Guardian columnist and the author of novels such as A Masculine Ending, said she had warned Sir Keir Starmer about misogyny in his party, but he had ignored her. She wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “That’s...

Jun 12, 2024 | quillette.com | Jonathan Kay |Doriane Lambelet Coleman |Joan Smith |Juan Villasmil

IntroductionWelcome to the Quillette podcast. This week’s guest will be a familiar name to those listeners who’ve been following Quillette since the late 2010s. Some of you might remember a blockbuster 2019 article entitled, A Victory for Female Athletes Everywhere by a Duke Law School professor—and former US National Collegiate Indoor 800-metre champion—Doriane Lambelet Coleman.

Apr 1, 2024 | quillette.com | Benjamin Kerstein |Holly Lawford-Smith |Justo Antonio Triana |Joan Smith

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. ~Albert Camus I. Today’s social-media landscape—a phantasmagoric combination of cruel panopticon and giant video game replete with pornographic sex and livestreamed atrocity—would not have surprised British novelist James Graham Ballard, whose books prophesied our obsessions with voyeurism and violence a half-century ago.

Mar 20, 2024 | quillette.com | Larissa Phillips |Holly Lawford-Smith |Justo Antonio Triana |Joan Smith

Thirty-one years ago, I was raped while I was living in Italy. I was 23 years old. I have never written about this experience publicly before, but I decided to do so after I read a long essay in the politics and culture journal Liberties titled, “After a Rape: A Guide for the Tormented.” That essay is written by the journal’s managing editor Celeste Marcus, and it details her recovery process following an alleged sexual assault two and a half years ago.