Author: Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Jude Ellison S. Doyle is an author, journalist and comic book writer living in upstate New York. Under his former pen name “Sady Doyle,” he founded the feminist blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008 and went on to write Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why (Melville House, 2016), hailed as “smart, funny and fearless” by The Boston Globe and “compelling” by The New York Times Book Review. His follow-up, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power (2019), was named a Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews. Doyle’s latest book is DILF: Did I Leave Feminism, out now from Melville House. Doyle also writes comics, including Maw (2021) and The Neighbors (2023)—the latter nominated for a 2024 GLAAD Award—and his upcoming series Be Not Afraid is forthcoming from Boom! Studios. A longtime feminist voice online, Doyle led viral campaigns like #MooreandMe and #MenCallMeThings, won the Women’s Media Center’s first Social Media Award, and contributed to Rookie, Elle, The Guardian and The Atlantic. His eclectic résumé includes co-writing a German opera about Princess Diana, publishing in It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror and making a New York Times flowchart about farts. He currently writes a column for Xtra, Canada’s leading LGBTQIA+ magazine.

‘DILF (Did I Leave Feminism?)’ Is a New Transmasculine Manifesto

An excerpt from Jude Ellison S. Doyle’s new book, DILF (Did I Leave Feminism?), out Oct. 21:

Transmasculine people are one of feminism’s biggest blind spots. No one knows quite what to do with us, so it’s easier to pretend we’re not there. Books on “male feminism” or “feminist men” mostly teach men how to be allies to women’s struggle—the idea that there might be men who actually experience pregnancy, or abortion, or being cat-called or sexually harassed or pay-gapped or any of the other things we traditionally call “women’s issues” is not accounted for. Books on trans feminism understandably stress the importance of feminism for trans women—which is important, what with them being women and all—but do tend to reinforce the assumption that feminism is just for girls.

Anti-Trans Extremists ‘Come For’ Doctors

Coordinated harassment campaigns. Crowds of angry picketers. Tracking doctors to their homes. If the current anti-trans tactics sound familiar, that’s because they’re borrowed from anti-abortion campaigns.

“An individual provider who has a wolf at the door? It has led some people to say ‘I’m just not doing this work anymore,’” said transgender rights advocate Erin Reed. “We are losing providers, good providers.”