Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
I loved this conversation with Andi, and tried to get at something important that I think has been lost: feminism is a discrete ideology, and has a more specific meaning than “anything any woman ever says about gender.”
![The vagueness and nonspecificity that characterize “Did women ruin the workplace?” are hallmarks of right-wing rhetoric, says Moira Donegan, a Guardian columnist and writer-in-residence at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research who co-hosts the podcast “In Bed With the Right.” “One revealing thing about the conversation is that you can tell these people are in an epistemic bubble where they’re not being challenged on what they’re saying. [They] presume a kind of intellectual entitlement where these are not words you have to make your audience understand. It’s one thing to do that when you’re at the National Conservatism Conference; it’s another when you’re in The New York Times.” Donegan adds one more term to the list, pointing out that the conversation “uses ‘feminism’ as a euphemism for ‘women,’ rather than defining feminism as a set of political commitments or ideals. [When] it’s espoused by a woman and is about gender, that’s presumed to be sufficient to define it as feminism.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sdu4rudzew7rtf26u5o4bdf7/bafkreiewwm3xmwvvxkqspo6ao6seoro5bcmynxh4imtcfhtbr54gxb7bgm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I loved this conversation with Andi, and tried to get at something important that I think has been lost: feminism is a discrete ideology, and has a more specific meaning than “anything any woman ever says about gender.”
He doesn’t know that we are going to the dog park later.
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
He doesn’t know that we are going to the dog park later.
On Election Day, the president announces that he will defy a court order so as to deprive millions of Americans of food.
November 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
On Election Day, the president announces that he will defy a court order so as to deprive millions of Americans of food.
Me coming home to my extremely offline wife.
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Me coming home to my extremely offline wife.
Humiliated and furious.
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Humiliated and furious.
Today on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social! We’re back with more feminist analyses of your favorite horror movies—this time it’s ALIEN and SUSPIRIA! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
October 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Today on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social! We’re back with more feminist analyses of your favorite horror movies—this time it’s ALIEN and SUSPIRIA! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Nobody told me that in the 1992 adaptation of Wuthering Heights there’s a frame narrative in which Emily Brontë is played by SINEAD O’CONNOR.
October 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Nobody told me that in the 1992 adaptation of Wuthering Heights there’s a frame narrative in which Emily Brontë is played by SINEAD O’CONNOR.
No one:
Dem consultants once per quarter:
Dem consultants once per quarter:
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
No one:
Dem consultants once per quarter:
Dem consultants once per quarter:
Declined to share my dinner with Monte *and* took his favorite bed away to wash it, so he’s considering pressing charges.
October 27, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Declined to share my dinner with Monte *and* took his favorite bed away to wash it, so he’s considering pressing charges.
You all every day:
October 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
You all every day:
BAY AREA! Your favorite podcast, @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, is doing a LIVE SHOW at the Swedish American hall on November 20. Join us! www.ticketweb.com/event/moral-...
October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
BAY AREA! Your favorite podcast, @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, is doing a LIVE SHOW at the Swedish American hall on November 20. Join us! www.ticketweb.com/event/moral-...
Wait, he also worked for Blackwater?
October 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Wait, he also worked for Blackwater?
Deep down, I will always be Her.
October 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Deep down, I will always be Her.
I think maybe our responsibilities to history and principle should outweigh our desire to look cool.
October 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I think maybe our responsibilities to history and principle should outweigh our desire to look cool.
Wow remind me to never post on Bluesky
October 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Wow remind me to never post on Bluesky
Some people’s definition of “liberal” is really just “women who remind me of my mom.”
October 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Some people’s definition of “liberal” is really just “women who remind me of my mom.”
She has returned.
October 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
She has returned.
Crazy how literally nothing is better than the love of a cat.
October 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Crazy how literally nothing is better than the love of a cat.
I made these cute little apple-cardamom turnovers with the apples I got when I went apple picking upstate this weekend! Now I just have to use the other 14 pounds of apples.
October 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I made these cute little apple-cardamom turnovers with the apples I got when I went apple picking upstate this weekend! Now I just have to use the other 14 pounds of apples.
"My husband loves me and will make sure that I never have to work again. It's what's right for our family. We're equals even though he makes all the money."
October 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"My husband loves me and will make sure that I never have to work again. It's what's right for our family. We're equals even though he makes all the money."
Sounds about right.
October 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Sounds about right.