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Queer Community Raises Alarm as TERF Conference Comes to Worcester, MA

The organization, Total Woman Victory, which describes itself as “a quarterly radical feminist newsletter working to amplify the voices of women,” has put together a radical feminist conference called TORCH, that will be meeting for the first time from October 9th to the 11th. The conference will feature an array of speakers and workshops focusing on “theory-building, getting organized, consciousness-raising, and historicizing contradictions.”

Among the small group of women who run TWV is Sathi Patel, who has been the primary organizer of TORCH. Patel, who co-runs a New Afrikan feminist bookstore in Worcester, is an inflammatory figure in leftist spaces in the area, regularly posting anti-trans opinions on Twitter, calling trans women in women’s bathrooms men, worrying about trans mass-shooters, and posting “Trans fad is overrrrrrrrrrr” just days after the murder of Juniper Blessing in Seattle.

Queer Community Raises Alarm as TERF Conference Comes to Worcester, MAhttps://assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/terf-conference-worcester/Open linkView original on quokk.au
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Court filings and statements from school officials suggest the child was removed from the parents’ custody following allegations of a violent incident. Yet Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, who first told their side of the story on a Fox News podcast posted Sept. 13, have sought to focus attention on the issue of parental rights.

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Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court recordshttps://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/17/southborough-parents-child-gender-transition-court-records-assault-chargesOpen linkView original on quokk.au
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