Finn Mackay

Finn Mackay (born ) trans feminist campaigner.

A senior lecturer in sociology at University of the West of England, Bristol, Mackay completed a PhD in the Centre for Gender & Violence Research at the University of Bristol. They returned to academia to study the changes in the British women's liberation movement.

Early life and identity

Mackay grew up in rural Scotland, and visited family in Nottingham every summer, where they played with the local boys. During their teenage years, Mackay was part of an all-women's peace camp, where they became involved in lesbian feminism. Mackay has also subscribed to radical feminism (an anti-patriarchal strand of feminism that believes an individual's biological role in reproduction should not matter outside of reproductive matters) since being a teen. Mackay founded the London Feminist Network, a group helping victims of domestic violence, and has argued against the pornographication of mainstream popular culture.

Books Radical Feminism: Feminist Activism in Movement, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.