There was a time when firebrand feminist Clementine Ford was the mainstream media's flavour of the month. There were book deals with Allen & Unwin, a podcast with Nova and a column in the Fairfax papers, all the while being courted by a press willing to repeat whatever she said, no matter how outrageous.

Even if you recoiled at her 'kill all men' rants and the abuse she hurled across social media like a football, Ford had a voice - confronting, often offensive, but impossible to ignore.

But now, the once-prominent writer has gone from in vogue venom to pariah, blacklisted from major social platforms and ignored by the media she once captivated.

Ford's fall from grace was swift and drastic. Meta banned her from Instagram and Facebook for comments about the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Writing last October on the essay platform Substack - now her only outlet - she said that she was 'completely unphased' (sic) by it.

These days on Substack, she's reduced to self-congratulatory reflections on her past work and bewildering rants - such as a blow-by-blow account of the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting through the lens of astrology.

She claimed she predicted the April 25 attack in a text to friends, and observed that six shots were fired right as Uranus, associated with disruption, neared the end of its time in Taurus.

Somehow after that, Ford dug in for another 600 words of stupefying analysis.

At this point, it feels as though she is speaking to a void. The mantle of Australia's most bankable feminist had long ago been claimed by younger, more 'brand-safe' upstarts, the most notable being influencer and podcaster Abbie Chatfield, who entered the public consciousness not through dusty old newspapers, but reality TV. 

While Chatfield, with whom Ford has had a public feud, was thriving on Instagram and her It's a Lot podcast sparked bidding wars between audio companies, Ford's most notable role now seems to be that of a single mother.

Her latest gaffe was vowing to help Palestinians on the 'Freedom Flotilla', before bowing out at the last minute due to logistical issues. 

She spoke on a video posted on Instagram by GreenLeft Media about why she had to ditch plans to join the fleet of about 70 vessels which has now set sail for Gaza.

Wearing the keffiyeh popular among pro-Palestinian supporters, Ford said that 'because of the US fuel crisis there's no guarantee I'll be able to come home' and she would instead participate in a solidarity walk in Australia.  

'I was prepared to go to an Israeli prison to be honest... to tell them what I think of them to their face,' Ford said in the video. 

Anti-Israel campaigning has become Ford's mantra since her 'kill all men' trope fell from favour and she switched to globalising the intifada instead. 

Writing in a January 2026 Substack post, she declared that 'Zionism is a terrorist ideology, Israel is a terrorist state and any attempts to silence free speech on this is tyranny. Globalise the intifada'.

This echoed her post a month earlier, stating, 'May we globalise the intifada, f*** Israel', urging for a repeat of the armed uprisings associated with Yasser Arafat.

Now in her mid-40s, Ford's decline appears to have escalated in the year since her online fisticuffs with Chatfield erupted in May 2025, when she accused the podcaster of performative activism. 

In hindsight, it smacks of a turf war - Ford bristling as her left-leaning feminist high ground was overtaken by a 30-year-old Bachelor alum who, by interviewing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during his pre-election podcast blitz that also included Mark Bouris and the Betoota Advocate, became a 'traitor' in Ford's eyes.

Ford snarked that Chatfield made money from a 'performance of being politically engaged' and said that 'no amount of fake crying to try to launder her complicity in doing PR for genocide supporters can change that'. 

And so to Substack - the fading feminist's final frontier - where Ford now writes in a subtle departure from her earlier self-portraits.

She claims to be a 'Lover of women. Friendship enthusiast... Enemy to all men committed to upholding patriarchy. Friend to all men working to dismantle it.'

In one post, Ford declares that her book Boys Will be Boys has only improved since its 2018 release, claiming that 'time and distance have given me an even greater appreciation for this work!'

Offering a discount on an annual subscription to her 'Lover/Fighter' Substack, she promises 'quality content AND something very special coming'.

So far, Ford has posted her now familiar views on men, patriarchal society, Gaza, Israel, plus warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence, particularly AI-generated writing platforms such as ChatGPT.

But it is her deepening obsession with astrology that best captures her break from the mainstream, and a career now taking an unpredictable course.

By far, her longest Substack post was on the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which included her text from April 17 predicting that Trump would either die or have a significant health episode on April 25 - the date of the shooting.

She gave an astrological rundown of how the night unfolded after six shots were 'allegedly' fired.

Casting the night in cosmic terms, Ford claimed it marked the end of a turbulent Taurus cycle tied to economic instability before a dramatic shift into a new era driven by chaos in information and communication. She argued the planetary change signalled an age where truth becomes unstable, predicting a future where competing narratives could make it harder to know what, or who, to trust.

Here's our prediction, Clementine: you might be a has-been as a feminist influencer, but there's always reinvention. Why not go all in on the cosmos? 'Ford the Foreteller' has a ring to it. Or perhaps 'Cosmic Clem'?