WRITING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in Feminism on Dec 31st, 2007
UPDATE (Jan. 1, 2008): My interview on the F-Files is available to listen to here. Thanks to Aletha for alerting me that the interview had been posted, and thanks to Jackie for posting it. — Heart
Update: Dates for the airing of my interview are October 31 and November 7. I’ll post precise times as I’m aware of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 27th, 2007
Benazir Bhutto, 54, the first woman to have been elected Prime Minister of an Islamic state, and who just last October emerged from her self-imposed exile of eight years to return to Pakistan, has been assassinated. A suicide bomber hit crowds gathered to hear her speak at a Pakistan People’s Party rally in Rawalpindi. She is said to have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 26th, 2007
The Ninth Carnival of Radical Feminists is up at Ladoctorita’s place!
Great work, ladoctorita!
Posted in Feminism on Dec 21st, 2007
I first encountered the a capella group Copper Wimmin at Michfest the second year I attended when they were singing to all of us as we stood in line for dinner one evening.
Heart
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 20th, 2007
The only people who can pass for white are people who are, in fact, persons of color. It’s up to them whether they will reject passing privilege. When they reject passing privilege, they are engaging in resistance to white supremacy by illuminating lies central to racism.
White people can’t pass for anything. (They can lie about being white but that’s [...]
Posted in Feminism on Dec 18th, 2007
REMINDER!
The Ninth Carnival of Radical Feminists is being hosted by LaDoctorita at Unconventional Beauty. Deadline for submissions is December 21, so send in all of the fine radfem writings you can find for this past month on the blogosphere to ladoctorita9@yahoo.com or to to the blog carnival, either way, they will go to LaDoctorita!
The 10th Carnival [...]
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Discussion Boards, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on Dec 18th, 2007
I wrote the post which follows last May. Today David Stang, Dorothy Stang’s brother, posted an update on the trials and sentencings of Dorothy’s murderers in a comment to another thread about Dorothy Stang.
Raifrans, the murderer, was tried ln October. Unanimously, the jurors, male and female voted for sentencing Raifrans to 27 years. The male [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 17th, 2007
If you go here you can take a quiz which matches your political opinions with those of the 2008 Presidential campaign frontrunners. My views, says the quiz, most closely match those of Dennis Kucinich. I took the quiz for the 2004 campaign and learned that my views most closely matched those of Ralph Nader and the Green Party.
Which [...]
Posted in Feminism on Dec 17th, 2007
Rep. Julia Carson (D-IN) has died of lung cancer at the age of 69. She was the daughter of a single mom who made her living cleaning houses, graduating from a segregated high school in 1959. Married briefly, Carson went on to raise her own two children as a single mom. She was working as a secretary for [...]
Posted in Feminism on Dec 17th, 2007
UPDATE: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes for being alone with a man at the time of the attack who was not related to her, a Saudi newspaper reported Monday.The case had sparked international outcry. In a rare criticism of its Mideast ally, the White [...]
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