WRITING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in Domestic Violence, Exile, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating on Aug 31st, 2009
I received this plea for help in my email this morning. Mary Lou Hoerster is a one time geologist and was once married to an M.D. With the help of his friends with money and in high places and many government officials and agencies centered in Texas, her ex is stealing her home and land.
I [...]
Posted in Deciding to Live, Domestic Violence, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Nonviolent Resistance, Pornography, Prostitution, Quiverfull, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism, Women's Spirituality on Aug 30th, 2009
Courage is making the choice to live when dying would be so much easier.Courage is knowing that living will be with double trauma.
Trauma of remembering the violence, the hate and the degradation that was and is inside my body and mind.
Trauma of knowing that, and living in a world that ridicules, silences and crushes any [...]
Posted in Domestic Violence, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Femicide, Giants, Heroes, Male Terrorism, War on Women, When Women Are in Charge, Woman-Only Space, Women's Culture on Aug 21st, 2009
A gunman attacked Umoja women’s village Tuesday in northern Kenya, threatening and chasing women from their homes, an advocacy group reported. The police have yet to take any action to stop the man, the former husband of the village’s founder.
The gunman, Fabiano David Lolosoli, allegedly came to the village looking for his former wife. [...]
Posted in Domestic Violence, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Why Does He Do That? on Jul 11th, 2009
After I read Dancer’s comment in the Frank Colacurcio thread, I went looking for more information about her allegations that Colacurcio impregnated his own daughter (which I can believe, these guys are known for that, to wit, Larry Flynt). I found an old article from the Seattle Weekly (which I didn’t like; again, the dancers [...]
Posted in Domestic Violence on Jun 27th, 2009
Washington, D.C. – The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) today applauded President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for naming Lynn Rosenthal as White House Advisor on Violence Against Women. A champion in the movement against domestic and sexual violence for three decades, Rosenthal led NNEDV from 2000 to 2006
Prior to her [...]
Posted in Domestic Violence, Heroes, In Memorium on Jun 26th, 2009
Thank you, Farrah Fawcett, for your legacy. Through your work as the star of The Burning Bed, you brought the issues of wife/girlfriend battering, wife/girlfriend rape and domestic violence, in general, to the attention of millions and millions of people. We will never know how many women have found the support and help [...]
Posted in Domestic Violence, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Making Men Out of Boys, Male Terrorism, Power in Relationships, Quiverfull, Rape and Sexual Assault, Rural Womyn, The Christian Reconstructionists, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism, Women in Prison on Mar 17th, 2009
In November of 2006 I wrote a blog post entitled I Blame the Patriarchs, Part I: The Truth About Full Quiver Families. I wrote this post in part in response to a horrifying series of events in my area in which Kimberly Forder, who had subscribed to my magazine when I was publishing, had been [...]
Posted in Domestic Violence, Erasure of Women's Lives, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Power in Relationships, Women's Health on Mar 5th, 2009
Science Daily (Mar. 5, 2009) — Women in strained marriages are more likely to feel depressed and suffer high blood pressure, obesity and other signs of “metabolic syndrome,” a group of risk factors for heart disease, stroke and diabetes, University of Utah psychologists found.
The same study found men in strained marriages also are more likely [...]
Posted in Domestic Violence, Lundy Bancroft on Jan 23rd, 2009
One of the great tragedies of all forms of abuse is that the abused person can become emotionally dependent on the perpetrator through a process called traumatic bonding. The assaults that an abuser makes on a woman’s self-opinion, his undermining of her progress in life, the wedges he drives between her and other people, the [...]
