Posted in Being colonized, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Fascist Beauty Standards, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, It's all connected, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Motherhood, Popular Culture, Pornography, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Health, You've got to be kidding on Jan 3rd, 2009
There’s lots of good stuff on the idiotic ban of photos of breastfeeding moms at Mothers for Women’s Lib. And I LOVE her title! HA. Facebook should grow up is right.
This kind of absurdity disgusts me. The world is filled with woman-hating, murderous, horrifying pornographic imagery and that’s a-okay with most people, don’t touch the [...]
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Posted in Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Internalized Misogyny, It's all connected, Love Between Women, Practical Radical Feminism, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Sisterhood, Womanism, Women and Disability, in my language on Jan 3rd, 2009
(Note: Jeyoani actually wrote this as a comment in another thread, but it’s really good and I thought it should be its own post. Thanks, Jeyoani! Heart)
It stings to be told – worse, truly realize – you’ve been privileged and are part of institutionalized racism and part of what is keeping it going.
Most good people [...]
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Posted in Deciding to Live, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Love Between Women, Women as Writers, Women's Art, Women's Culture, Women's Poetry on Dec 31st, 2008
I limped around tightlipped through the months it took me to find a job in another city and disappear. I took a bus to that city and spoke to no one, signed the papers that made me a low-level government clerk, and wound up sitting in a motel room eating peanut butter sandwiches so I [...]
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Posted in Biracial Families, Colonialism, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Heroes, Inspiration, Male Terrorism, Racism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Women and Creativity, Women and Music on Dec 27th, 2008
Eartha Kitt died on Christmas day at the age of 81 of colon cancer. She was an amazing woman. She came into the world as the result of rape. A white South Carolina plantation owner raped her Cherokee/black mother who picked cotton on his plantation. Her mother’s rapist immediately disavowed her. Desperately poor, her [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Capitalism, Cronehood, Earth, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Heroes, Homelessness, Homes, Inspiration, It's all connected, Practical Radical Feminism, Rural Womyn, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, Women as Writers, Women's Art, Women's Culture, Working Class People, the Animals on Dec 21st, 2008
Carla Emery as a young woman
I’ve been thinking about the women in my life who have most deeply influenced me (besides my mother, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, relatives by blood, all of whom have so deeply influenced me and who have given me so much). One of these women was Carla Emery, who died [...]
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More than 75 countries throughout the world criminalize lesbian and gay relationships. To put as fine a point as possible on it, for women to love women in more than 75 nations is a criminal offense. (As it is a criminal offense for men to love men as well, but this is Women’s Space [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Feminism, Her, Heroes, Homelessness, Homes, Immigrants, Indigenous Women's Rights, It's all connected, Male Terrorism, Prostitution, Sex Trafficking, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, The Mother, The Skies, War on Women on Nov 22nd, 2008
UPDATE: Irene Fernandez has been ACQUITTED. H/t to People’s Coalition for Food Sovereignty
Dr. Irene Fernandez on receiving the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm, Sweden in December 2005:
“… I am a product of migrant labour. My father was a migrant worker from Kerala, India. He worked in the rubber plantations during the British rule [...]
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Internalized Misogyny, Love Between Women, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism on Nov 21st, 2008
I have been intending to write a post about the way so many feminists, leftists, liberals and progressives consummately misunderstand conservative Christianity and conservative Christian women in particular. I keep feeling overwhelmed by this writing project and so deciding against it. But given the across-the-board anger among women over the misogyny of the [...]
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