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International Women’s Day 2010: “This is the Time”

Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Capitalism, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Heroes, Immigrants, International Women's Day, Iranian Women's Activism, Love Between Women, Million Women Rise!, Mother-Right, Motherhood, Mourning, Oppression of Women Journalists, Our Sisters, Prayers, Revolution in Iran, Rural Womyn, Single Moms, Sisterhood, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, Women and Creativity, Women and Food, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's History on Mar 8th, 2010

Warriors and Heroines

This is the Time

International Women’s Day, Iran, 1979, Part 1

International Women’s Day, Iran, 1979, Part 2

Women and Water

Women and Land, and Food

Immigrant Mothers and the Children Left Behind

Million Women Rise 2010

The Women, The Women, the Amazing Women

For Women and in Sisterhood,
Heart

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Colonized

Posted in Colonialism, Cultivating the Hubris of the Godmakers, Empire, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Fascist Beauty Standards, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Gaza, Genocide, Her, Home Birth, Homelessness, Homes, Imperialism, Indigenous Women's Rights, Internalized Misogyny, It's all connected, Lesbophobia, Liberation Theology, Loss, Love, Midwifery, Mother-Right, Nonviolent Resistance, Oppression of Women Journalists, Our Blood, Patriarchal Medicine, Patriarchal Science, Patriarchal Politics, Peak Oil, Pornography, Prayers, Prostitution, Quiverfull, Racism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, Rural Womyn, Saudi Women, The Mother, War on Animals, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Excellence, the Animals on Feb 22nd, 2010

The story of what happened to the Irish is the story of Native Americans is the story of indigenous and aboriginal people throughout the world is the story of women is the story of all colonized people.
OK, I want to talk about Ireland
Specifically I want to talk about the “famine”
About the fact that there never [...]

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A Whore’s Rage

Posted in Femicide, Loss, Male Terrorism, Mourning, Our Blood, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, War on Women on Feb 14th, 2010

Rebecca Mott requested that I post her recent post below to my blog, and it is my great privilege and honor to do so. Rebecca, these are incredible, invaluable, unforgettable writings. I have seen thousands of essays in my life, not just in my personal reading, but as an editor. I have never seen any [...]

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Ex-Husband of Founder of Umoja Uaso Woman-Only Village, Armed, Attacks Umoja Village; All 48 Residents Flee

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. [...]

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Afghanistan: Warlords and Fundamentalists Win; Women Lose, Damnit Is Anybody LISTENING?

Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Afghan Women, Afghanistan, Being colonized, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Imperialism, Male Terrorism, Oppression of Women Journalists, Patriarchal Politics, RAWA, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism on Aug 20th, 2009

Malalai Joya in this morning’s Independent:
Like millions of Afghans, I have no hope in the results of today’s election. In a country ruled by warlords, occupation forces, Taliban terrorists, drug money and guns, no one can expect a legitimate or fair vote. Even international observers have been speaking about widespread fraud and intimidation and, among [...]

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What Dr. George Tiller and His Staff Were About

Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Male Terrorism, Mourning, Our Blood, Practical Radical Feminism, Quiverfull, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, War on Women, Women and Fundamentalism, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies on Jun 1st, 2009

The women in my father’s practice who had abortions before abortion was legal have taught me that abortion is not about families, it’s not about babies, abortion is about women’s hopes, dreams, potential…the rest of their lives. Abortion is a matter of survival for women. Abortion is a matter of survival for women.

If you can [...]

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Dr. George Tiller Gunned Down by Anti-Abortion Terrorist

Posted in Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Male Terrorism, War on Women, Women and Fundamentalism on Jun 1st, 2009

Dr. George Tiller, above, targeted for many years by the anti-abortion movement because he was one of a handful of doctors nationwide who performed late-term abortions, was fatally shot today as he attended church in Wichita, Kansas. Scott Roeder, 51, said to be associated with the Montana Freemen, a militia group, is in [...]

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NJ FOUR UPDATE: “THE FIRE THIS TIME” DOCUMENTARY AND RENATE HILL ACCEPTS PLEA BARGAIN

Posted in Being Poor, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Feminism, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Seven, Lesbophobia, Male Terrorism, Racism, War on Women on May 13th, 2009

The Fire This Time The Film from blair doroshwalther on Vimeo.
From the film website, “Why This Case is Important”:
The Fire This Time spotlights the U.S. criminal justice system’s bias against women of color in general and against gender non-conforming, African American women in particular. In addition, the film demonstrates how the media perpetuates this bias [...]

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Rape as a Weapon of War in Colombia

Posted in Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Male Terrorism, Rape and Sexual Assault, South American Politics on May 12th, 2009

Over the past 15 years, women and girls have been and continue to be systematically raped by both left-wing guerillas and right-wing warlords in Colombia. Abortion was strictly prohibited in Colombia until 2006, and some Colombian hospitals continue to refuse women abortions.
Amelia had spent years counseling a woman who was raped by [...]

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UPDATE on the Rape and Murder of ‘Abir Hamzah, 14 Years Old, in Iraq, by American Soldiers; Trial of Steven Green is Underway

Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Erasure of Women's Lives, Femicide, Feminism on May 1st, 2009

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In July of 2006, I wrote the post that follows and several others about the rape and murder of 14-year-old ‘Abir Hamzah and her family in Iraq. The soldier in the photograph above is Steve Green, one of the men who confessed to the rape and murders. It came from [...]

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