Aletha e-mailed me a couple of days ago (and I haven’t responded yet, but as always, I’ve been thinking about what you said, Aletha) and asked me something like, “Is it just me, or is everything becoming increasingly surreal?” I think she was thinking more about U.S. politics, and I agree, national politics have taken [...]
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Celie of Celie’s Revenge and our off our backs publishing team will be twittering the Men Can Stop Rape conference that begins today. Check out the oobtalk blog! (And Twitter!)
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From an article in off our backs, Volume 37, No. 1, entitled A Radical Vision for Women’s Media, by Martha Allen:
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. — Simone [...]
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Afghanistan, Bailout Bill, Big Pharm, Capitalism, Earth, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Femicide, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Heart for President, It's all connected, Pakistan, Party Politics, Patriarchal Medicine, Patriarchal Science, Peak Oil, Power in Relationships, Revolution, Rural Womyn, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, The Skies, Women's History Month Blog Carnival, the Animals on Mar 26th, 2009
The system is not even true to its own principles, let alone principles that affirm life, but will be defended to the last breath by the new leadership as well as the old. The system has revealed its fatal core rot. Let the institutions that deserve to fail die by their sword, unbridled debt and [...]
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In honor of International Women’s Day Sunday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced that the Women’s Affairs Ministry, which was created last year as an extension of the National Institute of Women (INAMUJER), will now have its own budget and central office, and the name of the ministry will be changed to include “gender equality.”
“The Ministry [...]
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Shannon Minter, above left, Legal Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Ken Starr, former solicitor general and the attorney who led the inquiry into Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, delivered oral arguments before the California Supreme Court yesterday on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the legislation passed in California to [...]
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President Obama has appointed a record six women to his Cabinet:
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State
Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency Officer
Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security
Susan Rice, UN Ambassador
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor
I think this is great! And that we ought to give credit whenever and [...]
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Posted in Blogosphere, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Feminist Conferences, Feminist Politics, Feminist Discussion Boards, It's all connected, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Media, Women as Writers on Feb 21st, 2009
I think feminist blogging, so far as the potential I believe it once had for advancing feminist goals, is history.
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Posted in Academentia, Being colonized, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Fascist Beauty Standards, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Internalized Misogyny, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Motherhood, Patriarchal Medicine, Patriarchal Science, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, War, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism, You've got to be kidding on Jan 28th, 2009
Oh for god’s sake. Here’s what Christina Hoff Sommers somehow considers an intelligent critique of feminism (in bullet point format because it’s all what she wrote deserves):
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Deciding to Live, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Giants, Her, Heroes, Love Between Women, Party Politics, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Revolution, Sisterhood, Womanism, Women as Writers, Women in Media, Women's Art on Jan 22nd, 2009
Suppose Hillary Clinton had won the Democratic nomination and went on to win the election last November. Suppose she’d been the one to be inaugurated this week and suppose she was President right now.
If she were, I think there would certainly be an equivalent of The New Agenda, but created by frustrated Obama supporters this [...]
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