Posted in Being Poor, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Heroes, Male Terrorism, Practical Radical Feminism, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, Sexism in the Military, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women's Bodies on Nov 12th, 2008
Julie Bindel has a post up today about Sheila Jeffreys’ new book, The Industrial Vagina:
Jeffreys has also discovered just who is making money out of this market. It is, of course, a huge earner for pimps, traffickers and brothel owners, but many others are profiting too: hoteliers make extra revenue by supplying prostitutes to businessmen; [...]
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Posted in Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Heroes, Lesbian Community, Love Between Women, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating on Nov 10th, 2008
Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. …I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen.
..there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Capitalism, Colonialism, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Feminism, Heroes, Immigrants, Indigenous Women's Rights, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Prostitution, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, Sex Trafficking, Sexism in the Military, Sisterhood, Sustainability, War, War on Women, World March of Women on Nov 7th, 2008
I received the following Call to Action in my e-mail a few days ago. I’ve been part of the World March of Women since its beginning 10 years ago. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long! In 1999 I participated via telephone in NOW’s organizing meetings as the group in charge of U.S. women’s involvement. I [...]
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Biracial Families, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, From Practice to Theory, Heroes, It's all connected, Male Terrorism, Racism and Feminism on Nov 6th, 2008
I came across the following exchange in a comments thread elsewhere on the blogosphere, and I responded to it there, but it’s an important enough issue, I believe, that I wanted to devote a blog post to it. I am conflicted about linking to it because I don’t want to put the commenters on the spot in [...]
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I am looking at a report from the City Controller, Laura N. Chick (above) – thank the goddess, Los Angeles has a woman City Controller! — printed on City of Los Angeles letterhead. The letter is dated October 20, 2008 and is addressed to the Honorable Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles and one of four national co-chairmen [...]
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I’m a mess right now, and Jeyoani knows I am and, amazing friend and daughter that she is, she told me to go read Dorothy Allison, whose writing I so dearly love and more and more every year, I swear, and I did go read, and here is some of what I read, and I think [...]
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If I wanted to I could do anything right
I could dance with the devil on a Saturday night…
If I wanted to I could turn mountains to sand
Hold political leaders in the palm of my hand
If I only wanted to
And I gave you my soul
And every ounce of control
And I gave you my skin
and my original [...]
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Posted in Heroes, Pornography, Practical Radical Feminism, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, Rights of the Disabled, Sexism in the Military, Sisterhood, Women and Disability, Women as Writers, Women in Media on Oct 20th, 2008
Following are a few recent examples of the overall brilliance of lesbian/radical feminist Julie Bindel (above). Go, Julie! You do us so proud!
School for deaf children faces further hurdles
Oct 14 2008: Why do parents and teachers of a nearby primary oppose a merger with threatened school? Julie Bindel reports
Cooking Mama’s way
Oct 8 2008: Julie Bindel: [...]
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Garden
Mother and Daughter
Vessel
Summer
Her Face
Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole…In creating new symbols, we are creating new ways of seeing and being in the world. …Most men feel they must separate themselves from femaleness in the name of all that is masculine, all that is sacred [...]
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