For all the fathers, grandfathers, husbands, men doing your best to love and care for your children and your children’s mothers in a time of unprecedented upheaval in our culture’s concepts of love, relationship and family, my deepest love, gratitude and abiding respect. Thank you, and and Happy Father’s Day.
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Honoring Wilma Mankiller
Posted in Giants, Heroes, In Memorium on Apr 8th, 2010
TAHLEQUAH — The friendship of the first woman to be named Cherokee Nation Principal Chief and a 1960s and 1970s feminist icon was not only a political alliance, but a friendship of mutual trust and respect.
Left: Angela Davis, Wilma Mankiller and Gloria Steinem in 1998
“We were a chosen family,” said Gloria [...]
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,
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The Future of the World
Posted in Earth, Her, Heroes, It's all connected, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, The Mother, The Skies, War on Animals, the Animals on Feb 8th, 2010
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Fire on Babylon
Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Fascist Beauty Standards, Heroes, Homelessness, Imperialism, Loss, Love, Mourning, Prayers, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Resurrections, Revolution, Single Moms, The Mother, War, War on Animals, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Excellence on Feb 3rd, 2010
This is a song of liberation, of deep and anguished longings for justice. Some believe “Babylon” (from the book of Revelation in the Christian Bible) is the United States. Some believe Babylon is the Roman Catholic Church. Some believe Babylon to be colonizers, the rich and powerful. Sinead’s “Babylon” is about child abuse (she herself [...]
Where Do the Dreams Go?
Posted in Being Poor, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Heroes, Motherhood, Mourning, Prayers, Single Moms on Jan 29th, 2010
Migrant Woman by Dorothy Lange, Library of Congress
Click to listen to \”Woman of the Well\” by Chiwonisu
It is a winter morning
The ground feels rocky and cold
Beneath her cracked and bare feet.
The woman comes to the well
limping over scattered bones.
She is weary and tired.
And this life grinds upon her,
This life of endless toil
She is weary and [...]
Three Haitian Women’s Rights Leaders Confirmed Dead
Posted in Giants, Haiti, Heroes, Loss, Mourning on Jan 20th, 2010
Myriam Merlet (above), Magalie Marcelin and Anne Marie Coriolan, founders of three of [Haiti's] most important advocacy organizations working on behalf of women and girls, are confirmed dead — victims of last week’s 7.0 earthquake…
Myriam Merlet was until recently the chief of staff of Haiti’s Ministry for Gender and the Rights of Women, established in 1995, and [...]
Feminist School in Iran: 19 More Iranian Women Activists Arrested, 14 from Mothers for Peace
Posted in Feminism, Heroes, Iranian Women's Activism, Nonviolent Resistance, Oppression of Women Journalists, Women and Fundamentalism on Jan 20th, 2010
Photo from Payvand, originally from here
According to the Feminist School in Iran, 19 more Iranian women’s rights activists were arrested January 14; fourteen were members of Mothers for Peace; also among the arrested was the sister of Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi. According to Ebadi, her sister was not involved in political activism:
“I am not aware of [...]
Mary Daly on Men
Posted in Giants, Heroes, In Memorium on Jan 15th, 2010
After a lecture or discussion, men have sometimes asked: “What do I do to join the movement?” They are assured that there is nothing to sign– no card, no contract. Since our covenant is an agreement that is found rather than formed, men who are “graceful” enough to have fallen into the new space and [...]
Remembering Mary Daly by Ann Braude
Posted in Giants, Heroes, In Memorium on Jan 15th, 2010
“Mary Daly saved my life,” said Susannah Heschel. Struggling when other Jews rebuffed her efforts to say Kaddish for the father of whom she was the only child, Heschel found an explanation of her experience in Beyond God the Father. Now she had a framework for understanding the hurtful behavior of her coreligionists and she [...]
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