Posted in Apropos of Random, Cultivating the Hubris of the Godmakers, Deciding to Live, Homes, It's all connected, Love, Motherhood, Radical Feminists Can Sometimes Cook, The Mother, Warm Fuzzies, Witchyness, Women and Creativity, Women's Art, Women's Culture on Jan 5th, 2009
I started a new tradition for my youngest two kids, who are 10 and 13 (Jeyoani, too, and whatever other of my kids happens to be at my house :)). The night before I go back to work after the holidays, we will continue each year to do three things that we did for the first time [...]
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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 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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“Why so much hate?”
Some of you may recall Suki Falconberg’s post here on Women’s Space, The Padlocked Vagina, about rape and sexual assault as weapons of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tuesday 5,000 Congolese women took to the streets to demand justice.
KINSHASA - Several thousand Congolese women took to the streets of Kinshasa [...]
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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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Above is a photo of my new (to me!) stove. I got it free via Freecycle in my area. Through Freecycle I have also been the grateful recipient of a very fine sectional couch, an entertainment center, a computer desk, a computer, two La-Z-Boy recliners and a medium-size animal crate.
Freecycle is [...]
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