BLOGGING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in Femicide, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Lesbian Seven, Male Terrorism, New Jersey/Newark 4, War on Women on Dec 23rd, 2008
A 28-year-old woman who lived peacefully with her woman partner was brutally attacked a week ago last Saturday night in San Francisco. As the woman got out of her car and crossed the street, she was surrounded by four men ranging in age from late teens to early 30s who first taunted her for [...]
Posted in Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Gender, Lesbian Community, Transgender on Nov 15th, 2008
Julie Bindel continues to knock it out of the ball park:
In the 1970s and 80s, lesbians were left to our own devices, and mainly organised and socialised separately from gay men. Then, in the late 1980s, along came Section 28, homophobic legislation which forbade schools to “promote homosexuality”. HIV/Aids was affecting increasing numbers of gay [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Feminist Politics, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Love Between Women, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Practical Radical Feminism, Sisterhood, Woman-Only Space, Women and Music, Women's Art, Women's Culture, Women's Poetry on Jul 2nd, 2008
Which goes back to the question–what is the answer for feminists that want to end misogyny and sexism in music? I think that creating alternatives is a much more powerful action–creating a space where those people who are looking to challenge or move away from the power that is stifling them can go and thrive. [...]
Posted in Earth, Feminism, Feminist Hullaballoo, Heroes, Lesbian Community, The Mother, Women's Culture, Women's Health, Women's Poetry on May 31st, 2008
In November of 1991, my Laguna mother died of cancer. Or, at least, that’s what they put on her death certificate. She had oat cell cancer of the lung, a kind of cancer that is unlikely to kill its host quickly, particularly when the person is elderly. But she accepted the treatments that Western doctors [...]
Posted in Books, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Heroes, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Women as Writers, Women's Art, Women's Culture, Women's Poetry on May 29th, 2008
Tonight will be the 20th annual Lambda Literary Awards. This is the big celebration of all the best authors in the LGBT community. There are over 100 books in nomination, and it will be a gala event in West Hollywood, California.
I’m in heaven already thinking about all the organization that went into the event, the [...]
