WRITING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in Femicide, Loss, Male Terrorism, Mourning, Our Blood, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, War on Women on Feb 14th, 2010
Rebecca Mott requested that I post her recent post below to my blog, and it is my great privilege and honor to do so. Rebecca, these are incredible, invaluable, unforgettable writings. I have seen thousands of essays in my life, not just in my personal reading, but as an editor. I have never seen any [...]
Posted in Domestic Violence, Exile, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating on Aug 31st, 2009
I received this plea for help in my email this morning. Mary Lou Hoerster is a one time geologist and was once married to an M.D. With the help of his friends with money and in high places and many government officials and agencies centered in Texas, her ex is stealing her home and land.
I [...]
Posted in Deciding to Live, Domestic Violence, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Nonviolent Resistance, Pornography, Prostitution, Quiverfull, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism, Women's Spirituality on Aug 30th, 2009
Courage is making the choice to live when dying would be so much easier.Courage is knowing that living will be with double trauma.
Trauma of remembering the violence, the hate and the degradation that was and is inside my body and mind.
Trauma of knowing that, and living in a world that ridicules, silences and crushes any [...]
Posted in Domestic Violence, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Femicide, Giants, Heroes, Male Terrorism, War on Women, When Women Are in Charge, Woman-Only Space, Women's Culture on Aug 21st, 2009
A gunman attacked Umoja women’s village Tuesday in northern Kenya, threatening and chasing women from their homes, an advocacy group reported. The police have yet to take any action to stop the man, the former husband of the village’s founder.
The gunman, Fabiano David Lolosoli, allegedly came to the village looking for his former wife. [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Afghan Women, Afghanistan, Being colonized, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Imperialism, Male Terrorism, Oppression of Women Journalists, Patriarchal Politics, RAWA, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism on Aug 20th, 2009
Malalai Joya in this morning’s Independent:
Like millions of Afghans, I have no hope in the results of today’s election. In a country ruled by warlords, occupation forces, Taliban terrorists, drug money and guns, no one can expect a legitimate or fair vote. Even international observers have been speaking about widespread fraud and intimidation and, among [...]
Posted in Male Terrorism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Woman Hating on Aug 10th, 2009
In my e-mail from Doctors Without Borders:
This summer, Doctors Without Borders, will publish a series of five patient stories from our sexual violence programs all over the world. The patients in these stories have endured horrific violence and must overcome fear, trauma and, often, social stigma before they access our medical services. The third in [...]
Posted in Iranian Women's Activism, Male Terrorism, Women and Fundamentalism on Aug 8th, 2009
Photo from Revolutionary Road
On November 7, 2007, I posted Iranian women’s movement leader Delaram Ali’s eloquent Open Letter written on behalf of the movement’s Million Signatures Campaign, which came together in the wake of the brutalities against, and arrests of, women demonstrating peacefully in Iran on June 12, 2006. The background of this protest is [...]
Posted in Domestic Violence, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Why Does He Do That? on Jul 11th, 2009
After I read Dancer’s comment in the Frank Colacurcio thread, I went looking for more information about her allegations that Colacurcio impregnated his own daughter (which I can believe, these guys are known for that, to wit, Larry Flynt). I found an old article from the Seattle Weekly (which I didn’t like; again, the dancers [...]
Posted in Being Poor, Erasure of Women's Lives, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Male Terrorism, Patriarchal Politics, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking on Jul 3rd, 2009
Seattle Times archived photo of Frank Colacurcio Sr. (center) in 1958, waiting to be booked on charges of threatening rival jukebox operators. With him are his attorneys, Joseph Moschetto (left) and Thomas Keefe.
I remember hearing about Frank Colacurcio, above center, who is now 92, when I was a small girl in the ’50s and Colacurcio’s [...]
Posted in Lesbophobia, Male Terrorism, Practical Radical Feminism, Prostitution, War on Women on Jun 19th, 2009
News articles covering the horrific murders of Allisha Royster, 23, and Lydia Steed, 31, of Baltimore, who were married recently in Boston, have a sordid and tawdry feeling about them. The word “lesbian” often features prominently in the headlines, the couple is said to have “taken in,” not a woman or a battered or [...]
