Posted in Colonialism, Cultivating the Hubris of the Godmakers, Empire, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Fascist Beauty Standards, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Gaza, Genocide, Her, Home Birth, Homelessness, Homes, Imperialism, Indigenous Women's Rights, Internalized Misogyny, It's all connected, Lesbophobia, Liberation Theology, Loss, Love, Midwifery, Mother-Right, Nonviolent Resistance, Oppression of Women Journalists, Our Blood, Patriarchal Medicine, Patriarchal Science, Patriarchal Politics, Peak Oil, Pornography, Prayers, Prostitution, Quiverfull, Racism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, Rural Womyn, Saudi Women, The Mother, War on Animals, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Excellence, the Animals on Feb 22nd, 2010
The story of what happened to the Irish is the story of Native Americans is the story of indigenous and aboriginal people throughout the world is the story of women is the story of all colonized people.
OK, I want to talk about Ireland
Specifically I want to talk about the “famine”
About the fact that there never [...]
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Afghanistan, Bailout Bill, Big Pharm, Capitalism, Earth, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Femicide, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Heart for President, It's all connected, Pakistan, Party Politics, Patriarchal Medicine, Patriarchal Science, Peak Oil, Power in Relationships, Revolution, Rural Womyn, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, The Skies, Women's History Month Blog Carnival, the Animals on Mar 26th, 2009
The system is not even true to its own principles, let alone principles that affirm life, but will be defended to the last breath by the new leadership as well as the old. The system has revealed its fatal core rot. Let the institutions that deserve to fail die by their sword, unbridled debt and [...]
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Research just published in the March 17, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology links depression to sudden cardiac death (SCD) and fatal coronary heart disease (CHD) in women with no known heart problems. But if you read the research carefully, it reveals another startling link: The study found the women [...]
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Diana Levine, 63, above, is a rock star, in real life and because of what her successful lawsuit against Wyeth, a pharmaceutical company, means for all of us as consumers, as well.
Until 2000, Levine was a musician who played bass, guitar and piano in a rock band. She had had a migraine headache and had [...]
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The Canadian Women’s Health Network is offering free bulk copies (20, 50, 150, or more) of the NEW booklet Hidden Health Care Work and Women for distribution to your members and networks. (Please note: This free offer is available only in Canada.)
Hidden Health Care Work and Women is an illustrated and easy-to-read booklet, excellent [...]
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Posted in Afghanistan, Being Poor, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Femicide, Feminism, Gaza, Male Foolishness, Media, Pakistan, Party Politics, Patriarchal Medicine, Popular Culture, Woman Hating on Mar 3rd, 2009
Margaret Kimberly (Freedom Writer) on the disgusting, racist cartoon in the New York Post:
When Obama attacks Iran, and the Post waxes enthusiastic, will anyone protest? I already know the answer. They won’t protest at the Post or at the White House either. The Post didn’t suddenly become ugly because of the chimp cartoon and it [...]
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Posted in Academentia, Being colonized, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Fascist Beauty Standards, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Internalized Misogyny, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Motherhood, Patriarchal Medicine, Patriarchal Science, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, War, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism, You've got to be kidding on Jan 28th, 2009
Oh for god’s sake. Here’s what Christina Hoff Sommers somehow considers an intelligent critique of feminism (in bullet point format because it’s all what she wrote deserves):
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Oestrogen hormone therapy, a treatment for some symptoms of menopause, shrinks women’s brains, new research shows.
Elderly women who took oestrogen pills as part of the Women’s Health Initiative clinical trial experienced a slight drop in the size of two brain areas important in memory, compared to women on a placebo.
The decrease could explain a previously [...]
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Posted in Patriarchal Medicine on Dec 16th, 2008
Taking menopause hormones for five years doubles the risk for breast cancer, according to a new analysis of a big federal study that reveals the most dramatic evidence yet of the dangers of these still-popular pills.
Even women who took estrogen and progestin pills for as little as a couple of years had a greater chance [...]
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The latest (and in my opinion bad) news is that Oprah Winfrey is going to publicly explain, in what sounds like a confessional way, why she has gained 40 pounds and weighs 200 pounds. Based on what I read in the newspapers tonight on the way home, her weight gains and losses embarrass [...]
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