WRITING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in Racism, Racism and Feminism on Mar 26th, 2009
For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend
by Pat Parker
The first thing you do is to forget that i’m Black.
Second, you must never forget that i’m Black.
You should be able to dig Aretha,
but don’t play her every time i come over.
And if you decide to play Beethoven–don’t tell
me his [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Racism and Feminism on Feb 4th, 2009
One of my favorite women ever of all history, a heroine to me, is Elizabeth Cady Stanton (right). I have studied, studied, studied her life. I love her. I like Susan B. Anthony (left), as well, but I relate more to Stanton, who had seven children, homeschooled them all, advocated for battered women and took [...]
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):
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Deciding to Live, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Giants, Her, Heroes, Love Between Women, Party Politics, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Revolution, Sisterhood, Womanism, Women as Writers, Women in Media, Women's Art on Jan 22nd, 2009
Suppose Hillary Clinton had won the Democratic nomination and went on to win the election last November. Suppose she’d been the one to be inaugurated this week and suppose she was President right now.
If she were, I think there would certainly be an equivalent of The New Agenda, but created by frustrated Obama supporters this [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Being Poor, Capitalism, Colonialism, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Feminism, Heroes, Immigrants, Indigenous Women's Rights, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Prostitution, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, Sex Trafficking, Sexism in the Military, Sisterhood, Sustainability, War, War on Women, World March of Women on Nov 7th, 2008
I received the following Call to Action in my e-mail a few days ago. I’ve been part of the World March of Women since its beginning 10 years ago. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long! In 1999 I participated via telephone in NOW’s organizing meetings as the group in charge of U.S. women’s involvement. I [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Biracial Families, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, From Practice to Theory, Heroes, It's all connected, Male Terrorism, Racism and Feminism on Nov 6th, 2008
I came across the following exchange in a comments thread elsewhere on the blogosphere, and I responded to it there, but it’s an important enough issue, I believe, that I wanted to devote a blog post to it. I am conflicted about linking to it because I don’t want to put the commenters on the spot in [...]
Posted in Being Poor, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Male Terrorism, Pornography, Prostitution, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, War on Women on Oct 13th, 2008
Above is the trailer to a new film, Trade, put out by Lion’s Gate films and starring Kevin Kline. The film is about sex trafficking. I learned about it when I got an e-mail about Gloria Steinem making a November 5 appearance in North Carolina to endorse and support it, and went poking around [...]
Posted in Being Poor, Capitalism, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Financial Meltdown, Homelessness, Homes, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Party Politics, Racism, Racism and Feminism on Sep 28th, 2008
Consider the demographics of the people above, who just created the $700 billion bailout plan, selling all of us ordinary taxpayers down the river. White, male and rich, save one.
Don’t anybody even try to tell me how much things have changed in the last 80, 100 years. It’s an insult to the intelligence of all thinking [...]
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Earth, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Heart for President, Her, Heroes, Inspiration, Love, Male Terrorism, Party Politics, Police Violence, Practical Radical Feminism, Racism and Feminism, Revolution, Sisterhood, Sustainability, The Left, The Mother, The Rape of Iraq, The Skies, War, War on Women, the Animals on Aug 31st, 2008
Cynthia McKinney, Green Party Candidate for President of the United States, outside the Convention, Sunday, August 24, 2008: :
Our country has been hijacked, and the Democrats are in on the plan… When it came to war and occupation, the Democratic leadership showed us that financing an illegal and immoral war, based on lies, was more [...]
