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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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 [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Fascist Beauty Standards, Heroes, Homelessness, Imperialism, Loss, Love, Mourning, Prayers, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Resurrections, Revolution, Single Moms, The Mother, War, War on Animals, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Excellence on Feb 3rd, 2010
This is a song of liberation, of deep and anguished longings for justice. Some believe “Babylon” (from the book of Revelation in the Christian Bible) is the United States. Some believe Babylon is the Roman Catholic Church. Some believe Babylon to be colonizers, the rich and powerful. Sinead’s “Babylon” is about child abuse (she herself [...]
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Suki Falconberg, whose essays I have posted here as often as she has sent them to me, e-mailed me this, her most recent essay, a while back while my blog was passworded. It’s excellent, as Suki’s writings unfailingly are. Given that her topic is language, this essay seems especially timely, too, in light of Mary [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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When someone seeks and accepts a job, they are said to have consented to work wherever they got the job. We all know, though, that it is not possible for anyone to consent to whatever might happen to them down the line, once they have the job. If they find themselves in a hostile work [...]
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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 [...]
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The NPR television debate program Intelligence Squared recently asked 14 scholars and experts to weigh in on whether it is wrong to pay for sex. Among those speaking were radical feminists Catharine A. MacKinnon and Melissa Farley. I transcribed bits of each of their presentations.
Catharine A. MacKinnon
The only difference between rape and prostitution [...]
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