WRITING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
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 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 Male Terrorism, Rape and Sexual Assault, War on Women, Woman Hating on May 6th, 2009
Equality Now
For Immediate Release
6 May 2009
New York: Lakshmi Anantnarayan, +1 212-586-0906
Email: lanant@equalitynow.org
JAPAN MUST BAN GAMES SUCH AS RAPELAY THAT PROMOTE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS — EQUALITY NOW CALLS ON ILLUSION SOFTWARE AND AMAZON JAPAN TO WITHDRAW THE SALE OF RAPELAY
International human rights organization Equality Now is launching a global campaign calling on [...]
Posted in Being colonized, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Feminism, Male Terrorism, Quiverfull, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism on Apr 29th, 2009
In a review of attack on Kathryn Joyce’s excellent book, Quiverfull, Doug Phillips of Vision Forum, ever fond of denouncing women who resist patriarchal edicts (especially his) writes:
The first mission of the book is to warn the radical left about America’s real threat — pregnant mothers who quote Psalm 127 and submit to their husbands. [...]
Posted in Deciding to Live, Female Ritual Servitude, Home Birth, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Motherhood, Mourning, Prayers, Quiverfull, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture on Apr 26th, 2009
Above is my my eighth child when she was tiny. It was her birthday yesterday. She turned 20.
She was born at home during my years in extremist Christianity (called by some the Quiverfull movement). It was spring, sunny and lovely that day. It was before we’d moved to the [...]
Posted in Iranian Women's Activism, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism, Women as Writers on Apr 24th, 2009
The video above is the best recap I can find of what has happened to Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist who has been held in an Iranian jail since January on various trumped-up charges. If you listen to NPR, you’ve heard Saberi’s news reporting. This past week an Iranian court sentenced her to [...]
Posted in Being Poor, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Lesbophobia, Racism, War on Women, Woman Hating on Mar 22nd, 2009
A recent Williams Institute study, “Poverty in the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community,” found that women — in particular those who identify as lesbian or bisexual — experience much higher poverty rates than males.
The study found that approximately 24 percent of lesbians and bisexual women are poor, while 19 percent of heterosexual women experience [...]
Posted in Domestic Violence, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Making Men Out of Boys, Male Terrorism, Power in Relationships, Quiverfull, Rape and Sexual Assault, Rural Womyn, The Christian Reconstructionists, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism, Women in Prison on Mar 17th, 2009
In November of 2006 I wrote a blog post entitled I Blame the Patriarchs, Part I: The Truth About Full Quiver Families. I wrote this post in part in response to a horrifying series of events in my area in which Kimberly Forder, who had subscribed to my magazine when I was publishing, had been [...]
