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International Women’s Day 2010: “This is the Time”

Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Capitalism, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Heroes, Immigrants, International Women's Day, Iranian Women's Activism, Love Between Women, Million Women Rise!, Mother-Right, Motherhood, Mourning, Oppression of Women Journalists, Our Sisters, Prayers, Revolution in Iran, Rural Womyn, Single Moms, Sisterhood, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, Women and Creativity, Women and Food, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's History on Mar 8th, 2010

Warriors and Heroines

This is the Time

International Women’s Day, Iran, 1979, Part 1

International Women’s Day, Iran, 1979, Part 2

Women and Water

Women and Land, and Food

Immigrant Mothers and the Children Left Behind

Million Women Rise 2010

The Women, The Women, the Amazing Women

For Women and in Sisterhood,
Heart

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Colonized

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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Suki Falconberg: Prostitution, Sex Trafficking and Language

Posted in Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, War on Women, Women's Bodies on Jan 23rd, 2010

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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“Leave the State of Fear. We Can’t Stop Now! We Have Overcome” — In Memory of a Positively Re-Volting Hag, Mary Daly, October 16, 1928 - January 3, 2010

Posted in Academentia, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminist Hullaballoo, Giants, Heroes, In Memorium, Love Between Women, Mourning, Practical Radical Feminism, Prayers, Revolution, Women and Creativity, Women as Writers, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Excellence, Women's History on Jan 4th, 2010

Mary Daly speaking at the Feminist Hullaballoo in Santa Fe, NM — June 23, 2007

She was amazing! I remember thinking her wearing of green might have been intentional, consistent with her celebration of the “biophilic” (life loving).
Mary Daly passed away yesterday, Sunday morning, January 3, 2010. Her life deserves to be honored and celebrated and for this, I [...]

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What Dr. George Tiller and His Staff Were About

Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Male Terrorism, Mourning, Our Blood, Practical Radical Feminism, Quiverfull, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, War on Women, Women and Fundamentalism, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies on Jun 1st, 2009

The women in my father’s practice who had abortions before abortion was legal have taught me that abortion is not about families, it’s not about babies, abortion is about women’s hopes, dreams, potential…the rest of their lives. Abortion is a matter of survival for women. Abortion is a matter of survival for women.

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The Quiverfull Movement: A Home Birth Story

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 [...]

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Breastfeeding: Towards a Woman-Centered Perspective

Posted in Feminism, Revolution, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Health on Mar 18th, 2009

Breast milk is precisely designed to meet the needs of the developing brain and body of a baby. In fact, it is so precisely fitted to a baby’s needs that the composition of the mother’s milk actually changes in in direct response to the needs of her baby. No one knows yet exactly how this [...]

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Hey, Hanna Rosin: Breastfeeding Is a Feminist Issue, Breastfeeding Is a Human Rights Issue

Posted in Feminism, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Health on Mar 18th, 2009

Breastfeeding is an important women’s issue, human rights issue, and feminist issue, since breastfeeding empowers women and contributes to gender equality.

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Women Who Breastfeed 2 Years or Longer Have 23 Percent Lower Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Decades Later

Posted in Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Health on Mar 18th, 2009

Among 90,000 women, those who had breastfed for two years or longer had a 23 per cent lower risk of coronary heart disease decades later than women who had never breastfed. An accompanying editorial says this adds to other studies showing lactating women to have a more favourable metabolic profile than non-lactating women. The favourable [...]

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“You Know Girls, We Really Got to Eat”

Posted in Being Poor, Heroes, Inspiration, Women and Creativity, Women and Food, Women and Music, Women's Art, Women's Bodies on Mar 17th, 2009

If these Youtube videos don’t make you smile and get you moving, there’s no hope. How much do I love this song sung by women jazz artists?
Well you know a girl
She really got to eat
And a girl she should eat right
Five will get you ten
I’m going to feed myself right [...]

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