BLOGGING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in Feminism on Jul 4th, 2008
The video above shows Ingrid Betancourt, founder of the Colombian Green Party, one-time Colombian legislator and candidate for president, confronting a member of FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and saying to him in Spanish, “No more kidnappings No more kidnappings.” Shortly after this video was made, Betancourt was kidnapped.
FARC
FARC began in the 60s [...]
Posted in Feminism on Apr 27th, 2008
If you haven’t already, do yourself a favor and read the Apostate’s most recent posts. The woman is on a roll.
Because most countries in the world are not such melting-pots as America is (and don’t have America’s slave-owning past), most people don’t have the sensitivity to race issues that we have here. Most of the [...]
Posted in Feminism on Jan 26th, 2008
Read Real Transbigotry at Pam’s House Blend. Then read the comments and the links in the comments.
The real transbigots are not us radical feminists/lesbian separatists this time. The real transbigots identified in Cathryn’s post are persons born male-bodied, who live as men most or all of the time, but who identify as women and on that basis [...]
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Discussion Boards, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on Dec 18th, 2007
I wrote the post which follows last May. Today David Stang, Dorothy Stang’s brother, posted an update on the trials and sentencings of Dorothy’s murderers in a comment to another thread about Dorothy Stang.
Raifrans, the murderer, was tried ln October. Unanimously, the jurors, male and female voted for sentencing Raifrans to 27 years. The male [...]
Posted in Feminism on Nov 19th, 2007
The Enough Fear campaign aims to gather ordinary Iranian and American citizens who oppose war and long for peace together to meet, talk with one another, get to know each other, post banners and information to their blogs and websites, and to post their own photos to the Enough Fear website as a public statement of solidarity in resistance and opposition to war in Iran.
All [...]
Posted in Feminism, Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on Sep 4th, 2007
Image from our sisters at Friends of the Lolas
The world breaks open. Underneath the layers, transcending the past, making the present.
I have seen it written. In the hour of our forced surrender. The world will diminish as the time draws near.
Aching with the lost and ancient tidings, her beginning has come. Rekindling our magic. Lusty, [...]
Posted in Feminism, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on Jul 30th, 2007
Mandolin, in all sincerity and good faith, what you have written on Alas, directing it towards me, has nothing to do with anything I believe, have said, or have thought, for that matter, here or anywhere else. Neither I nor anybody here is responsible for what Sally C on I Blame the Patriarchy might have said sometime [...]
Posted in Feminism, Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on Jul 1st, 2007
Why Do Girls Face Discrimination?
Girls face the double challenge of being female and being young, which can result in them having little opportunity to make decisions about their lives. Discrimination against girls is grounded in a series of traditions and norms, based on the assumption that biological differences between females and males justify that girls [...]
Posted in Feminism on Jun 29th, 2007
This is Kim Duckett, who opened the Saturday conference with a beautiful ritual which included powerful drumming and dancing in a ceremony which included a dancer metaphorically releasing women’s oppressions, batterings, and abuses into a cauldron to be burned away. I really, really appreciated everything Kim had to say. She spoke of these [...]
Posted in Feminism, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on Jun 28th, 2007
Before I blog more about the Feminist Hullaballoo I wanted to urge everyone to take a moment to read two blog posts which are so worth reading:
Allecto on Prostitution
I am against prostitution. I have been against prostitution my entire life. I will continue to be against prostitution for the rest of my life. I consider [...]
