The Tomayko women and girls, left to right: Alex, Chandler, Chere, their mom, and the two youngest girls.
In the Holly Collins comments thread on this blog, a young woman named Chandler Tomayko wrote asking for help:
I was born in Fort Worth Texas. I lived there with my mother and younger sister until 1997. My sister’s father was verbally, emotionally and physically aggressive toward all 3 [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Aug 2nd, 2008
I received an e-mail recently from Bean, a radfem I’ve known online since 2000 or so, who works for a nonprofit organization that tries to help American women who live in foreign countries and who are attempting to leave battering partners who are citizens of those countries.
She described a very urgent situation to me and asked for my [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Mar 2nd, 2008
In response to the irresponsible and unethical attacks on Planned Parenthood on, of all things, the feminist blogosphere:
The Truth About Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger gained worldwide renown, respect, and admiration for founding the American birth control movement and, later, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, as well as for developing and encouraging family planning efforts throughout [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 28th, 2008
Once again, a giant of the movement to liberate women has passed on. Barbara Seaman, tireless pioneer and principal founder of the feminist women’s health care movement, passed away yesterday of lung cancer at the age of 72.
Beginning in 1960, with second wave feminism still in its embryonic stage, Seaman pioneered patient-centered health reporting. Under her watch, women were to learn for [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Feb 28th, 2008
Only TWO More Days! Get your entries in, women!
A Women’s History Month Blog Carnival
Come Together: Healing Tensions among Women Working for Equality
What Tami Said and Women’s Space are partnering to host a blog carnival to encourage a dialogue between all women committed to gender equality.
Dates: March 1 through March 31
Theme: Come Together–Healing Tensions Among Women
Working for [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2008
I remembered all the women in my family.
I remembered both the women on my paternal and maternal side and their stories even though different, were the same in essence…
I recall my great grandmother who used to tell me in her broken Arabic how she walked from Armenia all the way to Mosul, burying her husband [...]
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