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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UPDATE: Mary Winkler has regained custody of her three daughters and has taken them home. Over the past two years the girls have been living with Matthew Winkler’s parents, their paternal grandparents, who have been attempting to get Mary Winkler’s parental rights terminated so that they could adopt the girls. For a time via various [...]
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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 Jun 22nd, 2008
Pococino rocks it out, oh my goodness:
No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.” (Susan B. Anthony)
I’m pissed at the netroots. For a brief, shining moment - like, 2 1/2 years or so - Left Blogistan was a place of high media skepticism, of proud partisanship, [...]
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Posted in Feminism on May 23rd, 2008
“These women were shunned by two eras,” Yang says. “When they were young, footbinding was already forbidden, so they bound their feet in secret. When the Communist era came, production methods changed. They had to do farming work, and again they were shunned.”
Wang Lifen, above, now 79, was just seven years old when her mother started [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Apr 28th, 2008
Just what we all need, eyelash perms. Only 60 bucks and they last six weeks! No more wrestling with the eyelash curler!
First Yanagawa chooses one of four sizes of rubber rods-—the bigger the rod, the looser and less dramatic the curl. Yanagawa glues the rod to the base of the eyelid, applies a small amount [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Apr 25th, 2008
One in 3 women and girls may be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in their lifetime. Shocking, isn’t it?
But what’s equally upsetting is that most women don’t denounce their abusers because they are afraid of further violence and of being stigmatized. Help us speak out for these women. Add your name to this [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 19th, 2008
To learn what Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess, above, thinks “law enforcement” is all about, check out my friend, Apostate’s, Asshole of the Day Award.
Heart
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Posted in Feminism on Mar 3rd, 2008
Leveraging the Power of Race and Gender
by KAVITA NANDINI RAMDAS
As the contest for a Democratic presidential nominee enters its final stages, the feminist dilemma has become palpable and painful. My inbox has been filled with passionate and provocative pieces from Katha Pollitt, Frances Kissling, Caroline Kennedy and Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama, all explaining [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Feb 28th, 2008
Thanks to Chrysalis of the Women’s Security Council.
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