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 Jul 6th, 2008
Above is the trailer for the documentary Very Young Girls which is being screened in the Library of Congress on July 10. Please watch it– it is powerful.
“Very Young Girls” is an award-winning documentary about prostituted minors in New York, victims of human trafficking
The film features anti-trafficking hero, Rachel Lloyd, who most of you know…Rachel [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Jun 7th, 2008
Women! Rent and watch “The Golden Compass.” The heroine of this story is Lyra, a girl of 12 or 13. She is the girl child who, according to the prophesies of the witches, would emerge as a leader during a time when the universe stands at the brink of war. She is also the one to whom the last “aleithiometer” [...]
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Posted in Feminism on May 25th, 2008
MAY 4–A Louisiana college student has been charged with threatening the life of Hillary Clinton, whom the man said he would kill when she visited Baton Rouge. Richard Wargo, a 19-year-old Louisiana State University freshman, was arrested yesterday after he allegedly told a fellow student that he wanted to commit an act of terrorism and [...]
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Posted in Feminism on May 23rd, 2008
Leading international human rights advocate Prof. Catharine MacKinnon is to receive an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in recognition of her work in advancing gender equality. She will receive the honor at the opening Convocation of the 71st meeting of the University’s Board of Governors, on Sunday 1 June 2008.
According to Hebrew [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 14th, 2008
Almost everyone has heard of Oskar Schindler (Schindler’s List) and his heroic rescue of 1,200 Jews during Hitler’s reign . Not so many know about Irena Sendler, above, who as a 29-year-old Polish social worker ultimately rescued 2,500 Jewish children from Nazi occupiers of Warsaw, Poland, who had built a wall and a ghetto for the Jews.
Sendler [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2008
Gathering the Goddess 2008 — Sept. 5-7, 2008, Santa Cruz, California
“Here we are Sisters in Goddess, coming together to celebrate the birth of the Goddess Movement in our times, through sacred ritual and divine style. We are coming together … old and young … women who stood with me in the beginning and women who [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Apr 24th, 2008
Dear Colleagues & Friends,
I am writing to let you know about a timely new collection of documentaries about Women in Leadership & Politics now available from Women Make Movies.
The centerpiece of the collection is IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA, which was recently broadcast on the Emmy® Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. This new WMM Release profiles Ellen [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Apr 9th, 2008
Heather Corinna in the “I Was Raped” T-Shirt, used with permission
When the t-shirts got here, and I put one on to take a quick photo, checking in the mirror to make sure that despite the fact that I was two days late on washing my hair, I wasn’t too disheveled, it was an interesting experience. It [...]
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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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