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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2008
This is an absolutely astonishing video of an elephant drawing an elephant, holding a paintbrush in her trunk. I found the link at Ronnie Bennett’s excellent blog in this post, which Naomi Dagen Bloom linked to in her excellent blog, thanks, Naomi!
Heart
Posted in Feminism on Mar 25th, 2008
Lynn Sweeting of Womanish Words has a beautiful post up, a letter to her body written on her 45th birthday:
I am sorry for agreeing to hate you like others did, I abandoned you for those years, i cursed you under drunken breath, i wept over you like roadkill, but you remained like a good friend until [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Feminism on Feb 3rd, 2008
by Robin Morgan (and thanks to the Women’s Media Center)
“Goodbye To All That” was my (in)famous 1970 essay breaking free from a politics of accommodation especially affecting women (online version is here.) During my decades in civil-rights, anti-war, and contemporary women’s movements, I’ve avoided writing another specific “Goodbye . . .”. But not since the [...]
Posted in Feminism on Jan 14th, 2008
Simone du Beauvoir was born 100 years ago this week, on January 9, 1908, and so European media, in particular, is featuring articles about her life, most of which, based on my brief skimming, are of limited interest to those of us who are committed to the well-being of women, some of which are positively [...]
Posted in Feminism on Jan 9th, 2008
I wanted to let everyone know — if you don’t already — that the current issue of off our backs, now on newsstands/in your mailbox if you subscribe, includes my Feminist Hullaballoo article which I re-read today while waiting for the bus, and I really like it. It was a hard article for me to write, [...]
Posted in Feminism on Jan 8th, 2008
Check out the great new specifically Australian radical feminist website, The Fury! There is lots of good, inspiring information and reading there. (There seem to be so many great radical feminists in Australia compared with the U.S.!). Reading this new blog and Spinning Spinsters this morning did my weary heart such good! Thanks, wimmin! You’ll see some familiar [...]
