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 Jun 6th, 2008
WARNING — GRAPHIC — MAY TRIGGER
Of pornographer Paul Little’s (”Max Hardcore’s) penchant for making films, for example, depicting ”actresses” who hold themselves out to be 12 years old vomiting after being orally raped, followed by the rapist urinating on them, or being forced to drink urine and vomit, Hardcore’s attorney, Jeffrey Douglas, argued:
[The offensiveness of the videos] is the [...]
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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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On March 17, I (Heart) got an e-mail from Constance of William and Mary College which read in pertinent part:
My name is Constance. I’m a student at the College of William & Mary. I’m currently working with three other women to put together a panel on feminist perspectives on pornography at our school.
This project is a direct response [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Jan 9th, 2008
I can add a little, but not much, to what Alex Leo at the Huffington post has said:
Over a year ago, Rebecca Traister wrote what I still consider the definitive piece on Hillary Clinton and women. Traister was the first to delve into the deep distaste of Hillary amongst the female intelligentsia, exploring the idea of [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Dec 31st, 2007
UPDATE (Jan. 1, 2008): My interview on the F-Files is available to listen to here. Thanks to Aletha for alerting me that the interview had been posted, and thanks to Jackie for posting it. — Heart
Update: Dates for the airing of my interview are October 31 and November 7. I’ll post precise times as I’m aware of [...]
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Last night on my way home from work I read an article in the Seattle Times entitled U.S. Under Widespread Attack in Cyberspace. Some interesting excerpts:
WASHINGTON — While U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan engage the enemy with guns, tanks, airplanes and missiles, the Pentagon is quietly fighting a much different kind of war on [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2007
Emily Sander
Police have found the body of the beautiful, intelligent young woman above, a college student. She was murdered, her body dumped like so much trash alongside U.S. 54 near El Dorado, Texas.
Israel Mireles
They are looking for the man with whom she was last seen, pictured above, because they found substantial quantities of blood in his motel [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Oct 17th, 2007
I’m being interviewed this Thursday for the F-Files, and the interviews will be broadcast for sure on October 31, and tentatively October 24 as well. The interviews will be available via streaming audio after that time. I’ll be talking about many things, to include the ongoing attacks internationally on women bloggers and journalists, Michfest’s woman-only [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Sep 25th, 2007
It has come to my attention that not *everybody* has read Laurelin’s fine post about the way we radfem meanies “censor” people by, for example, sending their inane and trolling comments directly to spam.
Dear detractors who try to comment on my site before being evilly censored by my mighty powers,
I am sick, like many other [...]
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