BLOGGING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
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 [...]
Posted in Feminism on May 22nd, 2008
This past Monday the U.S. Supreme Court upheld 7-2 a 2003 law that makes it a crime to offer or solicit sexually explicit images of children. The law (the “Protect Act”) does not distinguish between real children used and depicted in pornography and computer-generated child porn or digitally altered photographs of adults (to make them appear to be children). The [...]
Posted in Feminism on May 22nd, 2008
Margaret Witt
Good news for Margaret Witt and her partner and for all lesbians and gay men in the military, good news for all who are committed and dedicated to human and civil rights for all people. The Ninth Circuit has ruled that her case should proceed and has reinstated her in the military.
Major Witt filed a [...]
Posted in Feminism on May 4th, 2008
Sabrina Rasmussen, 19, above, was 11 years old when she was kidnapped by Terapon Adhahn, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole last Friday for the rape and murder of Zina Linnik, who was 12. Rasmussen’s family’s car had been stolen days earlier. Normally she would have been driven to school, but on this day she [...]
Posted in Feminism, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on May 4th, 2008
UPDATE: Terapon Adhahn, left, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without possibility of parole. He was convicted of the following crimes:
• One count each of aggravated first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree rape in the July 2007 death of 12-year-old Zina Linnik.
• Three counts of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree kidnapping in the rape of [...]
Posted in Feminism on May 4th, 2008
Tracy Barker, former Halliburton/KBR Employee
by Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff, Women’s Space, May 4, 2008
Introduction
Last January I blogged about Jamie Leigh Jones, a Halliburton/KBR employee in Iraq who was brutally gang-raped by co-workers after having had her drink surreptitiously drugged. She was so badly injured in the attack, she required surgery. She was seen by a doctor [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Feminism, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on Apr 21st, 2008
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 [...]
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
Posted in Feminism on Apr 16th, 2008
During the years I was publishing my magazine, my family and I were stalked fairly relentlessly via regular U.S. mail by a racist who hated and specifically targeted black man/white woman relationships and the children of those relationships. The letters always came from cities in Ohio. They were often ransom note style, with words and images cut out and [...]
