BLOGGING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
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 [...]
Posted in Female Ritual Servitude, Prostitution, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, War on Women on Jun 13th, 2008
From our friend and sister, Suki Falconberg– Heart
Last month, PBS broadcast a show called Carrier, about life aboard the USS NIMITZ, an aircraft carrier with a crew of about 6000 sailors. It showed life on the ship and on shore during a six-month deployment in 2005. The Nimitz stopped at various ports in the Pacific, [...]
Posted in Feminism on Jun 13th, 2008
Now here is a dude.
Ronald Reagan appointee Alex Kozinski, Chief Justice of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, has been presiding over the criminal obscenity trial of Ira Isaacs, who insists with a straight face that his hardcore bestiality and defecation porn, in which he sometimes “stars”, is “art.” Kozinski is a conservative Republican but [...]
Posted in Feminism on Jun 11th, 2008
Dear Supporters,
Our website is up and running! We now have a public face. You can check it out at http://www.stoppornculture.org. You’ll find a full list of resources, information about upcoming trainings, a calendar of slideshows around the country, the slideshow itself narrated by our own Rebecca Whisnant, and even a button for donations. One small [...]
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 [...]
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 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 on Apr 25th, 2008
In the past, I have sometimes taken issue with things Amanda Marcotte has written or done. If you do a search on this blog, you will come up with some things. I took issue with the proposed cover of her book, the one everyone is up in arms about, months ago, in this comments thread on Pandagon. [...]
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 [...]
