BLOGGING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in Feminism on Sep 12th, 2008
UPDATE from Julie’s Mom, September 12, 2008: Hi, I just wanted to update on how Julie and her daughter are doing in [their new home]. Julie passed her placement test, she had to take one because she doesn’t have a GED yet, for [a community college]. She is going to try [...]
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 May 4th, 2008
To the extent your reality does not fit the law’s picture, your rape is not illegal. The implications of this for everyday sex life are that any man who knows a woman of the same race can probably get away with raping her. The better he knows her, the more likely he is to get [...]
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 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, 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 Feminism on Feb 10th, 2008
Award-winning quilt: Mother Earth and Her Children, by Sieglinde Schoen Smith of Carlisle, Pennsylvania
From the brand new (created today) Women’s Security Council welcome page:
The basis of American democracy is that when the government ceases to work for the people, the people have a right to start a new one. The US government has had [...]
Posted in Feminism on Jan 25th, 2008
–by funnie
One thing that used to get me into trouble was a need to be separate from “imperfect” women, as though by just being good enough, perfect enough, we could convince the world of why we deserved to be treated better.
I know that’s a pretty basic thing a lot of women, and other oppressed groups, struggle with, [...]
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 [...]
