BLOGGING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in Feminism on Jan 6th, 2008
Staceyann Chinn
Staceyann Chinn had us on our feet, fists raised, crying and hollering on opening night of last year’s festival. If you can, see her in person. You will never forget her.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2008
Toshi Reagon — Battle of the Broken Word
I’ve seen Toshi Reagon both at Michfest and locally in Seattle. She is an amazing artist.
Saskatchewan (Juneteenth) – Laura Love
From Love’s NeGrass CD. She performed this song and others from this CD last year in Michigan. I’ve seen Love perform in the past but never quite like this. This [...]
Posted in Feminism on Dec 5th, 2007
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V Kingsley, who, with her son, Parker, created the above youtube video, recently commented here with the link to her amazing quilt. (If you haven’t watched V’s video about the making of the Mermaid quilt, you should, it is not to be missed! Very inspiring.) V is a quilter, an artist, a lesbian, a feminist, a cancer survivor [...]
Posted in Women's Space Paper Communique, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on Dec 1st, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Feminism on Nov 19th, 2007
The Enough Fear campaign aims to gather ordinary Iranian and American citizens who oppose war and long for peace together to meet, talk with one another, get to know each other, post banners and information to their blogs and websites, and to post their own photos to the Enough Fear website as a public statement of solidarity in resistance and opposition to war in Iran.
All [...]
Posted in Feminism on Nov 1st, 2007
In response to a question in one of the threads here, I e-mailed Catherine Crouch and asked her whether we could order The Gendercator from her on DVD. She says that we can order it (on a DVD with three other films):
You can buy the dvd of four short films by sending $25 per copy to Catherine Crouch, 3640 [...]
Posted in Feminism on Sep 26th, 2007
Lorraine Rothman, a second-wave pioneer of the feminist self-care and self-help movement, died yesterday at the age of 75 at her home in California. She had been diagnosed with cancer only a week prior.
Rothman, together with her colleague, Carol Downer, pioneered the concept and practice of guerilla gynecology (thanks, Sis, love that term!). In the early 70s, Downer, [...]
Posted in Feminism, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on Sep 6th, 2007
(This is an edited version of a post that came to me via one of my several feminist listservs. I asked JB if I could post it here on my blog because I think it’s great and worth sharing and she gave me her permission. Many thanks, JB! — Heart)
Freedomist: Freedom from believing man-made lies; [...]
Posted in Feminism, Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on Sep 4th, 2007
Image from our sisters at Friends of the Lolas
The world breaks open. Underneath the layers, transcending the past, making the present.
I have seen it written. In the hour of our forced surrender. The world will diminish as the time draws near.
Aching with the lost and ancient tidings, her beginning has come. Rekindling our magic. Lusty, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 28th, 2007
The second total lunar eclipse of 2007 will happen in the wee hours of this morning, the morning of August 28, beginning at 1:55 a.m. Pacific Daylight time. The eclipse will be most viewable to the Pacific Rim, including the West Coast of the U.S. and Canada as well as Alaska, Hawaii, New Zealand and [...]
