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 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 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 Feminism on Mar 27th, 2008
The Third Carnival Against Pornography and Prostitution is UP over at Debs’ place! There is some very fine reading there, check it out!
Heart
Posted in Feminism on Mar 19th, 2008
In light of recent news that Governor of New York Eliott Spitzer has been laying down thousands of bucks to prostitute women with some regularity, there has been a flurry of e-mails, press releases, and a comment or two to my blog criticizing New York anti-prostitution laws which may result in Spitzer facing criminal charges both for [...]
Posted in Feminism on Feb 9th, 2008
Stop Porn Culture will be offering our third training for our slideshow this July. The training will be twice as long, more in-depth, and can also be taken for college credit.Please post this information anywhere you can!Media Madness: The Impact of Sex, Violence and Commercial Culture on Adults, Children and Society A summer Institute for [...]
Posted in Feminism on Feb 3rd, 2008
by Robin Morgan (and thanks to the Women’s Media Center)
“Goodbye To All That” was my (in)famous 1970 essay breaking free from a politics of accommodation especially affecting women (online version is here.) During my decades in civil-rights, anti-war, and contemporary women’s movements, I’ve avoided writing another specific “Goodbye . . .”. But not since the [...]
