UPDATE: Mary Winkler has regained custody of her three daughters and has taken them home. Over the past two years the girls have been living with Matthew Winkler’s parents, their paternal grandparents, who have been attempting to get Mary Winkler’s parental rights terminated so that they could adopt the girls. For a time via various [...]
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election on Jul 7th, 2008
NOTE: The post I am linking to is not about Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton themselves. It is about the way the campaigns have been imagined and largely constructed in a culture that remains actively and largely unrepentantly both racist and sexist. It’s regrettable that I have to preface the excerpt and [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Apr 27th, 2008
If you haven’t already, do yourself a favor and read the Apostate’s most recent posts. The woman is on a roll.
Because most countries in the world are not such melting-pots as America is (and don’t have America’s slave-owning past), most people don’t have the sensitivity to race issues that we have here. Most of the [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Feminism on Feb 28th, 2008
Only TWO More Days! Get your entries in, women!
A Women’s History Month Blog Carnival
Come Together: Healing Tensions among Women Working for Equality
What Tami Said and Women’s Space are partnering to host a blog carnival to encourage a dialogue between all women committed to gender equality.
Dates: March 1 through March 31
Theme: Come Together–Healing Tensions Among Women
Working for [...]
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