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 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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Posted in Feminism on Jul 4th, 2008
The video above shows Ingrid Betancourt, founder of the Colombian Green Party, one-time Colombian legislator and candidate for president, confronting a member of FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and saying to him in Spanish, “No more kidnappings No more kidnappings.” Shortly after this video was made, Betancourt was kidnapped.
FARC
FARC began in the 60s [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Feminism on May 22nd, 2008
This past Monday the U.S. Supreme Court upheld 7-2 a 2003 law that makes it a crime to offer or solicit sexually explicit images of children. The law (the “Protect Act”) does not distinguish between real children used and depicted in pornography and computer-generated child porn or digitally altered photographs of adults (to make them appear to be children). The [...]
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Posted in Feminism on May 12th, 2008
Note: I was going to post this as a comment to the original “Intentional Sex Torts” thread, but I couldn’t import the formatting (I formatted it inside of a “New Post” box on my dashboard) and don’t have time to reformat. And, maybe it’s better to start a fresh thread anyway, for several reasons. So, here it [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Feminism on May 4th, 2008
Sabrina Rasmussen, 19, above, was 11 years old when she was kidnapped by Terapon Adhahn, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole last Friday for the rape and murder of Zina Linnik, who was 12. Rasmussen’s family’s car had been stolen days earlier. Normally she would have been driven to school, but on this day she [...]
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