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 7th, 2008
Women! Rent and watch “The Golden Compass.” The heroine of this story is Lyra, a girl of 12 or 13. She is the girl child who, according to the prophesies of the witches, would emerge as a leader during a time when the universe stands at the brink of war. She is also the one to whom the last “aleithiometer” [...]
Posted in Feminism on May 25th, 2008
MAY 4–A Louisiana college student has been charged with threatening the life of Hillary Clinton, whom the man said he would kill when she visited Baton Rouge. Richard Wargo, a 19-year-old Louisiana State University freshman, was arrested yesterday after he allegedly told a fellow student that he wanted to commit an act of terrorism and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19th, 2008
I worked all day today in my garden. I didn’t plant a garden last year, so there is a lot of work to do, to gynormously understate. By day’s end, I could see the shape of this year’s garden, though I haven’t planted seeds yet. In the center of my garden is an elderberry tree, [...]
Posted in Feminism on May 14th, 2008
I read an interesting article last night written by a newspaper reporter in Oregon. He had interviewed an old friend of Hillary Clinton, Jean Houston, following Clinton’s campaign appearance in Eugene. Clinton had sought out Houston along with Mary Catherine Bateson for support and counsel during crises around Bill Clinton’s presidency, the failure of her own health [...]
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 [...]
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 on Apr 9th, 2008
Heather Corinna in the “I Was Raped” T-Shirt, used with permission
When the t-shirts got here, and I put one on to take a quick photo, checking in the mirror to make sure that despite the fact that I was two days late on washing my hair, I wasn’t too disheveled, it was an interesting experience. It [...]
Posted in Feminism on Mar 2nd, 2008
In response to the irresponsible and unethical attacks on Planned Parenthood on, of all things, the feminist blogosphere:
The Truth About Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger gained worldwide renown, respect, and admiration for founding the American birth control movement and, later, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, as well as for developing and encouraging family planning efforts throughout [...]
