BLOGGING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in Feminism on Oct 27th, 2008
[Note: Below the update is a blog post I originally wrote in November of 2006. I updated it in April of 2007 when Profacero posted an update in the comments thread. I'm updating again in response to an e-mail appeal and petition I received from Women in Black via the Global Sisterhood Network. What an incredibly misogynist, dangerous man. Ortega was [...]
Posted in Feminism, Internet Terrorism, Male Terrorism, War on Women on Aug 17th, 2008
The Tomayko women and girls, left to right: Alex, Chandler, Chere, their mom, and the two youngest girls.
In the Holly Collins comments thread on this blog, a young woman named Chandler Tomayko wrote asking for help:
I was born in Fort Worth Texas. I lived there with my mother and younger sister until 1997. My sister’s father was verbally, emotionally and physically aggressive toward all 3 [...]
Posted in Feminism, Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on Aug 5th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Feminism on Aug 2nd, 2008
I received an e-mail recently from Bean, a radfem I’ve known online since 2000 or so, who works for a nonprofit organization that tries to help American women who live in foreign countries and who are attempting to leave battering partners who are citizens of those countries.
She described a very urgent situation to me and asked for my [...]
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 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 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 Feminism on May 23rd, 2008
“These women were shunned by two eras,” Yang says. “When they were young, footbinding was already forbidden, so they bound their feet in secret. When the Communist era came, production methods changed. They had to do farming work, and again they were shunned.”
Wang Lifen, above, now 79, was just seven years old when her mother started [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
