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 Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2008
April 29, 2008 - 03:10 PM
A new study suggests that women treated with Fosomax to combat the symptoms of osteoporosis are twice as likely to develop a common form of irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation than those who have never taken the drug. Atrial fibrillation can lead to heart palpitations, fainting, fatigue or congestive [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 19th, 2008
To learn what Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess, above, thinks “law enforcement” is all about, check out my friend, Apostate’s, Asshole of the Day Award.
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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 Uncategorized on Apr 11th, 2008
Update April 11, 2008: Marine Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean has been apprehended in Mexico, thin and with a buck in his pocket. He said he’d been hiding out, eating fruit he found and sleeping in fields. His tattoos and the fact that he didn’t speak Spanish well raised suspicions among police. He is to be [...]
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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 [...]
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