Burma Rally in NYC on Monday
Monday, October 1 12:00pm – 1:00pm Permanent Mission of the Union of Myanmar (Burma) to the United Nations 10 East 77th Street (near 5th avenue, east side of central park) New York, NY Rally for Human Rights in Myanmar Amnesty International members around the world are holding a series of demonstrations outside Burmese embassies and [...]
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Donate to Darfur
Until Midnight tonight (Sunday) your donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar. Please go donate now.
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Oh yeah, Sudan… wasn’t there something happening there?
Despite the rubber bracelets* and the outraged Facebook groups,** the genocide in Darfur and the ongoing crisis in Sudan seems to have again slipped away from the world’s view. I suppose we can only handle one major humanitarian crisis at a time,*** and this week it’s monks in Burma. But 10 peacekeepers in Darfur were [...]
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Evangelicals are threatening to run a third-party candidate if Giuliani is the Republican nominee. Which puts me in a really tough place — I can’t stand Giuliani and I think he’s a dangerous and scary man, but boy would I like to see this. Conservative Christians are downright terrified at the idea of a lady-president [...]
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Onward Christian Soldiers
Not even a good Christian education will teach you how to spell “infidels.” Radically conservative Christian colleges are targeting students all over the country — and they’re literally looking to go medieval on your ass: The students and teachers call what they are doing “classical Christian education.” They believe it’s much more than memorizing Latin [...]
...read moreWhy are there more men involved in online politics than women?
That’s the question that Katherine Seelye is posing on the NYTimes blog today. She recognizes that the entire premise of the question might be wrong, and that’s where I stand — I don’t think there are more men involved in online politics than women. I just think “women’s issues” and women’s voices end up being [...]
...read moreOngoing Issues
UPDATE: We seem to be working again, woohoo! A million thanks to our techie guardian angel, who has put in so much time and effort to keep this place up and running. If you encounter any problems, please email me at jill.filipovic -at- gmail -dot- com. In case you haven’t noticed, Feministe is a little [...]
...read morePenis envy
Meet the Shenis: Of course, it would be possible to make a device that enabled women to pee standing up and didn’t look like a giant foot-long cock, but where’s the fun in that? Before I buy one, though, she’s gonna have to do a better job of marketing it to the ladies. Paint it [...]
...read moreReporting While Black
One New York Times reporter exposes abuse and racism from police officers: THE police officer had not asked my name or my business before grabbing my wrists, jerking my hands high behind my back and slamming my head into the hood of his cruiser. “You have no right to put your hands on me!” I [...]
...read moreWhy feminism is good for everybody, part 2954
Divorce rates are the lowest they’ve been since the 1970s, and marriages are more stable. There are certainly myriad reasons why marriages are stronger now than thirty years ago, but I’d imagine that chief among them are things heavily influenced by feminism. As traditional gender roles expand, women and men have greater choice in who [...]
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More from Burma
Unsurprisingly, things in Burma have not turned out well. I watched a lot of CNN World and BBC this weekend, and they’re covering it pretty thoroughly. From nytimes.com it seems like American media is doing the same — any thoughts from American readers who watch the TV news or read other papers? And as our [...]
...read morePolice assault on queer and trans people in NYC
via Angry Brown Butch: NEW YORK – On the night of Wednesday, September 26, officers from the 9th Precinct of the New York Police Department attacked without provocation members of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and of its community. Two of our community members were violently arrested, and others were pepper sprayed in the face [...]
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