Speaking of Speaking For Herself
Once upon a time I wrote about this woman, who fought back. Inevitably, some guy showed up to defame her and defend her oppressors. Time passed and the comments closed. But last night, she apparently found what was said about her, found another thread to put in a comment on, and spoke for herself.
...read moreSpeak For Yourself
Some of you know me from the comments, and from my past guest spots here. I’ll be around to fill in for a couple of weeks. I’m not big on introductions. Back when the Spitzer story broke, there were posts (notably this one) here and a lot of discussion about sex work. Whenever that happens, [...]
...read moreIn Trying To Show How Silly Anti-Racist Liberals Are, Racists Assholes Again Prove Themselves To Be Racist Assholes
Jeff Goldstein may have outdone himself with this one. He describes black men assaulting and gang-banging a hot white chick in order to get everyone riled up about how stupid feminists who discuss “white privilege” are — as in, stupid white chicks feel so guilty about their white privilege, they’ll get wasted and pass out [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
What have you been writing about this week? Leave your links to specific posts, and a short description, in the comments.
...read moreOn Those Pictures and On Privilege
It’s been said a lot of times over now, but I’ll add my voice to the chorus: This is fucked. Those images are tremendously racist — it’s not that they might be interpreted as racist or that they’re ironic and contributing something to the text. They’re just flat-out racist. They are everything Holly said. So [...]
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This is a Feminist Issue Too
It’s been a year and a half since Sean Bell and his two friends were shot 26 times by five NYPD officers. Bell was to be married later that day. He and his friends (who both survived) were unarmed. It seems likely that they didn’t even realize they were being confronted by plainclothes police officers, [...]
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I Guess It’s a Jungle in Here Too, Huh?
You know, the jungle. Where the savage brown people and ferocious animals are defeated by heroic white folks: Jill is writing her own follow-up post about this subject, but I feel so nauseous and sleepless about this whole thing that I felt the need to weigh in as well. I felt the need to post [...]
...read moreSexual Violence in the Congo
A few great pieces. First, Mark Goldberg speaks with filmmaker Lisa Jackson, who recently released the documentary The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo: Stephen Lewis, the co-director of AIDS-Free World, has another must-read piece up in The Nation — it’s the transcript of the remarks he gave on V-Day in New Orleans. (Also at [...]
...read moreCarnivals: Submit Now, Read Soon
Ms. Crip Chick (excellent blogger, btw) is hosting the 37th Disability Blog Carnival. Submissions are due on May 4th: Here are some topic ideas!: • What is disability identity? If you are disabled, do you feel disability is a part of you and your experience? • What is disability culture to you? How do you [...]
...read moreFor Chris Matthews, Misogyny Pays Off
Just read it.
...read moreBFP’s Final Words
Just in case you haven’t seen this yet, go read. I don’t have anything else to add, except: BFP will be sorely missed. But she’s is one bad-ass, passionate, brilliant woman, and so I’m confident that wherever she is, she is writing, working, and leaving the space she entered a better place than she found [...]
...read moreGlobal Fund for Women Raffle
The Global Fund for Women is hosting a gala event with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Honorable President of Liberia, as well as female leaders from Colombia, South Africa, Malaysia, Liberia, Bosnia/Herzogovina and Egypt. They’re also raffling off two tickets to the event — but to enter the raffle, you have to send in a 200-word [...]
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