Blast from the Recent Past
Since the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival just passed and many people have been writing online about that many-years-running debacle/struggle, I thought I’d link to an oldie-but-goodie, Emi Koyama’s “Whose Feminism Is It, Anyway? The Unspoken Racism of the Trans Inclusion Debate,” which substantially expanded my understanding of the situation when I read it in 2002. [...]
...read moreHello from the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families
Hi all, My name is Shannon and I am thrilled to be a guest blogger for the next two weeks on Feministe. This is such an exciting opportunity for me to get the word out on yet another abortion ban in South Dakota and what’s being done to make sure these important and difficult decisions [...]
...read more(No) Fear of Spying
Came across these articles over the weekend, reporting that declassified police-surveillance files on 1970s “Women’s Liberation Groups — Canada” were made public this week. Of course, state surveillance of activists in nations that vociferously proclaim themselves to be “free” is not a thing of the past. Antiwar, bicycling, vegan, environmental, and other communities are being [...]
...read moreHello from Another Guest Blogger
Hi, all. I’m excited to be joining you for the next two weeks as a guest blogger. (Thanks, Jill, for the invitation!) By way of introduction, a bit about me: I’m a member of the editorial and publishing collective behind make/shift magazine. I also freelance as a writer and editor and contribute to the group [...]
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Hair-pulling and braid-weaving
Ever since the minor kerfuffle over Titan Games’ Fat Princess, I’ve been wanting to write some more criticism of games, and not just because I love attracting defensive trolls who hallucinate de jure censorship and gamer-reviling boycotts whenever something problematic about a game comes up. Fat Princess is basically a decent-sounding game concept that tragically [...]
...read moreTarget Women: Birth Control
Note to self: just post these as soon as they come out, because Sarah Haskins is always funny as hell. Doot-doo-doo-doot!
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