Blogging Against Disablism Day: Addressing Ableist Language
Today, May 1st, is Blogging Against Disablism Day. Blogging Against Disablism Day is hosted every year by Goldfish as an absolutely excellent blogswarm about ableism. (“Disablism” is synonymous with “ableism.” Disablisim is the term preferred in the U.K.; as someone from the U.S., I’m more comfortable with the term ableism, and that’s the one I’ll [...]
...read moreMay 1st: March for Immigration Reform
Tomorrow is May Day, and Reform Immigration for America is marking the day by holding marches in support of progressive immigration reform all over the U.S. Tens of thousands of people are expected to march in almost 100 locations across the country: On May Day, we’re telling the our elected leaders in Washington DC that [...]
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Arizona Immigration Law: A Roundup
Recently, I wrote about a bill in Arizona that would require police to check the papers of those they “reasonably suspect” to be undocumented immigrants. Tragically, infuriatingly, and unforgivably, that bill has now passed both houses of the legislature and been signed by the governor. A brief rundown of the law can be found here. [...]
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Events in Remebrance of Amanda González-Andújar
You may have heard of the recent murder of Amanda González-Andújar. A man has been taken into custody in connection with her murder, which is undoubtedly good news, but González-Andújar is still gone, and hers is sadly yet another name to add to this year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance list of the dead. This Saturday, [...]
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Thursday LOST Roundtable: The Last Recruit
Spoilers below! This week on LOST, most of our Losties try to leave the island, while Jack just wants to stay. In the sideways world, our characters are finding themselves either drawn or forced together. Check out our reactions below and leave your own in the comments, while remembering no spoilers for unaired episodes.
...read morePrison Rape: Assault Shouldn’t Be a Part of the Sentence
This guest post is a part of the Feministe series on Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Liliana Segura is a senior editor at AlterNet.org and a board member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. Trigger Warning “I’ve been raped, physically beaten, extorted, pimped out/sold, intimidated, manipulated, threatened, humiliated, [and] harassed by both officers and [...]
...read moreClay and Harold: A Couple Forcibly Separated By Sonoma County
Recently making the rounds is a breathtakingly tragic story of an elderly gay couple that Sonoma County, California allegedly forcibly separated into different nursing homes, before possessing and selling off their property. It’s an incredibly upsetting story, so please be aware of that when making the decision to read further. From the National Center for [...]
...read moreMaking the connections: Sexual Violence in Native Communities
This guest post is a part of the Feministe series on Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Jessica Yee is a self-described Indigenous hip-hop feminist reproductive justice freedom fighter. 24 years old and Two-Spirit from the Mohawk Nation, Jessica is the founder and Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, a North America wide organization [...]
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Record Store Day
Straying from our normal social justice focus, I want to take a moment to note that tomorrow, Saturday April 17th, is the 4th annual Record Store Day. Held primarily though hardly solely in the U.S. and UK, Record Store Day is a day to celebrate music and the culture of independent record stores, and to [...]
...read moreConfronting Citizenship in Sexual Assault
This guest post is a part of the Feministe series on Sexual Assault Awareness Month. brownfemipower blogs at Flip Flopping Joy. Trigger Warning What does it mean to be a citizen? What does it mean to you to be a citizen of whatever country you were born in? As a citizen of the US, the [...]
...read moreNew York Domestic Workers Fight to Pass Bill of Rights
Via Equal Writes, the BBC has recently reported on the struggle of domestic workers in New York state to pass a bill of rights for those in their line of work. In this context, the term domestic workers refers to nannies, housekeepers, and caregivers, of which there are over 200,000 in NY alone. Domestic workers [...]
...read moreWe Are the Dead: Sex, Assault, and Trans Women
This guest post is a part of the Feministe series on Sexual Assault Awareness Month. C. L. Minou is a blogger and writer inhabiting a Great American Metropolis. In addition to her work at the Second Awakening, she has written for Shakesville, the Guardian’s Comment Is Free, and is a co-blogger at Tiger Beatdown. She [...]
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