Follow-Up: Donate to Legal Aid for Protesters of Police Violence
Hey everyone, Appreciating the conversation on Friday’s guest thread about the Mehserle sentencing. Just wanted to follow up with an invitation for solidarity. Saturday, after about 20 hours in custody, I got out of jail in Oakland, having been mass arrested along with more than 150 others for “unlawful assembly”: marching in the streets to [...]
...read moreLater, Y’all
Just want to say a heartfelt thank-you to the Feministe crew, and to everyone who’s taken the time to read and respond to my stuff here over the last two weeks! I’ve especially loved hearing your wisdom in the comments: from thoughts on Marxist feminism to ways of taking refuge and experiences with snark. I [...]
...read moreOscar Grant, Audre Lorde, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the question of loving our enemies.
[Trigger Warning: discussions of sexual assault and deadly State force.] Love your enemies. For feminists, is there any phrase more terrifyingly reactionary? Love your enemies. Even the one who assaults you in private and reaps accolades as a brilliant community organizer in public. (One of my mom’s former boyfriends.) Love your enemies. Even the ones [...]
...read moreWhen Blogging, Just Blog.*
To say that blogging can be dhammic is not to claim that it can substitute for formal techniques of spiritual practice. Those techniques are designed to help bring us face-to-face with the hard lessons — otherwise, it becomes just another feel-good affair (or, as I once heard Mary Ann Brussat call it, “salad-bar spirituality”). Still, [...]
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For someone who doesn’t believe in a self, you sure talk a lot about yours.
As you may have noticed from my guest posts here (or, if you sneaked a peek at it, the work on my home blog), I write a lot about myself. My own experiences. From a feminist standpoint: fine, okay. Might be better with some more news or articles mixed in, but overall no problem — [...]
...read moreWhere Do We Take Refuge?
I’d been working on some posts for today, but right now I think I’d just like to take a moment to acknowledge and honor the pain that a lot of us are feeling as a result of some recent threads here. Now that trigger warnings have been added and the harm has been addressed, maybe [...]
...read moreIt’s Dark But It’s Promising, This Marxist Feminist Ground
[Please keep in mind the guidelines for commenting on this post! To summarize, they are: (1) Abstain from snark; (2) Prioritize the positive; (3) Honor our bodies; (4) Be honest(ly); and (5) Get friendly with silence. I hope you might find some benefit in practicing them - and feel welcome to let us know how [...]
...read morePre-Post Poll: Thoughts On Marxist Feminism?
At the community center where I live and work (yeah, long story), I have a lot of freedom to dream up ways of using the space. Starting new programs, things like that. And so, early this year, when a friend of mine asked if she could host a Marxist Feminist study group here, I was [...]
...read moreGot a hot date in Oakland tonight…Much of it will be silent
The East Bay Meditation Center from East Bay Meditation Center on Vimeo. (Description and transcript, to the best of my beginner’s ability, below the fold — additions and/or amendments appreciated!) Friends, I’d like you to meet the East Bay Meditation Center, one of the dopest sanghas (dhammic spiritual communities) I have ever had the good [...]
...read moreDon’t Resist: Resist!
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. ~Audre Lorde Hey y’all, thank you so much for all the incredibly thoughtful comments on my first two posts. (For those just now hopping on board, they are here and here — the first one, which has my comment guidelines, might [...]
...read moreSuffering, A Feminist Introduction
I’m a fan of the Feminist Vital Stats practice, to give an idea (not totalizing, of course, but y’know) of where my perspectives are coming from. Some of the basics of my standpoint: Female, cis, preferred pronouns she/her Middle-class: mom’s a Planned Parenthood lawyer; dad’s a judge Mixed: mom’s side white Jewish; dad’s side Black [...]
...read moreDhamma Comments: An Experiment
Hey, friends! How’s things? Goodness gracious, it is a pleasure to be here. Been following this blog and its community for years now (even wrote part of my college thesis about it!), through many changes in my own feminist life. I’m super thankful for the opportunity to participate as a guest writer, exploring a bit [...]
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