Some Transformative Justice Links
In the wake of recent conversations, I’ve been looking around for further resources on transformative justice. I haven’t been able to do a lot of intense follow-up on the topic lately, because in mid-January I had major spinal surgery (after breaking my neck in an accident back in 2011); this obviously has involved many painkillers and a lot of sleep and not-working as much as possible. However, I have been able to do some reading, and I want to share some of what I’ve found most compelling.
...read moreThe best thing you will read today about Breaking Dawn
And vampire-fetus-babies and misogyny and female desire and abuse and rough sex and mother-martyrs:
...read moreWelcome to the twisted glory that is Mormon housewife turned teen-lit sensation Stephenie Meyer’s imagination.
On the pages of Breaking Dawn Meyer let that imagination, which has been hovering under the repressed surface of the series’ previous three books, run rampant: Bedboard-breaking, feather-spilling, bruising honeymoon sex. A demonic pregnancy that grows so fast the fetus is nudging and jumping around the heroine’s womb days after conception. A grown-up werewolf falling in love with a half-vampire infant. And our heavily-pregnant heroine sipping blood from a soda cup–and loving it–just before her ribs and spine are shattered by the immortal spawn she’s carrying. It gets better: a c-section performed by vampire teeth. A shot of venom straight to the heart. A crazed childless vampire woman who will protect the fetus at all costs.
On Change and Accountability: A Response to Clarisse Thorn
This is a guest post by Maia.
Dear Clarisse
Towards the end of your post On Change and Accountability you asked a question.
Did you expect your readers to answer no?
...read moreWhite Ribbon Day
I missed posting about White Ribbon Day yesterday. Fortunately, I realised that most of you are in the USA or other countries in similar timezones, so I can post about it today and it will still be kinda relevant! White Ribbon Day is Australia’s Day to End Violence Against Women. Yes, it’s extremely gendered and [...]
...read more“One Abuse Script with Many Faces”
We’ve been discussing gaslighting as an abuse tactic in two previous posts in response to this article by Yashar Ali who reassures us that we ladies are not crazy (thanks). In the first, Caperton dissects Ali’s message directly and the problems with male allies presenting problems analyzed by feminists as new and novel issues. In [...]
...read moreMore on Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a particular kind of emotional abuse, whether intentional or not, that over time makes the abused feel that her perception of reality or of herself is false. The gaslighter manipulates the victim’s sense of self in order “to be right [and] preserve his own sense of self.” From wikipedia: Gaslighting is a form [...]
...read moreYoung woman captures her father’s abusive actions on tape
A young Texas woman with cerebral palsy was whipped and beaten by her father for downloading games and music — and she stealthily recorded the whole thing, then posted it to YouTube. A major wrinkle is that the girl’s abusive father is allegedly Aransas County Court-At-Law Judge William Adams. The video is incredibly disturbing, graphic [...]
...read moreDomestic Violence is an Every Day Issue
This is a guest post by Katherine Greenier.
While October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, it may be the grim August murder of Crystal Ragin and her three children in Newport News that serves as the year’s most dramatic reminder that more must be done to protect women from violence.
Another day, another man kills his ex-wife, MRAs cheer
A man in California shot and killed his ex-wife and seven other people last week. The two were involved in a bitter custody dispute over their son. The story is incredibly sad, but men’s rights activists (“MRAs,” going forward) have again taken it as a lesson in the evils of both women and a legal [...]
...read moreBecause the whole “rule of thumb” thing is so three months ago
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month all over the country–even in Kansas. But someone needs to tell the city of Topeka that October isn’t actually supposed to be a celebration of domestic violence. If you wanted to observe it by, say, making domestic battery not illegal anymore, you’d probably be missing the point. The background: [...]
...read moreMeaningful Enforcement in the War Against Domestic Abuse
By Madeline Lee Bryer, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine *Trigger warning* The war against domestic violence is heating up. In a decision released publicly on August 17, 2011, an international human rights tribunal has determined that the U.S. authorities paid insufficient attention to domestic violence and violence against women in violation of the nation’s [...]
...read moreThat’s an interesting definition of “victim” you’ve got there
Well this is a new level of apologism and fuckery: The brother of the man who likely murdered his daughter before taking his own life tells FOX40 that his brother, Mourad “Moni” Samaan, was the victim of a broken family court system. Nabil Samaan, a lawyer and father, claims his brother’s ex-wife waged a brutal [...]
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