Yeah no.
Look: I find Islamophobia offensive and disgusting. But no, it does not justify violence and bombing buildings: Okay, so can we finally stop with the idiotic, divisive, and destructive efforts by “majority sections” of Western nations to bait Muslim members with petulant, futile demonstrations that “they” aren’t going to tell “us” what can and can’t [...]
...read moreIn Norway, Gender Equality Does Not Extend to the Bedroom
A must-read piece about intimate partner violence and rape. Sexual violence against women in Scandinavia shares characteristics seen in more unequal societies: It is all too common and rarely reported, and those who commit it are even more rarely convicted. Ancient prejudices about male prerogative and modern assumptions about female emancipation conspire to create a [...]
...read moreWednesday Oct. 26th: Debating Abortion Rights at Trinity College
On Wednesday Oct. 26th I’ll be at Trinity College in Dublin, debating the resolution “This House Believes Abortion is a Woman’s Choice” (you can probably guess which side I come down on). My sparring partner is Serrin Foster from Feminists For Life. I hope Dublin feminists can make it! And, for any Irish readers, what [...]
...read more“Balka: Women, HIV, and Drug Use in Ukraine” short harm reduction documentary
Boosting the signal on this 35-minute documentary. (Note: If you’re unfamiliar with the subject matter, then I recommend reading the short discussion guide when you watch it.) Description: The fall of the Soviet Union led to a surge in injecting drug use and skyrocketing rates of HIV spread through shared injecting equipment. A documentary film [...]
...read moreProtesting =/= Rioting =/= Looting
This is a guest post by Hannah, a writer and activist in sunny London town.
No one seems willing to separate out the different strands involved: various motivations were in play, from the righteous to the selfish; various tactics were used, from the peaceful to the murderous. And the events themselves can be clearly separated into at least three different categories which must be considered separately.
A good use for tanks?
For various reasons, I had a pretty terrible day yesterday. So a friend sent me this video to cheer me up!
...read moreI’ll take any good news you got.
In the Sometimes Good News Comes in Tiny Increments But It’s Still Good News Department (aka: The Department of SGNCITIBISGN): 1) Judge blocks Kan. law stripping Planned Parenthood of fed. funding, says law unlikely to last An incredulous federal judge on Monday rejected the state’s claim that a new Kansas statute that denied Planned Parenthood [...]
...read moreThe Man Who Hated Women
Shocker: Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik is a racist and a misogynist, and his shooting rampage was inspired by his hatred of women, Muslims, and brown people. He uses a lot of the same tropes as Men’s Rights activists. He was encouraged by anti-Islam bloggers in the United States who routinely warn of the “Islamicization” [...]
...read moreOn the Swedish Model
Anyone who’s read anything I’ve written on sex worker rights and legislation over the past however long I’ve been posting about it knows that I’m in favour of decriminalisation of the sex industry. This means that specific laws regulating the sex industry are removed and sex work is governed by the same laws that govern [...]
...read moreThe feminist naturist. A.k.a. the “naked grandmas” post!
This is one of those guest-posts I’ve been promising to write for many an age now. I hope you enjoy…? I became a naturist in a totally feminist fashion – all due to a man. When he told me that he believed that genuine nude beaches were the best, my initial reaction was, “Um, hell [...]
...read moreAccusing the Accuser
I have a piece up in the Daily about victim-blaming and the DSK case. A bit: Writing in the American Spectator, political commentator Ben Stein joined the chorus, saying that DSK is probably innocent because he’s an economist and economists don’t rape people, and after all, these accusations are coming from a maid. Rumors are [...]
...read moreWho is the Victim in the “DSK Affair”?
This is a guest post by Mounia. Mounia is an activist and soon-to-be high school graduate from Morocco/Canada. She enjoys working on issues around gender, queer rights and immigration- among other things. She also occasionally writes, and will be a Feministe intern in the fall. Disclaimers : The links in the body of this post [...]
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