RadFem Blogz
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Susan Hawthorne talks with Thistle about Lesbian: Politics, Culture,
Existence
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Susan Hawthorne is a founding member of Spinifex Press, a publishing
company that began in 1991. She spoke with Thistle last month about her
latest book,...
3 days ago
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5 Reasons Why Hardwood and Stainless Steel Garden Tools Are Best
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Gardening is a rewarding pursuit, connecting us with nature and providing a
sense of accomplishment. But the right tools can make all the difference in
y...
1 week ago
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Sarah Owen, MP, newly elected chair of the Women and Equalities Select
Committee, on Woman’s Hour
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Sarah Owen, MP (Labour) for Luton North was elected Chair of the
parliamentary Women and Equalities Select Committee (WESC) on 11th
September 2024. The fol...
2 months ago
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I’m coming back.
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New posts are currently making their way through my mind, but I’ll need a
minute to futz around with the site. All the old posts are private until I
can si...
4 months ago
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Women are Blamed for Cowardly Cops
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Even being a coward and not engaging an active shooter and preventing
further murders is the fault of women according to many Florida police
officers. Pol...
9 months ago
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Harmful sexual behaviours in schools: How should educators respond?
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Leading child safeguarding expert Maha Melhem joining me in high-level
staff PDs in 2024 For many years in my engagements in schools around the
country, I ...
9 months ago
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Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Marxist feminist speaking out against gender identity
in Sweden
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In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Kajsa Ekis Ekman, author of "The
Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman"
The post Kajsa Ek...
1 year ago
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Football’s Woman Problem
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I haven’t witnessed this much good old-fashioned sexism since the
NoMorePage3 campaign brought all the unreconstructed thugs out of the
woodwork to call us...
1 year ago
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Translation: Camille’s #LetWomenSpeak speech in Geneva
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"I want to tell girls and boys that gender - the roles society imposes on
you - is a prison. To be free is to let go of it. And don't be afraid to
say so t...
1 year ago
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WoLF’s Statement on Malicious Rumors (2017)
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I need a place to host this pdf so that I can reference it in podcast
notes. The original webpage has been removed from the internet. “At the
beginning of ...
2 years ago
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War on Two Fronts
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This was written when Trump was still in Office, but the tactics are still
true, of how both the Rightwing and TRA Movements still act. Both very
patria...
2 years ago
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Open Letter to Edinburgh Rape Crisis Staff and Trustees
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With thanks to Jean Hatchet for her feminist documentation and
transcription work. This one is for Sally, and all the other women in too
vulnerable a posit...
3 years ago
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Hello world!
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then
start writing!
3 years ago
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pronouns vs adjectives
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So I’ve decided to ask people to recognize my “identity” by my chosen
adjectives. Pronouns are so limiting, don’t you think? And still
“binary-ish” (as if ...
3 years ago
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Public Service Announcement
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Take note, ye denizens of Social Media™: to bawl = to cry loudly, sloppily,
or in an uncontrolled manner to ball = something else The more you know.
3 years ago
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Missing Person Kristin Snyder: Lost in a Sea of Myths Pt 4
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Next up in our series on the The Lost Women of NXIVM mockumentary is Joseph
O’Hara of Albany, NY. O'Hara was an attorney who worked for NXIVM from October...
4 years ago
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Tell HUD: protect women’s single-sex shelters!
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U.S. residents have until this coming Tuesday, September 22, to tell the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that it should allow
shelte...
4 years ago
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More than 20 questions
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So you’re part of an online movement! Congratudolences. Here are some
questions that the interested reader can use for private rumination. You’re
welcome, ...
4 years ago
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How should a feminist be?
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I lived through the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s
and it deeply affected me, as I believe it affected all women at the time.
For ...
4 years ago
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Time of the Plague
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During this Coronavirus crisis, I want to focus on the prostituted. Of
course everyone is vulnerable to this virus – but I write coz the
prostituted as usu...
4 years ago
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When Is a Lesbian Not a Lesbian?
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When Is a Lesbian Not a Lesbian? Bev Jo Recognizing who is actually a
Lesbian and who is an imposter is crucial for us, our Lesbian communities,
relationsh...
5 years ago
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Fuck, I’ve just realized why we need to know who the father is
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https://cherryblossomlife.wordpress.com/2019/10/14/fuck-ive-just-realized-why-we-need-to-know-who-the-father-is/
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5 years ago
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The Stage (only they unpublished it like cowards) | The Old Vic has made an
incomprehensible decision about toilets, and women are angry about it
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This article appeared briefly on the Stage before reactions to it convinced
them to unpublish both this, and the article it was responding to. The
features...
5 years ago
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Don’t trust your feelings. They are patriarchy’s strongest weapon.
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Feelings come from the most basic part of our brain, the limbic system.
This brain area contains many structures that not only faithfully maintain
the inte...
5 years ago
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There is literally no wrong way to be female
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A commenter by the name of Thomas Reyes stopped by to say hello on my
Leaving the Trans Cult post. Here is my answer to his comment: “Just bc a
couple of t...
5 years ago
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Pittsburgh Dyke and Trans March, Revisited
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With it being Pride Month and all, I started to wonder about the state of
the Dyke March this year. And that got me thinking about what is now
called the ...
5 years ago
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Stimuno untuk mengobati anak alergi
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Bagi Anda atau pasangan Anda yang memiliki riwayat alergi, Anda tentu akan
memiliki kekhawatiran tersendiri tentang hal ini. Alergi menjadi salah satu
jeni...
5 years ago
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#SpaceWoC: Women of Colour Against the Sex Trade
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Originally posted on Sister Outrider:
A brief foreword: I believe wholeheartedly in feminist documentation. And
so I have decided to write about Space Inte...
5 years ago
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You Can Police Language But You Can’t Police Thought
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via You Can Police Language But You Can’t Police Thought Advertisements
5 years ago
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This Blows Our Lives Apart
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Interview on BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06xvbsc Advertisements
5 years ago
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WordPress censors GenderTrender. Gallus Mag responds
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Originally posted on 4thWaveNow:
4thWaveNow reached out to Gallus Mag of GenderTrender after WordPress
dumped the site yesterday. In her most recent post, ...
6 years ago
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The Annals of the TERF-Wars
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Originally posted on Jane Clare Jones:
So, yesterday this turned up in my feed, which struck me as something of
an, um, mispresentation… and somehow, I end...
6 years ago
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Artificial Intelligence Indeed (Ex Machina)
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So I first heard of the movie Ex Machina when I read a review (by Chris
DiCarlo) in Humanist Perspectives—and was so disgusted that I wrote a
letter to the...
6 years ago
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What Do Girl Guides UK, Extreme Porn, and BDSM Have In Common?
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In my last post ‘Gender Whisperers’ I talked about transgender ideology
permeating organizations, institutions and schools. One such organization,
Girl Gui...
6 years ago
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Pride (or Gay For a Day)
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This is a joint post with Hypotaxis. Hypotaxis and I recently had dinner at
a Japanese place, the kind where they seat you with a table full of
strangers a...
6 years ago
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Trans-Inclusive Feminism Here
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All trans people everywhere are 100% welcome and even invited to do
whatever they can to stop female oppression. Advertisements
6 years ago
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Death Is Not Art
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Dear San Francisco Public Library, You have sent me a message, and the
message you have sent is: Please step up for your re-education now, Lesbian
TERF. Su...
6 years ago
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When You Can No Longer Consume, Conform, Reproduce, Obey. What “Disability”
Means Under Capitalism & Patriarchy
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Originally posted on Cannabis Refugee, Esq.:
“Consume, conform, reproduce, obey” is a reference to the 1988 American
science fiction film “They Live” which...
6 years ago
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Some basic questions about sex and gender for progressives
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1. Do you believe that being born with the kind of body that has the
potential to gestate children – a body with a uterus, ovaries, and a vagina
– is of an...
6 years ago
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JO MARCH IS NOT TRANS
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A UK TV adaptation of the classic ‘Little Women’ this winter has reminded
me of how much I loved the book when I was little. How I read it and
re-read it, ...
6 years ago
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Of Ducks and Drakes: Male Violence Across Species
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Mothers Day, several years ago, I went with a friend to feed the ducks (and
possibly nutria) at a local park. It was supposed to be a pleasant
excursion to...
6 years ago
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I should not have to bring up your sister/mother/aunt/wife in order for you
to give a fuck….
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The title of this post summarizes my thoughts whenever I have a discussion
with men who seem to proudly display their ignorance about the constant
attacks ...
6 years ago
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A Rapist’s View of the World (repost)
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This is a really long rant about Joss Whedon’s Firefly. Why? Because I’m
angry and I think it is really important that feminists don’t leave popular
cultur...
7 years ago
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One Woman Cracks the Pedo Elite. Chapter 4.
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Preface & Chapter 1 here. Chapter 2 here. Chapter 3 here. Trial 3: Succar
Kuri’s trial for child pornography, in which Lydia Cacho is to appear as a
witnes...
7 years ago
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MichFest: One Year Ago
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One year ago, I arrived at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival for the
first time after hearing about it for years. It was an amazing experience
and it cha...
8 years ago
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What is gender, anyway?
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Originally published by Sarah Ditum at the New Statesman This can be
perplexing terrain, in which it’s not at all clear that everyone is
speaking the same ...
8 years ago
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Social work professor speaks out on behalf of her FtM autistic daughter
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Dr. Kathleen “Kelly” Levinstein, PhD, LCSW, LMSW is a Professor of Social
Work at the University of Michigan, Flint. Among many other
accomplishments, Dr....
8 years ago
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A man’s most sensitive skin is at the tip of his ego
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Guest post by Solveig Lehmann Everyday feminism wants the women’s
liberation movement to be terribly worried by the alleged anti-feminist
harm done by litt...
8 years ago
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Owen Jones. Again.
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In February 2015, The Guardian published a commentary by Owen Jones on gay
rights charity Stonewall’s decision to campaign for trans equality. In his
artic...
8 years ago
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Women riders risk their lives to reach stranded horses and lead them home.
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Note, that the men have already tried a mechanised approach, attempting to
remove the 200 horses by boat and failing! Eighteen of the horses have
already l...
9 years ago
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Stomping Johns: The Demand Side of Prostitution
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Interview with Mickey Z published at World News Trust September 19, 2015 My
Interview with Samantha Berg Mickey Z. — World News Trust “Marie Antoinette
nev...
9 years ago
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Michfest Was
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Michfest was many things to many people. This is a goodbye. It was a haven.
It was a cocoon. It was a place of healing. It was a place of affirmation.
It w...
9 years ago
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Not Respecting Women’s Boundaries is Rape Culture
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Originally posted on loving lily:
Recently I was talking to a radical feminist. She was organizing a march or
some sort of public event and asked me if I co...
9 years ago
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Trans* Women in My PTSD Group and Performing Femininity
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Originally posted on loving lily:
Recently I was trying to get help for my PTSD. After a long wait, I was
finally admitted to a publicly funded PTSD therapy...
9 years ago
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CouponsTweet is the new discount site..
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It’s startup time and i am going to review a discount site called
couponsmonk (The site is now called couponstweet.com). couponstweet is one
shop stop for ...
9 years ago
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Problem and Solution? Transwomen’s Access to Private Women-Only Spaces
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The political demand for transwomen’s access to private women-only spaces
is predicated on a certain problem-and-solution logic. It can be
summarized like ...
9 years ago
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“individualism” and relational deprivation
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I’ve been thinking quite a lot about relational deprivation between women
in Western countries recently, and even more so since I’ve been spending
some tim...
9 years ago
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Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory, by Cheshire Calhoun
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Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory written by Cheshire Calhoun
Ethics Vol. 104, No. 3 (Apr., 1994), pp. 558-581 Published by: The
University of...
9 years ago
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FRANK HAS COME OUT TO ‘PLAY’
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Let’s go back to the beginning, shall we? Let’s imagine a world which never
forces someone’s subjective reality on to the rest of us or else we’re
‘offendi...
10 years ago
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On Not Shutting the Fuck Up
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There are people out there who would love me to shut the fuck up, to roll
over and die, metaphorically or literally. The men who used me. The people
who le...
10 years ago
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WordPress.com / Automattic censors Lesbian and Feminist Blogs
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If you are a blogger with multiple million readership, do take notice that
Automattic who hosts WordPress.Com will censor you and freeze your blog,
suddenl...
10 years ago
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Wild Women and The Untamed Heart
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It’s been a long time since I posted here. I’ve posted a bit on Tumblr, but
have been struggling with what to say on WordPress, so here it is. This
blog ne...
10 years ago
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Acceptable Losses
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It is a fact, not a conjecture, that women are harmed in the making of
porn, not just in the making of illegal porn, not just in the making of
foreign por...
11 years ago
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It’s our feminism, our language, our liberation
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Descriptions and defenses (or dismissals) of feminism have filled thousands
of books and comprise billions of words in journals, manifestos, novels,
videos...
11 years ago
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Why so serious, trans men?
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I mentioned in my last post that a lot of radical feminist blogs have gone
silent. Well it would have been more accurate to say that many radical
feminist ...
11 years ago
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Interview with a blogger from Radfem-ological Images
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Originally posted on radical wind:
I had the chance to interview one of the bloggers from Radfem-ological
Images shortly after the project ended. Radfem-ol...
11 years ago
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Radfem Hub is now an archives
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After almost two years of herstorical collective blogging, Radfem Hub is
now reopened as an archives. “The Hub” was a collective radical feminist
blog and ...
11 years ago
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Lawrence University invokes shocking last minute BAN on Earth Day Keynote
Speaker Lierre Keith due to her Feminist views on Gender
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Originally posted on GenderTrender:
In a shocking last minute decision Lawrence University representatives
no-platformed Deep Green Resistance founding memb...
11 years ago
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Flappers, Suffragettes and Civility on Streetcars
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A quarter of a century ago, before Los Angeles became such a busy mart of
trade, there was more sociability, more friendliness, more pleasant words
and smi...
11 years ago
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Originally posted on Liberation Collective:
Among the lies women have to tell in order to save themselves from harm,
saying “I have a headache” as a way to ...
11 years ago
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‘Transilience’ – Joelle Ruby Ryan University of New Hampshire Harassment
Campaign Against Women : Call For Action
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I am writing this today out of a deep concern for the rights of women,
feminists and lesbians to speak publicly about issues that effect us.
Specifically, ...
11 years ago
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‘Transilience’ – Joelle Ruby Ryan University of New Hampshire Harassment
Campaign Against Women : Call For Action
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I am writing this today out of a deep concern for the rights of women,
feminists and lesbians to speak publicly about issues that effect us.
Specifically, ...
11 years ago
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Originally posted on Liberation Collective:
Last week, when the U.S. Secretary of Defense lifted the nominal ban on
women serving in military combat roles, ...
11 years ago
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Pussy Riot: whose freedom, whose riot?
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Recently there has been lots of noise around the arrest of three members of
Pussy Riot, a Russian anarchist female punk band. The media almost
unequivocall...
12 years ago
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Ongoing submission acceptance for Don't Dis My Ability #2
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I am putting together a print-zine about living with disabilities. It is
called Don't DIS My Ability and will be the second issue. The only
requirement ...
12 years ago
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Excellent Post on Quantum Consent by Eve Bit First
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“The concept of ‘rape’ is almost always discussed and analyzed in terms of
the victim (not from the perspective of the victim, but in terms of the
victim)....
12 years ago
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Tobit 3-5
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*The Facts (Chapter number: Verse)*
3:7-17 - [The beginning of the book mirrors a similar prayer given by
Tobit, who wishes for his life to end because his...
12 years ago
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Porn and intercourse
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I wanted to share a quote. Porn users have long stated that porn and sex
are divorced, that porn has no impact on them, their sex lives, or their
view of w...
12 years ago
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Hello world!
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Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write
your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the
admin ...
12 years ago
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Second Episode of Feminism Now! is up!
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Fans of Dialectical Spin will want to listen to the second episode of
Feminism Now! In this show we speak with Jasmine Burnett of SisterSongNY
and Trust Bl...
12 years ago
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Goodbye Bunny!
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The Game is over. I no longer care about posting, and haven’t for a while,
so if you wanted to comment, that might be why it didn’t get approved. So
yeah. ...
13 years ago
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9/11/11
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Thanks to television, several generations of Americans have grown up with
violence coming straight into their homes in vivid color — but whereas
people my ...
13 years ago
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Well……. Hello :-)
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Goodness, hasn’t WordPress changed since I was last here?! I’m revisting
today via a circuitous route, prompted initially by mention of my
‘Witchy-Woo hat’...
13 years ago
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One Radfem’s Experience with Gynecology
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This is just an experience babble, because I feel like I have to get it
out. Not much political in here, so if you dun like personal stuff feel
free to sk...
13 years ago
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More on husbands and their ‘entitlement’ to sex
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I pointed out in my roundup of 2010 that this oldie – Your husband has a
right to expect regular sex – is still one of the most popular posts on
this blog....
13 years ago
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Transgender non-logic #4739
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Which is quite a peculiar stance for a supposedly mentally stable
individual, but there's more; and if you as a transperson take away nothing
else after re...
14 years ago
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The Falsifiability Talk
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We need to talk about falsifiability. This isn’t an easy conversation, so
let’s talk first about why we need to talk about it. There are many
different com...
14 years ago
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Butch Nature & Medical Mythology
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*MEDICAL MYTHOLOGY – or, “Pay no attention to that doctor behind the
curtain!”*
*How are butch lesbians supposed to become who we truly are, by
artificial...
14 years ago
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Hi, Sisters.
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I’m sorry but I’m seriously gonna need a bit more of a longer break away
from the Internet. I’ve got quite a few things to sort out in my life right
now. B...
15 years ago
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