Category — Violence, Violation

An Open Letter to All Feminists: Statement of Solidarity with Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Women Facing War and Occupation
by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/cm130308.html
As feminists and people of conscience, we call for solidarity with Palestinian women in Gaza suffering due to the escalating military attacks that Israel turned into an open war on civilians. This [...]

Tenth Annual Women’s History Month Conference
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (20 minutes from midtown Manhattan)
Black Power, Black Feminism: Black Women’s Activism and Development of Womanist/Feminist Consciousness in the Era Black Power.
This Conference is FREE and open to the public.
Register at:http://www.slc.edu/womens-history/conference/index.php
Traditionally scholarship on the Black Power era has [...]

First I read Purtek and followed her links. I pored over the article and comments on Tekanji’s blog. Then Purtek posted again, and led me to this glorious critique. I can’t add much to the criticisms they’ve leveled at the Yes Means Yes call for submissions, but there are a few things I want to [...]

EDGEWORKS Dance Theater
Open Call for Discussion Groups
Are You Interested In Participating In An EDT Project On Gender,
Sexuality, And Spirituality?
EDGEWORKS Dance Theater’s Founder & Artistic Director Helanius J.
Wilkins recently launched the determining factor– a work focused on
gender, sexuality and spirituality; and that will be the result of
community collaboration.
The research and development of this work includes organizing [...]

Check out the new Split This Rock Blog, Blog This Rock! It is edited/curated by Peter Montgomery and will showcase exciting work at the intersection of poetry and social change from all over the country. Building toward Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness, March 20-23, 2008, Blog This Rock will be [...]

It’s not easy for me to write this post, because it’s far more personal than we usually get on this site, but the saying “the personal is political” is a lot more than just words.
A study was recently published that concluded that feminists have healthier heterosexual relationships than non-feminists. This has been linked on many [...]

There’s this essay -
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/david_cox/2007/09/feminisms_rape_fallacy.html - it starts off talking about trials, but quickly lapses into the frequently-made comparison to burglary, and exhortations to women to “think twice” about what they do. Predictable of course: almost any article on rape in a daily newspaper is like that (yet is somehow always treated as some Great [...]

Ever wonder why women who are physically or mentally terrorized by their husbands or male partners don’t just walk out in a huff and sue?
Read this.
Because no matter what you think you know, women in that position are often acutely aware that the system is run by men who experience unconscious male privilege. Even the [...]

George Lakoff is a prominant linguistics professor at Berkeley who is reasonably well known outside the field for his accessible analyses of political discourse. In his more academic work, he details the ways that cognitive structures are set up based on series of linguistic and metaphorical “schema”. The title of one of his early books, [...]

There are two criticisms that I hear frequently when I talk to people outside the feminist community about my activist work against sexual violence–first, that violence against women is a specific, rather than a general, socially supported problem of misogyny. We’ve talked about that quite a lot over at the main site. The second, however, [...]