Drew Davies from the Map of Gaps campaign forwarded along an awesome resource. Basically, what the map shows are locations of services meant to help women get out of dangerous situations involving domestic violence of sexual exploitation. What the map ALSO shows is how geography gets political — note that most of Britain is red (meaning zero access to facilities) for many of the resources the map is meant to help you find.

This is both an awesome resource for abuse ...Read More

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 war has targeted women and children, and all those who live under Israeli occupation in the West Bank, and are also denied the right to ...Read More

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 characterized this time of renewed cultural and political nationalism and activism as an almost exclusively male domain.

This has begun to change. Not only ...Read More

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 say, if only to add my voice so that when people tell others “Sorry you feel that way, but you’re the only one” this post ...Read More

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 intimate discussion groups reflecting a diverse cross section of the community. Men and women, heterosexual, homosexual, and transgendered, married and single, and of a wide age range, will ...Read More

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 judges think, “If it was really that bad, she should’ve left. No point ruining his career over it. The importance of career is something I ...Read More