(Note–While this might at first seem a meandering away from the usual subject matter on this blog, read on for the connection between racism and sexism and the voices of some very wise feminists.)
I confess that it wasn’t until I opened my morning newspaper morning and found almost an entire Op Ed page dedicated to […]
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UN SHOULD LEAD BY EXAMPLE SAYS FWRM
THE FIJI Women’s Rights Movement is deeply disappointed at the lack of transparency and accountability in the appointment process for UNIFEM¹s newExecutive Director. On April 7th, the United Nations announced the appointment of a candidate from Spain, despite having identified India¹s Dr.Gita Sen as the best candidate from those […]
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Reproductive Rights: The Abortion Conversation That We Should Be Having
by Lucinda Marshall
Far too often, I have the nagging feeling that we’re having the wrong discussion. About what? Pretty much darned near everything but none more so than the endless pro-life vs. pro-choice debate.
During a recent community conversation in Louisville, KY, Loretta Ross, the National Coordinator […]
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Just a few musings about power and the female body…
The other day a rather frazzled friend of mine told me she was thinking of going on strike. I suggested to her that she would get a lot more attention if she did it in the nude. She promptly passed along this advice to […]
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Many thanks to Maria Carolina Morais for allowing me to share her report of an International Women’s Day eve event in Recife, Brazil organized by 70 organizations “to mobilize women to fight for their rights and to denounce abuses and acts of violence against them.”
“All 70 organizations together prepared a letter with demands such […]
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Diary of an Anxious Black Woman asks some right on target questions in her post about International Women’s Day:
“Western feminists, MUST WE ALWAYS ASSUME THE MISSIONARY POSITION? (If you resist it in sex, I certainly urge you to resist it in global feminist organizing!)
How about naming the actual feminist organizations in the Congo, who are […]
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I guess this is what we can expect of someone who once served on the board of Walmart:
“Sen. Hillary Clinton has declined to return $170,000 in campaign contributions from individuals at a company accused of widespread sexual harassment, and whose CEO is a disbarred lawyer with a criminal record, federal campaign records show.
“This is by […]
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Senator Joe Biden on the importance of fully funding the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA):
“National figures since the Act’s passage in 1994 show real progress: domestic violence has dropped by almost 50%, incidents of rape are down by 60%, and the number of women killed by an abusive husband or boyfriend is down by 22%. […]
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One of the usual consequences of writing about pornography and the exploitation of women’s bodies is that you will likely be told that you are an ugly, sexually unsatisfied, man-hating prude who can’t get a date and that you don’t know a thing about sex. It has always been my suspicion that nothing could be […]
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Many thanks to Media Watch for sending out an alert regarding our recent post about MSNBC’s David Shuster’s remark that Chelsea Clinton was being “pimped out”. Responding to Media Watch’s alert, Catharine MacKinnon had this to say:
“This is outrageous. It makes Chelsea a prostitute and Hillary a madam, meaning pimp. Shuster’s association of women in […]
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