Context: I wrote a draft of this back in the summer after attending a house party thrown by a neighbor to support a candidate for city council.
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Recently, a good friend sent me a link to a blog that’s all about sustainability. It’s interesting, engaging, well written, well researched, nicely illustrated, even cute. […]

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No matter how much being taken care of the TS [trembling sister] manages to wangle out of others, it is never enough. For being taken care of is exactly what she does not need. It reinforces her helplessness, while what she really needs is access to her own effectiveness–and that is something no one can […]

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At least, not the political kind. I’ll take the actual kind any day.

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The erosion of radical feminism in the U.S. has been gradual, and time may prove that it was inevitable as well. Individual experiences may differ from mine, but each of us can, I think, supply examples of her own that illustrate equally well the processes of internal destruction. I’ll describe my perception of […]

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WRT to white people recognizing white privilege, dealing with challenges, and calling each other on it so people of color don’t have to:
Theriomorph on who determines ‘our most important ideas’?

Because extremely privileged white women are not only ignoring, but actively insulting and exploiting women less privileged than they are, whether via appallingly badly made […]

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Max Dashu, of the Suppressed Histories Archive, has created the DVD Women’s Power, “a condensed history of the range of female leadership, wisdom, creativity, and courage, around the world and over thousands of years. It’s a culturally diverse look at female governors, elders, clan mothers, culture-makers, healers, priestesses, poets, musicians, doctors, witches, athletes, rebels, […]

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Here’s part of a comment I left over at Starfish’s place early yesterday:

I’m even wary anymore of wanting to do the “right” thing, after taking in Marilyn Frye’s piece about “ethics” and the fact that wanting to be good/right, wanting to know the right thing to do in every situation, is in fact a preoccupation […]

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This particular game is constructed around the unoriginal gimmick that as you progress through the levels, you build a settlement/village/town/city/civilization that grows with each achievement you make in the game. As your town grows, it is populated with cute little animated graphical characters doing various things. Below you can see the characters currently […]

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I just reminded myself about this great post from Yolanda a while back. Seems like I’m not the only one who needs a reminder right now.
From Just a few thoughts:

You can be a good, decent, loving, caring person and be a white male supremacist.
You can be a hard-working, dedicated, self-sacrificing person and still have […]

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Update: Secondwaver found the original source of this meme, including the missing #33, so here is the credit. I’m sorry that I didn’t go looking for the attribution myself before posting it.
From What Privileges Do You Have?, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, […]

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