The Bus
by Arl Spencer Nadel
Young men on the bus
legs splayed wide
take up 2, 3 seats even,
Stare at you insolently
demanding their right
to take up as much space as possible.
Fat womon sits primly
Pulls in her folds
as tight as possible
takes up 1 1/4, 1 1/2
maybe 2 whole seats on the bus
ashamed, she stares out the window
and smashes herself […]

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McKinney Responds to Verdict in Sean Bell’s Murder
Green Party Hopeful Would De-fund Departments Which Violate Civil Rights

Cynthia McKinney, a Presidential candidate seeking the Green Party nomination, today released a statement commenting on Queens State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman’s verdict, acquitting NYPD Detectives Marc Cooper, Gescard Isnora and Michael Oliver of all charges stemming from […]

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I’ve noticed recently a bunch of women running around the internet acting like feminism is some kind of social service agency, instead of a movement for the liberation of women. So just to be clear:

Women of color do not need white women to save them.
Lesbians do not need straight women to save them.
Women who […]

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Starfish asked me some questions about my white-only post and I clarified a few things in her comments.
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I linked to “Stuff White People Like” a while back because I thought it was funny. At that time, I didn’t know that the author was white, or that the blog was connected to a book deal. (Geez […]

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I had no idea that this process of transferring would be so fraught.  If you can see this, please rest assured that this blog will be BACK, at its proper URL of http://www.feminist-reprise.org/wpblog, as soon as I can figure out what the #&$!*(^$!&$!)$#(#)@# I am doing!  Thank you for your patience.

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When I say that all women have been seasoned as slaves and prostitutes, I’m talking about seasoning that began at home. All other societal institutions avidly participated in it, of course. But no matter how we’re seasoned — as prostitute or wife, which is the same thing — we’re seasoned in the patriarchal […]

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Don’t change your links, folks! We’re having some trouble with the migration but eventually this site and blog will be available at the regular URL, www.feminist-reprise.org/wpblog. Sorry for the confusion, it usually doesn’t take this long, but as we know, my old host was a moneygrubbing dunderhead with the emphasis on dunderhead, so […]

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The other day Littoral Mermaid blogged about a horrible racist column from a Cornell University student blog.
A few days before that, this anti-fat-people article turned up in the student newspaper at the University of Toronto:

Public health care - why should the rest of us have to pay high taxes for you to eat yourself to […]

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If you coulda sworn that that post dated three days ago wasn’t there when you loaded this page three days ago, you’re right! FR is migrating to a new host, so even though the date on the post was right, it might not have been there at the URL where you looked for it […]

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