Today’s grand prize winner is Tulsa County district judge Tom Gillert* who dropped a felony charge against a prick who took a picture up the skirt of a 16-year-old girl at the local Target. The honorable reasoning behind his decision? “…[t]he person photographed was not in a place where she had a reasonable […]

Filed under: blogging, cranky, lesbian feminism, links, media/culture criticism by Amy's Brain Today

…Pregnancy is virtually impossible without, as it were, male input. To have any credibility, therefore, abortion opponents must deal with the primary cause of unwanted pregnancy — uncontrolled male fertility.
One and a half million abortions per year in the United States testify to a million and a half occasions when men chose intercourse without […]

Filed under: feminism as politics by Amy's Brain Today

Contrary to what some folks have said, it’s not that hard to attribute ideas. On the internet, links work great. In books, that’s what footnotes are for. I’m suspicious of nonfiction books without footnotes. “Oh, that’s too academic and elitist, waah waah.” No. People don’t have to read the […]

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Media Madness: The Impact of Sex, Violence and Commercial Culture on Adults, Children and Society
A Summer Institute/Training for Educators, Students, Human Service Professionals, Activists and Parents
July 8-11, 2008, Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
For the 14th consecutive year, Wheelock College is offering a very popular summer institute on the role that the media (television, magazines, advertising, […]

Filed under: activism/organizing, feminism as politics, media/culture criticism, resistance by Amy's Brain Today

This email that I received from DvSlavery@aol.com is … just … so … um, deserving of mockery, that I just had to post it.

From David
I just want to say how much i like Amys picture, i like plump […]

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I am loyal to white supremacy. The other day I realized it would be easier to just admit this, and get it over with, than to continue turning myself into inside-out knots trying to rationalize, justify and explain the actions and circumstances that demonstrate this loyalty to everyone, it seems, but me.
The white-supremacist loyalty […]

Filed under: racism, white privilege by Amy's Brain Today

This was written by a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. It’s a response to this poster (pdf) which is up in a space where we sometimes hang out.

For every womon/gyrl in a family, neighborhood, school, or job who fears violent backlash if she names oppression, there is a male who holds the power […]

Filed under: feminism as politics, guest blogger, media/culture criticism, rants by Amy's Brain Today

Please read Tara’s excellent post on the subject if you haven’t already. You may want to skip the utterly predictable comments.

Filed under: fat politics, links, media/culture criticism, racism, white privilege by Amy's Brain Today

…making a point in your feminist projects to “include” the voices and issues of women of color, working-class and poor white women, and maybe even trans folks and members of other groups historically marginalized by dominant feminisms.
(from here)
But to say birth control is essential to feminism is to say infertile women are not. Girls, post-menopausal […]

Filed under: lesbian feminism, media/culture criticism by Amy's Brain Today

Gardasil: Women Hurt by Medicine is a new blog set up by Gertrude Green (author of this fantastic essay) and Renate Klein, Australian radical feminist and author of a whole slew of things that you can look up here. They’re interested in publishing your experiences with the cervical cancer vaccine.

Filed under: blogging, medicine/science criticism by Amy's Brain Today