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 […]
Peace is not:
Letting things slide for the sake of friendship.
Doing whatever is required to keep on good terms.
Criticizing someone behind her back.
Being silent at a meeting only to rant and rave afterwards.
Letting things drift if they don’t affect you personally.
Playing safe in order to avoid confrontation.
Manipulating someone to avoid open conflict.
Coercing someone to do what […]
Plant and nurture something that grows.
Practice the fine art of yielding–in your car, in conversation, and so on.
Become active in a group that works on principles of cooperation.
Fill your home, work, and commuting environments with visual and auditory images of peace and tranquility.
Do at least one thing to simplify your life and reduce your consumption […]
Whaddya think Michelle? Just for the record, the lighter color is a bright limey green and not gold as it appears here. I’m thinking about a nice knotted fringe when I’m done.
Also for the record, in blogular news, I am in the process of switching over to Wordpress. I’ve learned a lot […]
Ilyka Damen has articulated much better than I could what I was going on about yesterday. So check out her post (thanks to ms jared for the intro to Ilyka!).
I’ll be off tomorrow celebrating International Women’s Day at the “Women Braving Violence: Global and Local Perspectives” Conference at UNM, including plenary speech by […]
There’s a whole slew of bogusness going on in the blogosphere at the moment, in the traditional, non-tarot sense of “foolish.” For example, I was thrilled to see this post of Twisty’s calling out some of the downright offensive crap that passes for political discourse on various lefty blogs. I’ve been lurking […]
One of my major, though heretofore unstated, goals in creating and maintaining this blog is the dissolution of stereotypes. I post pictures of myself, not out of narcissism, but because mainstream media almost never provide images of regular fat women going about their regular unexceptional business. I post pictures of cats and flowers […]
I almost don’t want to put this in the land dyke odyssey category. I do so because I think it’s imperative that women who are interested in the LDO, and in women’s community in general, read it. But by such placement I am not at all implying that conflict in land communities is […]
Golly how I love it when other people agree with me. This is a quote from John Stoltenberg’s talk at the Dworkin Conference, which is posted over at another radical feminist:
Andrea was so strong that even when women were being shits to her, she was in solidarity with people called women. That was harder […]
I’m sad to report a shocking and almost completely unprecedented outbreak of violence in this lesbian-feminist household.
The victim:
The perpetrator (file photo):
I had to use a file photo because apparently Pauline has been body snatched by a demon whose image cannot be captured digitally. Here’s the photo I just took of her sitting on the […]
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