Being humanitarian, being kind and loving, does not include entrusting my life or well-being to anyone whose intention or unconscious direction is to cause me harm. I am here to enjoy the life that Mother Earth gave me.
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Ellen Jean Zoltak, “Have Gun, Will Travel” in Her Wits About Her: Self-Defense Success Stories by […]
“Could you kill someone to save yourself?” Therese said.
“Yes.”
“You sound very sure.”
“If you decide to hurt someone to save yourself, you need to commit to it completely.”
“Do or don’t do, there is no try,” Nina said in a Yoda voice.
“Something like that,” I said over the nervous laughter. “But about whether or not […]
Dominique Bressi, a founding member of Stop Porn Culture, is undertaking an awesome fundraising attempt. Please help her if you can.
What I am doing:
I will be racing in the 2008 Coeur D’Alene Ironman, a distinguished athletic event – one day, one race: swim, bike, run, 140.6 miles. I will be racing in an effort to […]
Or are some people missing the point in a great big way?
For me, this started as such a clear idea: to reclaim lesbian identity. We, lesbians, will get to say who we are and who we are not. Politically, sexually, emotionally, within our communities. We will have space to discuss owning ourselves.
I’ve been wanting to do this issue for a year or two, in part to […]
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 […]
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 […]
…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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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