“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 […]
This was written about the lesbian/feminist “sex wars” of the late 1980s in the US, but astute readers will be able to identify these tactics being used all over the place.
Name-calling is a very old technique for discrediting someone else and, at the same time, taking on oneself the mantle of virtue…The fundamental issue is […]
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 […]
Two lesbians of color, Black and Asian, had seemingly forgotten lesbians are everywhere, and come from everywhere. We did gut checks on who we were thinking of when we thought of lesbians in East Oakland. We were thinking of dykes like the ones on 20/20: white, middle-class and definitely out of place in the inner […]
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 […]
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 […]
…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 […]
Sister blogger justicewalks wrote a post about being born into the ‘wrong’ body. Her description of her wish to be taller reminded me of an incredibly detailed fantasy I had as a pre-teen or young teenager. Often at night as I was waiting to fall asleep, I’d imagine that a fairy offered […]
Just for the record, the definitive post on transgenderism and radical feminism was written some time ago, and it is Amananta on Radical feminism and the Transgendered, or, how to write a post that will infuriate everyone.
This one isn’t too bad either.
Why is this my last post on such a contested subject, you might ask? […]
I wanted to expand on a comment I left on this post (warning: explicit sexual/violent images) which refers to comments made in this thread. The bits from that latter-linked thread to which I’m responding, specifically:
“the prevalence of domestic violence in the LGBT community [is] NO DIFFERENT than that in the heterosexual community”
“domestic violence […]
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