…about sexist bias in the mental health classification system, the pervasiveness of woman and child abuse in this culture, and what a struggle it is when the two come together in the person of one hurting woman. For what it’s worth, I too struggle with everything she talks about, even though I was just […]

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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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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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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 […]

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

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Littoral Mermaid posts a link to Why I Hate Fun, a blog whose every post is full of honest brilliance. I particularly liked How do class and race affect different women’s approaches to sex work?:

…these “sex worker activists” seem to feel that their struggle to be allowed to be sex workers because they should […]

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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 […]

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What seems to me a balanced post on the Obama speech, by marjorie here in Albuquerque. She mentions two things that stood out for me in skimming the first couple paragraphs of the speech: no mention of the genocide of native people by Europeans on this continent, and multiple descents into the kind […]

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Littoral Mermaid has a post up about the poster for the movie “Holly.” (Glad to see LM is blogging again, by the way!)
I noticed similar dynamics in the official summary of the antitrafficking film “Trade”:

Adriana is a 13-year-old girl from Mexico City whose kidnapping by sex traffickers sets in motion a desperate mission by […]

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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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