I came home all grumpy, disillusioned and out of sorts, and reading some of my faves, found I was not alone.
Sonia says:
I’ve said it before. if white people really cared, they’d…say something. if men really cared, they’d say something. everyone just walks around in fear. step, step, reinforce current system. step, left, right, give in […]
The weekly assignment for my creative writing class is “childhood.” All week I grapple with the topic, feeling it stick in the back of my throat like a multivitamin. I know what I remember about being a kid, and I don’t think it’s anything anyone wants to read about. And I cannot […]
From Jenny Black, Interim President/CEO, Planned Parenthood New Mexico:
Dear Friend of PPNM,
We are shocked and galled!
Yesterday PPNM staff exiting our parking lot noticed an injured woman lying semi-conscious on the sidewalk in front of our surgical clinic. Staff immediately summoned police and paramedics who responded quickly, ultimately taking the woman to the hospital. She had […]
I am talking here about the need for every woman to live a considered life. The necessity for that consideration grows and deepens as one faces directly one’s own mortality and death. Self scrutiny and an evaluation of our lives, while painful, can be rewarding and strengthening journeys toward a deeper self. […]
Classist behavior is rooted in one basic idea: class supremacy—that the individuals of the upper and middle class are superior to those of the lower classes. Middle class people are taught to think that we are better than working class people and we act out that superiority and self-righteousness in a thousand daily ways. Class […]
Twisty’s latest post expands, if succinctly, on her post from the day before connecting resistance to femininity with the beginning of the end of women’s oppression:
Unlike the murdered Pakistani women, many Western women have privilege enough to repudiate femininity without suffering life-threatening consequences. My crazy idea is that they should if they can, because women […]
Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. Researchers S.C. Wooley and O.W. Wooley confirmed what most women know too well–that concern with weight leads to ‘a virtual collapse of self-esteem and sense of effectiveness.’ Researchers J. Polivy and C.P. Herman found that […]
As part of the ongoing series on self-defense and Fight Back! here at Feminist Reprise, I asked my friend Mel to write about her recent experiences with Shotokan Karate. Here is what she had to say, in her own words.
I’ve always been interested in the martial arts for as long as I can remember. […]
We are a group of fat women who met in a weekly problem-solving group for one year. The group’s facilitators were two fat members of the Los Angeles Radical Feminist Therapy Collective (L.A.R.F.T.C.). The group was a fat liberation group. We wanted to develop self-respect as fat women; to take back our […]
There’s something about my process of claiming my life for myself which these attacks helped measure–if only to blatantly reveal how little control I had over my life. When I was in my small home town, I thought being there and being sweet was enough to guarantee my safety. It wasn’t. When […]
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