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 […]
(mAndrea said this comment ought to be a post so I have edited and expanded it, hoping for clarity.)
Feminism is not primarily a movement to make women happy. It is a movement to free us from sexist oppression. Come the revolution, some women will still be unhappy, because the things that are making them so […]
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. […]
For me to live in this man’s world, I need some kind of pain killer, something I can pull out at a moment’s notice and put between me and the men on the street, because sometimes, I could really kill ‘em. They’re the foulest beasts walking on two feet and they’re always in packs, […]
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 […]
The following words are gleaned from letters received in response to a questionnaire…which asked women to reveal where we have been victimized by violence; where we have fought back; and where we have victimized others–children, other women, animals, ourselves…
One thing that strikes us about these letters: every woman who wrote to us mentioned ways […]
Here you have the first in a series of quotations from this book, Fight Back! Feminist Resistance to Male Violence, edited by Frédérique Delacoste and Felice Newman (Cleis Press*, 1981), a book I have lusted after as much as any lover since making its acquaintance in the women’s center at my college in 1987. […]
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 […]
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, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2008
Statement of University of Michigan Students and Faculty in Support of Andrea Smith’s Tenure Case
CONTACT: TenureForAndreaSmith@gmail.com
On February 22nd, 2008, University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) issued a negative tenure recommendation for Assistant Professor Andrea Lee Smith. Jointly appointed in the Program in American Culture and […]
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