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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
You can’t just get up in the morning and say to yourself, “Well, time to start saving the solar system!” Never mind the logic or illogic of it, never mind “modesty”; they’re not relevant. Even if you knew beyond all question that you had the power to do it, you couldn’t tackle […]
Dictionaries generally agree that ’sexual’ means something on the order of pertaining to the genital union of a female and a male animal, and that “having sex” is having intercourse — intercourse being defined as the penetration of a vagina by a penis, with ejaculation. My own observation of usage leads me to think […]
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 […]
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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