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“A Letter to Radical Feminists” — Rebecca Mott
Dear Sisters – I write this from a place of love, and a desire for the prostituted to fully seen and known by radical feminism. This is not so for now. Let me say loud and clear, the vast majority of radical feminists either through experience or from their hearts are completely behind abolition of prostitution, and … Continue reading
This is What Cruelty and Intolerance Look Like: Patrick Henry College Locked Down, 50 Police Called in to “Guard” Campus Against 40 Nonviolent Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Christian Activists; Two Arrested
This is What Fundamentalism Looks Like: Patrick Henry College Locked Down, 50 Police Called in to “Guard” Campus Against 40 Nonviolent Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Christian Activists; Two Arrested Continue reading
Foremothers
This is the board of directors of “Jam’iat e nesvan e vatan-khah“, a women’s rights association in Tehran (1923-1933). These women are the great-grandmothers and great-great grandmothers of the women of today’s Iranian Women’s Movement, one of the most inspiring movements for human rights of this generation. (Image from Wikimedia Commons)
Syrian Blogger Razan Ghazzawi (Razaniyyat – رزانيّــــات) Arrested
I am one of those people who are against including children in protests at times of revolutions, children should stay home, especially in cities like Homs and Idleb. But the children martyred last night in Karm El-Zeitoun were home, and that did not protect them, it rather killed them. Yesterday regime army bombed the neighborhood … Continue reading
Feminism: A Movement to End Human Suffering
I represent the morbid side of the women’s movement. …Robin Morgan calls it “atrocity work.” And that’s pretty much what it is. I deal with what happens to women in the normal course of women’s lives all over this planet: the normal stuff that is abusive, society at large. …The women’s movement is like other political … Continue reading
Woman Farmer Wednesdays: Gene Logsdon on the Erasure of Women Farmers
Gene Logsdon is a long-time writerly-farmerly hero of mine. Decades ago I bought, devoured, and re-devoured his wonderful books, Homesteading: How to Find New Independence on the Land, Two-Acre Eden and Gene Logsdon’s Practical Skills. I still have the books and they still inspire me. He’s written many books since on the practice, the science … Continue reading
Sobering
Sobering, from the Women’s Earth Alliance: As community caretakers, mothers, and resource stewards, women often feel the impacts of pollution and contamination most directly, retaining contaminants in their breast and body tissue, experiencing endocrine disruption, and bearing children with birth defects. Approximately 70% of the world’s uranium deposits are located on the lands of indigenous … Continue reading
Breast Cancer’s “False Narrative” and the Komen Foundation’s Biggest Mistake
“If only it were that simple. As I’ve written previously here, the notion that breast cancer is a uniformly progressive disease that starts small and only grows and spreads if you don’t stop it in time is flat out wrong. I call it breast cancer’s false narrative, and it’s a fairy tale that Komen has relentlessly … Continue reading
What I Actually Do
From here and much appreciated. <3
Domestic Violence Crime Watch
This site is a great idea and long overdue. (H/t ShareInc. Domestic Violence news.) Quoting from the site: Domestic violence is lethal and there are fatalities every day. Domestic violence fatalities happen in rural and urban areas and to all age groups. Ending a relationship with a perpetrator of domestic violence does not ensure the … Continue reading
International Women’s Day belongs to Women, not Corporations
“International Women’s Day is an international event that belongs to the women of the world. No one organization should control websites that hawk themselves as official websites for the day and it is beyond unfortunate that these url’s have been taken over for the primary benefit of private concerns. The Feminist Peace Network encourages a … Continue reading
Seeing
“She is in the the place of death and of new life lying dormant, the point of necessary destruction and of healing. She confronts the rage and fury left unexpressed for decades while she tried to please. She demands reverence and respect. Her eye of death sees what she has not wanted to see and … Continue reading
Divorce
I wonder how many of the search engine terms I’m receiving wondering about my divorce, or whether I’ve divorced, are coming from the conservative folks in my old world, and how many are coming from the feminist and progressive folks I’ve encountered in recent years. Ah well. In response, I am divorced. Rick and I … Continue reading
Susan G. Komen Reverses Planned Parenthood Decision
The internet can be so powerful, more often than not for bad, but sometimes for good. The Susan G. Komen Foundation has reversed its decision. “The nation’s pre-eminent breast cancer advocacy group, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, apologized on Friday for its decision to cut most of its financing to Planned Parenthood … Continue reading
“Farewell to Our Feminist-in-Chief”
“If you take Hillary Clinton moment by moment–if you take her, for example, at this moment on January 26, as she announces that she’ll step down from her position as the Secretary of State when the president’s terms ends–it’s hard to imagine that she’s spent the last two decades of her life as one of … Continue reading
Published Writings
I’ve added a page today listing some of my published writings. I will be adding to it and providing links where articles are available online. I’ll also be posting a list of radio and television appearances and, where possible, links. Heart
Breast Cancer Action
BCAction is the only national breast cancer organization to not accept funding from entities that profit from or contribute to cancer. Our independence allows us to advocate for policy changes that protect affected communities. We are a membership organization. We honor each person’s commitment and energy to our mission. We are not afraid to examine … Continue reading
So Much for Sisterhood: Susan G. Komen Foundation pulls Planned Parenthood funding
One of the most prominent charities working to prevent and cure breast cancer, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, has cut its ties with the women’s health organization Planned Parenthood, that organization confirmed on Tuesday. Reacting to the news, Planned Parenthood decried Komen for having “succumbed to political pressure” related to abortion politics. … Continue reading
Shepherding
Click here to see a very short video I made last year that shows what happens when I call my sheep in the morning. Enjoy!
Manipulation, by Rebecca Mott
“No wonder that women that in the middle of girlfriend experience and or escorting must believe they are empowered, that it must be safer than other forms of prostitution – and that in many ways it is not prostitution. “To see it as prostitution, is to see your own terror, to know that punters have pre-planned … Continue reading
The Farm at Huge Creek, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, The Feminist Hullaballoo
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