Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Identity Politics, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism on May 22, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Margaret Witt
Good news for Margaret Witt and her partner and for all lesbians and gay men in the military, good news for all who are committed and dedicated to human and civil rights for all people. The Ninth Circuit has ruled that her case should proceed and has reinstated her in the military.
Major Witt filed a [...]
Posted in Eating Disorders, Feminism, Feminist Homeschooling/Unschooling, Feminist Politics, Identity Politics, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sexism in the Military, Virginia Tech Murders, War on Women, Warm Fuzzies, Women and Music, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on April 25, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I clicked on the link to the article I’ve posted excerpts of below thinking it blamed feminism and feminists for the Virginia Tech shootings, as I’d been warned, and I certainly feared the worst when I saw that Camile Paglia was being quoted extensively – and in general, she didn’t fail me! Goddess, she is such a freaking [...]
Posted in Being Poor, Colonialism, Comfort Women, Crisis in Lebanon, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Identity Politics, Male Terrorism, Media, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Sexism in the Military, The Rape of Iraq, UN Conference on the Status of Women, Vancouver's Missing Women, Virginia Tech Murders, War on Women, Women and Disability, Women and Fundamentalism, Women and Music, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Health, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on April 21, 2007 | 21 Comments »
According to the English version of the Korean newspaper Chosun:
The older sister of Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-hui works for McNeil Technologies, a contractor for the State Department in a reconstruction project in Iraq. Three years her brother’s senior, Cho Sun-kyung graduated from Centerville High School and went to Princeton University in 2000. After completing the undergraduate [...]
Posted in Identity Politics, Virginia Tech Murders on April 18, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Editor’s Note: The story of Seung Hui Cho — the shooter in the Virginia Tech massacre — is understood by other young immigrants with similar backgrounds, experiences and pressures. Autumn Lee, 17, is a content producer and Min Lee and Ann Bassette are editors at YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia a project of New America Media.
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Posted in Identity Politics, Virginia Tech Murders on April 18, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Nikki Giovanni, a distinguished feminist poet, was one of the Virginia Tech shooter’s English profs. She was concerned and disturbed by his behaviors, and at one point said she would quit teaching if he were not removed from her class. His behavior had caused a creative writing class she was teaching [...]
Posted in Feminism, Identity Politics, Male Terrorism, Racism, Virginia Tech Murders, Women and Music, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on April 18, 2007 | 8 Comments »
For those who doubt that the Virginia Tech massacre will result in multiple new forms of harassment of Asian people, it certainly has and will. The above photo is from the 8Asians blog which reported the massacre yesterday. 8Asians blogger jozjozjoz wrote:
I’d like to take this opportunity to set one thing straight. There is a photo of an Asian [...]
Posted in Colonialism, Feminism, Identity Politics, Male Terrorism, Media, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Sexism in the Military, The Christian Reconstructionists, The Rape of Iraq, Virginia Tech Murders, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on April 17, 2007 | 59 Comments »
This is the young man who shot 32 people dead, then shot himself, and injured many more. His name was Cho Seung-Hui. He was born in South Korea and immigrated to the United States with his mom, dad and sister in 1992, when he was eight years old. The family had a sponsor in the [...]
Posted in Colonialism, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Identity Politics, Male Terrorism, Media, Popular Culture, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Sexism in the Military, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on April 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I posted an excerpt and link to the following interview with African feminist Amina Mama on my Women’s Space main page when I created it a little over a year ago. I left it there for a long time, because I believe the points Amina Mama makes (here and in her other writings) are brilliant and so important for [...]
