UPDATE: Terapon Adhahn, left, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without possibility of parole. He was convicted of the following crimes:
• One count each of aggravated first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree rape in the July 2007 death of 12-year-old Zina Linnik.
• Three counts of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree kidnapping in the rape of [...]
Archive for the ‘Racism and Feminism’ Category
UPDATE: Little Girls as Prey and the Murder of Zina Linnik
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Making Men Out of Boys, Male Terrorism, Racism and Feminism, Rights of the Disabled, Sexism in the Military, The Rape of Iraq, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on May 4, 2008 | 21 Comments »
The Silencing of Tracy K. Barker: Sexually Assaulted by State Department Official, Raped by Halliburton/KBR Supervisor in Iraq, Denied Justice
Posted in Feminism, Jamie Leigh Jones and the Halliburton Scandal, Male Terrorism, Pornography, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sexism in the Military, The Rape of Iraq, Ugly Americans, War, War on Women on May 4, 2008 | 28 Comments »
Tracy Barker, former Halliburton/KBR Employee
by Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff, Women’s Space, May 4, 2008
Introduction
Last January I blogged about Jamie Leigh Jones, a Halliburton/KBR employee in Iraq who was brutally gang-raped by co-workers after having had her drink surreptitiously drugged. She was so badly injured in the attack, she required surgery. She was seen by a doctor [...]
The Apostate, on a Roll
Posted in Academentia, Colonialism, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Internalized Misogyny, Male Foolishness, Racism and Feminism on April 27, 2008 | 13 Comments »
If you haven’t already, do yourself a favor and read the Apostate’s most recent posts. The woman is on a roll.
Because most countries in the world are not such melting-pots as America is (and don’t have America’s slave-owning past), most people don’t have the sensitivity to race issues that we have here. Most of the [...]
Villagers, in the Town Square, Torches Blazing
Posted in Ampgate, Feminism, Internalized Misogyny, Love, Love Between Women, Pornography, Practical Radical Feminism, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Sisterhood, War on Women on April 25, 2008 | 60 Comments »
In the past, I have sometimes taken issue with things Amanda Marcotte has written or done. If you do a search on this blog, you will come up with some things. I took issue with the proposed cover of her book, the one everyone is up in arms about, months ago, in this comments thread on Pandagon. [...]
My Old Stalker? Man Who Terrorized Black Man/White Woman Partnerships and Biracial Children for Decades Arrested at Last
Posted in Feminism, Male Terrorism, Racism and Feminism, War on Women on April 16, 2008 | 22 Comments »
During the years I was publishing my magazine, my family and I were stalked fairly relentlessly via regular U.S. mail by a racist who hated and specifically targeted black man/white woman relationships and the children of those relationships. The letters always came from cities in Ohio. They were often ransom note style, with words and images cut out and [...]
Come Together: Healing Tensions Among Women Working for Equality ~ A Women’s History Month Blog Carnival
Posted in Aging, Being Poor, Blogosphere, Calls for Submissions, Come Together Blog Carnival, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Internalized Misogyny, Love Between Women, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Sisterhood on February 28, 2008 | 28 Comments »
Only TWO More Days! Get your entries in, women!
A Women’s History Month Blog Carnival
Come Together: Healing Tensions among Women Working for Equality
What Tami Said and Women’s Space are partnering to host a blog carnival to encourage a dialogue between all women committed to gender equality.
Dates: March 1 through March 31
Theme: Come Together–Healing Tensions Among Women
Working for [...]
In Support of Hillary Rodham Clinton: Good-bye to All That, Part II, by Robin Morgan
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Heroes, Inspiration, Internalized Misogyny, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Media, Prostitution, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, Sisterhood, War on Women on February 3, 2008 | 232 Comments »
by Robin Morgan (and thanks to the Women’s Media Center)
“Goodbye To All That” was my (in)famous 1970 essay breaking free from a politics of accommodation especially affecting women (online version is here.) During my decades in civil-rights, anti-war, and contemporary women’s movements, I’ve avoided writing another specific “Goodbye . . .”. But not since the [...]
White Privilege, the Meritocracy Myth, and Perfect Feminists, Perfect Women
Posted in Feminism, Internalized Misogyny, Love, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Practical Radical Feminism, Racism and Feminism, Sisterhood on January 25, 2008 | 32 Comments »
–by funnie
One thing that used to get me into trouble was a need to be separate from “imperfect” women, as though by just being good enough, perfect enough, we could convince the world of why we deserved to be treated better.
I know that’s a pretty basic thing a lot of women, and other oppressed groups, struggle with, [...]
Bills of Rights for People in Racially Mixed Families
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Motherhood, Parenting, Racism and Feminism on January 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Six of my children are playing “gangpile” in this picture, taken years ago. My baby girl in the diaper, climbing up the stool to get to the top of the gangpile, is almost 17 now.
Light-skinned girl is waiting for me to proceed with theorizing being the white mother of biracial children. I think my first [...]
Marilyn Frye on Being Disloyal to Whiteness and Me, Throwing Down
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Male Terrorism, Racism and Feminism, War on Women on January 14, 2008 | 33 Comments »
I have another blog, My Mother is White, which I began in May of 2006. I haven’t posted there for a long time. The abusive, racist comments which are routinely attempted there, combined with a consistently abusive, racist blogosphere — including racists who are self-identified feminists and progressive bloggers — are overwhelmingly de-energizing and demoralizing to me. I don’t need it. I [...]
The Sakia Gunn Film Project
Posted in Feminism, Lesbian Community, Male Terrorism, New Jersey/Newark 4, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, War on Women on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On May 11, 2003, Sakia Gunn was killed at a Newark bus stop. She was on her way home from New York’s Greenwich Village with four friends when two men got out of a car, made sexual advances and physically attacked the teenagers. The women fought back. Gunn was stabbed in [...]
Protected: White Privilege
Posted in Feminism, Racism, Racism and Feminism on January 11, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
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Running for President While Female
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Internalized Misogyny, Internet Terrorism, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Party Politics, Racism and Feminism, The Left, War on Women on January 9, 2008 | 32 Comments »
I can add a little, but not much, to what Alex Leo at the Huffington post has said:
Over a year ago, Rebecca Traister wrote what I still consider the definitive piece on Hillary Clinton and women. Traister was the first to delve into the deep distaste of Hillary amongst the female intelligentsia, exploring the idea of [...]
Michfest Online Winter Festival and Tent Revival-2
Posted in Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Male Terrorism, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Practical Radical Feminism, Prostitution, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, Sisterhood, The Left, Ugly Americans, War on Women, Women's Art, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Poetry on January 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Staceyann Chinn
Staceyann Chinn had us on our feet, fists raised, crying and hollering on opening night of last year’s festival. If you can, see her in person. You will never forget her.
Passing of a Heroine: Julia Carson (1938-2007)
Posted in Being Poor, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Heroes, Inspiration, Racism and Feminism, Women's Bodies, Women's Health on December 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Rep. Julia Carson (D-IN) has died of lung cancer at the age of 69. She was the daughter of a single mom who made her living cleaning houses, graduating from a segregated high school in 1959. Married briefly, Carson went on to raise her own two children as a single mom. She was working as a secretary for [...]
UPDATE on Vancouver’s 69 Missing Women: Murdered by Men, Remembered by Women — Pickton Found Guilty of Second Degree Murder
Posted in 16 Days Campaign Against Male Violence, Feminism, Indigenous Women's Rights, Male Terrorism, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, Vancouver's Missing Women, War on Women, Women's Art on December 9, 2007 | 32 Comments »
UPDATE: A Vancouver B.C. jury returned their verdict today in the trial of Robert Pickton, finding him guilty of second-degree murder in the deaths of six of the women depicted below: Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Wolfe,Georgina Papin and Marnie Frey. The verdict carries a life sentence. Pickton faces a second trial for the murder of [...]
Racism, Men of Color, Women of Color: Fragments
Posted in Feminism, Making Men Out of Boys, Male Terrorism, New Jersey/Newark 4, Power in Relationships, Racism, Racism and Feminism, War on Women on December 8, 2007 | 17 Comments »
In another thread, Satsuma commented:
White people haven’t changed, but white people fear massive public attack if they use the N-Word. Women don’t massively attack men if they use the B-word– kind of a small example here, but one I have noted. It’s ok to attack women openly, unless the intersection of race and gender comes [...]
Raised in the Revolution: Radical Women Homeschooling Boys
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Homeschooling/Unschooling, Inspiration, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Parenting, Practical Radical Feminism, Racism and Feminism, Transgender Issues, Warm Fuzzies, Woman-Only Space, Women and Disability, Women's Art, Women's Culture on December 5, 2007 | 16 Comments »
V Kingsley, who, with her son, Parker, created the above youtube video, recently commented here with the link to her amazing quilt. (If you haven’t watched V’s video about the making of the Mermaid quilt, you should, it is not to be missed! Very inspiring.) V is a quilter, an artist, a lesbian, a [...]
International Cyberwars, Cyberterrorism, “Yellow Peril” Racism and Doomsday Predictions: Thoughts and a Practical Response
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Internet Terrorism, Iranian Women's Activism, Male Terrorism, Media, Party Politics, Practical Radical Feminism, Racism and Feminism, Uprising in Burma, War on Women, Woman-Only Space, Women and Fundamentalism, Women's Space Paper Communique, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on December 1, 2007 | 28 Comments »
Last night on my way home from work I read an article in the Seattle Times entitled U.S. Under Widespread Attack in Cyberspace. Some interesting excerpts:
WASHINGTON — While U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan engage the enemy with guns, tanks, airplanes and missiles, the Pentagon is quietly fighting a much different kind of war on [...]
Discussions We Will Not Have Here
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Patriarchal Medicine, Pornography, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Rights of the Disabled, Sex Trafficking, The Skies, Women and Disability, Women and Fundamentalism, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Health on November 29, 2007 | 15 Comments »
I sometimes have read whinings that I do not allow dissenting points of view here. This is very true. There are certain “dissenting points of view” which will not find their expression on my blog. They are as follows:
Defenses of pornography. Defend pornography on your own blog or in any one of the multiplicity of [...]
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