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 [...]
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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 »
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. [...]
Chief of Immigration Enforcement Awards Prize to Blackface Costume, References to Krome Detention Center
Posted in Homelessness, Immigrants, Racism, Rape and Sexual Assault on April 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The U.S.’s Top Immigration Enforcement Official, Julie Myers, Right
Chief of Immigration Enforcement Julie Myers, above right, was one of the “judges” during a Halloween party of staff members last October. These “judges” awarded the employee above, a white man wearing black facepaint, a “dreadlocks” wig, and a prison uniform, for having the “most original uniform.” [...]
Mississippi Goddam
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Being Poor, Racism, Women and Music on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Inspired by this comment in the Goodbye to All That thread.
Sign Petition to Ban Shirley Q. Liquor
Posted in Feminism, Racism on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sign Jasmyne Cannick’s petition to ban Shirley Q. Liquor.
It is beyond belief to me that this horrifically hateful performance continues and that people go to watch it, pay for it, book this person. More information at What Tami Said.
What Clinton and Obama Could be Doing: “Leveraging the Power of Race and Gender”
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Afghan Women, Being Poor, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Gaza, Genocide, Indigenous Women's Rights, Iraq, Racism, Rape and Sexual Assault, The Rape of Iraq, War on Women, Women and Fundamentalism on March 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Leveraging the Power of Race and Gender
by KAVITA NANDINI RAMDAS
As the contest for a Democratic presidential nominee enters its final stages, the feminist dilemma has become palpable and painful. My inbox has been filled with passionate and provocative pieces from Katha Pollitt, Frances Kissling, Caroline Kennedy and Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama, all explaining [...]
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 [...]
Dear Mr. President
Posted in Being Poor, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Genocide, Homelessness, Indigenous Women's Rights, Iraq, Jamie Leigh Jones and the Halliburton Scandal, Lesbian Seven, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Motherhood, New Jersey/Newark 4, Our Blood, Our Sisters, Racism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sexism in the Military, The Rape of Iraq, The Rape of the "Hadji Girl", Ugly Americans, War, War on Women, Women and Fundamentalism, Women and Music, Women's Art, Women's Bodies on February 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Thanks to Chrysalis of the Women’s Security Council.
Megan Williams Update
Posted in Racism, Rape and Sexual Assault on February 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »
eeni posted an update to the Megan Williams thread saying that one person, a woman, has pled guilty to a hate crime in the horrific assaults on Megan Williams. Five persons have been indicted for having raped and tortured her.
I went to the site of the attorney quoted in the link, Malik Shabazz of Black Lawyers for Justice, (above [...]
Intersections: If Obama Were a Woman and Not a Man
Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Feminism, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Racism on February 6, 2008 | 15 Comments »
I’ve posted these photos hoping to illustrate some of the points I (and Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem) and others have been making about the way Hillary Clinton is being treated because she is a woman as opposed to the way Barack Obama is being treated because he is biracial/black. That discussion is here, and [...]
Protected: White Privilege
Posted in Feminism, Racism, Racism and Feminism on January 11, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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.
Michfest Online Winter Festival and Tent Revival — 1
Posted in Feminist Politics, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Practical Radical Feminism, Racism, Sisterhood, Women and Music, Women's Art, Women's Culture on January 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Toshi Reagon — Battle of the Broken Word
I’ve seen Toshi Reagon both at Michfest and locally in Seattle. She is an amazing artist.
Saskatchewan (Juneteenth) – Laura Love
From Love’s NeGrass CD. She performed this song and others from this CD last year in Michigan. I’ve seen Love perform in [...]
Passing for White
Posted in Racism on December 20, 2007 | Comments Off
The only people who can pass for white are people who are, in fact, persons of color. It’s up to them whether they will reject passing privilege. When they reject passing privilege, they are engaging in resistance to white supremacy by illuminating lies central to racism.
White people can’t pass for anything. (They can lie about being white but that’s [...]
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 [...]
Sex Trafficking Conference: Call for Papers
Posted in Male Terrorism, Prostitution, Racism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, Warm Fuzzies on November 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Call for papers: Sex Trafficking Conference
April 2 – 4, 2008, South Texas College, McAllen, TX
Following the success of our 2007 conference on Human Trafficking, the Women’s Studies committee of South Texas College is organizing our second annual conference on the topic of Human Trafficking, with a focus on the demand for the physical [...]
OJ Arrested: When White Supremacist Thugs Arrest Black Thugs
Posted in Afghan Women, Eating Disorders, Feminism, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Sexism in the Military, Sisterhood, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on September 18, 2007 | 10 Comments »
A few people have e-mailed me to ask whether I knew of OJ’s arrest for armed robbery. Yeah, I know.
I don’t care about it. I don’t think it means anything, except that white supremacists and their henchmen love to arrest black men whenever they can. So OJ used guns and thuggery and gangland tactics and brute force [...]
Megan Williams
Posted in Feminism, Male Terrorism, Racism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sexism in the Military, War on Women, Warm Fuzzies, Women and Music, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on September 12, 2007 | 82 Comments »
This young woman, 20, who stands 5 feet tall and weighs less than 100 pounds, was tortured for a week’s time by all of these people:
Based on what I have read, Megan had had some sort of relationship with Bobby Brewster, 24, one of the men above. He was bad, bad news. In the 90s, his mother, bottom row, left, [...]
The Way Men Hate Us
Posted in Eating Disorders, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sexism in the Military, War on Women, Warm Fuzzies, Woman-Only Space, Women and Music, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on August 1, 2007 | 165 Comments »
As of about 10:00 p.m. on the day of this post, there were three registered users on my Women’s Space/Margins boards, which women I care about and I created in 2000 and which have been a haven for all sorts of women since then. We’ve supported one another, been friends with one another, cared for one another [...]
High School Denies Diploma to Four Black, One Hispanic Grad Because Families Cheered Too Loud
Posted in Feminism, Male Terrorism, Racism, Women and Music, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on June 2, 2007 | 16 Comments »
Caisha Gayles, above, graduated with honors but was deprived of her diploma as she walked across the stage because her supporters cheered too loudly. She was waiting to graduate in this photo.
Galesburg High School in Galesburg, Illinois last month required graduating students and parents to sign a contract promising to act in a “dignified way” at [...]
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