Last year, Frameline Films in San Francisco canceled the showing of lesbian filmmaker Catherine Crouch’s film, The Gendercator, because some believed it to be transphobic. The film, a science fiction comedy, imagined a future in which the Religious Right ruled the world and in which lesbianism and homosexuality were treated with mandatory sex reassignment surgery. [...]
Archive for the ‘Transgender Issues’ Category
“Iran’s Diagnosed Transsexuals”
Posted in Male Terrorism, Transgender Issues, gendercator on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Real Transbigotry”
Posted in Colonialism, Feminism, Gender, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Transgender Issues, Woman-Only Space on January 26, 2008 | 41 Comments »
Read Real Transbigotry at Pam’s House Blend. Then read the comments and the links in the comments.
The real transbigots are not us radical feminists/lesbian separatists this time. The real transbigots identified in Cathryn’s post are persons born male-bodied, who live as men most or all of the time, but who identify as women and on that basis [...]
Me on the F-Files UPDATE
Posted in Carnival of Radical Feminists, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Heart for President, Internet Terrorism, Male Terrorism, Media, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Popular Culture, Pornography, Power in Relationships, Sisterhood, Transgender Issues, War on Women, Woman-Only Space, Women and Fundamentalism, gendercator on December 31, 2007 | 15 Comments »
UPDATE (Jan. 1, 2008): My interview on the F-Files is available to listen to here. Thanks to Aletha for alerting me that the interview had been posted, and thanks to Jackie for posting it. — Heart
Update: Dates for the airing of my interview are October 31 and November 7. I’ll post precise times as I’m aware of [...]
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 [...]
Afghan Warlords and Male Sexual Slavery: Boys Dressed as Girls as Boy Play
Posted in Feminism, Male Terrorism, Power in Relationships, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, Transgender Issues on November 21, 2007 | 122 Comments »
The following article, which came via a list I’m on from RAWA, is horrific in that it is a description of the prostituting, sexual slavery, and sexual trafficking of Afghan boys by rich and powerful male warlords. As is true of most prostituted persons, the boys are vulnerable because they are desperately poor and fresh out of options for survival. They deserve to be [...]
Support Lesbian Feminist Filmmakers, Build Local Women’s Communities: Order and Show “The Gendercator”
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Love Between Women, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Practical Radical Feminism, Transgender Issues, Woman-Only Space, gendercator on November 1, 2007 | 10 Comments »
In response to a question in one of the threads here, I e-mailed Catherine Crouch and asked her whether we could order The Gendercator from her on DVD. She says that we can order it (on a DVD with three other films):
You can buy the dvd of four short films by sending $25 per copy to Catherine Crouch, 3640 [...]
ENDA and “Gender Identity”: A Feminist, Woman-Centered Response
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Gender, Transgender Issues, War on Women, Woman-Only Space, gendercator on October 21, 2007 | 122 Comments »
Feminist Reform Toolkit
Does [the theory, idea, strategy, law being proposed or advanced] materially improve the lives of women, and if so, which women and how many? And where? And how quickly? And can we understand it?
Does it build an individual woman’s self-respect, strength and confidence? [If it is a theory] what is the price we must pay [...]
“We Will Not Slumber Until Every Woman Wakes”: The Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists
Posted in Afghan Women, Afghanistan, Ampgate, Andrea Dworkin, Apropos of Random, Being Poor, Carnival of Radical Feminists, Cecilia Fire Thunder, Colonialism, Comfort Women, Crisis in Lebanon, Earth, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Feminist Homeschooling/Unschooling, Feminist Politics, Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists, Gender, Her, Internet Terrorism, Iranian Women's Activism, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Lesbian Seven, Love Between Women, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Media, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Parenting, Patriarchal Medicine, Popular Culture, Pornography, Practical Radical Feminism, Prostitution, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sexism in the Military, Sisterhood, The Mother, The Rape of Iraq, The Rape of the "Hadji Girl", The Skies, Transgender Issues, Trial of Robert Pickton, UN Conference on the Status of Women, WOZA, War on Women, Warm Fuzzies, Woman-Only Space, Women and Fundamentalism, Women and Music, Women's Art, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Health, Women's Poetry, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community, Womyn's Festivals on September 4, 2007 | 17 Comments »
The Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists is Up!
Criticism of Gender Theory, a Scientist Under Siege
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Hullaballoo, Feminist Politics, Gender, Internet Terrorism, Male Terrorism, The Left, Transgender Issues, Women and Music, Women's Culture, Women's Poetry, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community, gendercator on August 21, 2007 | 48 Comments »
The following article was sent to me by Caroline and can be read in full at the New York Times, link follows. Caroline (whose last name I won’t use because I didn’t get permission) writes:
Dear Heart, I am a writer who found your site through [a publication]. I was interested in Bitch being barred from performing [...]
Women’s Space Women’s Overall Brilliance
Posted in Afghan Women, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Feminist Hullaballoo, Feminist Politics, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Love Between Women, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Patriarchal Medicine, Sisterhood, The Rape of the "Hadji Girl", Transgender Issues, Trial of Robert Pickton, Woman-Only Space, Women and Music, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Space Women's Writings, gendercator on August 2, 2007 | 40 Comments »
Alternet ran an article on sportswriter Mike, now Christine, Penner transitioning, and a long-time regular here at Women’s Space (who posts more to our boards than to this blog) and my good friend and Michfest sister, posting under “freeda’all” commented and garnered herself an “Editor’s Pick.” Go you, my friend! I won’t identify her by the screen name [...]
Seelhoff Responds to Alas’s Irrelevant “Response” to Seelhoff
Posted in Being Poor, Colonialism, Crisis in Lebanon, Eating Disorders, Feminism, Feminist Conferences, Feminist Hullaballoo, Feminist Politics, Gender, Her, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Love Between Women, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Media, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Patriarchal Medicine, Racism and Feminism, Sexism in the Military, The Christian Reconstructionists, The Rape of the "Hadji Girl", Transgender Issues, Trial of Robert Pickton, UN Conference on the Status of Women, War on Women, Woman-Only Space, Women and Fundamentalism, Women and Music, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Poetry, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community, gendercator on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You, Mandolin, start off with a long tirade about the fact that some women don’t bleed. This is supposed to be relevant to any of the issues around transgender precisely how? This is relevant to anything I’ve ever written precisely how?
A Few Words About the Latest Round of Anti-Radical Feminist, Pro-Men’s Rights, Propaganda
Posted in Eating Disorders, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Lesbian Community, Love Between Women, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Patriarchal Medicine, Sexism in the Military, The Left, Transgender Issues, UN Conference on the Status of Women, War on Women, Women and Fundamentalism, Women and Music, Women's Culture, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on July 25, 2007 | 102 Comments »
A few responses to the latest anti-radical feminist tactics, screeds, attacks, propaganda
Because I Am a Girl
Posted in Afghan Women, Afghanistan, Aging, Being Poor, Books, Carnival of Radical Feminists, Colonialism, Comfort Women, Crisis in Lebanon, Eating Disorders, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Feminist Conferences, Feminist Homeschooling/Unschooling, Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists, Gender, Indigenous Women's Rights, Iranian Women's Activism, Lesbian Community, Love Between Women, Making Men Out of Boys, Male Terrorism, Media, Miscellaneous, Patriarchal Medicine, Pornography, Power in Relationships, Prostitution, RAWA, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Rights of the Disabled, Sex Trafficking, Sexism in the Military, The Rape of Iraq, Transgender, Transgender Issues, UN Conference on the Status of Women, Vancouver's Missing Women, WOZA, War on Women, Warm Fuzzies, Woman-Only Space, Women and Disability, Women and Fundamentalism, Women and Music, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Health, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on July 1, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Why Do Girls Face Discrimination?
Girls face the double challenge of being female and being young, which can result in them having little opportunity to make decisions about their lives. Discrimination against girls is grounded in a series of traditions and norms, based on the assumption that biological differences between females and males justify that girls [...]
Female-Born Partners Imprisoned for Marrying to Prevent One of Them From Being Sold to Pay Uncle’s Gambling Debt
Posted in Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Her, Lesbian Community, Male Terrorism, Patriarchal Medicine, Sexism in the Military, Transgender Issues, UN Conference on the Status of Women, War on Women, Women and Fundamentalism, Women and Music, Women's Culture, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on May 31, 2007 | 47 Comments »
Shumail Raj (left) , 31, and Shahzina Tariq, 26, who are partners and who recently married, have been sentenced to three years in jail by a Pakistani court and have been fined 10,000 rupees ($165), the equivalent of two months’ wages in Pakistan. Their crime? Perjury. They lied to the court, says the court. A charge of [...]
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
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Conferences, Feminist Politics, Her, Lesbian Community, Male Terrorism, Power in Relationships, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Sexism in the Military, The Christian Reconstructionists, Transgender Issues, UN Conference on the Status of Women, War on Women, Women and Fundamentalism, Women and Music, Women's Culture, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on April 30, 2007 | 25 Comments »
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
Germaine Greer on “Menopause the Musical”: New Heights in Bad Taste, and the Way Male Heterosupremacy Lies About Menopause
Posted in Aging, Apropos of Random, Feminism, Feminist Homeschooling/Unschooling, Feminist Politics, Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists, Gender, Lesbian Community, Male Terrorism, Media, Michfest Womyn, Our Blood, Patriarchal Medicine, Sexism in the Military, Transgender Issues, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Health, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on April 23, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Menopause the Musical (a registered trademark) puts a hand on our chests and shoves us firmly back into the biology-equals-destiny dead-end. One of the false claims made by the promoters of the show is that menopause is universal and unites all women, which is simply not true. Menopause is not only complicated by the ageing [...]
An End to Gender is an End to Sexism
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Gender, Making Men Out of Boys, Male Terrorism, Rights of the Disabled, Sexism in the Military, Transgender Issues, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Culture, Women's Poetry, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on March 19, 2007 | 64 Comments »
In a recent blog post on Comment Is Free on The Guardian, Julie Bindel, in answer to the question, “What is the one thing you would most like to see happen by this time next year?” writes:
Among some Guardian readers I am considered a man-hater. Nothing could be further from the truth. I only despise men [...]
“Comfort Women” Demand Justice
Posted in Aging, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Male Terrorism, Miscellaneous, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Sex Trafficking, Sexism in the Military, Transgender Issues, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on February 16, 2007 | 42 Comments »
The three women above are in Washington, D.C. right now, testifying before Congress about their experiences as survivors of rape and forced sexual slavery as “comfort women,” so called, enslaved on orders of the Japanese government during World War II. Jan Ruff-O’Herne is Dutch and was 19 when she was [...]
“Sustaining Our Resistance to Male Violence: Attacks on Women’s Organizing and Vancouver Rape Relief Women’s Shelter”
Posted in Books, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists, Male Terrorism, Racism and Feminism, Rights of the Disabled, Sexism in the Military, Transgender, Transgender Issues, Vancouver's Missing Women, War on Women, Woman-Only Space, Women and Music, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on February 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Following are paragraphs from an article written by Lee Lakeman, a member of the 30-woman collective at Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter. This article was written a couple of years prior to the recent decision in favor of Vancouver Rape Relief but was recently added to VRR’s website. The article offers Lee’s thoughts about the importance [...]
The Feminization of Activist Women
Posted in Aging, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Transgender Issues, Women and Music on February 11, 2007 | 65 Comments »
Consider these posters (above as a montage and below) from the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s. They were made by a women’s graphics collective and replicas are available for purchase from the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union website.
These posters are about women’s outspoken resistance to war and oppression. They are strident, they are uncompromising, they are militant: “We Do Not [...]
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