The Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists is Up!
Archive for the ‘Trial of Robert Pickton’ Category
“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 »
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?
Gendercator Playing in Milwaukee July 29
Posted in Afghan Women, Ampgate, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Feminist Hullaballoo, Feminist Politics, Her, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Love Between Women, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Patriarchal Medicine, Sisterhood, The Rape of the "Hadji Girl", Trial of Robert Pickton, Women and Music, Women's Culture, Womyn's Festivals, gendercator on July 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Gendercator!
When: Sunday Jul 29, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Where: Milwaukee Gay Arts Center
703 S 2nd St.
Milwaukee, WI 53204
The cost for this event is $5, and there will be beverages available for purchase as well. Facilitated by Jenny Curtis, the conversation is sure to be engaging and thought provoking – come share your experiences!
The Gendercator is a short satirical [...]
Boston Dyke March: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Posted in Apropos of Random, Eating Disorders, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Her, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Love Between Women, Male Foolishness, Media, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Patriarchal Medicine, The Rape of the "Hadji Girl", Trial of Robert Pickton, Woman-Only Space, Women and Music, Women's Bodies on June 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Heart
The Colonizing of Lesbian and Women’s Community: Bitch Performance at Boston Dyke March Canceled by Transgender Activists
Posted in Ampgate, Apropos of Random, Books, Eating Disorders, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Her, Iranian Women's Activism, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Love Between Women, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Media, Michfest Womyn, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Patriarchal Medicine, Popular Culture, The Rape of the "Hadji Girl", Transgender, Trial of Robert Pickton, Vancouver's Missing Women, Woman-Only Space, Women and Music, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community, Womyn's Festivals, hadji on June 13, 2007 | 175 Comments »
The Boston Dyke March – note, this is the DYKE March, the herstoric march lesbians created, organized, sponsored, and have proudly celebrated since 1993 – has canceled the performance of Bitch, a lesbian feminist musician and performer, because Bitch performs at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival.
A poll posted yesterday at Bay Windows out of Provincetown asked this:
Was it appropriate for the Boston Dyke March, which [...]
All Female Conception One Step Closer
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Her, Lesbian Community, Lesbian Life, Trial of Robert Pickton, Women and Music on April 15, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Women might soon be able to produce sperm in a development that could allow lesbian couples to have their own biological daughters, according to a pioneering study published today.
Scientists are seeking ethical permission to produce synthetic sperm cells from a woman’s bone marrow tissue after showing that it possible to produce rudimentary sperm cells from [...]
Musings on the Passing of a Giant, Barbara Gittings
Posted in Feminism, Feminist Politics, Lesbian Life, Trial of Robert Pickton, Women and Music on February 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
“Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.” — Barbara Gittings
Barbara Gittings, 75, founder of the first East Coast chapter of Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian organization in the United States, has passed on. She was the fearlessly militant Editor [...]
Pickton says “Hogwash:” Is He Admitting the Charges or Denying Them?
Posted in Books, Feminism, Fifth Carnival of Radical Feminists, Indigenous Women's Rights, Male Terrorism, Michfest Womyn, Our Blood, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Sexism in the Military, Trial of Robert Pickton, Vancouver's Missing Women, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Bodies, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on January 24, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Today’s reporting of the Robert Pickton murder trial includes hundreds of newspaper articles with headlines like these:
Pickton to Cops: “Hogwash”
Pig Farmer Serial Murderer Claims Hogwash
Canadian Murder Suspect Calls Charges “Hogwash”
Accused Killer Calls Charges “Hogwash”
According to these reports, videotaped interviews show Pickton telling police the allegations against him are “hogwash.”
This is the dictionary definition of “hogwash”:
hog·wash [hawg-wosh, -wawsh, hog-] [...]
Robert Pickton on Trial for Murder, Male Terrorism (May Trigger)
Posted in Books, Feminism, Indigenous Women's Rights, Male Terrorism, Michfest Womyn, Our Blood, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Sexism in the Military, Trial of Robert Pickton, Vancouver's Missing Women, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Space Sunday Paper, Women's Space/Margins Women's Community on January 23, 2007 | 22 Comments »
What will it take for women to recognize that globally, as women, we are targeted for destruction? What specific cataclysm in the history of our social subordination will forge in us, as a fundamental element of our identity, an awareness of the fact and the means by which our specific social group is being destroyed? [...]
-
Licensed Under Creative Commons
Meta
