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Archive for April, 2009

Burning Times documentary on witch-hunts

Posted in Blogging, Misogyny, Patriarchy, Video, Witches on April 27, 2009 | 14 Comments »

I’d watched the six parts of the “Burning Times” documentary a few weeks ago on YouTube. I was really planning to post it on my blog at some point. If you haven’t watched it yet, I highly recommend it. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: and Part 6: Herstory, women’s history gets constantly [...]

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Coming Out

Posted in Feminism, Gender, Heteronormativity, Lesbian, Lesbianism, lesbophobia, Patriarchy, Pornography, Radical Feminism, Resource, Separatism, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality on April 20, 2009 | 34 Comments »

When I first became interested in feminism, I was still living as a heterosexual, in a heteronormative relationship. I was even engaged at one point. That relationship has been over since last year and I ended up keeping both engagement rings afterwards (which I’m planning to re-sell to make me a bit of money). I am so glad I [...]

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Breaking the Chains of Patriarchy: A Short Story on Resistance to Masochism

Posted in Effects of porn, Feminism, Gender, Harms, Heteronormativity, Masochism, Patriarchy, Pornified culture, Pornography, Radical Feminism, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence, Sexuality on April 18, 2009 | 12 Comments »

This was written as a short story (hence the use of the past tense), based on real life events. -M.H.   Among my brethren are many who dream with wet pleasure of the eight hundred pains and humiliations, but I am the other kind: I am a slave who dreams of escape after escape, I [...]

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