The Twenty-Second Carnival of Radical Feminists. . .

. . . is now up on Genderberg. Kudos to Sam Berg who did a great job gathering all the writings that were selected together for this carnival. It includes essays & articles by feminists of the radical kind, activists, advocates, articulate folks, as well as analyses of popular culture. Enjoy this new carnival, readers! p.s. Genderberg is a forum [...]

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Sheila Jeffreys is My Sister too

I found this on Allecto’s blog: I love all Sheila Jeffreys‘ books, especially The Lesbian Heresy. I am so glad she is speaking out on the suffering of millions of prostituted womyn and girls in her latest book on the sexploitation industries. Sheila is our sister! .

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New Book on Prostitution & Pornography

The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade, by Sheila Jeffreys, available from Amazon. Here is a link to a radio interview with Sheila Jeffreys on the global sex trade. From the Amazon description: The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, [...]

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Just thoughts. . . on blogging and stuff. . .

I had been keeping some posts I have been writing inside of this blog lately, before releasing them. . . when I will be ready. . . I’d like to say that before I’d started this blog I didn’t expect things to be as they are. It is not that my speech is not free; [...]

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Julie Bindel, on Norma Hotaling

British radical feminist, Julie Bindel, wrote an article in memory of Norma Hotaling, a formerly prostituted woman, a US campaigner against the sex trade and the founder of the SAGE project, Standing Against Global Exploitation – whose mission is “to improve the lives of individuals victimized by, or at risk for sexual exploitation, violence and [...]

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The Twentieth Carnival of Radical Feminists…

… is now up at Women’s Life Matters & Women’s Lives Matter. It has a section called Sex-Trading = Slave-Trading? Other features are called Race Divide, Gender-Crossing, Women’s Global War of Terror, etc, which can be found on the main page and contain links to many posts on different topics. Many thanks to Rain. She [...]

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Sexist, Pornified Images in Mainstream Media

It goes on and on… I found this video on YouTube. It truly saddens me. No wonder I don’t turn the TV on anymore; I guess I wanna partly protect myself from all this malestream misogynistic mess. Here are some examples of pornographic imagery seeping into malestream advertising and fashion ads: These images include women [...]

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Resources and Stuff…

It’s been a long time since the last time I blogged. Been busy dealing with some very urgent and important real life problems that needed sorted out. . . A few things I would like to bring up: – In September, the Eighteenth Carnival of Radical Feminists, exploring a radical feminist understanding of hierarchy and [...]

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On Choices (Part 2): Prostitution and the Agency of Johns

Introduction This post is a follow-up to my previous (March 2008) post On Choices. A couple of important points I had made in that post: 1/ Prostitution is a global industry of sexual exploitation in which sex is traded for money, clothing, food, drugs, shelter, or favors. Prostitution includes strip bars, lap-dancing clubs, massage parlors, [...]

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I Blame The Porno-iarchy

Intro/Definitions As I define those terms (dunno how other radical feminists define them): ‘Porno-iarchy’ or ‘pornoiarchy’: a patriarchal society invaded and controlled by pornography & the culture it has pornified, as well as a society upheld by men’s cruel needs for female sexual subordination. For proper definitions of what pornography really is (stated by different [...]

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