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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Coming Out

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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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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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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The Nineteenth Carnival of Radical Feminists. . .

. . . is now up at Pisaquari’s place, Buried Alive. It includes many interviews (herstories) of radical feminists: – Amy’s, – Demonista’s, – Allecto’s, – My Own, – Sam Berg’s, – Bonobobabe’s, – Amananta’s, – Julia’s, and – Jenn’s. It also includes links to excellent writings by other radical feminists, e.g. Nine Deuce (of [...]

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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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The Seventeenth Carnival of Radical Feminists. . .

. . . is now up at the Spinning Spinsters’. Enjoy! And I still blame the porno-iarchy. . . and the patriarchy! ETA (08/22/2008)= I just read this today: Radical feminist Jenn has done a wonderful job with her critique of a pro-”feminist porn” article. Go read it! And thanks a lot, Laurelin, for your [...]

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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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