Posts tagged: feminism
- On Reproductive Justice and Women of Color
- But what we know is that reproductive justice isn’t just about freedom from coercive sterilization. It’s also about access to a full range of reproductive technologies, whether that’s birth control, sterilization, abortion or even childbirth. From Worried About Women of Color? Thanks, But No Thanks, Anti-Choicers. We’ve Got It Covered. by the kick-ass Miriam Pérez on [...] [3 Mar 2010]
- On abortion: Oklahoma Abortion Law struck down + thoughts
- Score one for the choicers — for now. Oklahoma County District Court struck down an abortion law ruling that the law addressed too many topics, and therefore violated the Oklahoma constitution’s “single-subject” rule. But what galls me? This shit right here: One of the most contentious parts of the law was the creation of a Web site [...] [22 Feb 2010]
- On pornography and objectification — but not the way you think
- “Good sex”, for most of these men, starts with a striptease, moves on to oral, then to vaginal and concludes with anal or oral, together with a face shot or with swallowed ejaculate (the woman, it goes without saying, is the “catcher” for all this activity). There are no descriptions of feelings of pleasure in [...] [24 Jan 2010]
- TED Talk: Sunitha Krishnan’s fight against sex slavery
- Turning pain into power, restoring dignity, and giving girls and women skills so they can earn their own living and no longer have to work — willfully or by force — the sex trade. Source [8 Dec 2009]
- On our shared humanity
- The one thing I’ll be damned if I let stand in my spheres of influence, though, is the erasure, violence, and willful intolerance, that comes from being close-minded and ignorant about the interconnectedness of the basics of the human condition. From Brandon’s post It’s A Fight for Our Lives. [8 Dec 2009]
- On empowering the powerless
- From Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009 by Jos at Feministing. While I feel a strong personal connection to this day I also know the stories are not my own. I can mourn but also recognize important power differentials that make other trans folks more likely targets of violence. We must avoid using the stories of those [...] [20 Nov 2009]