Category Archives: Social Justice

FAQ: Rape Culture 101

October 19, 2009 · by · in gender, op-ed, Social Justice, terminology, violence

But my correspondents—whether they are dewy noobs just coming to feminism, advanced feminists looking for a source, or disbelievers in the existence of the rape culture—always seem to be looking for something more comprehensive and less abstract: What is the rape culture? What are its borders? What does it look like and sound like and feel like?

It is not a definition for which they’re looking; not really. It’s a description. It’s something substantive enough to reach out and touch, in all its ugly, heaving, menacing grotesquery.

Help out Heretical

October 9, 2008 · by · in action-alert, discrimination, Solidarity & Sisterhood, writings

Heretical is the annual magazine of the Women’s Collective at UQ (University of Queensland). This year it might not appear unless there is some rapid assistance from the broad feminist community. They simply don’t have enough submissions, and time is running out, largely because the collective’s time has been spent coping with hostility and harassment […]

You feminists just want to tell women to do what you want, instead of letting them CHOOSE (and we all know girls *choose* the girly stuff)

June 16, 2008 · by · in clarifying-concepts, gender, gender gap, self-sovereignty

Bumped from the Open Suggestion thread, so that we can have a general discussion about the various issues surrounding how choices can be constrained by socialised expectations: lala, on June 15th, 2008 at 1:53 am Said I’m an engineer and pretty much always the only woman (or occasionally, one of two women) in any workplace […]

Feminism Friday: On “Bitch” and Other Misogynist Language

May 16, 2008 · by · in 101, allies, discrimination, Feminism Friday, privilege, sexism

cross-posted by Melissa McEwan , originally posted at Shakesville on November 20, 2007 [Important Note to Feminist Noobs: This is a long post. It contains lots of different, though related, Feminist 101 kind of ideas about misogynist language. Please carefully read the whole post before commenting. If you don't understand one of the points that […]

Friday Feminism: Fierce

May 16, 2008 · by · in allies, Feminism Friday, identity, Social Justice

[This is a crosspost from Shakesville where it was originally posted in October of 2007.] I was standing in front of a full-length mirror with my leg stretched out, modeling at its end for my own consumption the left half of a pair of kelly green steel-toed Doc Martens knee-highs I had just bought, in […]

Disability is a feminist issue

May 2, 2008 · by · in announcements, disability, discrimination, self-sovereignty

The 2008 roundup is at Diary of a Goldfish

Focus on: Equal Pay

April 30, 2008 · by · in discrimination, gender gap, intersecting, op-ed

Here’s an excellent column by Amanda Teuscher in Ohio U’s student newspaper which sums up the issues regarding the defeated Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: The Feminist’s Corner: Equal pay litigation is justice, not an inconvenience There’s not much commentary around pointing out that the proposed legislation would have enabled more than just women to […]

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