“You see it is important to understand how damaged people don’t always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It’s a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red A’s on out chests.
I never thought to myself growing up, be a lawyer. An astronaut. The President. A scientist. A doctor. An architect.
I didn’t even think, be a writer.
Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It’s difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.”- Lidia Yuknavitch
AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives: DSK AND JUSTICE: THE POLITICS OF GETTING OFF IN A RAPE CULTUR
DSK (Dominique Strauss Kahn) AND JUSTICE: THE POLITICS OF GETTING OFF IN A RAPE CULTURE
CONNECT NYC and Columbia Law School’s Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and their Center for Gender and Sexuality Law are hosting an Open Forum on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 at…
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AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives: "Am I Troy Davis? A Slut?; or, What’s Troubling Me about the Absence of Reflexivity in Movements that Proclaim...
Sister/Comrade Stephanie Gilmore, who spoke at SlutWalk Philadelphia, is, to the best of my knowledge, one of the ONLY anti-racist White Feminists who has PUBLICLY SUPPORTED the IDEA/PREMISE of SlutWalk while PUBLICLY CHALLENGING its CURRENT RACIST REALITY.
With her FULL PERMISSION, I have…
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…I do not dig debating with young white feminists late into the night about white privilege and having other Black women in the thread have to call out the supposed anti-racist feminists for not speaking up, for yet again forcing Black women to do the exhausting work of teaching. I do not dig being told on the interwebs, –tumblr, other blogs, the Slutwalk NYC FB page–that Black women are being hyper-sensitive and divisive. I do not dig being intellectually insulted with the assertion that I simply didn’t understand “Yoko and John’s intent.” As if.
Y’all know that saying about intentions and well, perhaps you should also recognize that we are long past the point of talking about intent when we talk about racism. We should be talking about impact. (Rest in Power to the venerable Dr. Derrick Bell, father of Critical Race Theory, whom we have to thank for that little insight.) Intent is about individual relationships and hurt feelings; impact is about systems of power and their impact on material realities…”
~ Crunk Feminist Collective “I Saw the Sign but Did We Really Need a Sign?: SlutWalk and Racism” ~
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AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives: Woman is the "N" of the World?
In 1969, Yoko Ono coinded the term and I quote “Woman is the N****R of the World.” Shortly thereafter, she and her husband, the late John Lennon, wrote and he recorded a song with that same title.
According to Wikipedia (which is ALWAYS questionable), at that time (don’t know where…
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Audacia Ray: SlutWalk NYC Speech
Here’s what I said this afternoon:
Like many people who lay claim to the word feminist, I am a white cisgender woman. I am also a sexual assault survivor, and I am a former sex worker, and so I want to complicate a few things for you.
I stand here with a great degree of ambivalence, because…
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The Trashwomen - “Perversion” (1993)
The Trashwomen was an all-female American garage punk and surf punk trio from the San Francisco Bay Area signed to Estrus Records.
Formed in 1991 by Tina Lucchesi and Danielle Pimm, and former Eight Ball Scratch guitarist, Elka Zolot, the band formed originally to perform a one-off show of Trashmen covers, but quickly built a following in the San Francisco garage rock scene. The group’s debut 1993 album on Estrus, Spend the Night With the Trashwomen was described by Allmusic as “a straight-up raw release of sleazy rock & roll”. This was followed by a live album the following year and a third album in 1995, Trashwomen Vs. Deep Space, the latter two also released on German label Pin Up Records, which also issued the 1994 EP The Trashwomen Invade Chinatown. The band split up in 1997 after a tour of Japan, feeling that the band had run its course, but reunited in 2007 for a performance, staying together into 2008. The band described themselves as “the Queens of Tease Rock”.
The band were paid a tribute by The Wongs in their song “Jerkin’ It to the Trashwomen”.
Tina Lucchesi is also the front woman for The Bobbyteens and for Tina & the Total Babes — this time in an otherwise male band — who released an album in 2001 on the Sympathy for the Record Industry label. Lucchesi has also played in several other bands including The Glamour Pussies, The Deadly Weapons, and The Count Backwards (with Pimm and Zolot), runs the Lipstick Records label, and also runs a hair salon and vintage clothing store, Down at Lulu’s, in Oakland.
DISCOGRAPHY:
-Albums * Spend the Night With the Trashwomen (1993), Estrus * Live! At Tom Guido’s Purple Onion and Other Swinging Places (1994), Lazy Lizard/Pin Up * Trashwomen vs. Deep Space (1995), Pin Up/Repent
-Singles * Lust EP (1992), Hillsdale * “Aphrodesia” (1992), Hillsdale * Three Birds EP (1994), Estrus * The Trashwomen Invade Chinatown EP (1994), Pin Up
-Compilation appearances * Locked In To Surf & Rock ‘n Roll Instrumentals 1 (1994), Alopecia! “Surf Beat” (LP/CD), “Miser Lou” (CD) * Locked In To Surf & Rock ‘n Roll Instrumentals 2 (1995), Alopecia! “Miser Lou” * Surfin’ Around The Worlds LP (1995), Pin Up “Dragula”, “Bumble Bee”, “Nightmare At The Drag” * That’s Mighty Childish LP (1996), Vendetta “Pretty Baby” * Blood Orgy Of The Leather Girls Soundtrack LP, Planet Pimp “Batteries”WHO NEEDS BOYS WHEN YOU GOT BATTERIES
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FY Lesbian Literature!: Call for submissions for stitches: a critical dialogue with queer/dyke culture
Cis white lesbians do not own dyke or queer women’s culture. This is about rejecting transphobic pseudo-radical feminist discourse. Let’s imagine what a truly radical inclusive queer dyke culture could look like. Submissions can take any form. Rants, raves, poems, personal…
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(TW: rape) If the occurrence of rape were audible, its decibel level equal to its frequency, it would overpower our days and nights, interrupt our meals, our bedtime stories, howl behind our love-making, an insistent jackhammer of distress. We would demand an end to it. And if we failed to locate its source, we would condemn the whole structure. We would refuse to live under such conditions.
Patricia Weaver Francisco (via sexismandthecity)
An interesting analogy.
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I think this is really beautiful
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BAD MANTALITY: VISUALS
I was using this thing we in the biz call a “shotgun” at work the other day while i was partnered with this guy who wears like wrap around tinted safety glasses with that weird safety cord dangling from the back. I don’t particularly love this guy I’m working with for a few reasons, one being that…
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Just this past Thursday, I heard a fellow college professor say that she tells her female students to mind their dress so that they do not taunt men with the Three B’s – breasts, bellies, and buttocks. I am a lesbian; I love women’s bodies. I see breasts, bellies, and buttocks and I have NEVER raped anyone. We hear all sorts of statistics when it comes to helping women avoid being raped. Here’s the one statistic that matters: 100 PERCENT of rapes happen in the presence of and at the hands of rapists. We are here to say NO!
Quoted from Sister/Comrade/Friend Stephanie Gilmore’s speech at SlutWalk Philadelphia.
You can read her fiercely beautiful words in their entirety: http://afrolez.tumblr.com/post/8575563959/stephanie-gilmores-powerful-speech-at-slutwalk
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There’s an ongoing war against women and Trans people; we are definitely on the front line of who’s being assaulted…. Once we create a category on who it’s okay to assault, then all of us are vulnerable.
Aishah Shahidah Simmons on SlutWalk Philadelphia on WHYY-FM Radio Times interview with host Marty Moss-Coane
If you missed the program with co-guest Rebecca Traister, you can listen to it:http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2011/08/04/slut-walk-feminists-fight-back-against-rape/
(Thank You, Valerie Bridgeman!!!)
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So really, is the penalty RAPE? We really should interrogate that. Even if you think a woman has dressed provocatively. Is that the penalty? Are we okay with that?
Aishah Shahidah Simmons on SlutWalk Philadelphia on WHYY-FM Radio Times interview with host Marty Moss-Coane
If you missed the program with co-guest Rebecca Traister, you can listen to it:http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2011/08/04/slut-walk-feminists-fight-back-against-rape/
(Thank You, Valerie Bridgeman!!!)
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