October 2011
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SEX WORK IN LAS VEGAS →
In this post I’m happy to feature two short clips of sociologists at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas talking about the sex industry in Las Vegas.
First, in this two-minute clip, Barb Brents discusses the way that the sex industry in Las Vegas is set up in ways that protect “referral services” (the organizations that arrange for what often includes sex work), while exposing sex workers to...
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FBI Subcommittee Acknowledges Men Can Be Raped →
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Dating While Feminist: An Interview with Samhita... →
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Liberal, Sex-Positive Sex Education: What’s... →
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“And recognizing that our male dominated culture is fucked up doesn’t make you a...”
– (http://www.punknews.org/article/42845) David Combs (Spoonboy, Max Levine Ensemble) talks sexism in the punk scene
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Sex-Pozzie →
on sex positivity and its criticisms
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“[W]hen you teach adults and children sex-negative messages, sex becomes an...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via ethiopienne)
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“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking,...”
– Adrienne Rich (via Sexism & the City)
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MY FEMINISM WILL BE INTERSECTIONAL OR IT WILL BE... →
great piece.
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“Basically, recognizing one’s privilege is an act that is naturally a threat to...”
– Liquor&Spice: Self-esteem and activism in the US
Emphasis added. Go read the whole thing.
(via ronronnement)
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“In my assessment of the anti-lynching movement, I never stopped to look at the...”
– Zakiya Lasley, The U.S. Black Woman Experience | Our Legaci (via jhameia)
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“Sigrid Adameit, a former transportation guard at Willacy, told FRONTLINE that...”
– How Much Sexual Abuse Gets “Lost in Detention”? | Lost in Detention | FRONTLINE | PBS
a much more comprehensive and critical article on rape in prisons than the one I posted earlier this week…
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“Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where...”
– bell hooks
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““Sex workers know that what creates demand for the sex trade is not men...”
– (via thedailyhavis)
This a thousand times.
(via crankyskirt)
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“Some will read “queer” as synonymous with “gay and lesbian” or “LGBT.” This...”
– toward the queerest insurrection (via eastofethan)(via sexisbeautiful)
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[Womanist Musings] White Feminists and Me: a Fable...
(via Womanist Musings)
I’m a 23 year old Sinhalese woman in Minnesota by way of Dubai by way of Sri Lanka. I am a Womanist, and part of my womanism is figuring out how to be in solidarity with my transnational sisters worldwide. I’m a daughter, a sister, a partner and a writer. I’m a brown girl who knows Shakespeare by heart and devours anything Toni Morrison. I believe in radical, revolutionary...
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Kyriarchy & Privilege 101: List of privileges... →
privilege101:
white - privilege checklist
male - privilege checklist
cis - privilege checklist
masculine
heterosexual - privilege checklist
sexual - tumblog creating a privilege checklist
monosexual
binary gender - privilege checklist (imperfect)
non-intersex
temporarily able bodied - privilege checklist
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“Feminism is not about being equal to men [all men are not equal. A black man...”
– crunk feminist collective (via southerntellect)
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“I know older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they...”
– Tina Fey (via feyminism)
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Which Women Are What Now? Slutwalk NYC and... →
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On the NGOisation of feminism in Malaysia and how... →
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“I’ve always understood the word “slut” to mean a woman who freely enjoys her own...”
– Alice Walker on Slut Walk (source)
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