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[image is from here] What follows was sent to me today by email. Thank you, to Sandra Walter. All that follows is the content of her email. Greetings With great enthusiasm, we wish to invite in partnership with IHDPI (Greece Investment & Tourism Board) and Garant foundation, individuals, groups, youths and organization to be part of our forthcoming combined international conference on “Human

[image is from here] What follows was sent to me today by email. Thank you, to Sandra Walter. All that follows is the content of her email. Greetings With great enthusiasm, we wish to invite in partnership with IHDPI (Greece Investment & Tourism Board) and Garant foundation, individuals, groups, youths and organization to be part of our forthcoming combined international conference on “Human

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[image is from here] Above is a graphic that states precisely my experience of most of what is being called "radical" action in white queer and non-queer circles. All that follows is a challenge to the radicalism that appears to me to be "for display purposes only". A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL by Audre Lorde For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision

Sara was awarded the honor of “Woman of the Year” for the Honor Dorm and was selected for this honor by a vote of the prison guards. The award reads: “We commend you for your dedication to the mission of the Honor Dorm. Your encouragement, positive attitude and friendship to your peers shows that you are a positive link to a successful future. You stand as an inspiration to all. We thank

[image of costume made just for 'em is from here] The topic is men sexually harassing women in the workplace. Click on the title below to link to the post being responded to. My comment, as usual, is last.""WHAT HATH CATHARINE MACKINNON WROUGHT? Woman Says Citibank Fired Her Because She Was Too Hot.""56 Comments - document.write("\x3ca onclick\x3d\x22COMMENT_PAGE.togglePostBody(); try{

 [photo of girl wearing lipstick is from here] Victims and survivors of trafficking want us to not accept their slavery as inevitable by simply trying to mitigate its circumstances through the offer of beds in shelters or condoms in brothels. They want us to dismantle the very system of trafficking by bringing traffickers and end users to book. They want a world in which it is unacceptable

[a2w2 poster image is from here] What does Audre Lorde mean when she says, "the masters tools will never dismantle the masters house"? From a larger sense, Lorde is suggesting that the notion of empowerment and reclamation of voice can only happen when there is a pure transformation of paradigm. Individuals that seek to enhance voice and discourse can only do so when they are committed to

[image is from here] The first part of this post will be some commentary by me on the matter of prostitution and why I basically refuse to engage in using terms like "sex work". The last part of this post is published writing by feminist Malebogo Kgalemang. (The source is linked to below). First, no one I personally know who has been involved in various ways as "the ones pimped, bought, rented,

MetaFilter Saved My Pals From Sex Traffickers—Exclusive Interview | Mother Jones. motherjones.com (2010-05-22):

How an online community mobilized to rescue two young Russian women.

Forget the irritating title and summary. Besides being needlessly sensationalistic, the rhetoric of "saving" or rescuing women from sex trafficking is infantilizing and intensely unhelpful; also, it's just inaccurate as a description of what actually happened.

What is awesome about this story, crappy headlines aside, is how a good friend and an Internet community managed to not only alert two young Russian women that the "agency" was lying to them, that the replacement jobs they'd been promised were actually at a skeazy strip club, and -- even more important -- while government "hotlines" and "counseling" proved to be alienating and more or less completely useless, an ad hoc group of folks on MetaFilter managed to come together to connect the women with information, a safe place to stay in New York, a friend to advocate for them and help them out, and leads on getting help to secure straightened-out visas -- meaning practical solidarity and mutual aid, through an ad hoc distributed grassroots network, scattered throughout cities all across the continent, which managed to foil a gang of lying traffickers, helped two women get themselves out of a really dicey situation, and provided with plenty of resources to help them land on their feet.

(Story thanks to a private correspondent.)