FIRST LOVE
A chapter from an unpublished novel
by Andrea Dworkin
Copyright © 1978, 1980 by Andrea Dworkin.
All rights reserved. [the above image and information is from here. I post this with deep gratitude to Nikki Craft, for all her work to keep the writings, videos, and memory of Andrea Dworkin alive]
Please note: the piece of writing, which I adore, called "First Love", is linked to in
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Below is the cover of a decidedly unfascistic, anti-genocidal book, that, were it written by a woman, far too many men would assume was fascistic and pro-genocidal. I'll prove this point in this post.
[image of John Stoltenberg's book cover is from here]
Let
Cross post from Gender Across Borders Blog. The poster and information is from *here*.Blog for International Women’s Day
Gender Across Borders presents…..
Blog for International Women’s Day!
International Women’s Day [IWD] is on Monday, March 8, 2010. As set by the United Nations, this year’s theme is “Equal rights, equal opportunity: Progress for all.” While we here at GAB believe that equal
This is a cross post. Please click on the title below to link back it this essay's source website. You may scroll to the very bottom of this post for links to this essay in books.
Liberty, Equality, Solidarity: Toward a Dialectical Anarchism by Rad Geek, at Rad Geek People's Daily » Feminism 4:31 am / 02 March 2010 It’s March 2010. It has now been two years since my essay Liberty, Equality,
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My birth month has now passed. I contemplate what I've learned this past year. Am I wiser than when 46? I've learned, or relearned a whole lot. But here's a list of ten things. They are in no particular order.
1. Men will lie through their teeth if it suits their interests to do so. Example: John Edwards. What a lying prick he's been to his spouse, Elizabeth. But men
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I have often noted that when people actually READ Andrea Dworkin's work--you know, like a whole essay, or a whole collection of essays, or--gasp--a whole book or even three or four of her books, and don't assume what her writing already means they might actually value it. But usually the reader arrives at her work having taken in what significantly biased,
Or is it???[image is from here]What follows is a portion of a comment exchange, mostly focused on what a white South African guy with middle class and academic education privilege, has to say to a radical feminist. It pissed me off a lot, probably because I'm way too much like him. It played out *here* on a blog called Rage Against the Man-chine, and the blogger there is an awesome woman named
All that follows is from here, on the blog of Mia Mingus, called Leaving Evidence. Thank you, Mia, for all your work!
February 25, 2010 “Intersectionality” is a Big Fancy Word for My Life (Excerpts from MBGLTACC 2010 Keynote Address)
We have to confront white supremacy within LGBT and Queer communities. A queer politic MUST include solidarity with people of color;
[this book cover and content may be found here]
Much of what follows is from NVC.org.
In considering why we do what we do, there is a theory that we are all trying to get very human needs met, humane needs, in fact, but that civilisation is organised in such a way that "our" needs are seen to be perpetually in conflict with the needs of "others". NVC, Non-Violent Communication, offers these
What follows is from *here*, and is a cross-post from Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind.
HappY Birthday Audre Lorde: Podcast on SurvivalFebruary 18, 2010 On this day 97 years ago…my grandfather Jeremiah Gumbs was born. Pop-pop was the person who taught me how a love for poetry could transform my life. It seems not mere coincidence that my favorite poet and chosen