a few years ago, in some one or other of the various instantiations of some sex war over prostitution, I pointed out at punkass blog that I knew of at least two women who had migrated from a rural area to an urban area and that they did so wanting to be sex workers. This was in the Philippines. A ra...

grrr. while reading around, trying to understand the contours of the feminist blowout in bloglandia brownfemipower mentioned, i happened across a couple of posts and comments talking about some earlier blowout as to why sean bell was or was not a feminist issue. i didn’t read every post and co...

if you have any interest at all in sex work, sex positive feminism, migrants, migrant workers, the prostitution wars then you really must read Laura Maria Augstin’s _Sex on the Margins_. I’ve mentioned her work before, quoting her articles and blog, and posting an interview with her on D...

For bitch to be sexist, it would have to be uttered in a conversation in which there is a power differential. Sexism equals privilege plus power, but you would know that if you were really about challenging the patriarchy. http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/02/radical-feminism.html Well, if you ac...

cleaning out files and came across this book review, which I’m archiving here. It’s a review of the horrid, horrid awful book, Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, edited by Diane Bell and Renate Klein. Well sure,” said I, when asked to review an anthology with the nifty title R...

I found this archived in an email for some reason, so I’m archiving it here: Porn in the U.S.A., Part I Hard Cop, Soft Cop: Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin on Pornography By Maureen Mullarkey INTERCOURSE. By Andrea Dworkin. Free Press. 257pp. $19.95. FEMINISM UNMODIFIED: Discourses on L...

Even though the gay community is made up of people of different ethnicities, races, cultures, and class backgrounds, it’s public face is pure over privileged white male. Right after the passing of prop 8 all over the news the white male gay leaders came out in force to verbally protest. honest...

“My community has a problem with homophobia, but we aren’t the only ones. African Americans are but 12 percent of the population. We have neither the numbers nor the power, given our history in this country, to disenfranchise another group. Blaming us for what is an American ill–as...

heh. cried in a good way both times:...