Jan 23, 2013

Empowered, but empowered to do what?

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  I don't know why I've been thinking about this today - maybe it's the Israeli elections and the fact that I had an opportunit...
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Dec 23, 2012

Some thoughts on sex positivity* & purchasing consent

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I've not really written on this topic before, because my views were not very strongly formed for one thing, but also because it's o...
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Dec 12, 2012

Just those reported women, being alleged all over the place

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   Some people are kind of gross, you know? It's not nice to say it, but they just are. You look at them and you imagine that they prob...
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Sep 25, 2012

Sarah Catt, the expectation that all women want to be mothers, and the complicated reasons why they don't

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   I had a conversation recently with a representative from an organisation that helps women obtain access to contraception and abortion...
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Aug 20, 2012

It's only Monday, and already it's a banner week for rape denial

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Well well.  An elected politician in the US provided a helpful distinction between "legitimate" rape, by which presumably he mea...
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Jul 28, 2012

Brazil Week One - Settling In

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   To those not in the know, I'm spending the summer in Salvador, Bahia state, Brazil, volunteering in community projects through an or...
Apr 20, 2012

The internet is forever, or: how to prove you're nothing but a snide sexist

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  A couple of years ago, Hilary Lawson, the  director of the Institute of Art and Ideas, wrote this piece in the Guardian about the accusa...
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Apr 7, 2012

The real problem with choice Part II: Right-wing politics edition

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This week it emerged that that Health Secretary A ndrew Lansley has instructed the Care Quality Commission  to expedite inspections of abo...
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Mar 7, 2012

What IS it with all the feminist pink already?

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I'm just about the world's worst graphic designer, so even though I've been sitting on this idea for ever, I haven't posted...
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Mar 6, 2012

The real problem with choice

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   A few weeks ago, at the hazy pink dawn of the current soap opera cum circus show that is the US contraception "debate", Amanda...
Jan 14, 2012

Decisions, decisions: sex in a time of patriarchy

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   This post is a reply to my friend Natalie Dzerins's  post on the F-Word which was in turn responding to an article by Hugo Schwyzer...
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Dec 28, 2011

Actual real human women of 2011

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   In case you haven't caught the brouhaha: the BBC published one of those supposedly humorous (if they were funny) lists of " f...
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Dec 19, 2011

Why is it victim blaming to talk about rape and drinking?

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I posted this a few days ago on a LiveJournal community, in response to a post that generated hundreds of irate comments but seems to have...
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Nov 2, 2011

Feminists occupying all over the place!

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  Well, it seems that we've inadvertently struck a nerve. Feminism and the occupation has been an issue on many lips in the past week ...
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Oct 25, 2011

Portable safe spaces and occupying the occupation

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  Occupy the World is fantastic. It is wonderful and inspiring and in 2,000 cities around the world. It is the first truly global popular p...
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