October 2008

When Self Defense Doesn’t Count

by Cara October 24, 2008

A 16-year-old girl has been sentenced to 2 to 2 1/2 years in a juvenile detention center for the manslaughter of a 49-year-old man. This sounds like nothing special until you start to look at the details: Seated between her attorneys in juvenile court, the diminutive 16-year-old shook her head no Tuesday when asked if [...]

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Be Bold: Wear Red on October 30, 2008

by Cara October 24, 2008

Via Document the Silence: In October 2007 people all over the United States gathered physically and in spirit to speak out against violence against women of color. Some of us wore red all day and explained that we were reclaiming and reframing our bodies as a challenge to the widespread acceptance of violence against women [...]

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Black, White, Whatever

by Cara October 23, 2008

This video by spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, about the political erasure of American racial groups outside of black and white, kind of made my day. Check it out. h/t Racialicious

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Palin Not Such an “Advocate” For People With Disabilities After All

by Cara October 23, 2008

It seems like Sarah “friend and advocate to parents of children with disabilities” Palin might, shockingly, not be such the ally after all. In Colorado, she opposed a ridiculously minuscule tax increase which would help state citizens with developmental disabilities by providing vital services. Republican Vice Presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) is speaking against [...]

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NY Shelters Will Be Reimbursed For Helping Undocumented Victims of Intimate Partner Violence

by Cara October 22, 2008

According to the NY Times, a horridly cruel, racist and anti-woman NY State policy is coming to an end.  A rule that is entirely prudent and necessary states that domestic violence shelters cannot turn away victims due to their immigration status.  However, until recently, those same shelters could not receive government reimbursement for the work [...]

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LA’s Untested Rape Kit Problem Continues

by Cara October 21, 2008

I’ve written before about the huge backlog of untested rape kits currently in the possession of the LAPD, and more horrifying news about the problem has just come out.  An audit has shown that the LAPD allowed the prosecution deadline to expire on more than 200 sexual assault cases without testing the rape kits. Los [...]

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Must-Read Posts

by Cara October 21, 2008

Brownfemipower: About Toby and Sexual Healing I read some where that women are the one’s most often in the submissive position in BDSM relationships. Many feminists have argued that this fact is representative of the inherent violence and power imbalance in BDSM. But if you give the women participating in these types of relationships the [...]

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A Response From Pepsi

by Cara October 20, 2008

Today, a Pepsi-Cola Company representative posted this comment on Feministe as a response to my post about the “lifeguard ad”: Official Response from Pepsi-Cola Company: Pepsi-Cola Company wants to assure you that there’s absolutely no Pepsi advertisement in circulation that even remotely resembles the creative in question. After investigating this matter further, we learned that [...]

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15-Year-Old Arrested for Pornographic Photographs . . . Of Herself

by Cara October 20, 2008

Okay, so this? Is not okay. A 15-year-old Ohio girl faces felony charges and may have to register as a sex offender for allegedly taking nude photos of herself and sending them to her high school classmates. The girl, whose name has not been released, was arrested last week and charged in juvenile court with [...]

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Irony

by Cara October 18, 2008

Via Hoyden About Town comes this article about the latest Republican dirty election tactic (which should surprise none of us). But one sentence, well, really stuck out at me. Emphasis mine: Republican John McCain is facing accusations of using a false crusade against voter fraud to suppress legitimate votes as battles over who ought to [...]

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