From the monthly archives:

May 2009

University of the Pacific Says Date Rape is Not Rape

by Cara May 30, 2009

Last year, three male basketball players allegedly raped a woman (also a basketball player) at a party.  The assault took place on campus at the University of the Pacific, where seemingly the rapists and victim were all students.  Now, the woman has filed a lawsuit alleging that the school did not treat her case seriously; [...]

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Reaction vs. Prevention

by Cara May 29, 2009

Sometime recently — and I receive so many action alerts in my inbox that it’s impossible to remember when — I apparently emailed my congressional representative about the issue of funding for programs that prevent intimate partner violence.  Of course, I asked him to support for an increase in such funding.  My representative’s name is [...]

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Anti-Choicers Push South Carolina “Born Alive” Bill

by Cara May 28, 2009

Via Daisy, I’ve learned of a new bill moving through the South Caroline legislature being referred to as the “born alive” bill.  The legislation would purportedly prevent “abortion” through the method of allowing a fetus/baby born alive to die without medical treatment. A bill that would prevent a fetus from being thrown away as medical [...]

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Help Send Single Mothers to the Allied Media Conference

by Cara May 27, 2009

The Allied Media Conference, which is about “[sharing] tools and tactics for transforming our communities through media-based organizing,” is being held this July.  I’ve never been, but I know that it’s a really important event to a whole lot of womanists, feminists and radical women of color. And I’ve just learned through BFP’s blog that [...]

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Serial Rapist Convicted of Raping His Daughter

by Cara May 26, 2009

Strong Trigger Warning Sometimes these stories are just too horrible to convey in words.  The rapist in the story below (h/t Lauredhel) had a long history of sexual abuse towards his vulnerable female family members: At the time of the offences, the man had been out of jail for a year after serving 10 years [...]

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Target Women: Laundry

by Cara May 23, 2009

(Click here if you can’t view the embedded video.) Oh Sarah, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways . . .

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New York Statewide GENDA Call-In Day

by Cara May 20, 2009

CALLING ALL NEW YORK STATE RESIDENTS! You may have heard a whole lot about the marriage equality bill currently awaiting a vote by the state Senate. What you have likely heard significantly less about is GENDA, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (pdf). GENDA would provide anti-discrimination protections on the basis of gender identity and expression [...]

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A Quick Note on Misogynistic Body Standards

by Cara May 19, 2009

I know way, way, way better than to waste my time analyzing tabloid magazines.  Which is why I pretty much never do it, and I’m not going to bother saying much very now.  Because of course, we pretty much see the same shit above every fucking year around this time. But I saw this magazine [...]

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On Gender and Sexual Insults

by Cara May 18, 2009

Yesterday, a piece by India Knight about the breakup of Katie Price and Peter Andre appeared in the Times Online (h/t Gauntlet).  It seems that these two are reality television stars in the UK.  I’ve never heard of them before in my life.  So let’s just get it out of the way that I have [...]

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Canadian Provinces Deny Transgender Health Care

by Cara May 16, 2009

In the past few weeks, two Canadian provinces have denied transgender people funding for their basic health care needs in a country which touts a universal and public health care system. First came Alberta, which previously covered sex reassignment surgery (SRS) (also known as GRS — gender reassignment surgery or gender reaffirmation surgery).  The province [...]

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