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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
... Because Female Genital Mutilation is Hilarious
Published on Apr 17, 2012 by rriverstone1
Published on Apr 16, 2012 by Pontus Raud
Performance of swedish artist Makode Linde at World art day 15 april 2012 at Moderna Museet Stockholm
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Swedish Minister of Culture celebrating with "nig*er cake"
Publicerat den 17 april 2012 kl 07:16
STOCKHOLM (FRIA TIDER). A macabre scene with racist undertones took place on Saturday when Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth attended a tax funded party for the Stockholm cultural elite. The self-proclaimed "anti-racist" Liljeroth declared the party officially started by slicing a piece of a cake depicting a stereotypical African woman.
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Photos from the party at World Art Day have already been released on Facebook and are now going viral in social media.
The shocking photos show several established left-wing members of the Stockholm cultural elite watching and laughing as Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth slices a cake depicting a black African woman with minstrel-esque face.
Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth was invited to open the festivities by performing a clitoridectomy on the cake, which she did by slicing off the part of the cake depicting female genitalia. She then proceeded to feed that part of the cake to a performance artist, done up in blackface, his head protruding through the table.
The body screams every time someone slices a piece.
The events that unfolded at the party stand in stark contrast to Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth's official political posititions. Publicly she advocates a strict hard-line approach against racism. When in 2010 the Swedish nationalist newspaper Nationell Idag managed to acquire enough subscribers to qualify for state-funded press subsidies she immediately took action to change the country's press subsidy laws.
- It is distasteful to support extremist newspapers, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth was quoted as saying in the government publication Riksdag & Departement, promising measures to deprive newspapers with "racist" content of press subsidies.
- Although this is a question of freedom of expression, we dont want taxpayers' money to support this form of media, she further noted.
Why government funds should be used to pay for cakes such as the one served last weekend, has yet to be explained by Liljeroth.
The maimed "corpse" of an African woman has sparked an outcry in social media.
Performance of swedish artist Makode Linde at World art day 15 april 2012 at Moderna Museet Stockholm
View, comment and "dislike" original here: http://youtu.be/rCK6zvWEN_Q
Swedish Minister of Culture celebrating with "nig*er cake"
Publicerat den 17 april 2012 kl 07:16
STOCKHOLM (FRIA TIDER). A macabre scene with racist undertones took place on Saturday when Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth attended a tax funded party for the Stockholm cultural elite. The self-proclaimed "anti-racist" Liljeroth declared the party officially started by slicing a piece of a cake depicting a stereotypical African woman.
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Photos from the party at World Art Day have already been released on Facebook and are now going viral in social media.
The shocking photos show several established left-wing members of the Stockholm cultural elite watching and laughing as Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth slices a cake depicting a black African woman with minstrel-esque face.
Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth was invited to open the festivities by performing a clitoridectomy on the cake, which she did by slicing off the part of the cake depicting female genitalia. She then proceeded to feed that part of the cake to a performance artist, done up in blackface, his head protruding through the table.
The body screams every time someone slices a piece.
The events that unfolded at the party stand in stark contrast to Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth's official political posititions. Publicly she advocates a strict hard-line approach against racism. When in 2010 the Swedish nationalist newspaper Nationell Idag managed to acquire enough subscribers to qualify for state-funded press subsidies she immediately took action to change the country's press subsidy laws.
- It is distasteful to support extremist newspapers, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth was quoted as saying in the government publication Riksdag & Departement, promising measures to deprive newspapers with "racist" content of press subsidies.
- Although this is a question of freedom of expression, we dont want taxpayers' money to support this form of media, she further noted.
Why government funds should be used to pay for cakes such as the one served last weekend, has yet to be explained by Liljeroth.
The maimed "corpse" of an African woman has sparked an outcry in social media.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
Mirror: Women's Media Center Calls Out "Beauty vs. Brains Survey"
Published on Apr 13, 2012 by rriverstone1
From WAM Article here: http://www.womensmediacenter.com/blog/entry/cbs-new-york-uses-baseless-survey...
QUOTE: Category: Media, Media Monitoring
CBS New York Uses Baseless Survey to Claim Women Would Choose Bigger Boobs Over Brains
Posted by Rachel Larris | April 13, 2012
Local news channels and network affiliates can run important stories about events and information pertinent to viewers. Or, like a New York affiliate of CBS, they can run the most hackneyed, sexist drivel we've seen in a while.
Check out the "report" from CBS New York, a local affiliate. The headline "Many Women Would Trade IQ Points For Bigger Breasts" (the video, broadcast on April 9, below must be seen to be believed.)
What is the basis for the story? The report says a "leading consumer website" released a survey that found 41 percent of 18 to 25 year old women would rather have larger breasts to more intelligence.
But the website in question turns out to be the link-bait generator CouponCodes4u.com and the "survey" is an "unscientific, online survey." Meaning they could have polled four women in their building and it would have been just as accurate. But considering we can't even find the original "survey" anymore we highly doubt there were even unscientific numbers to trust.
Women's Media Center staff called CBS 2 New York and asked where the idea for the piece came from. They cited a New York Post column by Andrea Peyser, who does, at the very end of her April 9 column, talk about CouponCodes4u's survey. But Peyser doesn't even mention it's a meaningless "survey" from a completely untrustworthy website and instead uses the so-called "results" to make herself feel superior to the supposed 41 percent of women who would trade bigger breasts for brains.
QUOTE: Category: Media, Media Monitoring
CBS New York Uses Baseless Survey to Claim Women Would Choose Bigger Boobs Over Brains
Posted by Rachel Larris | April 13, 2012
Local news channels and network affiliates can run important stories about events and information pertinent to viewers. Or, like a New York affiliate of CBS, they can run the most hackneyed, sexist drivel we've seen in a while.
Check out the "report" from CBS New York, a local affiliate. The headline "Many Women Would Trade IQ Points For Bigger Breasts" (the video, broadcast on April 9, below must be seen to be believed.)
What is the basis for the story? The report says a "leading consumer website" released a survey that found 41 percent of 18 to 25 year old women would rather have larger breasts to more intelligence.
But the website in question turns out to be the link-bait generator CouponCodes4u.com and the "survey" is an "unscientific, online survey." Meaning they could have polled four women in their building and it would have been just as accurate. But considering we can't even find the original "survey" anymore we highly doubt there were even unscientific numbers to trust.
Women's Media Center staff called CBS 2 New York and asked where the idea for the piece came from. They cited a New York Post column by Andrea Peyser, who does, at the very end of her April 9 column, talk about CouponCodes4u's survey. But Peyser doesn't even mention it's a meaningless "survey" from a completely untrustworthy website and instead uses the so-called "results" to make herself feel superior to the supposed 41 percent of women who would trade bigger breasts for brains.
Saturday, April 07, 2012
BOOB POWER!!1
Published on Apr 7, 2012 by lacigreen
a boobie's a boobie no matter how small/large/lopsided/pointy/saggy
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I talk more about this in my interview with Uptown Mag: http://www.uptownmag.com/news-and-views/features/Lets-talk--about-sex--Laci-1...
SUMMARY:
In this video I talk about how so many people come to learn to hate their boobs. I share my own story developing a strange relationship with my boobs through both glorification and objectification and take back the shame I was made to feel growing up. Boobie love forevar.
This video is based upon/a continuation of my saggy boobs post: http://lacigreen.tv/?p=4252
NEW AT LACIGREEN.TV:
Interested in a stranger on facebook? - http://lacigreen.tv/?p=4348
Disappointed with Momentum Con... - http://lacigreen.tv/?p=4374
10 Tips For Tough Conversations - http://lacigreen.tv/?p=4297
A rant about treating the youth like sh*t - http://lacigreen.tv/?p=4337
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be my fwend? http://www.facebook.com/officiallacigreen
tweet me! - http://www.twitter.com/gogreen18
get in my circle! - http://gplus.to/lacigreen
I talk more about this in my interview with Uptown Mag: http://www.uptownmag.com/news-and-views/features/Lets-talk--about-sex--Laci-1...
SUMMARY:
In this video I talk about how so many people come to learn to hate their boobs. I share my own story developing a strange relationship with my boobs through both glorification and objectification and take back the shame I was made to feel growing up. Boobie love forevar.
This video is based upon/a continuation of my saggy boobs post: http://lacigreen.tv/?p=4252
NEW AT LACIGREEN.TV:
Interested in a stranger on facebook? - http://lacigreen.tv/?p=4348
Disappointed with Momentum Con... - http://lacigreen.tv/?p=4374
10 Tips For Tough Conversations - http://lacigreen.tv/?p=4297
A rant about treating the youth like sh*t - http://lacigreen.tv/?p=4337
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
Shooter Hated Women
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Why is this not classified as a hate crime? Because the victims are women?
Why is this not classified as a hate crime? Because the victims are women?
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"My wife was afraid of him," he told the AP. "She was afraid he would do something like he did. She knew the other victims, and they talked about it. They were afraid that he was going to come back and do what he did."
Chibuko said he's angry with school officials for not doing more to protect the students.
"They were all living in fear. My wife told me the guy had been violent toward the school staff and had kicked the walls and stuff like that," he said. "So they knew. They should have had security in place."
Delariman said he noticed that Goh had problems, in particular, dealing with women in his predominantly female nursing classes.
"He can't stand women," Delariman said. "He said he never used to work with women, or deal with women in a work setting or a school setting."
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Feminatheism: Pregnant "Murderers"
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Six months later Kimbrough was arrested at home and charged with "chemical endangerment" of her unborn child on the grounds that she had taken drugs during the pregnancy – a claim she has denied.
"That shocked me, it really did," Kimbrough said. "I had lost a child, that was enough."
She now awaits an appeal ruling from the higher courts in Alabama, which if she loses will see her begin a 10-year sentence behind bars. "I'm just living one day at a time, looking after my three other kids," she said. "They say I'm a criminal, how do I answer that? I'm a good mother."
They said Ms Rowland refused the Caesarean because she did not want "her cosmetic appearance to be disfigured".
Ms Rowland, who is being held in jail on $250,000 bail, denies the charge. If convicted, she could face life in jail.
Rowland's 'omissions'
An autopsy found the baby boy died two days before its 13 January delivery.
Medics said it would have survived had Ms Rowland had a Caesarean between Christmas and 9 January - as her doctors urged her to do. The other twin was in stable condition.
A nurse at a city hospital said she heard Ms Rowland saying she left the hospital because doctors wanted to cut her open "from breast bone to pubic bone" and that this would "ruin her life", court documents say.
The documents also say Ms Rowland said she would rather "lose one of the babies than be cut like that".
"It was her (Ms Rowland's) omissions that caused the death of the child," Kent Morgan of the Salt Lake District Attorney's Office was quoted as saying by the Deseret Morning News newspaper.
"She was given three or four opportunities to get a C-section to save the baby. She continued to say no," Mr Morgan added.
In a jailhouse interview with KSL Newsradio 1160, Ms Rowland denied she had been advised to have a C-section with the twins.
"I've never refused a C-section. I've already had two prior C-sections. Why would I say something like that?" Ms Rowland said.
Unique case
In January, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that unborn children at all stages of development are covered under the state's criminal homicide statute. The law exempts the death of a foetus during an abortion.
The state law has been used to prosecute women who killed or harmed their unborn babies through their lifestyle, drinking or drugs.
But it has never been applied to prosecute a woman who failed to follow her doctor's advice, Marguerite Driessen, a law professor at Brigham Young University said.
"It's very troubling to have somebody come in and say we're going to charge this mother for murder because we don't like the choices she made," Prof Driessen said.
Ms Rowland's case has already triggered a heated debate across the country.
Last month, after an upsetting phone conversation with her estranged husband, Ms. Taylor became light-headed and fell down a flight of stairs in her home.\ Paramedics rushed to the scene and ultimately declared her healthy. However, since she was pregnant with her third child at the time, Taylor thought it would be best to be seen at the local ER to make sure her fetus was unharmed.
The District Attorney -- after three weeks of investigation -- eventually declined to prosecute Taylor. Before you get too happy, keep in mind that this decision was made, not because the arrest was travesty to begin with, but because it came to light that Taylor was late in her second trimester when she fell, not early in her third as the hospital staff had thought
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Outcry in America as pregnant women who lose babies face murder charges
The Guardian World News: http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/world/2011/jun/24/america-pregnant-women-murder-charges
Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is alleged to have committed does not sound like an ordinary killing. Yet she faces life in prison in Mississippi over the death of her unborn child. Gibbs became pregnant aged 15, but lost the baby in December 2006 in a stillbirth when she was 36 weeks into the pregnancy. When prosecutors discovered that she had a cocaine habit – though there is no evidence that drug abuse had anything to do with the baby's death – they charged her with the "depraved-heart murder" of her child, which carries a mandatory life sentence.
. . .
Bei Bei Shuai, 34, has spent the past three months in a prison cell in Indianapolis charged with murdering her baby. On 23 December she tried to commit suicide by taking rat poison after her boyfriend abandoned her.
Shuai was rushed to hospital and survived, but she was 33 weeks pregnant and her baby, to whom she gave birth a week after the suicide attempt and whom she called Angel, died after four days. In March Shuai was charged with murder and attempted foeticide and she has been in custody since without the offer of bail.. . .
In Alabama at least 40 cases have been brought under the state's "chemical endangerment" law. Introduced in 2006, the statute was designed to protect children whose parents were cooking methamphetamine in the home and thus putting their children at risk from inhaling the fumes.
Amanda Kimbrough is one of the women who have been ensnared as a result of the law being applied in a wholly different way. During her pregnancy her foetus was diagnosed with possible Down's syndrome and doctors suggested she consider a termination, which Kimbrough declined as she is not in favour of abortion.
The baby was delivered by caesarean section prematurely in April 2008 and died 19 minutes after birth.Six months later Kimbrough was arrested at home and charged with "chemical endangerment" of her unborn child on the grounds that she had taken drugs during the pregnancy – a claim she has denied.
"That shocked me, it really did," Kimbrough said. "I had lost a child, that was enough."
She now awaits an appeal ruling from the higher courts in Alabama, which if she loses will see her begin a 10-year sentence behind bars. "I'm just living one day at a time, looking after my three other kids," she said. "They say I'm a criminal, how do I answer that? I'm a good mother."
Mother charged in Caesarean row
BBC NEWS, The Americas http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3504720.stm
A US woman who allegedly ignored medical warnings to have a Caesarean section has been charged with murder after one of her twins was stillborn.
Melissa Ann Rowland, 28, showed "depraved indifference to human life", prosecutors in Salt Lake City said. They said Ms Rowland refused the Caesarean because she did not want "her cosmetic appearance to be disfigured".
Ms Rowland, who is being held in jail on $250,000 bail, denies the charge. If convicted, she could face life in jail.
Rowland's 'omissions'
An autopsy found the baby boy died two days before its 13 January delivery.
 |  I've never refused a C-section. I've already had two prior C-sections. Why would I say something like that?  Melissa Ann Rowland |
A nurse at a city hospital said she heard Ms Rowland saying she left the hospital because doctors wanted to cut her open "from breast bone to pubic bone" and that this would "ruin her life", court documents say.
The documents also say Ms Rowland said she would rather "lose one of the babies than be cut like that".
"It was her (Ms Rowland's) omissions that caused the death of the child," Kent Morgan of the Salt Lake District Attorney's Office was quoted as saying by the Deseret Morning News newspaper.
"She was given three or four opportunities to get a C-section to save the baby. She continued to say no," Mr Morgan added.
In a jailhouse interview with KSL Newsradio 1160, Ms Rowland denied she had been advised to have a C-section with the twins.
"I've never refused a C-section. I've already had two prior C-sections. Why would I say something like that?" Ms Rowland said.
Unique case
In January, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that unborn children at all stages of development are covered under the state's criminal homicide statute. The law exempts the death of a foetus during an abortion.
The state law has been used to prosecute women who killed or harmed their unborn babies through their lifestyle, drinking or drugs.
But it has never been applied to prosecute a woman who failed to follow her doctor's advice, Marguerite Driessen, a law professor at Brigham Young University said.
"It's very troubling to have somebody come in and say we're going to charge this mother for murder because we don't like the choices she made," Prof Driessen said.
Ms Rowland's case has already triggered a heated debate across the country.
Pregnant Iowa Woman Arrested for Falling Down
Change.org News: http://news.change.org/stories/pregnant-iowa-woman-arrested-for-falling-downLast month, after an upsetting phone conversation with her estranged husband, Ms. Taylor became light-headed and fell down a flight of stairs in her home.\ Paramedics rushed to the scene and ultimately declared her healthy. However, since she was pregnant with her third child at the time, Taylor thought it would be best to be seen at the local ER to make sure her fetus was unharmed.
. . .
Alone, distraught, and frightened, Taylor confided in the nurse treating her that she hadn't always been sure she'd wanted this baby, now that she was single and unemployed. She'd considered both adoption and abortion before ultimately deciding to keep the child. The nurse then summoned a doctor, who questioned her further about her thoughts on ending the pregnancy. Next thing Taylor knew, she was being arrested for attempted feticide. Apparently the nurse and doctor thought that Taylor threw herself down the stairs on purpose.
According to Iowa state law, attempted feticide is an trying "to intentionally terminate a human pregnancy, with the knowledge and voluntary consent of the pregnant person, after the end of the second trimester of the pregnancy." At least 37 states have similar laws. Taylor spent two days in jail before being released. That's right, a pregnant woman was jailed for admitting to thinking about an abortion at some point early in her pregnancy and then having the audacity to fall down some stairs a couple of months later. Please tell me you find this as horrifying as I do.
. . .
Christine Taylor came to them emotionally vulnerable in order to seek help for her unborn child. She thought she was in a safe place talking to professionals in whom she could confide. Oops, her bad. As Robert Rigg, professor at the Drake University Law School, said, "How in the heck did the police get a statement made by a patient to a medical person during the course of treatment?
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Ellie Arroway & the V.L.A.
Uploaded by rriverstone1 on Apr 1, 2012
I have a crush.
....On the V.L.A.: best thing in New Mexico besides green chili and roadrunners.
OK, on Jodie Foster, too.
....On the V.L.A.: best thing in New Mexico besides green chili and roadrunners.
OK, on Jodie Foster, too.
Friday, March 30, 2012
feminist misogyny
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This seems very un-feminist, to me. What a woman does with her body is HER BUSINESS. It's the old style of women attacking other women over male privilege, keeping each other in line. The bitchiness of this article is a LOT more like women who bind feet and mutilate genitals of their daughters than it does anything feminist, supportive, sisterly or affirmative of women's body autonomy. It's ugly. It's cruel. It's none of your or our business and it's a waste of everybody's time. I guess this woman is some sort of celebrity, or something, so you're hoping to get clicks off her name? By pandering to the WORST of divide-and-congquer, self-hatred tactics we women have used against each other for centuries, as we vie for male privilege? How does this progress anything?
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This seems very un-feminist, to me. What a woman does with her body is HER BUSINESS. It's the old style of women attacking other women over male privilege, keeping each other in line. The bitchiness of this article is a LOT more like women who bind feet and mutilate genitals of their daughters than it does anything feminist, supportive, sisterly or affirmative of women's body autonomy. It's ugly. It's cruel. It's none of your or our business and it's a waste of everybody's time. I guess this woman is some sort of celebrity, or something, so you're hoping to get clicks off her name? By pandering to the WORST of divide-and-congquer, self-hatred tactics we women have used against each other for centuries, as we vie for male privilege? How does this progress anything?
Thursday, March 29, 2012
A Poem for Adrienne
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We were filled with the strong wine
of mutual struggle, one joined loud
and sonorous voice. We carried
each other along revolting, chanting,
cursing, crafting, making all new.
First Muriel, then Audre and Flo,
now Adrienne. I feel like a lone
pine remnant of virgin forest
when my peers have met the ax
and I weep ashes.
Yes, young voices are stirring now
the wind is rising, the sea boils
again, yet I feel age sucking
the marrow from my bones,
the loneliness of memory.
Their voices murmur in my inner
ear but never will I hear them
speak new words and no matter
how I cherish what they gave us
I want more, I still want more.
Copyright 2012 Marge Piercy
Photo of (left to right) Audre Lorde, Meridel Le Sueur and Adrienne Rich (who died March 27, at age 82) in 1980, from Wikimedia Commons
A Poem for Adrienne
Another obituary
We were filled with the strong wine
of mutual struggle, one joined loud
and sonorous voice. We carried
each other along revolting, chanting,
cursing, crafting, making all new.
First Muriel, then Audre and Flo,
now Adrienne. I feel like a lone
pine remnant of virgin forest
when my peers have met the ax
and I weep ashes.
Yes, young voices are stirring now
the wind is rising, the sea boils
again, yet I feel age sucking
the marrow from my bones,
the loneliness of memory.
Their voices murmur in my inner
ear but never will I hear them
speak new words and no matter
how I cherish what they gave us
I want more, I still want more.
Copyright 2012 Marge Piercy
Photo of (left to right) Audre Lorde, Meridel Le Sueur and Adrienne Rich (who died March 27, at age 82) in 1980, from Wikimedia Commons
Teacher's showgirl persona sparks controversy
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She has breasts? And legs? Hell, no! We should keep her as far away from children as possible! If we don't, they might grow up thinking their bodies are not something to be ashamed of or feel guilty about! And that would mean the end of religion, politics, conspicuous consumption economies, most forms of therapy and almost every other institution on the planet! MUCH better to have a "recovering" cocaine addict & alcoholic as President of the USA, sending our troops to shock & awe innocent Iraqis for a terrorist act not ONE Iraqi was involved with! Makes me wish I had a kid to send to school in support of a woman who earns her keep through hard, LEGAL work! New Mexico is such a backward, sex-negative, Puritanical place.
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She has breasts? And legs? Hell, no! We should keep her as far away from children as possible! If we don't, they might grow up thinking their bodies are not something to be ashamed of or feel guilty about! And that would mean the end of religion, politics, conspicuous consumption economies, most forms of therapy and almost every other institution on the planet! MUCH better to have a "recovering" cocaine addict & alcoholic as President of the USA, sending our troops to shock & awe innocent Iraqis for a terrorist act not ONE Iraqi was involved with! Makes me wish I had a kid to send to school in support of a woman who earns her keep through hard, LEGAL work! New Mexico is such a backward, sex-negative, Puritanical place.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
good bye, Adrienne Rich
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She's one of my most important role models and inspirations.
She's one of my most important role models and inspirations.
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Adrienne Rich reads her poem Wait
Wait
by Adrienne Rich (1929-)
In paradise every
the desert wind is rising
third thought
in hell there are no thoughts
is of earth
sand screams against your government
issued tent hell's noise
in your nostrils crawl
into your ear-shell
wrap yourself in no-thought
wait no place for the little lyric
wedding-ring glint the reason why
on earth
they never told you
Wait
by Adrienne Rich (1929-)
In paradise every
the desert wind is rising
third thought
in hell there are no thoughts
is of earth
sand screams against your government
issued tent hell's noise
in your nostrils crawl
into your ear-shell
wrap yourself in no-thought
wait no place for the little lyric
wedding-ring glint the reason why
on earth
they never told you
''My father was no feminist, believe me,'' said Ms. Rich. ''I see him as the embodiment of patriarchy. But he was interested in the achievements of women in the arts. He gave me books about women writers and women painters, introduced me to Mary Wollstonecraft.
''He taught me to write by giving me passages from Blake, Keats and Longfellow to copy out. It was a natural progression from their words to words of my own.''
--
JWA (The Jewish
Women's Archive) has a detailed encyclopedia article about her:
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rich-adrienne-cecile (This is a
much better resource to link to than Wikipedia.)
Women's Archive) has a detailed encyclopedia article about her:
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rich-adrienne-cecile (This is a
much better resource to link to than Wikipedia.)
Sunday, March 25, 2012
A message for the family of Shaima Alawadi
Uploaded by Divinity33372 on Mar 25, 2012
I know there is almost no chance you will hear this as I am a small youtuber with a small voice. But I want you to know first that I am sorry for your loss. I know there is nothing I can say to ease your sadness in this time and my heart goes out to your mother who I am certain was a wonderful person. What happened to her was wrong without question and goes to show just how far we have to go as a society.
I understand that in times of grief we struggle to understand why such bad things happen to good people. Usually there are no sufficient answers. But what I ask you to remember is this. We are all trying to figure out the meaning of our existence in this world. Some of search in the seen. Some of us search in the unseen. But I assure you that what happened to your mother wasn't because of a lack of a belief in a God. There have been leaders who believed in a God that have brought great suffering on this world. And there have been leaders who didn't believe in a God who did the same. My message to you is this. Please do not lay blame for this at the feet of atheists like me until you know as many facts as you will find.
If you look, you will see that the fiercest champions of secularism in this society are atheists. Not just because we long to be free from religion but because we know there is no true religious freedom without it; freedom for Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Pagans and Muslims. We are not your enemy. In fact, I humbly ask that once you are able you look for those around you who are crying for tolerance of your beliefs; I assure you, you will find atheists there. We have nothing to gain from this other then the freedom to think freely and decide for ourselves what the meaning of our existence is. Just like you.
http://youtu.be/4EzC-riif2M
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/iraqi-immigrant-beaten-death-californ
I understand that in times of grief we struggle to understand why such bad things happen to good people. Usually there are no sufficient answers. But what I ask you to remember is this. We are all trying to figure out the meaning of our existence in this world. Some of search in the seen. Some of us search in the unseen. But I assure you that what happened to your mother wasn't because of a lack of a belief in a God. There have been leaders who believed in a God that have brought great suffering on this world. And there have been leaders who didn't believe in a God who did the same. My message to you is this. Please do not lay blame for this at the feet of atheists like me until you know as many facts as you will find.
If you look, you will see that the fiercest champions of secularism in this society are atheists. Not just because we long to be free from religion but because we know there is no true religious freedom without it; freedom for Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Pagans and Muslims. We are not your enemy. In fact, I humbly ask that once you are able you look for those around you who are crying for tolerance of your beliefs; I assure you, you will find atheists there. We have nothing to gain from this other then the freedom to think freely and decide for ourselves what the meaning of our existence is. Just like you.
http://youtu.be/4EzC-riif2M
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/iraqi-immigrant-beaten-death-californ
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Beyond Sexual Guilt
Uploaded by carlincherrybomb on Mar 23, 2012
Sexual guilt keeps you stuck in one place. http://www.dodsonandross.com
Friday, March 23, 2012
Smokin Slam Olivia Gatwood
Uploaded by TheSmokinSlam on Jan 13, 2012
Olivia Gatwood performs poetry at The Smokin' Slam in Rio Rancho, NM, January 2012.
Afghan Women's Prisons: Afghan Women's Justice Project-Islamic Women's R...
Uploaded by fruitikay on May 18, 2011
Women who are raped are accused of adultery and sentenced to prison in Afghanistan. Islamic Sharia law in this region says that only two men are needed to accuse a woman of adultery. Many of these women are raped, forced into marriages, forced to marry their rapist, disobey their husbands and leave home without permission, and if they are caught escaping from this, they are put in prison. Oftentimes their children come with them and don't get their schooling while they are raised in these prisons. The humanitarian journalist Karen Day has collaborated with Marie-Claire magazine to establish the Afghan Women's Justice project which is selling 25.00 dollar tee-shirts to raise 30,000 dollars for literacy tutoring, child education in the prisons, vocational training for the women for when they reenter society, and legal attorneys.
Afghan Women's Justice Project website (with petition, video, stats, and more info): http://www.awjp.org/
Article about Karen Day, her story, and the project: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/05/16/1650281/journalist-turns-activist-to...
Actual Article that Karen Day wrote about her investigations: http://idahowomensjournal.com/?p=1758
There is also a documentary that was made about Afghan Women's prisons that premiered in Boise: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/05/18/1653600/spotted-in-justice-documenta...
Women in Afghanistan Attacked for going to school (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd80uLxV9EA
Other Organizations that Help Women around the World:
Global Fund for Women: http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/
Captive Daughters (trafficking): http://www.captivedaughters.org/
Association of Albanian Girls and Women: http://www.aagw.org/
Women for Women International: http://www.womenforwomen.org/
My video on the Islamic Hijab: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c-poIEgYo8
Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/fruitikay
Add me on facebook: Jay Fruitikay
Add me on Skype (tell me who you are first): Fruitikay
Afghan Women's Justice Project website (with petition, video, stats, and more info): http://www.awjp.org/
Article about Karen Day, her story, and the project: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/05/16/1650281/journalist-turns-activist-to...
Actual Article that Karen Day wrote about her investigations: http://idahowomensjournal.com/?p=1758
There is also a documentary that was made about Afghan Women's prisons that premiered in Boise: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/05/18/1653600/spotted-in-justice-documenta...
Women in Afghanistan Attacked for going to school (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd80uLxV9EA
Other Organizations that Help Women around the World:
Global Fund for Women: http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/
Captive Daughters (trafficking): http://www.captivedaughters.org/
Association of Albanian Girls and Women: http://www.aagw.org/
Women for Women International: http://www.womenforwomen.org/
My video on the Islamic Hijab: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c-poIEgYo8
Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/fruitikay
Add me on facebook: Jay Fruitikay
Add me on Skype (tell me who you are first): Fruitikay
Wives should stay in abusive marriages
You are reading http://viridianariverstone.blogspot.com/.
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From: Caroline XXXX <XXXX@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: In response to your comment about divorce in case of abuse
To: "Rep.Pridemore" <Rep.Pridemore@legis.wisconsin.gov
You can't even spell "dumbest," so I'm giving you the win, Bill.
From: Caroline XXXX <XXXX@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: In response to your comment about divorce in case of abuse
To: "Rep.Pridemore" <Rep.Pridemore@legis.wisconsin.gov
You can't even spell "dumbest," so I'm giving you the win, Bill.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Rep.Pridemore <Rep.Pridemore@legis.wisconsin.gov wrote:
Congrats, this IS the dunbest e-mail yet!
Bill Savage
Office of Don Pridemore
From: Caroline XXX [mailto:XXXX@gmail.com]
Sent: Fri 3/23/2012 11:40 AM
To: Rep.Pridemore
Subject: In response to your comment about divorce in case of abuse
Sent: Fri 3/23/2012 11:40 AM
To: Rep.Pridemore
Subject: In response to your comment about divorce in case of abuse
Mr. Pridemore -
I would like to make a deal with you. I propose we live together (I'll even relocate to Wisconsin!) for a year in an abusive relationship. I'll beat the shit out of you on a regular basis, verbally assault you, make you live in extreme fear, break down any shred of self-worth you might have, all that good stuff. After 12 months, we can both reevaluate our positions on the issue.
Granted, you don't know me well enough to "love me," thus giving you happy thoughts to call on when I'm beating you violently, but let's see what we can work out. What do you say? :)
Regards,
Caroline Hamric
Caroline Hamric
Arlington, Virginia
Why Native American Women Are Battling for Plan B
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This is going to sound like a silly question, but bear with me. Why can’t they walk up to the pharmacy counter and get a few doses of Plan B in advance?
To get Plan B from Indian Health Service pharmacies, you still have to see a provider first. You have to get their approval before the pharmacy will release the drug to you. As for commercial pharmacies, oftentimes there are none on the reservation—and keep in mind that some reservations are bigger than some states. Even if there is a commercial pharmacy, you’d have to have a car or hire someone to drive you there, pay $50 for the drugs and find your way back home. That is financially inaccessible for many Native women.
In one part of the report, you talk about how IHS providers had to jump through bureaucratic hoops to serve as forensic witnesses in rape trials. I thought that was another powerful example of the red tape you’re describing now.
Right. Before Tribal Law and Order Act, an IHS provider would have to get an approval from their [local] service unit director, their area director and national headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, to serve as a witness. Often this process would take months; the prosecutor would be ready to go to court but [the delay] led to cases being dropped because [defendants] have a right to a speedy trial. This red tape was denying us Native women our due process. Now, under the law, if an IHS doesn’t hear back from his or her supervisors and headquarters within a certain amount of time, it’s assumed that they’ve been approved. That’s changing the dynamic.
Are women even aware that Plan B should be available to them without a prescription if they are 17 or older?
Many aren’t, which means Indian Health Service isn’t notifying them. Also, in bellweather states like Oklahoma, they’ve gotten a lot of propaganda and inaccurate information. A lot of women have heard through their churches that you don’t take RU-486, the abortion pill, and you don’t take Plan B because it’s also abortive. Anti-choice clergy have convinced the parishoners that Plan B isn’t really a contraceptive.
Is there any way that non-indigenous people can pitch in?
We want the Department of Health and Human Services to mandate all Indian Health Service providers to make Plan B or its generic form available to women age 17 or older over the counter and on demand. This could [also] be accomplished if the head of Indian Health Service, Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, writes out a directive to all service units. Please spread the word and help us create a groundswell around this issue.
Why Native American Women Are Battling for Plan B
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| Ute women dancers in Colorado. Ira Block/National Geographic/Getty Images |
This is going to sound like a silly question, but bear with me. Why can’t they walk up to the pharmacy counter and get a few doses of Plan B in advance?
To get Plan B from Indian Health Service pharmacies, you still have to see a provider first. You have to get their approval before the pharmacy will release the drug to you. As for commercial pharmacies, oftentimes there are none on the reservation—and keep in mind that some reservations are bigger than some states. Even if there is a commercial pharmacy, you’d have to have a car or hire someone to drive you there, pay $50 for the drugs and find your way back home. That is financially inaccessible for many Native women.
In one part of the report, you talk about how IHS providers had to jump through bureaucratic hoops to serve as forensic witnesses in rape trials. I thought that was another powerful example of the red tape you’re describing now.
Right. Before Tribal Law and Order Act, an IHS provider would have to get an approval from their [local] service unit director, their area director and national headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, to serve as a witness. Often this process would take months; the prosecutor would be ready to go to court but [the delay] led to cases being dropped because [defendants] have a right to a speedy trial. This red tape was denying us Native women our due process. Now, under the law, if an IHS doesn’t hear back from his or her supervisors and headquarters within a certain amount of time, it’s assumed that they’ve been approved. That’s changing the dynamic.
Are women even aware that Plan B should be available to them without a prescription if they are 17 or older?
Many aren’t, which means Indian Health Service isn’t notifying them. Also, in bellweather states like Oklahoma, they’ve gotten a lot of propaganda and inaccurate information. A lot of women have heard through their churches that you don’t take RU-486, the abortion pill, and you don’t take Plan B because it’s also abortive. Anti-choice clergy have convinced the parishoners that Plan B isn’t really a contraceptive.
Is there any way that non-indigenous people can pitch in?
We want the Department of Health and Human Services to mandate all Indian Health Service providers to make Plan B or its generic form available to women age 17 or older over the counter and on demand. This could [also] be accomplished if the head of Indian Health Service, Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, writes out a directive to all service units. Please spread the word and help us create a groundswell around this issue.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
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