Feminism

By Trula • December 16th, 2008

I got a question via email from a reader who wrote that he was raised by a feminist but he still does not understand feminism and struggles in his interactions with women. He questions what is his place as a man in feminism and wonders should he just give up and find a woman who [...]

Read on Screaming Into the Void:————————————————————————————“And you say that, because we believe in women’s rights but think it’s morally dubious for a woman to abort a healthy pregnancy when she’s six months along, we’re not feminists? Then what, pray tell, are we?“
Apologists.
There is no “tightrope” between a woman’s rights and a “fetus’ rights”. The [...]

Women’s shelters in the U.S. go through thousands of tampons and pads monthly, and, while agencies generally assist with everyday necessities such as toilet paper, diapers, and clothing, this most basic need is often overlooked. You and I may take our monthly trips down the feminine care aisle for granted, but, for women in shelters, [...]

The women of Ohio, U.S.A., call upon the women of the world, from day-old babies to our most senior elders, to stand with us on May 13, 2007, to save the world. Our project is based on Sharon Mehdi’s book The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering. If you don’t know the story, a summary of the [...]

“If you don’t watch her, she’s going to be hot in the pants”
my maternal grandmother said, talking with my mom one day about me. I had wandered over near my grandmother’s kitchen door after running around with my cousins. Always the slowest runner because of being knock-kneed and having breathing issues due to allergies, I [...]

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I don’t know how I feel about Buffie the Body…on the one hand I feel she is a modern-day * Sarah Baartman, but on the other hand I feel she should go for it, make as much money off it as she can. My rear is not as big as hers [...]

Feminist Alliances posted by Cheryl on Women’s Space. This is AWESOME:
There are a lot of feminist women who are anti-pornography, anti-prostitution, anti-SM like me. Unfortunately, they are also racists. They don’t have any clue that they are. They think they aren’t. They rattle on cluelessly and say and do things which [...]

I just got home early Tuesday morning from Minneapolis and I’m still excited from the MamaGathering, I had a GREAT time. There were so many wonderful women I got to finally meet, and some women I met I didn’t know at all from the various mama boards who are ultra-cool. I loved it! The kids [...]

So I’ve been re-reading Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lourde. This woman was such an awesome writer, thinker, and visionary. Her essays about feminism, racism, heterosexism, and more, are so socially evolved it’s incredible. It’s 2003 and I still sometimes feel like sexism and racism are insurmountable an will forever keep humanity mired [...]