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May 8, 2016
C & S #71: Belle’s Inn
It’s been in the family for generations, passed down from mother to daughter. The most recent owner of the Other’s Inn is none other than Mistress Belle, daughter to a woman more commonly known as Red Riding Hood. It serves as a sanctuary for all Others, especially during the Dark Ages, in which many Others […]
April 24, 2016
Guest Post: Is Disability Misery?
Today’s guest post is written by Ania of Ania and Alex Splain You a Thing and has been reprinted with permission. One of the barriers in fighting for disability rights is that a lot of people… Source: Guest Post: Is Disability Misery?Filed under: Uncategorized
April 16, 2016
Ingrid Lyne’s Murder Is Every Woman’s Worst Fear
Originally posted on HELLISH REBUKE:
Image shows Ingrid Lyne with her arms her three children (whose faces are blurred for privacy), all sporting Seahawks gear and smiling into the camera. (Image courtesy of the GoFundMe campaign to benefit Lyne’s children.) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the murder of…
Image shows Ingrid Lyne with her arms her three children (whose faces are blurred for privacy), all sporting Seahawks gear and smiling into the camera. (Image courtesy of the GoFundMe campaign to benefit Lyne’s children.) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the murder of…
March 25, 2016
Consent Matters – Even if you “love his hands”
So, there’s this kind of unbelievable part of it all that I can’t wrap my head around, exemplified in a few pieces that are essentially saying, as the judge did, they continued to be in… Source: Consent Matters – Even if you “love his hands”Filed under: Uncategorized
March 8, 2016
Call for Submissions: “Nurturance Is…”
Originally posted on Dating Tips for the Feminist Man:
Send us your ways to finish this sentence: “Nurturance Is…” Dating Tips for the Feminist Man is accepting submissions for a series on your own personal experiences of masculine* nurturance culture. Last week, the post “The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture” blew up on the net. The responses to the piece were…
Send us your ways to finish this sentence: “Nurturance Is…” Dating Tips for the Feminist Man is accepting submissions for a series on your own personal experiences of masculine* nurturance culture. Last week, the post “The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture” blew up on the net. The responses to the piece were…
February 28, 2016
Someone Like Me
So I’ve not been idle, even though I’ve had much less time to regularly updated this site. I’ve become a speaker/writer/social media person for Everyday Feminism, I’ve been dealing with health issues and…”family” issues, and just have generally been busting my ass getting set up for the arrival of my latest child and enjoying time […]
January 28, 2016
Walk This Way: What We Need More Of
Cross-posted on Postmodern Woman Why is it so damn hard for mainstream non-monogamy to conceive of relationships that aren’t monogamy +? Even for those for whom poly is their orientation rather than the result of a transition often fall into the same traps. It’s so much more common to claim ownership of a person rather […]
January 20, 2016
Mask: Sick Woman Theory
You already know of my experience with an ever-growing list of illnesses. I grok this so hard. “There are two failures here, though. The first is her reliance on a “public” – which requires a private, a binary between visible and invisible space. This meant that whatever takes place in private is not political. So, […]
January 19, 2016
Rapists Explain Themselves on Reddit, and We Should Listen
This makes my stomach curl. I will not go to Reddit itself. But this is important. And in the book Unloved and Untamed you get to explicitly see why a rapist does what he does. It’s a discussion that echoes throughout the #cuilverse in many ways. It’s something that’s missing from so much “rape porn” […]
