The snakes will have to be torched. Scales, venom and all. There will be no donating the fangs to science. We will not wear them round our necks like drilled victories. We will cover our mouths with the necks of our shirts when the smoke rises. Try to breathe a little less.
“Come home, to […]
December 17th(today) is the international day to end violence against sex workers.
To check out gatherings today in/near your city, click here
Stopping the Terror: A Day to End Violence Against Prostitutes
by Annie Sprinkle
In 2003 “Green River Killer” Gary Ridgeway confessed to having strangled ninety women to death and having “sex” with their dead bodies.
He stated, […]
Found via feministing.com & mediaed.com
War Zone
What does it feel like to be a woman on the street in a cultural environment that does nothing to discourage men from heckling, following, touching or disparaging women in public spaces?
Filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West believes that the streets are a War Zone for women. Armed with only a video-camera, […]
Last night, my friend Joe hosted the second official “Classic Wrestling Night.” Highlights included the Jumping Bomb Angels vs. The Glamour Girls(January, 1988), “My Breakfast with Blassie”(Andy Kaufman has breakfast with his hero Fred Blassie and it is a mindblowing 68 minutes), and Ric Flair razoring himself during a fight with Macho Man Randy Savage(including […]
via feministing.com:
A socially-conscious video-production class in Chicago created a video on rape culture “to spread awareness and get people thinking about how and why rape happens.”
Here is the video:
I think this is awesome and courageous for youth to be involved in. Definitely.
I went to the Pittsburgh peace vigil for Iran tonight. As the announcement stated:
As concerned Americans (and other nationalities involved with the planning) who acknowledge that Western governments must not overstep their boundaries in this matter, it is simply the intention of this
grassroots vigil to show support for the human right to peaceful assembly and […]
Amsterdam
Knowing their March 20, 1969 marriage would be a huge press event, John and Yoko decided to use the publicity to promote world peace. They spent their honeymoon in the presidential suite (Room #702) at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel for a week between March 25 and 31, inviting the world’s press into their hotel room […]