adresind violenta normalizata

doua initiative importante:

  • Nothing But Red
  • “Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself. I’ve always had a bent towards apocalyptic fiction, and I’m beginning to understand why. I look and I see the earth in flames. Her face was nothing but red.” – Joss Whedon, May 20 2007, Whedonesque.com

  • UK feminists — protesting against rape, male violence and injustice to women
  • Yet more evidence as to why the newly devised Anti-Rape Demonstrations are so important when the legal system actively condones and promotes male sexual violence against women and girls. No clearer message than this can be sent to all men and boys that they can continue committing rape and sexual abuse with impunity. As regards women and girls – well, make-up, clothing, sexual precociousness etc. are the REAL RAPISTS not men. Yet another male judge believes and actively condones myths concerning male sexual violence against women and girls. Continue reading

    www.hartuiresexuala.ro

    Comunicat de presa

    CPE – Centrul Parteneriat pentru Egalitate

    Bucuresti, 18 iunie 2007

    www.hartuiresexuala.ro: informeaza-te ca sa te poti apara!

    CPE a lansat www.hartuiresexuala.ro, primul site despre fenomenul hartuirii sexuale in Romania. Site-ul cuprinde descrierea comportamentelor de hartuire, informatii despre pedepsele prevazute de lege, institutiile care le pot aplica si pasii pe care o victima trebuie sa ii urmeze.

    www.hartuiresexuala.ro isi propune sa fie un mijloc de informare pentru victimele hartuirii sexuale la locul de munca, dar si un ghid pentru organizatiile care vor sa previna aceste comportamente sau au nevoie de suport pentru gestionarea corecta a situatiilor de hartuire sexuala.

    Lansarea acestui site face parte dintr-o campanie de informare derulata la nivel national de catre CPE. Continue reading

    what she said!

    one awesome woman taking on fundamentalist, conservative patriarchs:
    “under no circumstances am i prepared to allow my identity to be obliterated” – “who are these people who wish to decide for me how i should behave?” – “why is there always a male voice deciding how i should behave?” – “i know what i am doing, and i know how to maintain my honor.” – “yes, sir, we are being brainwashed on a daily basis…” HA!

    let’s all evolve past this

    fwd from the AGITATE list:


    Von: Gloria W
    /etc interested | international

    Hi everyone,
    I was asked by several sources to write an article about how to make tech environments more female friendly. The finished product even shocked me, I had no idea all of the info was stored in the recesses of my brain. I was also asked to talk about it in Linz [@ next /etc]. …

    “Let’s All Evolve Past This: The Barriers Women Face in Tech Communities”

    I’d like to hear your experiences from other countries …

    (one can leave comments for the author by following the article link)

    Libertatea cuvantului,totusi nu atat de libera

    Cu siguranta ziua de ieri (sambata,9 iunie) a fost o zi controversata,aglomerata si agitata,plina de incidente care au avut loc cu ocazia Gay Fest-ului.

    Probabil mai toata lumea s-a uitat la televizor si a vazut ce s-a intamplat in aceasta zi.

    Ziua de sambata a inceput pentru mine la 8 dimineata,nu am avut timp nici sa-mi beau cafeaua sau sa fac prea multe lucruri ca am si iesit in jumatate de ora pe usa.Nu,nu am fost sa sustin ideea Noii Drepte (hehe),al carei mars pentru “normalitate” a inceput la ora 10.Consider ca cele/cei care vor citi acest blog sunt informati in ceea ce priveste aceasta grupare de extrema dreapta,grupare ce promoveaza homofobia,rasismul,xenofobia,nationalismul si alte -isme,ascunzandu-le in spatele doctrinei crestine,toate manifestatiile si actiunile lor fiind “in numele lui Dumnezeu si pentru o viata morala,crestina”.
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    Call for Papers : heterosexuality

    HETEROSEXUALITY
    Editor: Yasco Horsman
    Book Series: Thamyris / Intersecting: Place, Sex, and ‘Race’
    Publisher: Rodopi (Amsterdam / New York)
    Series Editor: Ernst van Alphen
    Deadline for Proposals: July 1, 2007

    “Thamyris / Intersecting,” a book series on place, sex and ‘race’ seeks contributions to an upcoming volume on heterosexuality.

    Heterosexuality has long been considered the norm, the unmarked category from which all ‘perversions’ deviate – in short, something that is in itself not in need of an explanation. With the emergence of queer theory in the 1990’s, and its insistence on the constructed and flux nature of all sexual identities, straightness itself was shown to be neither as monolithic nor as stable as had once been assumed. This opened the doors for a project that Calvin Thomas has recently dubbed ‘straight queer theory,’ a rigorous analysis of the cultural and social construction of heterosexuality that refuses to take sexual identity as fixed.

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    Radical cheerleaders need your help: fwd widely

    Dearest Ladyfest,

    Radical Cheerleading is often a part of workshops and performances at Ladyfests across the world and we were hoping for some help through your vast networks to get the word out about our project to document the last 10 years of Radical Cheerleading. Could you please post the following information on your myspace and/or pass the “call for submissions for the Radical Cheerleading Anthology” on to all those that you may think would be interested. Our first deadline for submissions is June 1st and is approaching fast.
    If you have any suggestions on how to get more publicity and involvement in our book through feminist networks we would most appreciate your advice. look fwd to your response.
    thanks so much.
    cheers, brackin firecracker, jeanne vaccaro, aimee and cara jennings
    please fwd/ post the following:

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    down the global feminist wire