perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2008
Just…fuck.
An Arizona shock jock who goes by the name of “Jon Justice” has made an effigy of Isabel Garcia, a prominent and widely respected immigrant rights activist, and then proceeded to mock sexually assault the effigy on air, while making racist comments. As Emily said, it’s pretty disgusting - and telling - that his first […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2008
We have now lost two of the most brilliant fucking voices of women of colour in the blogosphere in the space of two weeks. First, it was Brownfemipower. Now, it’s Blackamazon.
I can’t say I blame her. She’s had to put up with far more shit than anyone should have to for getting up and expressing […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2008
I’m no fan of Amanda Marcotte’s, and after her behaviour in response to concerns about her appropriation of brown voices, I would have said very little could surprise me in respect to digging herself deeper.
But this is unbelievable.
Each chapter in Marcotte’s new book, “It’s a Jungle Out There”, begins with a blatantly and obviously racist […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2008
So I discovered last week that I’m clearly starting to make it in the Australian blogosphere: I’d earned my first hatchet job from a real, live Right Wing Death Beast. I was going to just let this one slide, but after he made a complete arse of himself at Ryan’s, I realised just who it […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2008
This means you, [X].
This mess has spread pretty widely through the blogosphere already, and I’m too tired and ill to write particularly eloquently tonight, but this needs to be said.
It’s a bit of an understatement that [X] doesn’t exactly have the best record on race issues. The sort of feminist issues that you’ll see covered […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2008
I griped earlier in the week about the coverage of the Obama campaign by a few white feminist big bloggers, but this well and truly tops that. Short version: anti-choice activist makes a call to the vice president of development and marketing Planned Parenthood of Idaho suggesting that he wanted the donation used to abort […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 2nd, 2008
I haven’t really said much about the primary battle in the US thusfar, but I’ve been pretty disappointed in the approach of some of the feminist “big bloggers” in the last few days, as demonstrated in this thread at Feministe.
All of this concerns Obama’s “periodically down” comment about Clinton. Was it sexist? Probably. A conscious […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 13th, 2008
Sanesha Stewart, a 25-year old transwoman of colour from the Bronx, was murdered on Saturday. The story is one that we’ve heard so many fucking times before: man digs woman, man discovers woman has penis, man freaks out and kills woman.
Belledame puts it well:
Because there’s nothing worse than finding out you are sexually attracted to, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2008
At 9am tomorrow, Kevin Rudd will stand in parliament and deliver a formal apology to the Stolen Generations. White liberals all over the country will, I’m sure, celebrate and feel proud that “reconciliation” has finally happened. Board rooms and offices will watch the event on their big screen televisions. But, while this is a notable […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2008
Seems like there’s another piece of good news today. The Christian Democratic Party, the political party of far-right zealot Fred Nile, appears to be in quite a lot of trouble.
The CDP has had a presence in the NSW state parliament since the early 1980s, and disastrously held the balance of power in the Legislative Council […]