April, 2009
Change we can believe in
In a completely unsurprising turn of events (unsurprising, that is, to those of us who have never had any illusions about Opossum), the Justice Department has moved to confirm and expand the Bush administration’s doctrine on wiretapping. According to Obama’s DOJ, the government can spy on anybody they damn well please and can’t nobody [...]
What a couple of radical feminists are doing in a place like The New Agenda
My friend and co-editor at The New Agenda, Sheryl Robinson, wrote a post the other day that does a good job of explaining what our coalition is all about. In The game is rigged. Stop playing, Sheryl observes that ratification of CEDAW has been blocked in this country by fears that the treaty could [...]
“That’s their society; they’ve chosen it”
Remember a couple of months ago when I was talking about how women’s rights are treated as cultural quirks, like food or architecture (here and here, for example)?
Watch this:
Women are getting raped and arrested and locked up at fucking gunpoint, and all Geraldo can say is, “That’s their society, they’ve chosen it…”
Who is [...]
Obama’s Man in Virginia, and the state of feminism
This week Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia signed a bill that includes state funding for “crisis pregnancy centers,” which are basically anti-abortion propaganda bunkers. Now here are a few interesting things to think about:
Tim Kaine is the chair of the Democratic National Committee, a post to which he was appointed by his good buddy [...]
What I’ve been doing
Making this:
Plus this.
Okay, that’s not all I’ve been doing. But I can’t give people the rundown on my whole goddamn life or else what’s the point of being a pseudonymous recluse?
By the way, please do spread the word about the VAW forum. And if you’re in New York, please plan [...]
