By Carol Downer American society seems surprised and shocked that Janay Rice decided to not leave her boyfriend, Ray Rice. Anti-rape feminists in the ’70s knew why a woman stays with an abusive boyfriend or husband. It is the male-dominated…
Taking Action, Women's Liberation / Feminism
The Awful Truth: Miss America Is Back and Women’s Liberation Has Gone Missing
by Carol Hanisch • • 7 Comments
By Carol Hanisch The protest of the Miss America Pageant in 1968 was the opening militant “shot heard round the world” beginning a brief era of the fight against male supremacy by the newly emerging Women’s Liberation Movement. Since then,…
Principles of Struggle, Reproduction, Women's Liberation / Feminism
Boiling the Frog Slowly: How Did Abortion Rights Come to This?
by Carol Hanisch • • 4 Comments
By Carol Hanisch With the recent setbacks to women’s reproductive rights in the Hobby Lobby and abortion clinic buffer zone rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, the old “slow boiling of the frog” strategy comes to mind. You know, the…
Racism
A Letter for My Nephew Who Could Have Been Mike Brown
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By David Dennis, Jr. … We’ve taught you to avoid certain parts of town, dangerous scenarios and situations where you’ll be in the middle of gang violence. I don’t feel like you’ll be one of those statistics. But what you…
Imperialism
Letter on Gaza
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click to enlarge By Dottie Zellner EDITORS’ NOTE: Dottie Zellner was active in the 1960s in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF). Below is a post she made to the SNCC listserve on…
Sex, Women's Liberation / Feminism
Transgender Solidarity?
by Kathy Scarbrough • • 0 Comments
“This absolutization of identity, this quick abrogation of universality, strikes me as politically very dangerous. For a start: if in the constitution of your identity, I have no rights of cognition, participation, criticism, then on what basis may you ask…