November 2010
The People You Meet When You Write About Rape.
Mr. What About The Men “The _real_ problem here is all these false rape accusations that are destroying our society! 90 million men are falsely accused of rape every second! A woman just has to sort of mumble a word starting with ‘r’ and a man instantly gets a life sentence! There are no instances on record of a woman actually being raped!” Ms. Tough Girl “If women...
Is it cyberstalking to google colleagues? Why, yes...
After reading yet another article exhorting me to “protect my Internet privacy” by not posting anything that might come back to haunt me at work (like my blog, perhaps?) I’ve decided it’s time to discuss this. Online. As far as I’m concerned, unless your coworkers have dropped hints about bombing something, there’s no reason to look them up. It may be legal but it’s still creepy. And if you share...
An Interview with a Transgender Bootblack Leather...
Ed Note: Meet Loki and some of my other awesome friends at my spectacular Coming Out party November 5th! The Beautiful Kind: So, Loki, what is a bootblack? Loki Bootblack: A bootblack is someone who takes care of shoes and shines , conditions, and repairs leather. TBK: Would you say you have a leather fetish? LBB: Very much so the texture, smell. How it contours and takes the shape of the person...
Meet the Neighbours: Cuntlove
Hi folks! This time around for my “Meet the Neighbours” segment, I asked Olga from the blog _Cuntlove_ a few questions. Personally, I found Olga’s answers rather beautiful, and certainly compelling – much like her thoughtful blog. Enjoy! ****** _Tell us about yourself! Who are you, and what has led you to this point in life/work?_ I didn’t have a proper first name until I was six months old,...
2 Chronicles 25-36
The Facts (Chapter number: Verse) 25:18 - King Jehoash of Israel sent work to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush of Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife’; but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush.” 26:3 - Uzziah’s mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 27:1 - Jotham’s...
10 Things About BlogWorld Expo '10
Earlier this month we attended the BlogWorld Expo at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. It was our first time attending BlogWorld (and our first time in Vegas!) so we didn’t really know what to expect. We were also curious about how it would compare to the other conferences that we attended this year, BlogHer and the Affiliate Summit. Here’s our take on BlogWorld. #1 -...
Street harassment survey for Toronto Org
HollaBack is partnering with a group called METRAC to do a survey on street harassment. They are hoping to use the results to build an iPhone app in their hometown of Toronto, Canada. Please take the survey! Thanks Filed under: street harassment Tagged: METRAC, sexual harassment, street harassment http://dlvr.it/7qlMG
Man booked for suspected honour killing of...
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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Korea 1
With a half-finished bottle of soju sitting on the floor between us, and another two waiting to be opened, we settled in, my friend Mr. Lee and I, for an evening of drinking in my very small seven-and-a-half pyong apartment in the part of Seoul known as Chamshil. I lived in the the Ju-gong Apartment Complex, where the English Training Center (ETC), the hagwon, or private language school, that had...
Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Korea 1
With a half-finished bottle of soju sitting on the floor between us, and another two waiting to be opened, we settled in, my friend Mr. Lee and I, for an evening of drinking in my very small seven-and-a-half pyong apartment in the part of Seoul known as Chamshil. I lived in the the Ju-gong Apartment Complex, where the English Training Center (ETC), the hagwon, or private language school, that had...
How Do I Love Thee, Scarleteen
When I was coming of age sexually there was no Scarleteen. And I was fortunate enough not to need it. If there is such a thing as a charmed introduction into one’s own sexuality, I had it. I had an open-minded mother who, without batting an eye, answered questions like “What’s a peckerhead?” when I was 8, and who bought me a copy of Our Bodies Ourselves when I was in my mid-teens. I had little...
U.S. says genes should not be patented
Major news: The federal government in the United States has declared that human and other genes should not be eligible for patents because they are part of nature. This is a reversal of a rather longstanding policy; the new position will have a huge impact on medicine and on the biotechnology industry. The ruling is likely to draw protests from some biotechnology companies that say such patents...
Prison Valley, un webdocumentaire sur l'industrie...
Bienvenue dans le comté de Fremont, Colorado. Un coin reculé avec 36 000 habitant-es, deux villes - Cañon City et Florence - 7 700 détenu-es et 13 prisons, dont Supermax où sont enfermés ceux jugés les plus dangereux et où on pratique la privation sensorielle comme à Guantanamo. Les prisons sont le cœur de l’économie locale, que la crise n’atteint à peu près pas. Et pour cause : les...
“I want to have sex in a bathtub full of breakfast...
_Fun from craigslist…_ I am looking for a kindred spirit that enjoys, sex, baths, and cereal. So why not try them all at the same time? Now, be warned. I have some very specific stipulations for this fantasy of mine: 1) The cereal must have less than 2 grams of protein per serving. That’s right, the pure sugar stuff kids eat to get roofed like junkies on speed. These can include: Fruity Pebbles...
[USA] Bisexual AZ Rep Kyrsten Sinema honored by...
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema is a three-term bi-identified LGBT AZ State Representative who is now running for State Senate. In 2006 she chaired Arizona Together, the statewide campaign that defeated Proposition 107, which would have banned the recognition of same-sex marriage and civil unions in Arizona. In 2008, she also led the campaign against Proposition 102, a narrowed down version of Proposition...
In Honor Of A Parent Who Got It
I want to say thank you to a parent who got why sex education counted, mattered, my mother. Let’s just set the record straight. I had, in many many ways, a very, very privileged childhood. We had a middle class life, lots of financial support and it was the 70′s when I was growing up, so I had access to (in many ways) more liberal thinking in the schools than kids do today. So I got lucky. If my...
“A man stood at the front of the class and...
During one of these cyber sex sessions another boy told me to masturbate. I asked him what that was. He told me to rub my fingers in circles around my clitoris. Instead of asking him what that was too, I googled clitoris and went to ask.com and typed in “How do you masturbate?” I didn’t really have a sense of what orgasm meant either, I knew that feeling of heat, like a burning ache I’d feel in my...
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what “sex positive” means to me
Violet Blue posed this question recently after her sex positive link shortener vb.ly was shut down by the Lybian government. I think (and this is the simplest definition I can come up with) that sex positive is a way to describe education that makes no moral judgements on a person’s sexual desire and that supports all sexual activity done between consenting people so long as it doesn’t hurt...
“Make a Sandwich”
KinkyGamerSilas and I on SouthernGents I recently had an opportunity to shoot with KinkyGamerSilas for Southern Gents. But since SouthernGents isn’t a kinky site (and most of my sexuality involves kink), we had to get creative. Food play is one of those things that I’d never included in my spank bank until very recently when I gripped for a FANTASTIC foodplay scene at fetishannex with Nurse...
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Street Harassment and the Importance of History
Several years ago at a potluck dinner, my friend Kpoene was extolling the virtues of the film _Kissing Jessica Stein_ as a straight-girl-goes-temporarily-gay chick flick for women who love women. When I silently scrunched my nose in disagreement, Kpoene turned to me and said, “You don’t even need to say anything in response because we all know that Mandy likes to hate things.” I...
Transgender Woman Harassed by DMV Employee
Going to the DMV is already a special sort of Hell without employees inventing new ways to make the whole experience even worse. But Amber Yust had to deal with more than just long lines, a stuffy waiting room, and an endless request for more paperwork. She had to deal with serious transphobia. And it didn’t stop at the DMV doors: it followed her home. Jordan Rubenstein reports on the Gay...
Help the Military Square Away Domestic and Sexual...
Every year amidst the “Save Your Ta-tas” and the barrage of pink soup labels at the Commissary (grocery store for you civilians) another awareness campaign gets lost while everyone is coyly posting “on the kitchen counter” in their Facebook status. This is one, however, that I really think could be boosted with awareness gimmicks, but somehow I don’t think...
Who Is In Favor Of Bullying?
[UPDATE: In comments, the campaign says that opposition to the anti-bullying law is not their position. That’s fine, but I don’t accept the suggestion that my wife misunderstood the campaign canvasser. Whether their staffer got it wrong by accident or on purpose, or whether the campaign is walking away from the things that are said door-to-door when they come out into the light, I...
A Game Preserve For Sexual Predators
It sounds like a squickporn fantasy on a pedophile blog. A whole country running a system by which teenagers are forcibly detained, largely at the whim of their captors. One in eight is sexually molested while in custody. The overwhelming majority of the assaults are by their keepers. This does not represent a failure to care. A failure to care would be doing little or nothing to keep the inmates...
October 2010
Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party condemn...
As participants from the U.S. at the 25th National Gathering of Women (XXV Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres) in Paraná, Argentina we denounce the attacks by rightwing Catholics on feminists at the workshops on “Women, Contraception and Abortion” which resulted in a number of injuries and the hospitalization of one activist. This gathering is an historic victory by Argentine women and is a crucial...
Forcing an employee out of the company for being...
According to All Women’s Action Society Malaysia (Awam), employers tend to have the perception that women become unproductive once they were pregnant. “But this is completely unacceptable and it shows that the companies are ignorant about labour laws,” said senior programme officer Abigail De Vries. She said a number of women had approached Awam over the years with similar issues. “The problem is...
Spousal Abuse Never a ‘Right’ says HRW of UAE...
Federal Supreme Court Ruling Effectively Endorses Wife Beating A decision by the United Arab Emirates Federal Supreme Court upholding a husband’s right to “chastise” his wife and children with physical abuse violates the right of the country’s women and children to liberty, security, and equality in the family – and potentially their right to life, Human Rights Watch said today. The ruling, citing...
Maternity rights: European Parliament votes for...
The European Parliament by a large majority passed a Resolution in favour of substantially increasing European minimum standards for maternity and paternity leave provisions. In what supporters are lauding a great victory for the women and men living in Europe, the Parliament approved an increase of maternity leave provisions from 14 weeks to 20 weeks and the introduction of two weeks leave for...
String theory
Click here to watch the video. A swaying, dancing, prancing work based on the simplest premise - all creative work is derivative. Photographed and animated by Nina Paley. Music by Todd Michaelsen. Read more about their QuestionCopyright Project here. And, unconnectedly, a special note of admiration for what is surely one of the curviest, sexiest, most graceful female forms in world art: the Chola...
Musings From The Empire →
So many things have happened this week — besides the fact that I have the flu and writer’s block — and the Indian blogosphere is kicking and turnings its own desi arse and Handling The Situation…
Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday →
Tell us about something you did this week. Please include a link. Don’t be shy - you know that we want to know all about it.
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Sex on Sunday: megabrothel in Spain, hopeless...
One of Europe’s largest brothels opens in Spain, _AFP_ The Paradise brothel opened Thursday night in La Jonquera with 80 rooms and two showrooms, catering for up to 150 prostitutes each paying 70 euros (100 dollars) a day for room and meals. ‘The epitome of hopeless nannying‘, By Joshua Errett, _nowtoronto.com_ Next thing you know, the Ontario government will want to ban sidewalks because that’s...
Near-Sighted and Looking Back
I get very emotional when I feel like I cannot change something I feel needs to be changed. Consequently, I have been a bit off the grid lately, moping, reformulating, and reflecting on personal issues which probably have nothing to do with tearing down gender norms, uniting marginalized groups, or getting people to go to schools and say “stop f*cking harassing and attacking our LGBTQ...
The Orgasm Gap
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“This week’s Radical Doula Profile is a fun joint edition. Charlie Rae and Megan...”
– Radical Doula Profiles: Charlie Rae and Megan « Radical Doula
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In Congo, sexual violence affects men too →
Source: Guardian Weekly,
By Natalie Bennett, talking with Chris Dolan
I’ve been working in the development field for a long time, and I’ve increasingly been frustrated by the way that…
The Orgasm Gap →
I finally got a chance to read Indiana University’s recently released findings from their National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, and I can’t stop thinking about the “orgasm gap”. Really,…
In Kenya, one transsexual blogs her life →
Image via Wikipedia Source: Global Voices
By Haute Haiku
Lindsay is a transgendered woman living in Kenya who shares her life and her journey to womanhood on her…
Local eugenics past and present: A rare... →
Many gathered at U of Alberta to re-examine the history and modern implications of local eugenic sterilization.
Who owns your genes? In many cases, not you →
Many companies hold patents on patient’s genes, affecting testing, cancer research.
Sex Work and “Human Trafficking” in Canada IV:... →
(I had to break this one into four parts, although it is essentially one article. This part is directly preceded by Part One: The Ruling, Part Two: Poverty and Opportunity and Part Three:…
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Korean Photoshop Disaster #7: I Hate You Lee... →
( Sources: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th )
No, not really. But after eating Special K (스페셜K) for years thinking that it was low-fat, only to just discover that it actually has …