Category: feminism
Jan 18 2021
So much time advocating heterosexual marriage
There’s a reason we devote so much time to getting little girls invested in the idea of heterosexual marriage.
Imagine if we told them that there is a single life choice that will:
-shorten their life expectancy
-lower their earning power
-immediately increase their household labor
-erode their mental …
Jan 16 2021
Archive of feminist activism 70s-90s
For those of you who weren’t born yet …
Rise Up: a digital archive of feminist activism
You don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
Jan 10 2021
from Rebecca Solnit’s Recollections
From Rebecca Solnit’s Recollections of my Non Existence
“To be a young woman is to face your annihilation in innumerable ways ….” (p4)
“I was often unaware of what and why I was resisting ….” (p4)
Yes. Let’s not understate the value of having words for what we experience. The words …
Jan 05 2021
“Men need Sex” — a story about a story
So I wrote a story, “Men Need Sex.” I started with the mistaken, but wide-spread, belief that men need sex (PIV). Mistaken because, unlike food, water, and oxygen, without sex, you don’t die. Then, ‘inspired’ by Roger Elliott, I thought, ‘What if?’ What if men really did die if they didn’t get sex. I …
Jan 01 2021
A tale of two athletes – thanks to ovarit
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Dec 25 2020
Toys Make Us
video of “Toys Make Us” from Chris Wind’s album “ProVocative”
chriswind.com
Dec 20 2020
The Assistants by Camille Perri – highly recommended!
Just finished reading Camille Perri’s The Assistants — highly recommended! It’s Nine to Five updated and with a great moral element; better than any nonfiction book about the income inequity between the top 1% and the rest of us … With attitude, to boot! “Robert had tie-clips that cost as much as those [student loan] …
Dec 15 2020
On gender identity and changing your sex
Let’s say we are born with a gender identity. Either
(1) it isn’t a binary, in which case there’s no need to change your sex to attain some sort of ‘fit’
(2) it is binary, but it doesn’t necessarily or always align with sex, in which case again there’s no need to …
Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
Writing as Chris Wind
