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you know, when I first started riding the Internet, I would occasionally mouth off about something that I knew little about. After getting caught out on that behavior, I stopped mouthing off so much. I dropped by bgp’s blog and saw a post castigating black men or, at least, one black man of suggesting that [...]

I read this: http://offourpedestals.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/on-using-anti-oppression-rhetoric-to-maintain-yourself/ and then I headed of to the old queer dewd blog to find a post I’d written about Wendy Brown’s critique of identity politics, and another by Spivak. We were having a discussion about my “Pictures of Che” post at a discussion list to which I subscribe and I wanted to [...]

to follow up on what I wrote last night, I wrote this to a friend but ended up sending it to a more public forum: So, I went to the feminist book club meeting last night. We’d read Alexandra Robbins’ insider account of sororities. I had to laugh, of the twelve women in the room [...]

Luca, an organizer with Sex Worker Open University posted a comment to the fundamentalist feminism post I wrote earlier. In it, she pointed to the Sex Worker Open University blog, so I thought I’d promote it to a post, to give it a little more exposure. I wish I weren’t working longer hours, or I’d [...]

So, yesterday, I related Agustin’s discussion of her fieldwork with the Progresistas, an organization that advocates for the rights of sex workers, mostly by handing out condoms. They believe that solidarity — among sex workers and between all women — is the method for obtaining women’s rights. As a consequence, they have a tendency to [...]

So, why the title of the earlier post, pt 1 of a discussion of Agustin’s Chapter, ‘From Charity to Solidarity,’ from her book, _Sex on the Margins? I entitled that post, “Did you hear the one about a sex club owner and some nuns?” Agustin draws on her fieldnotes, which she sets of in sans [...]

I’m going to skip ahead to the chapter I’d mentioned was most interesting in Augustin’ book, _Sex on the Margins_, which comes toward the end of the book. This is partly because I figure I won’t have time to get to the rest of the book before it’s due back from interlibrary loan. But it’s [...]

as I mentioned in an earlier post, Agustin’s second chapter, “Working to Travel; Traveling to Work,” in her book, Sex at the Margins, intervenes into a set of binary oppositions we hold about traveling, work, migrancy, agency, autonomy, and victims. The discourse around migrancy, Agustin argues, too often views women as having no agency. They [...]

returning to the sean bell nuttiness, which i happened to blunder across again because i was reading yet another blowout in bloglandia. this time it was over the wrong-just-wrong-wrong-wrong statements made about women of color, specifically blackamazon, brownfemipower, and sylvia, who were called drama queens on the womanist musings blog. i clicked on a link [...]

ha ha. i amused myself with my bio. enjoy! if you’re wondering why the new dress — it’s because i’m so stressed out at work at the mo’ putting on a new blog dress was tres relaxing. and then i had to do something about that about page. coz i was too lazy to go [...]

while this is out of order, I couldn’t resist writing a bit about Agustin’s ethnographically thick description of attending a conference on prostitution, one led by what we typically call abolitionists — activists who are opposed to prostitution and want to abolish it. Agustin calls them moral entrepreneurs, which tickled me because it’s an old [...]

ha ha. reading further in the comments, as the comments keep spinning out of control, off of the issue at hand, people start talking about the limitations of time. Lauren writes: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/03/02/who-gets-to-say-what-part-ii-blog-hierarchies/ Now a few years out, working full time, over time, the primary breadwinner of the family, the boy is in school and has [...]

oh. that’s rich: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/03/02/who-gets-to-say-what-part-ii-blog-hierarchies/ Lauren points out that Mandy and Brittany, the women at the center of the spat in bloglandia mentioned by BFP, are the same women who were highly critical of Jessica Valenti’s Full Frontal Feminism. I remember posting about how their criticism was clearly using women of color in order to hash [...]

a few years ago, in some one or other of the various instantiations of some sex war over prostitution, I pointed out at punkass blog that I knew of at least two women who had migrated from a rural area to an urban area and that they did so wanting to be sex workers. This [...]

grrr. while reading around, trying to understand the contours of the feminist blowout in bloglandia brownfemipower mentioned, i happened across a couple of posts and comments talking about some earlier blowout as to why sean bell was or was not a feminist issue. i didn’t read every post and comment on the topic, at least [...]

if you have any interest at all in sex work, sex positive feminism, migrants, migrant workers, the prostitution wars then you really must read Laura Maria Augstin’s _Sex on the Margins_. I’ve mentioned her work before, quoting her articles and blog, and posting an interview with her on Doug Henwood’s radio program, Behind the News. [...]

boy. after reading around bloglandia re: that blowout brownfemipower mentioned, there’s a lot of stuff i’dliketo rant about — including how disturbed i am that radicals are viewing vegetable gardening as a form of liberation. feh. meanwhile, i came across this statement: “There’s often talking about “unpacking the knapsack” and various methods for examining and [...]

i just read BfP’s rant about some new blowout in bloglandia. I haven’t any idea what happened and don’t have time to learn more until next weekend. gotta hit the gym for a second full body routine for the week, taxes need to be done, house cleaned, gotta get to the clay room, and then, [...]

For bitch to be sexist, it would have to be uttered in a conversation in which there is a power differential. Sexism equals privilege plus power, but you would know that if you were really about challenging the patriarchy. http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/02/radical-feminism.html Well, if you accept that theory, yes. But if you do not, then no, actually. [...]

reading a member of the feminist fight club, i noticed that she said some shit with which i disagree. buying into the premises of the sex negatives, like obama buys into the premises of republicans with his bipartisan bullshit, she said that she hated the term sex positive b/c, she agreed, it made it sound [...]

I discovered a feminist book club in the area and went to my first meeting Tuesday night. I hadn’t read the book, but it gave me a chance to meet the women involved. It was great to sit around and talk, though I had a lot of disagreements. I found myself bringing in analyses that [...]

cleaning out files and came across this book review, which I’m archiving here. It’s a review of the horrid, horrid awful book, Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, edited by Diane Bell and Renate Klein. Well sure,” said I, when asked to review an anthology with the nifty title Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed. “What self-respecting woman wouldn’t [...]

I found this archived in an email for some reason, so I’m archiving it here: Porn in the U.S.A., Part I Hard Cop, Soft Cop: Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin on Pornography By Maureen Mullarkey INTERCOURSE. By Andrea Dworkin. Free Press. 257pp. $19.95. FEMINISM UNMODIFIED: Discourses on Life and Law. By Catharine A. MacKinnon. Harvard [...]

I wrote this awhile back. I can’t remember when, though it must have been months ago. Probably when I wrote a post entitled Feminist Fight Club — a post which someone reminded me of awhile ago. (I have a tendency to just block bad shit out of me pea brain and forget about it.) Anyway, [...]