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undercover punk wrote to ask me if i’d somehow find time to get a Sarah Hoagland article on lesbian separatism back online. It’s buried in the deadness that is the old blog. It’s been hacked because of neglect and I have been too lazy to inspect all the files to find out which they hacked […]

freakin’ idiot. i don’t recall how i found this, but I saw this blog post, http://hellonhairylegs.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/like%E2%80%A6no-way-wevs/
The author, in comments, replies to someone named whatsherface. WHF says that there is sich a thing as feminist porn. Blog author says,
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you mean porn in a magical location where patriarchy has been eradicated?
The idiocy of such comments… If feminist […]

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 serif […]

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 […]

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 term […]

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 […]

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 University Press. 315pp. $25.
IS PORNOGRAPHY […]

guess who?
The emphasis on sucking cunt serves to demystify cunt in a spectacular way — cunt is not dirty, not terrifying, not smelly and foul; it is a source of pleasure, a beautiful part of female physiology, to be seen, touched, and tasted.”
Sucking is an act of the same magnitude as fucking. That […]

Note: I still haven’t decided whether I want to make this blog more public, so let me think on it before you link. I was thinking, Amber and Anthony, that you’d want to link. This continues the series on trafficking started yesterday… and yeah, it’s related. :) I was walking home from work last night […]

I forgot to mention that I’d ordered Kamala Kempadoo’s Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights. Picked it up at the library yesterday. Our library is the suckage, I’m tellin’ ya. You’d think the Limpdickian libraries would be the worst. Not so. I have library books in, ordered through […]

2007-01-23 00:22:13
Carpenter asked me a question off-blog. Seeing as how a Bitch can, for a change, breath a little, I decided to catch up with various things that have been put off in the search for jobs and gigs. Among the backlog of things to be done was slog through email. I had a huge […]

2007-01-19 15:37:14
If you followed the Burqagate wars, this article might help flesh things out. If you are still confused about essentialism and why it can be a problem, the article also illuminates, though I hope it’s not too big on the theory and strange words. The reference will also help ground my discussions of Janet […]

2006-09-24 14:44:51
I’ve mentioned several times that one of the most persistent divisions among feminists was the question, “who is woman?” How do we define what a woman is? Whatever a woman is, then this woman must be our subject, the one for whom we advance our politics. If woman is fundamentally oppressed by rape, then […]

This is really interesting and makes clear why MacKIinnon should NOT be confused with people who find Ev0l in Teh Cock! However, I think what she does show is how MacKinnon nonetheless draws on their arguments in her legal work in ONCALE. If you don’t know of the case, here’s a little information about it […]

2006-09-17 00:48:47
Janet Halley explains her assertion that there are two MacKinnons, early and late. All underlines and bold are my additions and not in the original text. —————————————————————————-
SEXUAL SUBORDINATION FEMINISM The Structural Male/Female Model. In the book that did more than anything else to provide the theoretic basis for sex harassment law, Sexual Harassment of […]

2006-09-16 21:52:22
KH kindly pointed out that ‘Sexuality Harassment’ is online. The chapter is from a book with Wendy Brown, Left Legalism / Left Critique. In this chapter, Halley argues that, to better represent the interests of heterosexual women as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people we need to abandon the sexual subordination theories […]

2006-09-12 03:04:59
“In English departments, we sit and listen for hours to people talking about texts we’ve never read. And we act as if that’s fine.” — Janet Halley (transcribed. any errors, mine.) I’m listening to her lecture right now which maps out various feminist theories and queer theories. This is really awesome folks, so make […]