By Miriam • 15 years ago

Critical Resistance: Prisons as a Tool of Reproductive Oppression

Prisons as a Tool of Reproductive Oppression: Cross Movement Strategies for Gender Justice

Critical Resistance 10 Conference
Nerissa Kunakemakorn, Justice Now
The Prison Industrial Complex facilitates the destruction of reproductive capacity in three ways:
1) Overuse of hysterectomy and ovarectomy (often nonconsensually)
2) Poor reproductive healthcare provided to people in prisons
3) Imprisonment during the majority of one’s reproductive years
More on #1:
-Often these radical procedures are used for fibroids and ovarian cysts, at much higher rates than on the outside
-There are documented cases of sterilization abuse, particularly after childbirth
-The new “gender responsive” prison strategies even discuss the cost effectiveness of sterilization after birth
-Some incarcerated people have been given hysterectomy’s for cancers that ...

Prisons as a Tool of Reproductive Oppression: Cross Movement Strategies for Gender Justice

Critical Resistance 10 Conference
Nerissa Kunakemakorn, Justice Now
The Prison Industrial Complex facilitates the destruction of reproductive capacity in three ways:
By Ann • 15 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

A new study looked at workplace-transition experiences of transgender people “to provide new insights into the long-standing question of what role gender plays in shaping workplace outcomes.”

Congress is considering the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, and has a chance to really improve this legislation. And on a related note, a new report shows major gaps in sex-trafficking enforcement.

Australia’s new governor-general — who happens to be a woman — has been denied access to some of the country’s most exclusive clubs, because of her gender.

Equal pay? Not yet. But at least we’re gaining ground in other important areas. (Sarcasm, people, sarcasm.)

An Alburquerque high-school yearbook staff has pissed off some Christian conservatives by daring to acknowledge ...

A new study looked at workplace-transition experiences of transgender people “to provide new insights into the long-standing question of what role gender plays in shaping workplace outcomes.”

Congress is considering the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, ...
By Miriam • 15 years ago

Critical Resistance: Getting Real about Alternatives to Cops

*Note: There is no internet access on the conference site, so these live blogs will be posted with significant delay. Sorry everyone!
Getting Real about Alternatives to Cops
Critical Resistance 10 Conference, Rose City Copwatch
Founded in 2003 in Portland Oregon
Building community power in opposition to police violence
-observing police behavior (videotaping police)
-agitation, disruption
-reconciling police abolition with concerns about safety
Examples:
-bad date line for dangerous johns
-Community committees in apartheid SA where the police had abandoned the neighborhood
-Peace for the streets by kids from the streets, Seattle WA “donut dialogues”
Alternatives vs Auxiliaries? How do we reconcile programs to make policing better or safer with a larger goal of prison abolition?
-Hate crimes, ...

*Note: There is no internet access on the conference site, so these live blogs will be posted with significant delay. Sorry everyone!
Getting Real about Alternatives to Cops
Critical Resistance 10 Conference, Rose City Copwatch
Founded ...
By Samhita • 15 years ago

Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Henry Rollins

So to really get our minds off the election I thought I would switch it up and do a Feminist Fuck Yeah to Henry Rollins. Why Henry Rollins? Well because he is awesome (this is more awesome), but we also got several emails from readers who have seen his spoken word performances (which are amazing) and apparently he is a fan of Feministing. If that is not FUCK YEAH worthy, I am not really sure what is.

And I have been known to bite his style from time to time. (And full transcript after the jump.)

So to really get our minds off the election I thought I would switch it up and do a Feminist Fuck Yeah to Henry Rollins. Why Henry Rollins? Well because he is awesome (this ...
By Ann • 15 years ago

Whiskey and the women who love it

Happy Friday, feminists! Time for some booze-blogging. I’ll admit, I laughed out loud at this sexist ad circa 1990 (via):


(Here’s another from the same series.)

Then I read this post from Lauredhel about a series of offensive Jim Beam commercials in Australia. Let’s set aside, for a moment, the rank sexism and anti-gay themes in these ads, and take a broader look at how whiskey is gender-marketed. As the manliest of manly drinks. I mean, take a quick Google Image tour of whiskey/bourbon/scotch ads.

I mentioned this to my coworker and fellow whiskey-lover Phoebe today, and she pointed me to this 2006 New York Times article:

It’s been going on for years, actually. When ...

Happy Friday, feminists! Time for some booze-blogging. I’ll admit, I laughed out loud at this sexist ad circa 1990 (via):


(Here’s another from the same series.)

Then I read this post from Lauredhel about a ...

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