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The untouchable: Reporting rape as a trans survivor

Ed. note: This post was originally published on the Community site. *Trigger warning*

I am a survivor of campus rape, stalking, and an anti-trans hate attack. At this time last year, I was celebrating the end of my first semester at Temple University — not because of school itself, but because I’d lived in terror since my first full weekend there.

Ed. note: This post was originally published on the Community site. *Trigger warning*

I am a survivor of campus rape, stalking, and an anti-trans hate attack. At this time last year, I was celebrating the end of my ...

By Samhita • 14 years ago

Georgia Right to Life Using Racialized Gender Narratives to Garner Support

Last week femme on the community site brought to our attention this horrific anti-choice billboard and campaign brought to us by Georgia Right to Life. She interrogates aptly,

This billboard dehumanizes both black women and children, by asserting that black children are an “endangered species,” which animalizes them, and by asserting that black women have no control over our own bodies and that we’re somehow intellectually weak enough to be controlled by the so-called eugenics-crazed poor-black-baby-eaters, aka Planned Parenthood.

Georgia Right to Life has gone too far in suggesting that black women are too quick to get abortions and should therefore “choose life.” By speaking to a feigned nationalistic sentiment suggesting that one crisis for the black community is that ...

Last week femme on the community site brought to our attention this horrific anti-choice billboard and campaign brought to us by Georgia Right to Life. She interrogates aptly,

This billboard dehumanizes both black women and children, ...

By Miriam • 14 years ago

A technical note on community blog posts

We’ve been having some problems with our community blog post editor. The image and video embed buttons don’t seem to be working properly.
To ensure that your images and video show up, please leave a link to the image/video (at the third party site where you found them) in the body of the post, and we’ll make sure it shows up correctly.
Thanks for your patience, we’re working on fixing this as part of some upcoming redesign fixes.

By Ann • 14 years ago

New on the Community blog!

A lot of great posts went up on the community blog over the weekend:
SylviaMoon asks for book recommendations — specifically, “Empowering books, uplifting books, “I can do this!” books.”
Kim H. suggests that if the American Life League is going to have a Pill Kills Day about how birth control pills kill women, they also ought to have a Childbirth Kills Day.
BlackGoanna reexamines the rape scene in Observe & Report. And, on a related note, butterflywings explains why she doesn’t laugh at rape jokes.
Tenko speaks out about “booth babe” videos on GameTrailers.com
Marie89 ponders the sexist implications of fretting about women who “don’t smile enough.”
katemoore calls out the New ...

By Miriam • 14 years ago

Community Blog Round-up and a cartoon: In honor of Dr. Tiller

A cartoon video via the Women’s Medical Fund in Philadephia about abortion clinic workers in honor of Dr. Tiller:

And a round-up of all the Community Posts about Dr. Tiller:
Boston Vigil for Dr. George Tiller by meganjpeterson (For a full listing of events, see Ann’s post or our calendar)
A Moment of Silence for Dr. George Tiller by FunFrnd10

An Abortion Provider Reacts to the Murder of Dr. George Tiller by sbherold
On the Issues: An Abortion Provider Reflects on Dr. George Tiller by On The Issues
George Tiller and How Dehumanization Leads to Violence by cng87
A Very Short Post from Skrr
Thanks to everyone who contributed posts today. ...

A cartoon video via the Women’s Medical Fund in Philadephia about abortion clinic workers in honor of Dr. Tiller:

And a round-up of all the Community Posts about Dr. Tiller:
Boston Vigil for Dr. George Tiller ...

By Jessica • 14 years ago

Tech Note: Community posts

Hey folks, sorry for the lack of Community posts yesterday – we had a bit of a tech problem. We’re publishing all the post in queue now, so when you check out the Community site, make sure to read yesterday’s stuff as well!

Hey folks, sorry for the lack of Community posts yesterday – we had a bit of a tech problem. We’re publishing all the post in queue now, so when you check out the Community site, make ...

By Miriam • 15 years ago

Gender discussions at Feministing

First of all, I want to reiterate why I wasn’t able to engage in this conversation earlier. I was attending a board meeting this weekend and did not want to begin a conversation I could not participate in. Comment moderation is a struggle at Feministing and I wanted to be present and able to do that moderation. This conversation, both about commenting and about gender variance and feminism is really important to me and all of us at Feministing. We are commited to continuing these conversations and finding the spaces for positive dialogue.
In the meantime, the discussion has continued on the community blog. I am really appreciative that members of the Feministing community are willing to engage ...

First of all, I want to reiterate why I wasn’t able to engage in this conversation earlier. I was attending a board meeting this weekend and did not want to begin a conversation I could ...

By Jessica • 15 years ago

Our Community Bloggers rock!

Community blogger Lynne C. had a post that she wrote for Feministing reprinted in the Toronto Star. And yesterday we got a radio interview request for another Community blogger to speak about the issues she’s been covering.
I think this is totally bad ass – and part of the reason we wanted to start the Community site. The idea was to highlight all of the amazing feminist voices out there and to try and get more mainstream attention paid to more feminist perspectives – and that’s happening. Woot!