The pressure on female survivors of SA to publicly name and shame our abusers “or else he’ll do it again” is more misogyny. The pressure on women to sacrifice ourselves for community safety is disgusting. Any pressure should be the burden of the abuser and his collaborators.

I have been thinking about this article, and particularly this excerpt, quite a lot over the last couple of days. It’s a “research demonstrates what we already knew” scenario, like chronic pain finally leaving traces on an MRI. I’ve known my whole life. I’m so tired of knowing.

Mind you, we don’t actually see any of our legal processes mobilized for victims the way we see them mobilized by perpetrators. It’s all just a victim-blaming justification for violence victims experience at the hands of the system itself.

If you’re going to encourage survivors to publicly name and shame our abusers, then you better fucking be committed to keeping us alive when these men try to k*ll us for telling the truth.

Patriarchy infantiziles men and places these large male babies at the center of our social universe. Indigenous matriarchy places actual infants at the center of our social universe.

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

she's got that joie de leave

Best "big" paper in the country and it's not even close. Yes I know I have Philly bias but I think a lot of people not from here would agree too

Ronald Reagan came to political prominence in CA with his opposition the Rumford Open Housing Act--"If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes...it is his right to do so,"--opposed the Voting Rights Act, and called the Civil Rights Act "a bad piece of legislation."

Don't just let Banned Books Week be just another mostly cisallohet white people display. Get proactive and get your patrons engaged. They need to know they have a voice, they have power. Libraries aren't neutral. Our job is to provide information, so provide it.

About three months ago Tavia Nyong’o & I conceived of a collection of essays on The Epstein Class and the University meant to consider the ubiquity is sexual violence in the university & the fundamental fact that access to young women has long been a side perk of university employment & attendance.

NEW: Historic Trees Demolished, Land Defenders Arrested and New Treesit at Border Yesterday, Border Patrol agents raided the anti-border camp on the U.S.-Mexico Border, arrested land defenders and cut down historic trees before a treesit was re-established today.

Literally how we have worked for years

Denise Brown recalls her sister Nicole's abuse by O.J. Simpson: 'We were there'