bell hooks is a woman who rejects the upper case letters, opression, domination and subjectification. Feminist ideology should not encourage (as sexism has done) women to believe they are powerless. It should clarify for women the powers they exercise daily and show them ways these powers can be used to resist sexist domination and exploitation.… [Read more…]
March 24, 2007
The pencil invited the ruler back to its pencilcase for a jam session one night. Pencil was as usual, pensive. The ruler didn’t want to ask why, because it would spoil the night, spoil the beauty of straight lines. You are leaving, Pencil finally said. The ruler thought: Yes I am. Yes I know. There… [Read more…]
March 23, 2007
A history essay on Victorian sexuality threw this scrumptious flake of trivia my way: The Kellog brothers provide an odd example of the indirect consequences of the attention paid to masturbation in the United States. John and Will Kellogg, basically men of piety and morals, set out to design diets that would avoid excitation. The… [Read more…]
March 19, 2007
March 17, 2007
At the State Library of Victoria today, a protest rally was held, calling for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and and to free Australian David Hicks, who is currently detained in Guantanamo Bay without fair trial for being an unlawful combatant serving the Taliban. Listening to the speakers of the rally today, who urged… [Read more…]
March 28, 2007
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