Argentine-Brazilian anthropologist Rita Segato talks about “the pedagogy of cruelty”. In an interview she gave last year (translations mine through and through), she pointed out …
20th November, Transgender Day of Remembrance
At TransGriot, Monica Roberts writes: 238 Names We’re fed up with reading the names of so many young trans* women and sadly a few trans* men …
Men’s Rights site A Voice for Men offers $1000 “bounty” for personal information on Swedish feminists
Men’s Rights site A Voice for Men offers $1000 “bounty” for personal information on Swedish feminists Content warning for threats of violence. From the article: …
Tiger Beatdown – Roma women in Europe: the silenced, underreported gender oppression
Tiger Beatdown – Roma women in Europe: the silenced, underreported gender oppression This week, I came across a number of news items reporting human rights …
Couple of quick thoughts re media, women in politics and fear
I’ve mentioned in my previous post that I have people coming over for the Amsterdam elections campaign. As I wait for them to arrive, I …
More whispers (Talkaboutit part 2)
(Probably a bit inarticulate due to obvious reasons) I was thinking about my previous post (what we were never told about rape while growing up) …
When “Kill em all” becomes an acceptable political solution
Today, Glenn Greenwald in Salon’s The wretched mind of the American authoritarian, documents the responses in some of the most virulent media outlets to Wikileaks …