Comments on: BlogHer notes: Online safe spaces session

By: antiprincess

antiprincess — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:44:17 +0000

ohmygodohmygod you met THE Susie Bright!
daaaaaaaaaaaamn.

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By: BlogHer SL ‘07: Privacy, Exposure, Risk: Can you maintain safer spaces online? | VintFalken.com

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:56:16 +0000

[...] The first part of the session was streamed live from Chicago and focussed mainly on the panel member’s experiences with online journalism and icky reactings from people when writing on ’sensitive’ topics. A good recap of that you can find at the Being Amber Rhea blog. [...]

By: Iamcuriousblue

Iamcuriousblue — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:21:32 +0000

“Susie says a woman was waiting for her in the bathroom with a knife when she spoke at the University of Minnesota one time (not sure when this was).”

This was during the early 1990s, when Susie Bright was doing a campus tour across the US. She got death threats and bomb threats at a couple of other places, I think, too.

That time was still in the immediate aftermath of the 1980s “Sex Wars”, and campus radfem groups were guarding their position jealously and still attempting to do things like keep speakers that they didn’t like off campus. Also, just a couple years before that, Andrea Dworkin had said something to the effect that sex-positive feminists like Susie Bright were traitors to women and should be killed, so I think that was a factor, too.

Also, I think in some places, the campus right-wingers were up in arms about spending school funds on having a smutty writer like her come and speak, or some such crap.

So there’s definitely some history behind today’s feminist blogwars.

By: SpaceyG

SpaceyG — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:20:32 +0000

Ewwwww…. great stuff Amber. Looking forward to reading more. I don’t feel so “left behind” when I’m able to read your live blogging commentary.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:07:58 +0000

I agree with Sassywho… I’ve been a Susie Bright fan for years. She’s awesome. I hope you’ll post the picture with her. Hope you’re enjoying Chicago.

By: sassywho

sassywho — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:39:43 +0000

Dude, I’m so having a fan-girl moment through you…..

By: Dw3t-Hthr

Dw3t-Hthr — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:30:43 +0000

One of the things that drives a lot of my willingness to be open about various stuff online is that, while it exposes me to a lot of potential trouble, it also creates a certain amount of safety to not be closeted, and it’s a point of activism to treat all my weirdnesses as within the range of normal. (And the hardest one to talk about is the mental health stuff, because there’s so much cultural pressure on ‘Oh, we don’t talk about that sort of thing.’)