links for 2009-02-20
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"A bitch might not be all about the ego, but my ass sure as shit isn’t some little blog that the big bad feminist blogs found and made a land claim on. I am the shit (wink)…and, as of this upcoming Sunday, I will have lived 36 years and all of them as a black woman…I know very well how the tools of oppression and colonization work and find the attempted tutorial on that shit insulting as hell."
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"People ask me why I’m a feminist. Sometimes the questions aren’t quite as direct as that. They could be: “Why are you so passionate about women’s issues?” There are many reasons, and I’ll list them here, just so I’ll never have to list them again. Some will have been written about in posts already, but this will be the grand summary. Some of them are tiny little things that may not matter much in the big picture, but a lot of small things added together make big issues, as most will agree. Other experiences could have the honour of making me a feminist all by themselves."
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"In other words, the precident they’re setting is that, once you are pregnant, your body is not your own. You no longer know what’s best for you. Your doctor no longer knows what’s best for you. You are not allowed to not realize you’re pregnant. You’re not allowed to be afraid. You’re not allowed to be too poor to go to the doctor. You have to do what the State tells you to do while you’re pregnant, because, while you’re pregnant, your body is not your own."
Feb 20 2009 07:30 am | Category: del.icio.us links
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If Mandy Van Deven and Brittany Shoot want to muscle their way in to credibility in the feminist blogosphere, all they’re demonstrating is their own ignorance of the medium. I’ve already forgotten about them.