Author Archives: Jack Stephens

12th Carnival of Radical Feminists

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Debs hosts this months carnival over at The Burning Times:
Welcome to the 12th Carnival of Radical Feminists – a celebration of radical feminism! We are sisters, all of us, and with our hearts and minds and actions, we can change the world. Continue reading →

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Steps to Success: Step One, GET ENSLAVED!

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Karnythia blogs at The Angry Black Woman on a recent blog post by Pat Buchanan:
It’s this deliberate misinformation that bolsters the idea that black people are somehow magically getting ahead without merit, and fosters the resentment you see so often from whites that argue so vociferously against the concept of white privilege and against affirmative […] Continue reading →

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White Women Feminism – There They Go Again

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Donna writes:
I got an email from the wonderful Elle PhD to alert me to the latest white women feminist shenanigans being reported at the Washington Post: To Women, So Much More Than Just a Candidate. Of course by women they mean the default women, middle to upper class white women, with some ageism thrown in […] Continue reading →

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“Hmmmmm…Needs More White Folks.”

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Alvin blogs on Hyphen Blog about the controversy surrounding the movie “21″ in where a mainly white cast plays the roles of real life Asian Americans who won big in Las Vegas:
While there have not been too many complaints in mainstream media over these developments, one cannot help but wonder what the backlash would have […] Continue reading →

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Sex Workers Project

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Holly, of Feministe, interviews a representative from the New York based Sex Workers Project:
As the Spitzer scandal burns down into its coal-like embers, there’s been a lot of discussion about the nature of sex work as well as what society’s response to it should be. Legalization? The Swedish model? Or something else? Should we be […] Continue reading →

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The Future of GI Resistance

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Justin Cliburn blogs at the Winter Soldier LiveBlog, which was apart of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War:
We have heard heartbreaking testimony this weekend, but we have also heard and seen these things firsthand in Iraq and Afghanistan. Until we eradicate homophobia, sexism, and racism in the military, we will not be fully united […] Continue reading →

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55th Carnival of Feminists

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Penny Red hosts this edition of the Carnival of Feminists:
As luck would have it, this edition of the Carnival straddles both International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month in the USA. As feminists, we are as diverse in our personal politics as the kitchen at a socialist’s birthday party at one in the morning, when […] Continue reading →

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Is There Something to Celebrate?

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Junaid blogs about International Womens Day and its meaning in Pakistan on the blog Pak Tea House:
Last week the world celebrated International Women’s Day. So did Pakistan with a bit of fanfare on the electronic and print media. I thought of writing something but then wondered if at all there was anything to ‘celebrate’?
Are women […] Continue reading →

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Carnival of Socialism #19

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Jack Stephens

The Carnival of Socialism #19 is up at Power to the People:
Solidarity,
This carnival i wanted to highlight posts in the left blogosphere which not only hardly receive coverage in the mainstream media, but independent and left press as well. My only hypothesis is that since what we know of as the revolutionary left is mostly […] Continue reading →

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Sex workers excluded at IWD march London

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Sokari blogs about the International Women’s Day march in London and the exclusion of organized sex workers from the march:
I and my friends and colleagues left, what had started out as a march of solidarity – or so we thought at the beginning- with not just a sense of frustration and disgust but the realisation […] Continue reading →

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