marginalizedsingle motherhood
By participating in a Mothers Opposing Bush party hosted by the MN Chapter in 2004, I felt more marginalized than ever. I thought I could meet like-minded people there, it was a party for mothers,...
View ArticleI live in North Dakota, should I be surprised?
I attended a city-wide, public event yesterday. It was a family-fun event loaded with lots of activies, live music, fun and excitement. Now, why did I leave feeling so ... something?
View ArticleUS Social Forum and Girl-Mom
Why I love my girl-moms. Girl-mom took part with the US Social Forum in Atlanta on June 27, 2007 to July 1, 2007. Hopefully there will one yearly, hopefully in the midwest this next year!...
View ArticleI have privilege, I'm white, and I'm an anti-racist activist
I have found it funny, the people I've run across who claim to be liberal and progressive think that reverse racism is a true thing, that claiming someone to be "chinese american/black/gay/trans and...
View ArticleI'm a single mother feminist.
I am a feminist. A single mother, pro-choice radical feminist. For SO many different reasons and I am NOT scared that being a feminist will coin me under some "title".
View ArticleRadical Feminism, Single Parenting and Ageism
The paper I want to present at the 2007 Red River Women’s Conference will have a radical feminist approach and/or view on Single Parenting, as well as touch on ageism. Ageism will touch on taking...
View Articleoctober rebellion: the events in dc against the world bank and imf
(I wrote this before I went) Society is: It's all about power and greed, profit before people all over the place. It's sad and it makes me so angry. We're in this huge cycle of capitalists who want to...
View ArticleSt Paul, Repression, Solidarity and Diversity of Tactics
As a witness to some of the events this past week in St Paul, I wanted to write about it. As well as having friends who were arrested, in jail and looking at prison sentences, I took it more personal.
View Articleif you're white - you have privilege.
This is good to keep in mind when liberals, radicals, anarchists, anyone on the left is doing things within their communities, being an activist, their daily lives, etc, etc ...
View Articlealcohol as a feminist issue
How can we, on the left, look at alcohol in a constructive way and be aware its reality and addiction?
View Article...more on why alcohol is and can be a feminist issue.
I expanded and provided explanation to why and how alcohol is a feminist issue. It is in many aspects an needs to be critiqued if we want to change the world, build strong communities and support one...
View Articlerequestion victim blaming
Checking our own language and how we approach other people's experiences is important. For myself, once I figured out that I was oppressed in certain respects and privileged, I was able to easily put...
View Articleanticapitalist meetup
I want to start a conversation about re-thinking ethics, culture, black/white thinking, and ethical dilemmas. These will be broad discussion with a few examples. Can one make an ethical decision...
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