Throwing a shot glass through a window while having a tantrum isn’t hard. Plenty of alcoholics have done this. Organizing is hard. This Pride month, pay homage to the actual workers of the Lesbian Liberation Movement. Stop believing what Men/Transwomen tell you about your herstory, dykes. Remember Storme DeLarverie. Remember Lorraine Hansberry. Remember Daughters of Bilitis. Read Surpassing […]
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There’s a man named Sean Somers that I have no reason to know. First, he’s a Canadian man, who lives far away from where I occupy time and space. Second, he is inordinately interested in things I find repulsive, including an unending ability to fetishize Catholic school girls. And yet, I “know” this man, Sean […]
There’s a Man I don’t know who has decided that “Cathy ‘Bug’ Brennan” is “harassing” him, uttering the hate speech of knowing he’s a man. He’s one of thousands, all uttering the same claim and jousting with me, a woman they’ve never met. I’ve never met any of these men. It’s not that I don’t […]
I wanted to believe. I went for Bernie Sanders early. I put my money where my mouth was. After all, I have never voted for a Clinton, and I have been uncomfortable with Hillary Clinton since the early days of the Bill Clinton era. I couldn’t imagine then how supporting welfare reform and the 1994 […]
January 28, 2015 The Erasure of Lesbians By Alix Dobkin and Sally Tatnall When, towards the end of the last century, the historic force of feminist consciousness met the primeval juggernaut of lesbian attraction, it fueled the explosive Second Wave. These invisible forces sparked and fueled our declaration of war on patriarchy. Since they never paid attention to us, the patriarchy wasn’t looking when that fateful […]
There is bad news everyday. It is almost nonstop, really. Relentless. At some point, story after story after story about the Violence Men inflict on Women and Girls (and more often than not, erased by Passive “A Woman Was Killed” headlines), they all kind of blend together and become unseen. I live in Baltimore. I […]
I have a lot of thoughts about Baltimore, but I am unable to put pen to paper at the moment. Here are some photographs. Here is a song about Baltimore. Consider making a donation to Youth Empowered Society.
Most people have noticed that I don’t really blog anymore. There are a number of reasons for this. Blogging is writing and writing is hard. It takes time, it takes effort, it takes thought. I find as I get older I have less and less energy to devote to this, this effort, which is not […]
You think I just don't understand, but I don't believe you. 
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