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A Question for the University of New Hampshire’s Women’s Studies Program
from Cathy Brennan bugbrennan@gmail.com to raj27@cisunix.unh.edu, sarah.stitzlein@unh.edu, judy.sharkey@unh.edu, christine.saltzberg@unh.edu, joelle.ryan@unh.edu, mary.rhiel@unh.edu, Janet.Polasky@unh.edu, delia.konzett@unh.edu, lhopkins@cisunix.unh.edu, mwherold@cisunix.unh.edu, rhackett@cisunix.unh.edu, dpf@cisunix.unh.edu, lesley.curtis@unh.edu, holly.cashman@unh.edu, amy.boylan@unh.edu, courtney.marshall@unh.edu, cconaway@cisunix.unh.edu, marlab@unh.edudate Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:34 AM subject Joelle Ruby Ryan: What is Misogyny? mailed-by gmail.com hide details 8:34 AM (43 minutes ago) Good morning, My name is Cathy Brennan, and I […]
This Is Not A Lesbian Issue
Autostraddle, this is not a Lesbian Issue.
It’s Groundhog Day
Transsexuals in the Lesbian Community: The Ultimate in Male Power-Tripping?
Gender Identity
I-dentity (aka trans) politics is fundamentally LIBERTARIAN. It is ahistorical and acontextual. It essentializes sex stereotypes by renaming them consensual “gender identities.” It invisibilizes power structures that give rise to female oppression. It is anti-feminist. By UP
The Emperor Has No Clothes
December 6 stands out as a significant date in history for many reasons, chief among them the Montréal Massacre in 1989. That day, an anti-feminist, female-hating man murdered 14 women at the École Polytechnique for daring to study engineering. Because, you know, females aren’t supposed to study engineering. Rigid adherence to sex stereotypes allowed that murderous man to think […]
A Way Forward
Late last month, a small group of concerned folks gathered in front of the KAGRO building at the corner of Maryland and North Avenues in Mt. Vernon. After a few minutes, another small group joined the assembled people, having just marched from Maryland Institute College of Art. The reason for the gathering? A series of […]
Group Protection vs Individual Rights
Last April, the world watched in horror as video of Teonna Brown and a juvenile beating Chrissy Polis at a Rosedale McDonald’s aired repeatedly on major national and international media outlets and spread virally over the World Wide Web. In response, a number of local activists, including me, organized a rally against hate and violence. […]
Preserving the Distinctly Private and Personal
On November 21, the Howard County Council will take up County Bill 54-2011, which intends to ban discrimination based on “gender identity” in housing, employment law enforcement, financing and public accommodations. Like many of the bills pushed by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and others, the bill defines “gender identity or expression” as […]
Solidarity of Interest
For as long as I can remember, I have been interested in the political world around me. I blame my mother for this, as I recall her making me write a letter about how I felt when the U.S. hostages in Iran were freed under Ronald Reagan in 1981. My mother taught me that we […]
Made This Way
I have hairs growing on my chin that my girlfriend threatens to pluck when I am not paying attention. Apparently, these stray hairs bother her. They also bother my mother, because “women aren’t supposed to have beards.” And yet, I am a woman, and I have facial hair. My chin hairs offend the standard of […]
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