Tag Archives: Washington Square Park

The Fire Will Not Consume Us

June 29, 2012 · by · in Herstory, National · 25 Comments

The New York City Dyke March is one of the best events ever conceived to combat dyke invisibility, at least for those few brief moments of proudly marching down the streets. At the first Dyke March down Fifth Avenue, Lesbian Avengers carried torches and burnt signs with the names of anti-lesbian and gay propositions blamed for […]

This is What Assault Looks Like

June 26, 2012 · by · in National · 2 Comments

At Common Law, an intentional act by one person that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact. An assault is carried out by a threat of bodily harm coupled with an apparent, present ability to cause the harm. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may result […]

A View on the Dyke Exclusionary Dyke March

June 24, 2012 · by · in National · 26 Comments

FULL VIDEO HERE. This is the group of people who came up to me and assaulted me, led by Ida Hammer, an organizer of the Dyke March. lilacturtl reblogged appropriately-inappropriate: “TRIGGER WARNING: Cathy Brennan” [TW: verbal abuse, harassment, misuse of trigger warnings]