Category Archives: Friends & Neighbours

Things for you to read (and look at) at the door of Spring 2009

Spring is my favourite season. I’m writing an essay and a short story on the subject right now, and while I’m doing that, please check out the following: Hexy interviewed by Renee Martin. This is a really good, and really important read for any feminist, womanist, sex worker rights advocate, progressive person, and so onContinue reading “Things for you to read (and look at) at the door of Spring 2009”

Break from Snark: Interview Meme

Charlotte is to blame for this one. 😉 1. You used to live in the Carolinas, now you live in Amman with frequent visits to the Ukraine. Why did you move and will you be going back to the US anytime soon? I was in a pretty nasty situation in the States, due to studentContinue reading “Break from Snark: Interview Meme”

A parting shot in the BDSM wars: “You deserve to get fired and have your kids taken away”

For all our differences, Nine Deuce, I expected better from you. Allowing your commenters to rip into BDSMers, whilst using bigoted language no less, as you sit back and insist you’re encouraging debate on the issue? Didn’t expect anything different. Couldn’t bother with it. Your latest comment and attempts at justifying it, on the otherContinue reading “A parting shot in the BDSM wars: “You deserve to get fired and have your kids taken away””

… In which Natalia joins the feminist dog uprising

Good idea, Renee! Like Jill, I can’t exactly look after a dog right now. But I have always been a dog lover. I grew up with a Doberman, Joy, in the house, and that dog was responsible for many great deeds, including saving my mother from an attacker on the stairs of our old buildingContinue reading “… In which Natalia joins the feminist dog uprising”