Speaking of trafficking and sex-work… Look what W is up to!

Some of the outgoing president’s decisions are disturbing to the extreme. Check this out:

…The administration also wants to deny funding to organizations that help victims of sex trafficking if they also advocate legalized consensual prostitution. These and others can be found on ProPublica.org’s list of midnight regulations.

Awesome. Once again, slavery and sex-work are being defined as exactly the same thing – an unproductive approach that’s going to make sure that an entire group of people is not going to get help it needs and deserves, because their concerns for having a safe working environment just don’t count.

Just like there are “good rape victims” and “bad rape victims” – there is now a “good trafficking victim” and a “bad trafficking victim.” The bad one was thinking that maybe she can still do sex-work, you know, on her own terms, without having some meat-headed pimp keeping her in a room with bars on the windows. But we can’t have that, can we? Gross, icky, disgusting! Save her from herself!

The mortal sin of disliking Sarah Palin

I think that this LJ author said it best:

Woman A: I don’t like Sarah Palin.
Woman B: YOU DON’T LIKE WOMEN!
Woman A: No, I don’t like Sarah Palin. I liked Hillary Clinton a whole lot, remember?
Woman B: YOU DON’T LIKE WOMEN!
Woman A: You’re being unreasonable.
Woman B: YOU SAID WOMEN ARE UNREASONABLE?
Woman A: No, I said you were being…ah, fuck it.

I am (trashy) Spartacus

In solidarity with the divine Caroline.

trashy-spartacus

Tasty glass necklace: Anthropologie. Ring: Russian Orthodox Church gift shop (Moscow Patriarchate). Trash: authentic, E. Euro, hey-bitch-you’re-not-on-the-guest-list riffraff stock.

Regular readers of this blog know that I never need an excuse to put up a trash-tastic or otherwise over-the-top picture, but credit must be given to Fearless Feminist Warrior, FA, for the inspiration. FA is one of the mysteries of the internet universe. She’s a woman-loving feminist, very fond of words like “trash” and “whore,” who first launched her internet career by loudly complaining about my “perky tits” and the perky tits of diverse blogosphere denizens such as Renegade Evolution, Jill Fillipovic, and Apostate.

FA is in a class of her own. Though she sympathizes, to some degree, with radical feminists, she thinks that Twisty is too soft, and neither does she appear to be a Cheryl Seelhoff fan.

Rumour has it than FA is an elaborate joke – created by someone just bored enough. If this is indeed the case, I take my skull-patterened scarf off in honour of the prankster. FA may not be particularly believable (if only because one hopes such people don’t really exist), but she certainly is good for a laugh.

Trash on, my dear sisters.

Today, November 20, 2008, is Transgender Remembrance Day

Please take a moment to acknowledge people who have lost their lives, people denied their dignity – even in death, and people who are told, over and over again in a particularly ugly version of a never-ending mad tea party, that they shouldn’t even exist.

Some links:

The Quick and the Dead
How to Mourn
Remember
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2008

Awesome Names for Radfem Blogs, the Special Kind

As it may be obvious by now, I’m a tad bit annoyed by much of online radical feminism.

And one of the things that bothers me about it, and bothers a whole lot of other people too, is the whole tone of the radfemosphere – the breathless drama of it, complete with agrrieved-sounding blog names like “The Margins” (they’re on the margins, dammit! No one cares about them!) or “Rage Against the Manchine” (which actually sounds pretty clever, until you understand that the author is Always. Dead. Serious.) or “Gorgon Poisons.”

Considering that these people want to change the world, the rhetorical hand-wringing is just… hilarious.

So, me and some other people decided to help the Radical Feminist Online Project by coming up with a list of pithy names for true radical blogs. You know, none of that frivolous, sparkly stuff. So people know you mean business.

The list got kind of long, as most of us, though dying of vicious laughter, were unable to stop ourselves. And here are the greatest hits. Nearly a hundred of them:Continue reading “Awesome Names for Radfem Blogs, the Special Kind”