_allecto_ is relocating to wordpress. My new home is here Gorgon Poisons. It is not fully furnished and inhabitable quite yet but I am getting there. I hope you will join me for my blog warming party on an indeterminate date in the near future. I'm am sorry to my sister ljers that I reluctantly leave behind. I will continue to read my lj friend's page but ( Read more... )

Ok so I've decided that someway, somehow, I am going to get myself to Michfest this year. I am going to do it. I am determined. So, I'm going to the US for the fest. I think. Is there anything worth exploring in the US that should make me want to hang around after the fest? I could probably finance an extra week. But I have no idea what I could/ ( Read more... )

Dear colleagues from feminist and women’s organizations from different regions of the world ( Read more... )

SUNDAY MAIL columnist CLEMENTINE FORD reveals she had not one but two abortions - and that it was a really, really easy decision without guilt or shame.Clementine, you are an incredible, brave and amazing woman to stand up and put yourself out there for the rights of women and children everywhere. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your ( Read more... )

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is to star as a cartoon superhero fighting evil alongside a bevy of buxom Bunnygirls... He has teamed up with Spider Man creator and Marvel Comics guru Stan Lee to develop the TV cartoon. Septuagenarian Hefner will lead an elite crime-fighting team made up of various Playmates of the month, in the show Hef's ( Read more... )

Reading Sisterhood is Forever and being halfway through Not For Sale I just had to find out more about this woman Vednita Carter whose contributions to both volumes just reached out and grabbed me, shaking me right down to my bones ( Read more... )

Very funny. I actually met an older lesbian feminist recently who pulled me aside while at a information lunch on the NT intervention. She said, "Do you see any FDA's in the room ( Read more... )

The video below is an extract of a documentary called The Land of Missing Children. This is just beyond despicable.

I found the video here.

Click to view

Another worthwhile documentary on the sexual slavery of women in India is Born Into BrothelsThe trafficking of female peoples, children and women, into sexual slavery is worldwide and increasing. ( Read more... )

My friend, B, has finally finished the Australian Radical Feminism website. It is a really great resource with many links to resources that I didn't even know existed. Check out the little flying witch at the bottom of each page!

Go visit: The Fury: Australian Radical Feminism.

I posted a second story of Rebecca's over at Spinning Spinsters. It is called Always Remember. It is a very powerful recount of what men did to her when she was trapped in prostitution and sexual violence.

Please read Always Remember.