I was just thinking about how I used to think that only a ciswoman could know what it feels like to be a woman. However, now I'm not really sure that cis women feel like women. I had to ask myself -- do I feel like a woman? What part of my internal sense of self could I actually call the "woman" part? I can't identify any feelings that I've ever ( Read more... )

Valour towards their enemies and love towards their wives, are the two heads of his discourse, never failing in the close, to put them in mind, that 'tis their wives who provide them their drink warm and well seasoned. -- Montaigne

"The question of whether or not to sell ourselves to men is a false one: The real question is how to sell ourselves in the way that is least destructive to ourselves and our sisters. Prostitutes don't need our condescension. What they need is our alliance. And we need theirs."
The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, Boston Women's Health Collective, p 113 ( Read more... )

It may be impossible to really have gender equality. If we're all part of the manifesting thoughts of a being who is offspring of only half of the God/Goddess creator or originator (or simply, original consciousness -- that which always has been and always will be), then we're doomed to imbalance.

There are so many things I'd like to do, or think I'd like to do, but I need to think about what is actually do-able in the next year or so. We're moving to NH. I'll still be in school through the middle of June ( Read more... )

My eyes are puffy today from crying yesterday and the day before, but I've come through it and I can finally be happy. Unsure how to phrase it, I'd been searching for information on feelings of insecurity. Finally, I stumbled upon an article about how feelings of fear and anger can surface in response to being loved. Instead of being able to accept ( Read more... )

I've mentioned this before -- When I was listening to KPFK one day, I heard a gay man talking about homosexual relationships vs hetersexual relationships. He said that in a relationship between a man and a woman, the man is the subject and the woman is the object, but when two men are together, it is a subject/subject relationship instead of a ( Read more... )

I've got a chicken & egg problem.... sort of. Basically, if conditions were better (greater socio-economic equality, abolishing poverty, improving public education), then the personal lives of individuals would improve because they would have resources they could use to become emotionally stable, mentally well, psychologically healthy, good ( Read more... )

I was thinking about what I said about paper plates. Honestly, I think we could be getting so much clean energy from the sun and we could just use paper plates all the time b/c the paper could be recycled, the water used in the process could be filtered, the power could come from solar panels, and people could work in the paper plate factory ( Read more... )

I've been reading Red Feminism by Kate Weigand. She talks about Mary Inman's analysis of housework, which the Communist Party did not consider to be "productive labor." I'll admit right now that I don't know enough about these terms and the communist theories to understand the difference between labor and productive labor. Isn't it all considered ( Read more... )