Meant to link this earlier... a wonderful post from cheshire_bitten on mental illness and the stigma around "crazies" having sex and sexualities. I reproduce it here in its entirety because it is just that important.

Mentally ill people are denied their sexuality. We are either predators (schizophrenia) or we are poor dears, to scared to be touched (depression, ( Read more... )

Because it gets turned into a silly sound byte FAR too often.

Notice that it is not at all about telling women how they should behave or think:
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but ( Read more... )

This post is, well, just a whole pile o' good. I excerpt:
So I've been sort of half-assedly observing some of the blogs I read having a small explodiation about something about burlesque and the fallout from same, with the usual suspects having a "Why aren't you people concerned about raunch culture and teh pr0n, this is the most important feminist ( Read more... )

A very long, wonderful, disturbing, worth reading blog entry on ableism of various kinds, in the media and out.

Most relevant to some stuff making the usual blogo rounds is this bit:

I am not oppressed by the patriarchy; it was not a man who denied me a shower in a town where a poodle can get a shower and shampoo in a couple hours with a single call ( Read more... )

There's a post up at the FRIDA blog on Jack Kevorkian, and the following struck me:

thanks for bringing this up linda. the gender element of jack's victims has almost always been ignored by the press and mainstream feminist groups. although very early on in kevorkian's killing spree a writer did pick up and this and put out an article "the woman ( Read more... )