I'm doing some reassessing and research. Below is an excerpt from a piece I'm reading, and may be of interest to some of you:

Anti-Oppression 101: Alliance building, and tips for a liberatory organization

Working for Social Justice in Everything We Do Confronting privilege or ways you’ve been duped because of a group you belong to is a ( Read more... )

Found this via ONTD_Feminism, which I am really loving these days.

Why would geeks be misogynistic? The average geek is not just male, but white, heterosexual, abled, and middle- to upper-class. With all that privilege, it's a bit unsurprising that geeks are reluctant to challenge the status quo. As feminism is most broadly understood as ( Read more... )

So we finally posted the updated Scans/NoScans Daily resources. We've split it into two posts, one plain and one annotated, to cater to different sorts of readers. The resources are longer and better organized this time around.

Scans: Quick links version
Scans: Annotated version

NoScans: Quick links version
NoScans: Annotated versionI'm ( Read more... )

I've seen some debate around the term 'ally', the argument being that it's built on someone else's oppression. How do you feel about calling others/yourself an ally? I've seen the alternate term 'solidarity' advanced ("I'm doing solidarity work" vs. "I'm an ally"). Does this solve the problem/ignore another one?

View poll: solidarity vs ally ( Read more... )

Last night I talked about reporting Punch A Slut Week on Facebook. Sometime during the night, Facebook too the event down. \o/

Also, I can't recall if I linked to this article. Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative

Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of ( Read more... )

We're updating the Scans Daily / No Scans Daily resource page and I need your help ( Read more... )

TeeJay Szabo is hosting National Punch A Slut In the Face Week.

If you have an account on Facebook, please report this event as a violation of FB's terms of service ("a direct call to violence"). It advocates violence against women and slut shaming - for lulz.

Alternate: http

Trigger warning for sexual assault survivors!

I was going to write a post about this subject, but it's perhaps too soon for me to gather my wandering thoughts into something understandable and worthwhile. For now, I'll just link to the excellent The Not Rape Epidemic. If you've never read it, do so. It's a great essay. Otherwise it's worth a ( Read more... )

Catching up on email and comment notifications. Some of you can expect to be spammed.

Reading some things:

brihana25 writes about sexual misconduct at cons (the still ongoing imbroglio is in Supernatural, but the post is worth reading for everyone in fandom - context), and reminds us that victim-blaming is never acceptable.

Fandom, and the internet in ( Read more... )

Today I want to talk about one of my pet peeves: equating anti-oppression efforts with political correctness ( Read more... )