But what if leadership in contemporary feminism were not defined by the readily visible stuff—TV show spots and books—but on powerful activism and community building? Then you’d have a whole different list of leaders: Latifa Lyles, VP of NOW, Mia Herndon, ED of The Third Wave Foundation, and the women of INCITE!—Alisa Bierria, Eunice Cho, Chela Delgado, Nada Elia, Rosemary Gibbons, Isabel Gonzalez, Xandra Ibarra, Emi Kane, Jenny Lee, Andrea Ritchie. Etc. Etc. As our Fire in the Belly series indicates, there are young women all over the country doing amazing work. Are they leaders? Absolutely. Are they famous? No.
Women’s bodies are still regarded as ornaments, not instruments,” Steinem says. “Pornography is about violence, control, humiliation and even pain, not freely chosen mutual pleasure.
— The Gloria Steinem Factor: On feminist icon’s 75th birthday, she has much to celebrate, as do we, except that whole porn bit.
For maximum authenticity, that’s a Tripod page with an autoplaying midi. (And Eric, I’m still sad about not meeting you in Austin.)I miss the “_____ ate my balls” meme. There’s a big list of them at KRAZY KEITH’s (almost complete) “ATE MY BALLS” LINKS PAGE if you miss it, too.
I’d be with her and she’d get numbers that weren’t even in her contacts, random numbers that she didn’t know, texting her, ‘You’re a whore, you’re a slut,’ ” Lauren said. “Or, she’d get on MySpace and get messages from people calling her those names, or Facebook would be the same way. It was constant. She’d go home thinking, ‘Oh I’m going to get away from this,’ but she never could get away from it.
Quick video interview I did after breakfast at Info-Activism Camp, on mobile video & also sex worker activism in the US
(via carnalknowledge, via bendmeover, via deepervalley)
“During the final years of working on Lapdancer, I was no longer dancing myself and traveled the United States simply to photograph. I went to Colorado, Las Vegas, Tampa, Ft. Myers and Miami. I began shooting “house” dancers with my newly bought Polaroid Joy Cam. I had an idea: I would photograph a dancer and ask her to sign the bottom of her portrait with a Sharpie just like the feature and porn actresses had done, elevating her to a higher level of stardom. Instead of the formulaic one-liners, I asked them to write what they were really thinking at that very moment while working a night’s shift at the club.
Many of the dancers wrote the ubiquitous “I want to make lots of MONEY” or something close to it. However, sometimes a dancer would write very personal ironic or sad one-lined commentaries. An older dancer from Ft. Myers named Pennie wrote under her portrait, “Thanks for seeing something in me that I no longer see”.”
