Sexual Assault Prevention Tips

August 2, 2011 9:26 am0 comments
Sexual Assault Prevention Tips

This is a wonderful graphic I found that I thought would be good to share. I’m uncertain who made the graphic but it seems to credit tumblinfeminist.tumblr.com.  I hope you all enjoy. Author: PunkJohnnyCash Visit PunkJohnnyCash’s Website – Email PunkJohnnyCash I am a writer at Gonzo Times. I started the [...]

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What Is There in Anarchy for Woman? By Emma Goldman

August 1, 2011 10:04 am1 comment
What Is There in Anarchy for Woman? By Emma Goldman

Interview in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine, October 24, 1897 via The Emma Goldman Papers “What does anarchy hold out to me–a woman?” “More to woman than to anyone else–everything which she has not–freedom and equality.” Quickly, earnestly Emma Goldman, the priestess of anarchy, exiled from Russia, feared by [...]

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White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

June 22, 2011 11:16 am3 comments
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

originally posted here. “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group” Peggy McIntosh Through work to bring materials from women’s studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men’s unwillingness to grant that they [...]

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Why Slutwalk?

May 20, 2011 8:01 am31 comments
Why Slutwalk?

Originally posted on BroadSnark By: Mel One morning, when I was in eighth grade, I got dressed for school and went outside to wait for my father to drive me. I was wearing a long knit skirt, sweater, and some boots. My outfit would have met the requirements for an [...]

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More TSA shenanigans

April 27, 2011 1:51 am0 comments
More TSA shenanigans

I guess this is why Kathy Parker’s bags were ransacked! At what point does an airport search step over the line? How about when they start going through your checks, and the police call your husband, suspicious you were clearing out the bank account? That’s the complaint leveled by Kathy [...]

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My Planned Parenthood Experience

April 17, 2011 8:37 am3 comments
My Planned Parenthood Experience

Cross posted at DrunkenAtheist.com So, people are understandably pissed over Glenn Beck’s assertion that only hookers need Planned Parenthood. Now, the statement is (obviously) really fucked up for a lot of reasons. I don’t have the time or patience to unpack all of the shitty implications about sex workers from [...]

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Whence Bigotry? (a.k.a. Prejudice and the State)

April 16, 2011 4:11 pm0 comments
Whence Bigotry? (a.k.a. Prejudice and the State)

Cross posted at jVerse with podcast The evolutionary psych story about humanity is that war, genocide, and the divisive “-isms” that keep humans in a perpetual state of conflict are inevitable expressions of an “us vs. them” tendency that is simply a part of our biological makeup. It’s indisputable that [...]

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Fanny Howe's "Economics"

April 7, 2011 1:34 pm13 comments
Fanny Howe's "Economics"

Economics is an incredible book. Writer Fanny Howe in a mere 134 pages does what conservatives have wanted to do for decades – lay out the failures, neurosis and narcissism of the Baby Boomer generation. Howe does this with finesse and, through the medium of fiction, is able to show [...]

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A Primer On The New Tribalism

April 2, 2011 5:24 pm6 comments
A Primer On The New Tribalism

Punk Johnny Cash has asked that I write more about the Alternative Right and their movement. We’ve had several excursions with them here at Gonzo Times, as I have when I written about them elsewhere. This article I hope to be a definitive piece aimed for republication in the Gonzo [...]

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Sex Slavery

March 24, 2011 10:01 am0 comments
Sex Slavery

by: Voltairine de Cleyre NIGHT in a prison cell! A chair, a bed, a small washstand, four blank walls, ghastly in the dim light from the corridor without, a narrow window, barred and sunken in the stone, a grated door! Beyond its hideous iron latticework, within the ghastly walls, -a [...]

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Takedown of an Anarcho-Misogynist

March 21, 2011 1:30 pm25 comments
Mouth shutting is key to reactionaries.

Cross posted from my website, jad-davis.com (hence the odd seeming self-reference to Gonzo Times).  Below, I’ve combined the Introduction with the follow-up post, Marriage, Monogamy, and Violence to save on page real estate. Introduction The next several posts will (barring sidetracking) be related to a discussion going on at the [...]

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