I talk about adoption a lot on this blog and will continue to do so. Its no secret than I am not an advocate of adoption and I think its really important that adoption is crtitiqued through a feminist and social justice lens but I find what often gets lost in anti adoption/adoption reform positions [...]
Archive for the ‘feminism’ Category
Misogyny in anti adoption rhetoric
Posted in adoption, feminism on February 18, 2009 | 8 Comments »
On being a “Feminist”
Posted in feminism on December 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was meandering around my head the other day and I realised I no longer thought of my self as a “Feminist” and thats not because I think feminism is a bad thing, and its not because I feel feminism is too exclusive. Some feminisms are exclusive but actualy they are not the feminisms that [...]
Love (work as activism)
Posted in feminism on December 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In her post Not dead yet, feminism and mythology Winter writes But if we conceptualize feminism as work rather than identity, it is apparent that thousands of women in this country are doing the grinding work of feminism every day of their lives. They’re certainly not being acknowledged for it, and they may well not [...]
Rocks and hard places: the sex workers rights debate
Posted in feminism on November 30, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Aaaannnndd this post is going to piss of just about everybody the recent reclaim the night march has bought the issues around the sex workers rights debate Front and centre in the feminist blogsphere, and the whole debate seems really off to me, makes me feel really uncomfortable. Firstly I find the phrase “sex worker” [...]
“Feminist Lens on Adoption”
Posted in adoption, feminism on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am part of a growing number of adult adoptees who view adoption as a feminist issue, part of a continuum of reproductive rights. This perspective extends to the right to raise one’s child the same importance as the right to choose whether or not to bear one. In her book “Beggars and Choosers: How [...]
Adoption is a Feminist Issue
Posted in adoption, anti adoption, feminism on November 27, 2008 | 11 Comments »
this is fromhere Does the woman who decides to resolve her infertility by adopting really manage to kid herself that the donor of an adoptable child has a ‘choice’?. Would any woman with a choice put herself through nine months of pregnancy and go into labor having made the decision to surrender her child, if [...]
thinking about goddess
Posted in feminism, spirituality on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Over at Don’t Stray from the path Debi crow writes a post about Monica Sjoos God Giving Birth I really love this picture. The woman who is mentoring/teaching me about paganism sent me a copy of it to meditate on. Goddess images, of the sort that resonate with me are not easy to come by. [...]
WAR
Posted in feminism on November 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In Flanders Fields By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, [...]
We fade Away
Posted in feminism, healing on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We eat everything that’s forced upon us, we swallow everything that’s shoved down our throats, the anger, the erasure, the lies, the secrets the violence but eventually we stop, we say “no more” we sew up our mouths and start erasing ourselves. and every woman, every woman I’ve ever known that has done this, every [...]
Prop 8, Prop 6 and white silence
Posted in feminism on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So prop 8 passed which sucks beyond belief, what also sucks is the racism that that unleashed in the queer community posts on this can be found Here, here and here I don’t know how those racist queer people are assuming that all people of colour voted for eight or that there are no queer [...]
