October 2012
3 posts
Free Pussy Riot - Tobi Vail & The Pussy Riot...
June 2012
1 post
Permanent Wave NYC Benefit for Pussy Riot - June...
Tuesday, June 12 Benefit for Pussy Riot – Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys! (DJ Set), Heliotropes, Shady Hawkins, TinVulva @ Death By Audio All ages, 8pm, $7
for more info check out kathleen hanna’s blog
April 2012
26 posts
WatchAttention musicians and music fans!
Today is the day to donate a portion of your income and/or the price of a record to Pussy Riot!
“A female sex organ which is supposed to be receiving and shapeless suddenly...”
– Garadzha, Pussy Riot from Meeting Pussy Riot
April 19: Free Pussy Riot Action Day
Show Your Solidarity on the day of the trial
From FREEPUSSYRIOT.org
April 19th, the day of the trial is the action day to show your real support and solidarity with the Pussy Riot and their three alleged members unfairly jailed in Moscow ! Take Action and Make Noise: - protest in front of Russian Embassy in your country - phone Russian Government - call press - wear your...
“We have nothing to worry about, because if the repressive Putinist police crooks...”
– Pussy Riot, on getting arrested in Meeting Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot - Death to Prison, Freedom to Protest
“Pussy Riot has to keep on expanding. That’s one of the reasons we choose...”
– Meeting Pussy Riot
February 2011
5 posts
“One of the pleasantest things those of us who write or paint do is to have the...”
– Gertrude Stein, Paris France (1940)
“Wall Street Bankers Take in Record $135 Billion in Compensation
The Wall...”
– http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/3/headlines#13
October 2010
2 posts
May 2010
1 post
"Girls Night Out" is not for me
Here’s my letter to ODA about today’s event Girls Night Out
I am bummed that ODA is promoting an event that reinforces traditional gender roles and stereotypes. While it is true that some women love to shop and wear pink, it is also true that women were once confined to this identity in our not-so-distant past and not all of us are nostalgic for that time. I was troubled to see...
April 2010
1 post
“I asked Beardsley about Venus and its commitment to feminism....”
– http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/venus-magazine-amy-schroeder-sarah-beardsley/Content?oid=1570058&storyPage=2
March 2010
2 posts
“There should be billboards; ads in magazines; ads on buses, subways, trains;...”
– bell hooks
Feminism is for Everybody
“Excluding vehicles, single black women have a median wealth of $100 and Hispanic...”
– http://jezebel.com/5492099/women-of-color-and-wealth—looking-at-the-wealth-gap-part-2
February 2010
17 posts
“Afghanistan’s “most famous woman” has voiced deep scepticism...”
– http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/joya-condemns-ridiculous-military-strategy-1899547.html
“And how would you define its moral?
It is a contemporary family tale; it is...”
– Swiss director Ursula Meier, from an interview about her feature-length film, Home
“For me feminism is both a consciousness that women suffer discrimination at...”
– Ziba Mir-Hosseini
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/sikand090210.html
“I’ll tell you what pisses me off more than almost anything: when people say, ‘As...”
– -Val McDermid
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/10/feminists-love-mutilated-women.html#ixzz0fOP74Suv
““Authors must be free to write and publishers to publish. But critics must...”
– Sexist violence sickens crime critic
Leading novelist (Jessica Man) says graphic depictions of sadistic misogyny have become so extreme she refuses to review some new fiction
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/25/jessica-mann-crime-novels-anti-women
“I am happy to be alive here in Olympia which is still a thriving punk scene...”
– -Tobi Vail, History Lesson Pt 3/Punk Rock Changed My Life/ Tales of a 40 Year Old Punk Rocker
Nuts fanzine #4, quoted here
