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
February 4, 1919 Editorial by Anna Louise Strong
Union Record February 4, 1919 Editorial by Anna Louise Strong
ON THURSDAY AT 10 A.M. There will be many cheering and there will be some who fear. Both of these emotions are useful, but not too much of either. We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead - NO ONE KNOWS WHERE! We do not need hysteria. We need the iron march of...
Anna Louise Strong
The Politics of Gender in the Writings of Anna Louise Strong By Rebecca B. Jackson
“Out of the conflicts that raged around the Union Record, loneliness and confusion grew for me. As once I had clung to the hollow form of independence while eastern monopoly took control of my child welfare exhibits, so now I clung to the outworn form of comradeship, though the old comrades called each...
Feb 6: Remember The Seattle General Strike, 1919 →
