Topic: gender
Untying the Knots: Marriage Equality and the Struggle for Civil Rights
While conservatives are coordinated in their assault on queers, people of color, women, low-income people, and immigrants, many of us under attack are divided, in part because we have learned and internalized the prejudice, mistrust, and hatred that the rightwing … Continue reading
Men in the Movement
Just got back from National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) in DC. It was good, there were around a thousand people…and there were some really righteous discussions. One particularly thought provoking session was an Anti-Sexist Organizing workshop led by 2 … Continue reading
Intersections: Organizing All the Oppressed To End All Our Oppressions
What I hope to do in this presentation is to underscore a number of points that have already been made, to elaborate a bit on them, and to add a few new ones. The several points I wish to discuss … Continue reading
the healing journey as a site of resistance
“Addressing our individual and collective suffering, we will find ways to heal and recover that can be sustained, that can endure from generation to generation” (hooks, 1995, 145). I am real. I am a woman who, as a child, was … Continue reading
Beyond Welfare Queens: developing a race, class and gender analysis of Welfare and Welfare Reform
In 1996 the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act became law and dismantled the 61 year old program of federally guaranteed Aid to Families with Dependent Children or what is common referred to as welfare. The debate surrounding welfare reform … Continue reading
Leslie Feinberg’s Speech at the Al-Fatiha Retreat
Leslie Feinberg gave this speech at the Al-Fatiha international retreat in Washington DC in the spring of 2002. The community event featured Joo-Hyun Kang of the Audre Lorde Project and Surina Khan of the International Gay and Lesbian Task Force … Continue reading