Sam Berg has written about the unethical way that Constance Sisk handled the organising of a panel on feminist perspectives on pornography at the College of William & Mary, Virginia - read here, (also here, here, here, and here)
And just in case anyone missed it, the Thirteenth Carnival of the Radical Feminists is over at fellow Brit southerner Anji’s blog, Shut Up Sit Down.
The Oldest Liberation Movement at EVAW
Finn Mackay introduces the Feminist Coalition Against Prostitution.
Also see Mind The Gap for information regarding a Welsh branch of FCAP.
Misogyny and male violence against women is endemic but the truth must remain hidden
also at EVAW. Jennifer Drew questions the silence around femicide in the UK.
Ignoring forced marriage doesn’t make it go away at Rhetorically Speaking
Straw sacrifices prostitution law to ban strikes by prison staff at Incurable Hippie
IH also asks for support protesting the opening of a Hooters in Sheffield while Cruella-blogger Kate asks for support protesting the application from a London pub hoping to introduce strip shows.
Also at Cruella-blog, an argument in favour of the Swedish model and a hat tip for leading me to this interview of Roger Matthews, a criminology Professor and expert on prostitution, by Julie Bindel
Debs at the Burning Times suggests a national conference for Radical Feminists. Debs updates frequently and I find it hard to choose any single article to recommend, so here are a few more: an article on Rape Crisis, and a defence of women only spaces Part 1 and Part 2 inspired by this post by Michelle at Lonergirl, and here’s another response from RMott.
Another post by RMott to recommend, I am confused.
Maia writes on Contraception, sex education and abortion
Why Im a Feminist by Mwezzi at Me and My Army
Nectarine writes about meeting women from Swanseas Older Feminist Network.
Nectarine has also set up a new blog which I will contributing to, Crazy Like Us?, a feminist look at mental health in the UK. Please visit, comment, and contribute your stories and news.
Scotland Looks To Success Of Swedish Model at Sparklematrix. Sparklematrix also covered the story of Colin Norris, the male nurse who serial murdered the elderly women in his care - another clear example of femicide that went mostly unnamed.
Anji explains why Support of Pornography and Prostitution is not Feminist
Over at the F-Word, news of a campaign for feminist author Sheila Rowbotham to keep her job at the University of Manchester, who seriously need to untwist their budget priorities.
And finally - a reminder to support and subscribe to UK feminist magazine Subtext.
Wherever you may be -
I miss you and your posts, which always used to make me laugh as well as make me think. I hope you’re well and doing good, and I hope very much that one day you’ll return in some way to writing.
All the best and in solidarity 
Structurally speaking, as a person facing oppression of whatever kind, one has two choices. One can resist the oppression—in general, or in any particular instance—in which case one is likely to get viciously slapped down. Alternatively, one can obey, that is, act in ways that please the oppressors, perhaps in hopes of gaining some limited reward (or at least of avoiding the oppressive system’s very worst consequences). As you may have noticed, neither option is altogether attractive; as the feminist philosopher Marilyn Frye points out, oppression systematically puts oppressed people in double binds, catch-22s, situations in which, as we say, they “can’t win for losing.” But the crucial point for our purposes here is that one way, arguably the central way, in which oppressive systems perpetuate themselves is by giving individual members of the oppressed group an apparent stake in toeing the line. At the very least, we “go along to get along” in many situations, and we may find that the more we curry favor with those in power, the more we are rewarded on an individual basis.
Because of this dynamic, if some role or practice X harms women as a group in that it sustains and reinforces patriarchy, it is utterly predictable that some women will choose it. Thus, again, the essential feminist question is not whether some individual women like or choose or benefit in certain ways from X, but whether the overall effect of X is to keep women as a group subordinate to men.
Rebecca Whisnant
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