I’ve been reading up on sexuality a lot recently. Currently I’m reading The Ethical Slut (which I really like by the way) and the authors talk a lot about communication as part of living a pleasure-filled life. So I started thinking about communication and I came up with 3 C’s that I would want any … Continue reading
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Rapists, Beware: Detroit Prosecutor IDs 21 Attackers in ‘Rape Kit’ Probe – The Daily Beast
We need women like this in legislatures all over the world… and especially here in T&T, people who will make a fuss until something is done. “When Worthy learned of the Detroit pileup from the colleague who discovered it by chance, she says, she demanded immediate action from the police chief at the time. “No … Continue reading
A Testimonial about Street Harassment
Originally posted on happyparadox:
It happens all the time. You don’t have to be a beautiful, voluptuous woman to have a douchebag gawk at you from across the street or be followed and constantly worry about strange men clicking pictures. Being a woman will do. Walking alone is a mini adventure of its own. Yesterday was a…
Comments on an open letter to Senator St. Rose Greaves
This open letter to Senator St. Rose Greaves was sent to Verna St. Rose Greaves by the CatchAFyah Caribbean Feminist Movement while she was still Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development and a Senator in the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. The Network, which is a regional group of feminists, wrote to Verna St. Rose Greaves … Continue reading
Gina Barreca: Everybody is a feminist
gulftoday.ae | Gina Barreca: Everybody is a feminist http://ow.ly/c1qZu Rather, in my opinion, we all should be trying to be feminists. There is no denying that there are men and women who firmly believe that a woman’s place is in the home and “who believe women’s only place is in the home, with her mouth … Continue reading
Woman stabbed, beaten in head with hammer : Kaieteur News
Woman stabbed, beaten in head with hammer : Kaieteur News. Why are these stories so common in the Caribbean? Is there something in our culture that makes it seem easy for men to attack, disfigure and murder women for real or perceived insults? I’m not saying that this is a phenomenon that is limited to … Continue reading