Review of Yes Means Yes (originally posted at CANOW)

This collection of essays edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti and published by Seal Press, is excellent.  I highly recommend it to women of all ages.  If you are old enough to make your own decisions about your sexuality, you should read this book. The authors in this book discuss the need to...

Rape Myths (Originally posted on Livejournal, and CANOW in May 2009)

Sorry for the radio silence all week.  I appear to have contracted the plague (not swine flu, I did go to the doctor), and have had difficulty stringing together any sentences more complex than, “Juice, now!” or “Get these hot cats off me!”  Apparently illness brings out the...

No One Wants to Be The Slut: Originally posted at CANOW.org

Ok, so there is so much going on right now, and I am so riled about so many things that I’m having a hard time being coherent.  So, what I’m going to do here is re-post some of the things I wrote for the California Chapter of NOW’s blog, that they’ve taken down since handing the blog...

Re-Post from CANOW – Schrodinger’s Rapist and Why it doesn’t say what you thought it did

This appears to have been removed from the CA NOW blog, so I thought I’d re-post it here.   Over at Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose, guest blogger Phaedra Starling wrote a post called “Schrodinger’s Rapist.”  The comments on that one post closed at over 1,000 and then the...

New CA NOW post

I don’t actually know what I look like. I don’t think many women do. This entry originally posted at http://polimicks.dreamwidth.org/

New Post at CA NOW

Here’s a tip: If a dude is into casual sex, and you’re not? You’re not a good match. Knock it off with the slut shaming, we’re not stealing anything from you. This entry originally posted at...