Take Back The Night Vancouver: 1978 -1985 Herstory
San Francisco, USA, 1978. The slogan “Take Back the Night” is first used as a theme for a national protest march down San Francisco’s pornography strip. The march took place […]
Funny Things Happen on Our Way to Revolution
Co-optation, that is the assimilation of something different into the mainstream, is a constant problem for any political movement. It is natural process in this society which maintains the status quo […]
Fighting for Control
The Rape Issue in Crisis Government cutbacks. Legislative foot dragging. Recalcitrant cops. Public indifference. All these have frustrated the work of the anti-rape movement which continues to slog away at […]
The First Years
There are about twenty of us, on a good day; two full-time paid members, six part-time paid members and twelve unpaid members. For most of us, it is a full-time […]
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Biologically men have only one innate orientation–a sexual one that draws them to women–while women have two innate orientations, sexual toward men and reproductive toward their young.(1) I was a woman terribly […]
Power and Control: A Feminist View of Pornography
When Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine, was convicted of obscenity charges in the United states, several luminaries of the arts world, including Gore Vidal and Woody Allen, came to […]
Welfare is a Women’s Issue
I’m a woman. I’m a black woman. I’m a poor woman. I’m a fat woman. I’m a middle-aged woman. And I’m on welfare. In this country, if you’re any one […]
The Personal Is Political
For this paper I want to stick pretty close to an aspect of the Left debate commonly talked about—namely “therapy” vs. “therapy and politics.” Another name for it is “personal” […]
Male Violence Against Women ~ What can Men do?
Believe women when they tell you about their experiences of sexism Respect women’s wishes about how they want their situation to be handled Do your fair share of childcare and […]
Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief Society
Rape Relief’s Summary of Key Evidence (January 2001) Vancouver Rape Relief’s Legal Arguments Part 1 (January 2001) Vancouver Rape Relief’s Legal Arguments Part 2 (January 2001) Nixon v. Vancouver Rape […]