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 […]
Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance
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Across the Kitchen Table: A Sister – to – Sister Dialogue
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Who Will Speak for the Children?
Part I For several months, women from Aegis and the D. C feminist community met to discuss incest. Some women in the group had been victimized as children. Others had […]
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 […]
Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon
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The Combahee River Collective Statement
We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our […]
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 […]