Category Archives: violence against women

#DearJohn: Speaking of Releasing Your Privacy to Prove Rape…

So, according to the language of H.R. 3, the only way that a person would be able to have an abortion covered by any insurance covered under the new plan would be to prove rape, or incest if that person … Continue reading

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How To Dress Up Misogyny In Fantasy Fiction

Something that was marked in the “loved” side of the Love-Hate  relationship I have with Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth Series (which, I don’t care what he says, is a fantasy fiction series, so there. If you didn’t want to … Continue reading

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No Good Deed (Part II)…

Angel seems to be a neverending arch of consequences and well-intended deeds that just can’t go unpunished. Angel is constantly making decisions that seem like the right thing to do at the time but always seems to turn up with … Continue reading

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No Good Deed (Part I)…

  It happens to be that one of the thing that I adore about the shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel is that they have a knack for spinning out the long-lasting effects of the consequences of the actions … Continue reading

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Liar

One episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that perhaps has the hardest tug on the cockles of where my heart used to be, gentle readers, is Season 3′s “Helpless”. Perhaps I am just all maudlin right now, but there is … Continue reading

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Eclipse: I Had To Blog It Sooner Or Later

I put it off as long as I could… and then I rolled up to Fast Food Establishment after a swim one day to get a veggie burger and LOW AND BEHOLD I had to drink my unsweetened effing tea … Continue reading

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The One Where My Boundaries Were Also Violated…

Warning, this post if very rambly… I went to a very whitewashed high school in the U.S. My U.S. History teacher had a fucking shrine to Monticello in back of the room, and we learned about what a Great Guy … Continue reading

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Another Social Justice Blogger Killed In Action…

Expanded from my Tumblr. My friend Ceceliea, of Anishinaabekwe, has closed her blog. She has been a Native American social justice advocate, working for the good of Native women in Michigan and also online. Recently she was bullied by women … Continue reading

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They don't go away…

I had a high school bully. He followed me around, yelled things at me, made lewd comments about me and what my then-boyfriend were or were not doing, threw things in my hair, and made my life kind of a … Continue reading

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Me, Elsewhere — Some Shameless Self Promotion

It’s been a while since I have updated Readerland on where I have been and why it has been abnormally quiet on random babble… lately. In no particular order: Racialicious — Wopajo FWD/Forward — For Cereal, Time? For Cereal, Stars … Continue reading

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