Two days ago Private Chelsea Manning made a statement that she wished to no longer be called Bradley Manning, and that she wished to go by female pronouns rather than male. In the last two days I have seem more soul sucking coverage which uses the wrong pronouns, the wrong name, and continual excuses for why it is “easier” to… Read more →
A letter was delivered anonymously to the mother of an autistic child in Ottawa this August. It was posted on twitter, and both buzzfeed and Huffington Post picked it up. READ THE LETTER and the come back here so we can talk about it. In the thread on which I first found this letter, someone said “I don’t think… Read more →
I do not have the emotional energy to talk about Boston today. But Boston is in my thoughts and I hope for all civillians’ to be safe and for all law enforcement officers to be safe. In lieu of more thoughts, I’m sharing a post by a blind woman who lives in Boston, whose story sounds a lot like when… Read more →
A couple weeks ago I decided to play the new Tomb Raider game and live tweet the experience. As a result of the livetweets, I’m definitely going to go play more games and livetweet them from a visually impaired perspective. Because you all seem to find it interesting. Obviously – a spoiler warning is HERE if you don’t want to… Read more →
Last night, a new reader shared a statistic with me that did not surprise me, but which scared the living daylights out of me: 80% of disabled women will experience sexual assault. 47% of disabled women who reported sexual abuse were assaulted on 10 or more occasions. Studies have found that anywhere between 40%-97% of sexual assaults against individuals with… Read more →
Candy Crowley why, as a woman was your question not “What is the lasting effect of a rape like this on a young woman?” The media reporting on the Steubenville case is nothing short of despicable. Your voices lend support to the theory that the lives of these rapists are worth more than that of the woman they raped…. Read more →
The first time I presented my research on obscenity law and burlesque, there was an old man sitting at the back of the room listening to my presentation (and the other two in the panel). During the Q&A session he didn’t ask any questions of either the guy who presented on airplane shows, or the woman who presented on sideshow…. Read more →
Hi Folks – I did not write this, this is the first guest post on Feminist Sonar, and it is one of the most important things you will read today. I am a survivor of sexual assault. I too am a multiple time survivor. Please begin considering what rape culture does, and how it affects EVERYONE.~ Elsa S. Henry, Feminist… Read more →
I’m so tired of feminists judging each other. I know I shouldn’t read the comments I know this, but when Jezebel posted their “Most Women Would Rather Kick Their Husbands to the Curb than Be a Housewife” post we all knew I wouldn’t be able to resist reading the comments. After all, the comments are like watching an ambulance filled… Read more →
The hacking collectivist group Anonymous released a video of the Steubenville football players who took a 16-year-old girl from house to house and sexually assaulted her. They simultaneously posted evidence on twitter, pushing the gang rape into the territory of pure unadulterated public torture. Anonymous released this video on the same day the House of Representatives refused to vote to… Read more →
