February 2007
December 2006
Trinh T. Minh-ha essay
by jlesageNot You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference, by Trinh T. Minh-ha
November 2006
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
by jlesageBraidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.
SF Gate: Sex trafficking from South Korea to US
by jlesageDuring their trip to South Korea, Chronicle reporter Meredith May and staff photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice found that while the public sex industry has slowed, parts of the business has gone underground and is still alive and well. Audio/slideshow in 4 p
"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti
by jlesagean important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.
Radical Graphics
by jlesagelarge collection organized by thematic and political categories; useful for office door poster, flyer, or demonstration
October 2006
Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
by jlesagecurrent issue has free articles, progressive social geography
Rosa Braidotti and Judith Butler on ethics of relation
by jlesagea vivid debate between two feminist theorists described in detail
About radical reference | Radical Reference
by jlesagea service provided by volunteer library workers from all over the United States to assist demonstrators and activists
Carnival of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
by jlesageaccumulation of blog entries on important postcolonial theorist
September 2006
July 2006
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
by jlesageanalyses with extensive visual examples; archives of print issues since 1974
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
December 2005
November 2005
Right to Wife - Why does Judge Alito treat women like girls? By William Saletan
by glitch p-udding & 1 otherJudge Alito, it's a pleasure to have you before our committee this morning. You're obviously an accomplished jurist, and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle speak very highly of you. I really have only one question for you, and it's my hope that you'll be able to put my mind, and the public's mind, at ease about it. What I'd like to know is, why do you think it's constitutional to treat a pregnant woman like a child?
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