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30 May

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Women With A Vision targeted by arson attack

26 May

So sad to share that this week, Women With a Vision’s offices were broken into and set aflame.  No one was hurt, almost nothing was stolen but, they’ve lost nearly everything and are in need of a new space.  You can read more about it on the Louisiana Justice Institute’s blog.

I’ve posted about WWAV and their amazing work on improving the legal ramifications of sex work for poor women, WOC, and queer & transfolk in LA several times before.  I think anyone working (or even breathing) in New Orleans is aware of and grateful for this organization and I personally can’t really imagine the city without them.

I’m learning more and more that sometimes solidarity just means cash.  Please take a moment and show some with WWAV.  Let’s bring ‘em back ASAP.

Donate here.

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2-cent, will you marry me?

15 Apr

What a week, New Orleans!  Sex workers off the sex offenders list, criminal mastermind Sheriff Gusman FINALLY closes the House of Detention, the god damn Danziger cops were FINALLY sentenced, and now a 2-cent///Dead Prez///Yasiin Bey (Mos Def)///MikeFlo collaborative tribute to Trayvon Martin.  Beautiful.

I saw Yasiin at the march for Justin Sipp & Wendell Allen and it took every ounce of me to avoid fan-girling out all over him.

P.S.  Happy birthday, momma!  I love you.

Thank you, Jesus!

13 Apr

Even Jesus loved sex workers! Everyone know that.

I’ve posted a few times here before about Women With a Vision’s (swoon…) NO Justice campaign against Louisiana’s charmingly backwards SCAN law. Last year, they and their legal team successfully lobbied to reduce the sentencing for folks convicted of Solicitation of Crimes Against Nature (felony) to that of regular ol’ prostitution (misdemeanor).

And, now… Ta-da! This week, a federal judge has ordered that all peeps already added to the sex offender registry under newly-castrated SCAN be removed from it in the next 30 days. No takebacks (er… appeals).

As an anarchist with zero faith in electoral politics, I choose to put my time and energy into projects that I believe are trying to circumvent that system. These projects are often informal and small in scale and occasionally oppositional to (or just resentful of) liberal politics and non-profit work.

This campaign is an excellent reminder to me that it takes all kinds. The positive difference in the lived experiences of the ladies & gents who will soon be justly removed from the sex offenders list is almost incomprehensible. Being labelled a sex offender cost them time, money, and friends; job opportunities and access to resources; the simple privilege of being allowed near churches, schools, and children. Not to mention, it left them in a position of severe vulnerability to state and sexual violence. I can’t imagine the amount of work that went into navigating the Louisiana legislature, particularly on behalf (or even as) sex workers. I am personally so grateful for Women With a Vision and their liberal, non-profit work.

Oh, happy day!

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What We’re Reading

26 Feb

The Arcane of Reproduction book cover

Speaking of affective labor, while little Georgia is finally sleeping in the next room, I found some time to finally finish the first chapter of the Arcane of Reproduction:  Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital by Leopoldina Fortunati.

It only took me about six weeks.

But, it feels good!  I’ve been getting pretty into these retro-rad Marxist-feminists but, four plus years out of college and typically subsisting on a regular diet of sci-fi and celebrity gossip (mostly the latter), I have to admit that it’s a bit challenging.  Every few pages, I have to look up a term just to get through the paragraph.  Enough to make me blush.

So, any smarty-pants out there who just breezed through it their summer between eighth and ninth grades?  Anyone who has read it at all?  And, most importantly, do I really have to read Das Kapital?  Cause all this time I just assumed it was something that boys used to sound arrogant and out of touch.

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SHIT MANARCHISTS SAY

8 Feb

Sing it, girls!

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Happy Friday! Here’s a 90′s throwback!

18 Nov

I can’t exactly defend Gwen Stefani’s nouveau riche, culture-surfing ways now but, back in the day, this video just may have been my first taste of fashionable feminism.  Enjoy, comrades and enjoy your weekend!

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N17 SOLIDARITY ACTIONS IN NEW ORLEANS tomorrow!

16 Nov

N17 SOLIDARITY ACTIONS IN NEW ORLEANS

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Even Flashback Friday is a throwback now.

4 Nov

And, by that I mean we haven’t posted a 90′s throwback music video for y’all in so long, that it’s making me a little nostalgic.

You have to excuse us.  Between Ms. Sarah SK and myself, new projects abound.  Those, on top of the Occupy movements, have unfortunately left NO BOSSES, NO BOYFRIENDS neglected and overlooked for quite some time now.

It’s just been one of those seasons.

You know, one of my favorite things about music from the 90′s is that women (even) in pop were given room to explore topics other than partying and romance.  I think this Monica jam (performed to a bunch of pre-teens at All That!, no less) is a wonderful example.  “My emotional dynamicism is not entirely dependent on my love life!”

 

Enjoy, comrades and enjoy your weekend!

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What’s poppin this week.

2 Nov

10th Annual New Orleans Book Fair

Kickoff party Friday night 11/4 at the Allways on St. Claude starting at 10 pm and a book-themed burlesque show across the street at the Hi-Ho from 10 to 12.
Book Fair this Saturday 11/5 at the corner of Frenchman and Chartres from 11 am to 5 pm. Be sure to check out the Kids’ Space while you’re there!

 

$LADIES$NIGHT$

For those who don’t know, Ladies’ Night is a radical feminist discussion group that has been meeting almost weekly for over two years in New Orleans. We now meet every Sunday at 4 pm for a kid-friendly, BYOB, no$boys$allowed potluck and discussion. Update! Our new Contemporary Radical Feminisms readers are printed and bound and beautiful! Please shoot us an email for questions, our location, or to get a copy of the readings. (Readings schedule TBA.) ladiesnight@noboyfriends.org

 

Crescent City Childcare Collective

C4 provides competent and politicized childcare support to local organizations in New Orleans who are already doing amazing work.  They will be Kids’ Spacing it at the Book Fair this Saturday but, if you miss em, don’t forget that there are monthly collective meetings every second Saturday of the month at Fairgrinds Coffee House in Mid City. The next one is Saturday 11/12 at 1 pm, immediately followed by a free childcare training for new volunteers at 2 pm at the same location.  Check out their blog for more info.

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