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Incest Victims: Social Action Can Be As Or More Healing Than Individual Therapy
We are again indebted to Dr. Diana Russell for permission to reprint this selection from her essay, “Politicizing Sexual Violence: A Voice in the Wildnerness”. A version of this essay appears in Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health (1995). Dr. Russell argues that mental health practitioners who treat incest victims and survivors […]
The Republican: “Web serves as great resource for activists”
The March 15 Republican reports on the growth of blogs and websites for local activism. Daryl LaFleur posts public documents at Paradise City Forum so people can review them and “come to their own conclusions,” without having to troop down to City Hall. Granby resident Mark Bail hosts Granby01033, a blog to bring more attention […]
Anti-Porn Billboards Across America
The adult industry has certainly peppered the American landscape with come-hither billboards, as they know well in Hartford, but apparently the other side has put up a few as well, a tiny step to balance a badly distorted national discourse. Here’s a quick tour: Anti-Porn Billboards Pop Up Around Jacksonville on Valentine’s DayBillboards around the […]
Visitors to NoPornNorthampton Website Outnumber Those of Local Newspaper Website
[Revised and updated on May 30, 2007] For the first time, an independent web measurement service estimates that NoPornNorthampton.org receives more monthly unique US visitors than GazetteNet.com, a website of Northampton’s local newspaper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette. (The Gazette also serves some visitors as DailyHampshireGazette.com.) Quantcast estimates that NoPornNorthampton is now receiving 12,629 monthly unique […]
Canada: Rural Teens Even More Likely to View Porn than Urban; Parents, Sex Ed Somewhat Oblivious to Childrens’ Porn Viewing Habits
Science Daily reports these findings from a new University of Alberta study… A total of 429 students aged 13 and 14 from 17 urban and rural schools across Alberta, Canada, were surveyed anonymously about if, how and how often they accessed sexually explicit media content on digital or satellite television, video and DVD and the […]
Child Porn Mogul: A View from the Inside (explicit language)
Anti-porn activists held a press conference in Minneapolis on July 25, 1984. This statement is published in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.265-268). Statement of Ms. P. I saw a different side of my father [who had numerous teaching awards], he called it his play-time. I didn’t know why I posed nude […]
Register Now! Conference of Academics and Activists Against Porn, March 23-25, Boston
Pornography and Pop Culture: Reframing Theory, Re-thinking Activism March 23-25 Wheelock College Boston, MA Registration is free The so-called “porn wars” that were fought over the feminist critique of contemporary mass-marketed pornography derailed important academic and activist work. It is time to move on by reframing our thinking on pornography, especially in light of the […]
Ask Blue Razor to Decline Capital Video’s Website Registration Business (explicit language)
Blue Razor helps people register domain names on the Internet. They are the registrar for Amazing.net, one of Capital Video’s websites. We recently asked Blue Razor to decline Capital Video’s business, and we invite the pubic to contact Bob Parsons, the president of Blue Razor, and support our request. We wrote on January 31: Dear […]
Activist Strategies: Indiana Feminists Block “Girls Gone Wild”; Berlin Resident Fights Strip Club Liquor License with Remonstrance Petition
Amanda Marcotte reports on the feminist blog Pandagon how activists in Bloomington, IN successfully pressured a local bar to cancel a taping of the amateur-porn phenomenon “Girls Gone Wild”. This video series produced by Joe Francis follows a camera crew to party spots in various cities as they persuade attractive, usually drunk young women to strip […]