5.07.09 feminist visions

Feminist Declaration: From the Americas Social Forum in Guatemala

Woman with microphone
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A good life must be based on an equal distribution of power.

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"We're All Feminists": Solidarity with HIV Positive Women in West Africa

Woman with Fight Global AIDS poster
Authors: Sarah Mukasa

Summary:There is no stopping us. We're here to stay. We're here to speak out.

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Principles for Feminist Leadership: Struggling to Share Power

Authors: Michelle Williams

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When we become so afraid of conflict that we stop challenging, we take power away from our organization.

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The Tyranny of Tyranny

Homeless women at St. Patrick's shelter in Somerville MA protest against Catholic Charities cancelling onsite HIV/AIDS education programs and access to condoms, as well as the firing of the program director, Gayle Basten, November 16, 1991. Photo: © Ellen
Authors: Cathy Levine

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Small groups aren't the problem. They're the solution.

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The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Code Pink activists spell out "Make Out Not War" at the Democratic National Convention. Aerial photo: © John Quigley
Authors: Jo Freeman

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Structurelessness is a way of masking power, usually most strongly advocated by the most powerful.

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Utopian Visions of Literature: Avoiding "Tom Swift and the Tsathogguans"

Court, Providence, RI, 2008. PHOTO: SONJA ENGDAHL
Authors: Sarah Monette

Summary:Sarah Monette reviews The Country You Have Never Seen by Joanna Russ.

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Imagining a New Global Eco-Economy: A Future US Presidential Blog Post

San Francisco Main Public Library, February 2006. PHOTO: THOMAS HAWK
Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson

Summary:Excerpt from the concluding novel in the Science in the Capital series, Sixty Days and Counting.

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Robust Utopias: A Conversation with Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson

Students at a demonstration in Paris, March 26, 2006. PHOTO: MALIAS VIA FLICKR
Authors: Kim Stanley Robinson Sam Diener

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A Conversation with Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson By Sam Diener

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The Poetry of Memoir: Questioning Patriarchs, Questioning Ourselves

"Good as Gold" by the artist Donald Lipski, New Country Club Plaza branch of the Kansas City Public Library, 2006. PHOTO: GWEN E. SPRAGUE
Authors: Regie B. Gibson

Summary:Regie Gibson reviews The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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Reinstate Malalai Joya to Afghanistan's Parliament: Feminist Banned for Honesty

Joya at a UNIFEM conference, Photo: AfghanKabul, 2007
Authors: Human Rights Watch

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