5. What are the overarching patterns that you see within the pieces in this section? How are these disparate topics relevant to each other?
Sa. Is consent complicated?
SECTION 2: Activism and Allies
In which we explore activism and other topics tangentially related to S&M feminism -- from sex work, to polyamory and monogamy, to the nature of masculinity.
KOK ok When I think of this section, I think of: Abuse of power comes as no surprise. ~ Jenny Holzer I think of Clarisse as the John Stuart Mills of sexuality.
~ one of my ex-boyfriends
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ACTIVISM:
[theory] Grassroots Organizing For Feminism, S&M, HIV, and Everything Else I wrote this in March 2011 for Bitch Magazine's Feminist Coming-Out Day Blog_
Carnival. The goal was to talk about feminist "click" moments, and my entry was predictably wide-ranging and idiosyncratic.
KK Ok Grassroots Organizing For Feminism, S&M, HIV, and Everything Else
Earlier this month, my sex-positive documentary film series screened Jane: An Abortion Service. The film tells the extraordinary story of "Jane," an underground network of women in Chicago who provided thousands of safe abortions in the years before abortion was legal. It was totally inspiring.
Jane was started accidentally by a woman named Heather Booth. Booth was a student at the University of Chicago in the late 1960s when another woman came and asked her --
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