Now, I know this blog has become something of a Riot Central what with all of the translations from organizations in France about the insurrection in that country, but that was never my intention, nor is it all that will be discussed here. So today, I would like to write …
“Anything could have started it. When you’re an immigrant here, you’re just stuck in your shit. Does it really surprise you it’s going up in flames?” – Momo, Age 26, Aulnay-sous-Bois “The thugs will disappear, I will deploy the force necessary to clean this up… We will use the Karcher …
And now at last, and with some trepidation, on to my final take on Marilyn Waring’s Counting For Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth. I have already discussed this Introduction to the Second Edition, and the First Half of this book in other posts. Suffice it to …
Alright, so as you may notice i have not posted for a couple of days – partly out of mid-week fatigue and partly because i am finding it difficult to figure out exactly what to say about Marilyn Waring’s book Counting For Nothing, which i am now half-way through. …
A couple of newspaper articles in the Montreal Gazette caught my attention yesterday. First off was the statement by police that there is a serial rapist attacking women on the North Shore of Montreal. Between March 2004 and June 2005 at least eight women were attacked after getting off a …
Now I must say, it is a joy to be well rested – this morning I gave into temptation and stole a couple of extra hours sleep, and what a difference that makes! I have just re-read my first blog entries, in part inspired by the nice ego stroke from …
Alright, having finished The Boundaries of Eros by Guido Ruggiero, I have a few things to say about sex in Renaissance Venice, about books that I read, and about this blog. First off, a few observations about The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice. The final …
OK, I managed to read another chapter of Guido Ruggiero’s The Boundaries of Eros this morning, on sodomy in Renaissance Venice (14th-15th centuries). Once again: I am reading this and other books to try and form an opinion of Silvia Federici’s claim (in Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body …
As popular resistance to globalization and Western imperialism strengthens around the globe, something disastrous is happening: Leadership of the opposition is swinging steadily from the Left to the radical Right. Right-wing forces around the world are gearing up to fight against capitalism’s new world order. Every day on the streets …
On March 5th community activist Wendy Maxwell, aka Nzinga, was arrested by Toronto cops while selling cookies at an International Women’s Day event. What was her crime? Being a queer Black “non-status” immigrantfrom Costa Rica; being a woman who could and would stand up for herselfand others… Maxwell originally came …