Apparently dreaming of decapitation is symbolic of a castration fantasy. I must be becoming a man. And have you ever wondered what “trigger warning” is intended to mean? Friday I’m going to be perfectly honest with you. After being followed into the bathroom last Saturday, I’ve been bombarded by excessively violent nightmares ranging from watching … Continue reading »
Tag Archives: anti-body-policing
Blog Repost – Blinded by the right: My past as an anti-abortion activist
This is a must-read pro-choice blog post published originally at Michael Laxer’s Blog as a guest entry. It is the perspective of a former pro-life insider (which shares volumes of detail about the pro-life movement’s hatred of women). Again, as in the case of the epic troll blog re-post on votes for women, because Blogspot doesn’t … Continue reading »
The Construction Of “Pro-Life” Rhetoric
Allow myself to be perfectly clear here: there is no “pro-life” and “pro-death”. There is only body-policing or bodily autonomy. The “pro-life” stance is about more than telling people they shouldn’t get an abortion. It’s also about campaigning against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, to make sure no one has the option of dying voluntarily, when … Continue reading »
An Open Letter To Mehdi Hasan of HuffPo
I read your article on how you believe that being pro-life doesn’t make you any less of a lefty, and as I was reading through it, I decided to compile a list of problems with your supporting claims and evidence, under a link to your post on one of my Facebook contact’s walls. But because … Continue reading »
Anti-Misogynist Action: Day 148
This week’s highlights include me managing to keep a straight face as I said “These guys just look ridiculous” while wearing a full-body black-and-white checkered spandex suit, rubber boots, and a hoodie on a street corner in front of 10 intersecting lanes of dense traffic. Friday It’s awfully strange waking up from a dream about … Continue reading »
Anti-Misogynist Action: Days 134 & 135
This week’s highlights include lots of colours, lots of sarcasm, and even some spandex. Friday Without quite enough time or energy to do a repeat of Wednesday (chiefly, the part about passing out condoms — that box gets fucking heavy after an hour!), I decided to break out the sign I used on Tuesday for … Continue reading »
Anti-Misogynist Action: Day 132
Today, as expected, the extremely contentious Motion 312 (a proposal to reopen the personhood debate in parliament) was voted down. While the final hour of the hearing was going on in one end of the country, I was standing alone outside in the other end of the country, adjacent to six lanes of traffic, holding … Continue reading »
Prayer Is A Sloth’s Protest
As mentioned in my last blog post, I got a call from the Georgia Straight about the press release I sent them. Unfortunately, they cut out any mention of Motion 312 or the “You deserve to be raped” tactic outside an abortion clinic on Commercial and Broadway, but you can read their article about 40 … Continue reading »
Radical Handmaids Rally Against M-312
Today was a brilliantly sunny day, and women gathered for a press conference and rally to speak out against Motion 312, which seeks to redefine personhood prior to the completion of the birthing process. They said “The Handmaid’s Tale was supposed to be fiction”, and yet every day, the constant threat to women’s rights is pushing … Continue reading »
Press Release About Abortion Rights
I’ve never written one of these before, so I just want to say right off the top that I got a lot of help from two exceptional women in putting this together. One of them also helped me to decide who to send it out to. I am extremely grateful for the help and very … Continue reading »
