Big Tent Feminism, Sex Workers, and SlutWalk LA
With the end of the semester fast approaching and several other irons in the fire, I haven’t had the time for blogging I’d hoped to have. And this week, I’m focused on organizing for SlutWalk LA, which...
View ArticleSlutWalk appeal
We learned today that a series of permits that needed to be filed for SlutWalk Los Angeles were not filed. The kind cooperation of the City of West Hollywood means that they have now been filed. But...
View ArticleSlutWalk Saved in L.A.!
After 24 hours of crisis, SlutWalk LA is back on. There had been some accidental miscommunication between the City of West Hollywood and our steering committee, and it threatened briefly to lead to...
View ArticleSlutWalk and Jack Kevorkian: the symmetry of bodily sovereignty
SlutWalk LA is now less than 24 hours away. Though Facebook is notoriously unreliable in this regard, we have more than 4000 RSVPs. (I’m guessing we’ll get half that, but would like to be pleasantly...
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SlutWalk L.A.: brief initial recap
SlutWalk Los Angeles 2011 is in the books. On a lovely spring day, some 2500 Angelenos gathered in West Hollywood Park to rally against rape culture and for safety, for pleasure, for joy, and for...
View ArticleSlutWalk L.A. speech video
You might know the guy in this video: Hugo Schwyzer speaks at SlutWalkLA I hate listening to myself, as most of us who speak publicly do. But I’m glad that most of the speech is up (the final minute is...
View Article“What’s SlutWalk?” A note on rallying right next to a sandbox
I will eventually stop writing about SlutWalk, but not just yet. Not long before I got up to speak at SlutWalk on Saturday, Melissa Maynarich, a reporter from L.A.’s CBS affiliate, walked up to me. I...
View ArticleThe Young Turks cover SlutWalk
The Young Turks, one of the best of the online news services, filmed a story at SlutWalk LA. I’m on in the second half of the two minute story: SlutWalk West Hollywood. My teammate Chelsea Delgadillo...
View ArticleFeminism, Porn, and SlutWalk: part one of a conversation with Meghan Murphy
One of the many benefits of being involved with the SlutWalk phenomenon has come in the form of new allies. But it’s not just allies I’ve met in real life and online. I’ve also had some vigorous...
View ArticleMale feminists, sex work, and SlutWalk: part two of a conversation with...
On Monday, I posted the first part of an exchange with Meghan Murphy, a blogger and radio host with the Canadian F Word Feminist Media Collective. I answered five questions she had asked of me, and we...
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