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Little Red Riding Hood Asks Questions series I – Prostitution
In a small teeny tiny town in the grand glorious gorgeous woods, lived a girl everyone knew as Little Red Riding Hood. She was called that way because of the red hood she never removed. Her mama had sown it for her, that’s why it was so precious.
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Cappuccetto Rosso
C’era una volta una deliziosa bambina soprannominata Cappuccetto Rosso. I capelli ricci, le mani paffute, sorrideva al mondo. Adorata dalla mamma e dalla nonna, non toglieva mai il cappuccetto cucito dalla bisnonna.
Keep readingWhere Did My Confidence Go?
“Where did my confidence go?” asked the little girl.
She looked under the bed, but only saw monsters.
She looked inside her closet, but only found insecurity.
She looked at her bookshelf, but only saw absence.
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Testimony, Violence, and Silence – An Examination of Agamben and His Critics
You’re not allowed to speak much, and you don’t know which language to speak when you can. Recovery from trauma is finding the words.”- Rebecca Mott (2021), writer, poet and survivor of prostitution A philosophical investigation on ‘unspeakable violence’ In 2021, thanks to Canadian feminist nurses and activists Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, I discovered…
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Prostituted Women Experimented on For Decades in USA-funded HIV Trials Overseas
Trials of HIV prevention medications used thousands of vulnerable women in Africa and Asia, leaving some infected and sometimes in collaboration with pro-prostitution organizations. Since the 1980s, women in prostitution in Africa and Southeast Asia have been used to test new solutions against HIV. Despite evidence of harm, the nonoxynol-9 spermicide was used on women…
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“In gabbia ha pure buchi per respirare”: (Ri)guardare Il corpo delle donne di Lorella Zanardo all’Era della chirurgia – Disponibile la registrazione!
È online la registrazione dell’evento In Her Words; di ABLONDI tenutosi alla Libreria delle Donne di Milano il 9 maggio 2025.
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Welcome to the Sex Stereotype Clinic
Stereotyping is a printing technique developed in the 18th century. A stereotype is a solid plate of metal where letters and illustrations are tightly fit together to be reproduced indefinitely on paper. Metaphorically, a stereotype is a prejudiced cliché. A preconceived and oversimplified vision of reality, a stereotype is an image that only exists in our…
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Paul Ricœur: Memory, History, Forgetting – Coming Soon
This post is about a presentation I gave last June at the Fonds Ricœur Summer Workshop at the UCD (University College Dublin). I had the same questions, the same goal – demonstrating that male violence is a type of atrocity that brings about its unique challenges to the question of testimony (and to women and…
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Nous ne sommes pas des digues: consignes de vote et autres formes de contrôle coercitif
Les femmes obtiennent le droit de vote en France le 21 avril 1944. Cet instrument d’expression politique n’a pas été nié aux femmes parce qu’elles s’identifiaient en tant que femmes — une femme des années 20 ne comprendraient même pas ce que nous voudrions dire par là — pas parce qu’elles ne faisaient pas l’effort de se…
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Il Laboratorio Parolacce aperto a tutte!
Partendo dalle parolacce, il Laboratorio offre spunti di riflessione sul posto del femminile e del maschile nella lingua e di conseguenza nell’insieme delle interazione donne/uomini.
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La prostitution est morte, vive le travail du sexe! – Partie I: Populisme et prostitution
La clé d’interprétation pour comprendre le succès du discours propagandiste prostitutionnel est la ressemblance de cette dernière avec le discours politique ambiant en Europe et Amérique du Nord. Il ne faut pas construire, il faut s’inscrire. La force du discours prostitutionnel ambiant est qu’il navigue sur un imaginaire collectif déjà établi. La familiarité facilite l’assimilation.…
Keep readingCassandra’s Resolutions for the New Year
we need to develop a feminist understanding of time. Indeed, the first specificity of women’s condition, compared to that of other male and female oppressed groups, is that the atrocities men commit against us are not historicised. We hear ‘prostitution has always existed’, ‘rape has always existed’. We are made to understand that male violence…
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Consentir ne nous protégera pas
Il va de soi qu’un homme ne peut pas avoir de relation sexuelle avec une fille, qu’il s’agit forcément d’un viol, mais une definition du viol par l’absence de consentement est forcément creuse et ne nous protégera jamais.
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Faut-il séparer le cerveau de l’homme?
Dans un univers parallèle existe un journal à tirage national à renommée internationale: La Journaleuse du Samedi. Nous reproduisons ici une sélection des meilleurs articles pour les femmes de notre univers.
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The Provincial Times Series – ‘Jill and Giles Foundation to distribute Thanafix in India’
A press release from the Jill and Giles Foundation announced yesterday the distribution of 100 000 doses of Thanafix® in India. The drug developed by the US pharmaceutical company Gilgamesh Science is meant to alleviate the suffering of patients afflicted by incurable diseases such as destitution or hopelessness.
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Drusilla Foer e misoginia transepocale
Il personaggio Drusilla Foer rappresenta la confluenza di patriarcato primitivo e sofisticato, patriarcato tradizionale e contemporaneo. Un mischio fra “trans” e casalinga, Drusilla Foer rimanda ad un periodo rivoluto, un’epoca in cui le donne erano ancora donne, dove si vestivano per bene, perfette padrone di casa, con un tocco di eleganza e spirito intrattenevano gli…
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Basta apparire o come diventare uno stereotipo
“Basta apparire” è la massima dell’ideologia che possiamo chiamare vagamente transgender che invita all’auto-assegnazione sessuale. Chiunque può essere del sesso che preferisce, basta farlo apparire. Certi uomini si avvalgono così di stereotipi banalmente sessisti per pretendersi donne: tacchi, parrucche, silicone nelle tette e voilà amore mio.
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Nous apprenons
« On vous apprend que des êtres humains doués de langage ont été placés dans une situation telle qu’aucun d’eux ne peut vous rapporter maintenant ce qu’elle fut. » Jean-François Lyotard Nous apprenons que les médicaments périmés sont transférés d’un continent A à un continent B où ils sont mélangés à de l’héroïne, le tout pour le…
Keep readingProstitution, VIH et Fondation Gates : des décennies d’essais cliniques sur les femmes et filles prostituées
Peu après la découverte du VIH (virus de l’immunodéficience humaine) dans les années 80, des chercheurs et chercheuses ont recruté des femmes et filles prostituées pour tester des produits contre le virus. Deux séries d’essais cliniques sont révélatrices des manquements éthiques dans le domaine : celles du nonoxynol‑9 des années 80 et 90 et du Tenofovir®…
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Les dossiers de la WPATH ou Vous reprendrez bien du tilapia ?
Début mars, la publication des WPATH files — des extraits de conversations entre membre de la WPATH, l’Association professionnelle mondiale pour la santé des personnes transgenres — a révélé que la plus grande organisation de santé trans au monde n’était rien d’autre qu’un regroupement de savants fous. Des médecins et autres professionnels de santé ont…
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Borazan Sesli
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