Archive for June, 2009
Lady Justice: "They've Never Been a 13-Year old Girl."
The case Redding vs. Safford Unified School District #1 was decided by the Supreme Court this week. The 8-to-1 decision was awarded to Savana Redding, who as 13-year old girl, was strip-searched by school officials when she was suspected of carrying prescription-strength ibuprofen to school, each of which would have had the strength of two [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2009 under Female Sexuality, Supreme Court, drugs, gender, human dignity, human rights, objectification, politics, student.
Tags: dangerous, delerious, fear, gender, hazing, justice, men, objectification, pills, rape, ruth bader ginsburg, savana redding, school, strip-search, Supreme Court, violation, women
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I'll Swan for Links
This photograph is by Francesca Woodman, a fantastic feminist photographer who killed herself in her twenties several decades ago. Her work is haunting, because she treats the female form and the objectifying gaze of the camera and manages to make it beautiful. From Johannesburg, the story of Dumisani Rebombo, one rapist repenting, asking his victim’s [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2009 under conflict resolution, feminism, feminist, objectification, politics, rape, respect.
Tags: add, adhd, alex chee, allen iverson, art, auto-tune, camera, carcinogen, china, deng yujiao, dumisani rebombo, feminism, food coloring, ford madox ford, francesca woodman, gaze, granta, harper's, harper's index, homicide, Iran, jean rhys, johannesburg, maud newton, murder, mustache, n+1, national symbol, neda agha soltan, novelist, objectification, photography, practice, rapist, repentence, sexual assault, south africa, statistical poetry, statistics, suicide, sunscreen
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