Everyday Lecher
Sep 25, 2023
In 2022, I published my first book.
It’s called Victim. For those of you who don’t know about it, the subtitle is: A Feminist Manifesto from a Fierce Survivor. Some people asked me why I called it that, Victim, why I named my book, a manifesto no less, with a word that traditionally denotes weakness and
The Doing is the Hope: The War in the Woods is Not Over at Fairy Creek.
May 29, 2023
In 2020 and 2021,
thousands of people came to defend some of the last remaining pristine, temperate old growth forest in the world at Fairy Creek on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Surpassing the old growth forest blockades at Clayoquot Sound on the West Coast of Vancouver Island in 1993—known as The War in the
Irrefutable: Last Girl First Proves the Absolute Necessity to Abolish Prostitution.
May 12, 2023
I don’t think anyone
can read this book and still support the sex trade in any way—well-meaning as some of that support may be.[1] I don’t think anyone will be able to view prostitution as not only a job like any other, but necessary and beneficial to, paradoxically, the world’s most vulnerable people who would have
Follow Up. Fallout. Part Two.
Apr 12, 2023
I don’t think she will ever read this.
And if she does, I hope that will be a good thing, that she will find some validity, some truth in what I am about to write and what I wrote in the first part of this double post: “Follow up. Fallout.” The reason these two posts are
Un regalo inesperado.
Mar 18, 2023
El único corazón completo es el que está roto porque deja entrar la luz—David Wolpe
Durante mi gira Trauma & Triumph Tour por Canada
para Victim: A Feminist Manifesto from a Fierce Survivor el otoño pasado, tuve un pequeño respiro en Toronto, Ontario, y fui a una lectura de poesía. Estaba en un
Triunfo bajo amenaza: la Ciudad de México y las mujeres que luchan.
Mar 5, 2023
Triunfo bajo amenaza: la Ciudad de México y las mujeres que luchan.
La Glorieta De Las Mujeres Que Luchan, Mexico City.
Estaba exaltada y sorprendida.
No podía creer que el gobierno federal mexicano y la Ciudad de México hubieran permitido, incluso abrazado, un símbolo de las mujeres que luchan contra la epidemia de feminicidios
Follow Up. Fallout. Part One.
Feb 22, 2023
A follow up to my previous post, “What Fresh Hell is This? Same Old Same Old.”
I doubt she’ll ever read this.
And if she does, I’d like to think that would be a good thing.
As not only a logical feminist, but also, through the wisdoms gleaned from logic, a fierce one, I discovered recently that a
What Fresh Hell is This? Same Old Same Old.
Feb 6, 2023
What fresh hell is this?
Or, you’ve got to be kidding. But this fresh hell is far from it as in something shiny and new, not to mention ground-breaking as it is represented as being. And, always unfortunately when maintaining a culture of exploitation, there’s no you’ve got to be kidding me. There it was. On
An Unexpected Gift.
Dec 17, 2022
The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in—David Wolpe
During my Cross-Canada Trauma & Triumph Tour
for Victim: A Feminist Manifesto from a Fierce Survivor last fall, I had a bit of respite in Toronto, Ontario and went to a poetry reading. It was in a back
Triumph Under Threat: Mexico City and the Women Who Fight.
Dec 7, 2022
La Glorieta De Las Mujeres Que Luchan, Mexico City.
I was elated and surprised.
I couldn’t believe that the Mexican federal government and the City of Mexico had allowed, even embraced, a symbol of the women who fight against the femicide epidemic in Mexico on the grand Reforma Boulevard, the one with the
The Logical Feminist has a lot of Thoughts on Sex Work/Prostitution:
Nov 28, 2022
During a webinar on sexual violence,
I was told by a pro-prositution academic that I’m against prostitution because I don’t like it personally—implying that I am a judgemental prude and don’t like what she defined as ‘freely’ chosen sexual autonomy. And, yes, she was right. I don’t like prostitution. I don’t like the selling of people’s
Logical Feminism: the premise is simple, its execution crucial.
Nov 20, 2022
Photo: Adriana Barboza
Logical Feminism: anything that has anything at all to do with power abuse and exploitation is wrong.
I say ‘anything at all’ in order to highlight the fact that power abuse, exploitation and its maintenance often go unnoticed and, as in the case of those who support the sex industry,