I met her four years ago and got to talk to her about her participation in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and subsequent arrest in Israel. I also was able to talk with her about how badly I was treated while serving in the military.

The AVN Awards is a gathering of professionals who take pride in what they do and have every right to do so. Shaming porn stars, sex workers — anyone in the sex industry for that matter — is wrong and has no place here. And we can discuss Melania Trump without slut-shaming her; that is never appropriate. Thanks.

“Following orders”

The women are leading this revolution and it makes me wanna knock over my desk, run out of the office, and take to the streets. You are a hero, Colonel Ann Wright!!

Yes

It’s awful but

This is the problem right now, and why Trump is winning this war for the actual power in America: people are still dealing with him in civil and normal terms, as if both sides of this fight were operating inside the same boundaries of democracy and public accountability. As this Senator is doing, expecting that such a…

Whither intersectional feminism/identity politics... *sigh*

They’re intertwined, though. You can’t just separate them like that. White supremacists are happy to bring institutionalized violence against white women who don’t acknowledge white men as their superiors.

No, I’m not. White women can absolutely be white supremacists. That still doesn’t mean their male counterparts consider them equals.

Yes, it is reality that some black women make it their brand to hate white women. To slag them on social media and twitter just for being white feminists.

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Um...when black feminists said that white feminists led the march in New York, Seattle, etc, and when in fact, they did not ....that’s an alternative fact.

This is the knee-jerk reaction a lot of people have when coming to grips with their privilege. We say, “but I’ve never actively promoted discrimination of black women! But of course I want them included in the feminist movement!” but we fail to remember that we are operating on a curve and where we START is in a place…

I sometimes worry that I’m not wanted there. That my mere presence is a sign that I’m trying to somehow take over or scream louder than the black voices present. Obviously, I don’t want even that perception, but it’s paralyzing me into inaction, which is also not helpful.

I think you’re asking, because there seems to be an invisible, indecipherable balance to what we can and cannot do. I just show up to stuff.

I didn’t thank them, but I was glad that they didn’t have to use all those zip-ties they were carrying.

Actually, I’ve read “alternative facts” distributed about the Women’s March in several cities by black feminists.

Go stand beside black feminists. Literally.