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To satisfy our own needs and to build a life for ourselves. It is the struggle to be paid for all the work we do as women, including sexual work. The Black Women for Wages for Housework group joins women throughout the world in saying: NO to the attack on prostitutes in San Francisco. NO to the attack on prostitutes in New York. NO to the attack on prostitutes everywhere. When prostitutes win, all women win. MONEY FOR PROSTITUTES IS MONEY FOR BLACK WOMEN. Brooklyn, NY 1977 234 ...
SUZAN COOKE “WE REFERRED TO IT AS COMING OUT” RECOLLECTIONS ON TRANS IDENTITY, STATE VIOLENCE, AND 1960S RADICALISM Published below are excerpts from an extensive oral history interview with Suzan Cooke, a trans woman who was active in Bay Area radical left, feminist, and gay liberation groups in the 1960s and 70s. The original interview is long and recounts much of Cooke’s life, from her early years in small-town New York State to her participation in Warhol’s Factory scene in New York City to her eventual migration to the Bay Area in the late 60s. Rather than focus on Cooke’s life as a whole we have selected portions of the interview that shed light on the experience of coming out and living as a trans woman in the midst of the turbulent and vibrant radical movements of the 60s, as well as the trauma of dealing with the legal and social
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TABLE OF CONTENTS LIES COLLECTIVE 9
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LIES COLLECTIVE EDITORIAL NOTE They
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our oppression. Rather we turn our
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NOT-SEX AND SOCIAL RELATIONS
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eclaimed your natural pleasure. The
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point in a relationship which is co
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of being and self definition, as in
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Whereas earlier radical feminism ad
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Perhaps more subtly, this politic r
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eyond this register of suppression
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to discover it, to liberate it, to
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liberationist, proposing instead of
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production that brought it into bei
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the structural position of silence
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ut only as an object for an active
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such excess is meted out sparingly
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itself. Loneliness, which is really
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me or ask them to stop or yell at t
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CLÉMENCE X. CLEMENTINE AND ASSOCIA
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systematically excluded women from
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of mitigating her alienation and in
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the couple, not its destruction. Ca
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plants and animals. Get into space.
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M. SANDOVSKY LETTERS TO L: PARANOIA
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Dear L, I’m learning to hold my t
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Our anger is experienced by others
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The beatings do not work, the accou
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SOGUMI SALT WEDGE (EXCERPTS) (UNTIT
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(UNTITLED) — did it for revenge
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JOMO CARING: A LABOR OF STOLEN TIME
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after the purported grandeur and tu
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airy room is not for us, the immigr
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and I bonded over many episodes of
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upper management. According to Sabr
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Back in the dining room later that
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Before this, break times were somet
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The never-ending series of question
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including experiences that we may n
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only a reflection of the way the el
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We blame the bosses. Once, twice, a
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others not so. They saw this as a u
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I refused to sign. I wrote explaini
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others said it in a respectful and
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I wasn’t fired but our gains were
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None of this is easy, and all the m
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NOTES ON STRUGGLE
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I spent no more than 15 hours in a
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I met 3 women who were still in hig
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I was 1 of at least 2 women who had
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W.&.T.C.H. ON THE RECENT #OCCUPATIO
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16% of Blacks that are “officiall
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the injuries of unemployment and un
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Whatever this occupation is, it is
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And it’s not only about police br
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Why was this phrase deliberately ex
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actions. Drawing a moral line betwe
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BARUCHA CALAMITY PELLER WOMEN IN UP
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fought back the police, ultimately
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was spawned, despite the fact that
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Women’s labor in the globalized d
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“personal” became a site for re
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not as actions strictly within the
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that had been taken over by women.
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sector be women, because many had v
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SEXUAL VIOLENCE AS STATE REPRESSION
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other social or political implicati
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JACKIE WANG AGAINST INNOCENCE RACE,
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the patterns that structure politic
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our strategies reinforce a framewor
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Black convicts, initially a part of
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The spatial politics of safety orga
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The engineering and management of u
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were quick to purge and re-articula
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decidedly white, for it asserts tha
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defend the police after an “occup
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cion of articulated/explicit politi
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them peace of mind amidst the state
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ingly, less likely to seek counseli
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not fit into a non-violent model of
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that can be displaced for the sake
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uniformity. “No more mothers, wiv
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FROM TEA LIGHTS TO TORCHES: DELINQU
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On the night of June 5th in Minneap
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Dean Schmitz was not the first and
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Jurors in the US were polled as to
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Page 192 and 193: “Gender - Class - Dynamic” and
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Page 208 and 209: I. FRAMING WHAT’S AT STAKE We are
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Page 212 and 213: III. QUESTIONS How do we assess exi
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Page 221 and 222: A stronger analysis would also inte
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Page 229 and 230: e able to choose where and how we w
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