Sex & Revolution
Volume: 27
Number: 2
Bill Sutherland, unofficial ambassador between the peoples of Africa and the Americas for over fifty years, died peacefully on the evening of January 2, 2010. He was 91. A life-long pacifist and liberation advocate, Sutherland became involved in civil rights and anti-war activities as a youthful member of the Student Christian Movement in the 1930s….
National Committee Makes Program Plans The winter meeting of the National Committee (NC), the governing body of WRL, was held over President’s Day weekend, February 12–15. Amazingly, the meeting managed to dodge the many snowstorms the East has seen this winter, and fortunately illness waylaid fewer than some past winter NC meetings. The weekend kicked…
Norfolk OffBase is located in central Norfolk, Va. It is surrounded by a virtual alphabet soup of military bases: USN, USAF, USMC, CIA, USA, NASA, and the USCG. All told, there are 14 major military installations within a 50-mile radius, along with several major military contractors and numerous smaller support facilities. With nearly a quarter-million…
The Voice of Hope By Alan Clements Seven Stories Press, 2003, 304 pages, $14.50 U Tin U, deputy leader of Burma’s National League for Democracy (NLD), once said that “Burma is a prison within a prison.” His words highlight the tragic political, social, and economic circumstances that Burma is faced with today because of the…
The Politics of Positivity Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape Edited by Jacklyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti Seal Press, 2009, 361 pages, $16.95 Four decades ago, when I was pretty young, a WRL member for whom I worked attempted to rape me. There was a good possibility that…
The campaign to confront military recruitment in Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) has shifted from direct confrontation to quiet negotiations with school board members, according to Mitzi Kraft of Military Families Speak Out. “We’ve had private meetings with a couple of the school board members who are working with us,” Kraft wrote in a recent email….
For almost a decade of my life, I was a member of the cult of Che Guevara. I worshipped the man as the embodiment of true revolutionary spirit and consciousness. I tried to internalize his thinking. What motivated him? How had he learned to live (and die) for the worldwide revolution? How could I become…
A well-timed photo project by Jeff Sheng has received quite a bit of attention in the last several months. In each photo, a figure appears in a nondescript room, his or her face obscured in shadow, wearing a military uniform. Sheng reached out to lesbian and gay service members of all branches of the…
In 2006, at the anarcha-feminist conference La Rivolta in Boston, Vikki Law and I gave our first “Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind” workshop. We wanted to share our experiences as a radical 40-year-old mother of an 18-year-old and a 29-year-old anarchist mother of a 5-year-old with the predominantly young, childfree audience of radicals. We both…
There is a finite number of ways that human bodies can be placed together sexually, and as one pornography industry veteran lamented to me at the annual trade show, “they’ve all been shot.” He sighed, pondering the challenge of creating a sexually explicit film that is unique, and mused, “After all, how many dicks…
About a century and a half ago, medicine and technology began to reduce the high price of sex in the United States and Western Europe. It became possible to imagine, at least, both an end to unwanted pregnancies and a cure for the known sexually transmitted diseases. (Of course, no one could guess at…
Sex workers who work with SANGRAM distribute condoms in Sangli’s red light district. Photo courtesy of International Women’s Health Coalition. Since I became a part of the U.S. sex worker rights movement five years ago, talking about contentious issues concerning bodies, labor, money, and rights has very much become my calling. In the past year…
Southerners on New Ground (SONG) is a 16-year-old gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender organization that focuses its resources and energy in the South both as a political and geographic region. On January 29, 2010, Caitlin Breedlove and Paulina Hernandez, co-directors of SONG, recorded an interview for StoryCorps, a nationwide oral history project. The following is…
A committed Quaker activist known globally for his engagement in nonviolent action campaigns and antiwar activities, George Willoughby of Deptford, N.J., died at home on January 5 at age 95. George earned a PhD in political science from the University of Iowa in 1939. He then met Lillian Pemberton, and they married a year later. They…
The Uruguayan historian Eduardo Galeano’s invaluable website of social movement activism, upsidedownworld.org, has a slogan: “If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn’t we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?” With Howard Zinn’s death on January 27, we lost the best historical populizer working to…
World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa’s most celebrated poets Dennis Brutus died early on December 26 in Cape Town, in his sleep, at age 85. Even in his last days, Brutus was fully engaged, advocating social protest against those responsible for climate change and promoting reparations to black South Africans from corporations that benefited…
News Worthy These days I’m cutting back on “news” subscriptions in order to donate more to action organizations. But winter 2010 WIN reports on what I want to know about: issues, but also current recipients of my donations, like Center for Constitutional Rights, AFSC, Center for Biological Diversity, and NWTRCC (I keep my income…
Let’s Talk About (Radical) Sex Everybody thinks my head’s full of nothin’ Wants to put his special stuff in Fill the space with candy wrappers Keep out sex and revolution But there’s no hole in my head Too bad —Malvina Reynolds Our visions begin with our desires. —Audre Lorde Sex is a hot topic. We…
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