LAVENDER advocates

Where we honor & promote all our Queen BEES, rebels & heroine.  

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Radclub Library

Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood

Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating

Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse

Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone

Andrea Dworkin, Life and Death

Andrea Dworkin, Pornography, Men Possessing Women

Andrea Dworkin, Right Wing Women

Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete

Angela Davis, Beyond the Frame, Women of Color and Visual Representation

Audre Lorde, Zami, Sister Outsider Undersong

Catharine A. MacKinnon et Andrea Dworkin, In Harm’s Way, the Pornography Civil Rights Hearings

Catharine A. MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified, Discourses on Life and Law

Catharine A. MacKinnon, Only Words

Catharine A. MacKinnon, Points Against Postmodernism  

Bell Hooks, Ain’t I a Woman?

Janice G. Raymond & Donna M. Hughes, Sex Trafficking of Women in the United States

Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny

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thank u radgods

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Rare footage of educator and civil rights leader, Mary McLeod Bethune (circa 1930s, 1940s)

*found in Prelinger Open Archives

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NYC Pride March, 1980s Lesbian Herstory Archives

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Joelle was sexually abused between the ages of 15 and 17 by her high school choir director at Mater Dei Catholic High School in Santa Ana, California. After years of advocacy and her civil lawsuit which was a part of the 2005 Orange County Diocese settlement, 

Joelle was able to publicly expose her abuser. 

She also gained access to more than 200 pages of documents that included the abuser’s signed confession and letters between school and diocese officials that proved that school and church leaders knew about her abuse and did nothing to stop it - or to protect her and her abuser’s other victims.

Joelle became active in SNAP in 2002 and has been a spokesperson and leader in events in California and across the country. 

She has appeared in more than 500 print, TV, internet and radio interviews and is a sought-after spokesperson for the cause of survivors. 

She is passionate about seeking justice for victims and appreciates the opportunity to be a voice for so many who were hurt and silenced as children.

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According to her blog, Mia Mingus is “a queer physically disabled Korean woman transracial and transnational adoptee” and “a writer, community educator and organizer working for disability justice and transformative justice responses to child sexual abuse.”

Mia advocates for prison abolition and works to combat the non-profit industrial complex.

 In 2013, Mia was recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change during Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. 

In her work, Mingus has put an extraordinary amount of thought and work into the exploration of intersectional identity, and while she may not be as “mainstream” as some of the other women listed here, her work is incredibly important, and pushes us all to rethink how inclusive our feminism really is.

It is important to acknowledge the complexities of privilege and oppression and how they play out in our worlds. 

For me, it is especially important around disability in this particular historical and political moment. 

Historically speaking, we are still so close to the majority of our history, where most disabled people were locked up, institutionalized, homeless, hidden away in the back rooms of their families’ homes, not allowed to access education or have a job, and generally not allowed to participate in the public sphere at large. And this is still so true for so many people.  

So, for me to be able to do the kind of work that i do — to be able to travel, be listened to, be able to work a 16 hour day — it is so much about having the kind of disability and body that is “able enough” to squeeze itself into those privileged spaces.

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Nobel Queen, Wise Mother and Elder Sister TONI MORRISON! Born February 18, 1931 (83 years of wisdom) Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom and so much more…..

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Her literature is out of this world. One of my favorite writers