Category Archives: Uppity Wimmin

Pole dancing: for aficionados, it’s serious stuff

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Jenyne Butterfly shows what a world-champion pole dancer looks like. No platforms, no sequins, no lingerie, no raunch; just really good (and seriously sexy!) stuff. Yesterday, as part of my ongoing informal research into the world of a Mexican book … Continue reading →

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The art of the WHAT?

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Sabina Becker

As I prepare to get cracking on my first-ever book-length Spanish-to-English translation (yes, congratulate me, kiddies, your auntie is going pro!), I found some videos while looking up an idiomatic phrase that just didn’t appear in either my Streetwise Spanish … Continue reading →

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Justice: SERVED.

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Sabina Becker

’nuff said. Mohammad Shafia: Guilty on four counts of first-degree murder. Tooba Mohammad Yahya: Guilty on four counts of first-degree murder. Hamed Shafia: Guilty on four counts of first degree murder. Let the shrieeeeeeking now cease. “Honor” killings get treated … Continue reading →

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No means NO, no matter what

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Marital rape: It’s not just “rough sex” or “role-playing”. A young academic has been sentenced to four months in jail for sexually assaulting his wife during rough sex despite his claim that, in their dominant-submissive sexual role playing, “no” frequently … Continue reading →

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The Perfect Vagina

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Sabina Becker

The perfect vagina from heather leach on Vimeo. A hard-hitting documentary on an extreme form of plastic surgery and the physical and emotional damage it is doing to women and girls, as well as the outrageous demand (yes, from men!) … Continue reading →

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It only takes a girl…

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Hard truths and true hope. Girls know them.

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Sanity comes ashore in Virginia

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Q. How do you know when DADT is truly D-E-A-D? A. When something like this happens, and nobody gets arrested. The two women in the video are both petty officers in the US Navy. And as you can see, they’re … Continue reading →

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Stupid Sex Tricks: Viagra in WHAT?

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Relax, it’s not quite so drastic. But yeah, it’s just about that silly: Durex has a new condom out that promises to enhance erections with a gel inside the tip that contains Zanifil. The over-the-counter drug boosts blood flow in … Continue reading →

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December 6, 1989: A song of remembrance

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Sabina Becker

A ballad by Bev Nicol and Lisa Dorian. According to the notes posted by Bev Nicol at YouTube, “The chorus comes from the words of survivor Nathalie Provost who said to the killer, ‘We are only women who are studying … Continue reading →

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Portrait of the president as a young Marxist guerrilla