Gina Young, Missy Elliot, Le Tigre, Aaliyah, The Cheetah Girls, Team Dresch
Movies
The Aggressives, Set It Off, HARD CANDY, North Country,
Television
The L Word, South of Nowhere.
Books
Our Blood, The War Against Women, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem, Killing the Black Body: Race Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty, The Autobiography of Assata Shakur, The Diary of Anne Frank, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Handmaids Tale, by Margaret Atwood, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson and the Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, All Harry Potter Books!!!
Heroes
The Lesbian Avengers, Sakia Gunn, The Lesbian 7, Maxine Wolfe, Joan Nestle.
About me: Herstory of the Dyke March!!!!
The first Dyke March took place in Washington, D.C. in April 1993, the evening before the 1993 March on Washington to protest Clinton had reneging on his promise to let lesbians and gay men serve openly in the military. The Lesbian Avengers contacted the organizers of the march to find out if they were going to have a lesbian march and when they were told no, the NY Avengers decided they would organize one. About 20,000 lesbians showed up for the march. The march had no permit because the Avengers took the position that it is our first amendment right to protest and, until we are truly liberated, this was a protest march. The march was a huge success and led to the formation of more Avenger chapters and eventually a march in NYC.
The first New York City Dyke March was held on the Saturday afternoon of the Heritage of Pride Rally (which at that time was held the day before the Pride March) in June 1993.
The New York City Dyke March is a protest march, not a parade -- we don't ask for a permit, because we have the right to protest. As lesbians, we recognize that we must organize amongst ourselves to fight for our rights, our safety, and for visibility. Thousands of dykes take over the streets every year in celebration of lesbians and to protest against ongoing discrimination, harassment, and anti-lesbian violence in schools, on the job, in our families, and on the streets.
Who I'd like to meet: lesbians, dykes, the ladies, girls, grrrls, wimmin, womyn, humyns, femininsts, serpartists, your daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers and the like.
we’ll be organizing the annual Brothers For Sisters Water Brigade for the Dyke March (since 1994) giving out water at 5th Ave/14th St to marchers wanting water going by in the Dyke March. We encourage mehn in other cities where their are Dyke Marches to do the same. Some of us will be participating in the Trans March the night before and/or in People Of Color contingents at the Pride Marches the day after. DAFFODIL (Dykes And Fags Fighting Oppression & Demanding International Liberation)!
We're playing a show tomorrow night and it's free so we wanted to let all of our NYC area friends know! We'll be last after two other bands, so we'll hit the stage at 11pm SHARP. Don't be late!
We'll be at the Pussycat Lounge Upstairs. Clothing optional. 21+ & FREE!
96 Greenwich St.
NEARBY SUBWAY STOPS 1 at Rector St.; R, W at Rector St.; 4, 5 at Wall St.; J, M, Z at Broad St.
FREE THEM NOW! Lesbians sentenced for self-defense All-white jury convicts Black women
By Imani Henry New York Published Jun 21, 2007 2:58 AM
On June 14, four African-American women—Venice Brown (19), Terrain Dandridge (20), Patreese Johnson (20) and Renata Hill (24)—received sentences ranging from three-and-a-half to 11 years in prison. None of them had previous criminal records. Two of them are parents of small children.
Their crime? Defending themselves from a physical attack by a man who held them down and choked them, ripped hair from their scalps, spat on them, and threatened to sexually assault them—all because they are lesbians.
The mere fact that any victim of a bigoted attack would be arrested, jailed and then convicted for self-defense is an outrage. But the length of prison time given further demonstrates the highly political nature of this case and just how racist, misogynistic, anti-gay, anti-youth and anti-worker the so-called U.S. justice system truly is.
The description of the events, reported below, is based on written statements by a community organization (FIERCE) that has made a call to action to defend the four women, verbal accounts from court observers and evidence from a surveillance camera.
The attack
On Aug. 16, 2006, seven young, African-American, lesbian-identified friends were walking in the West Village. The Village is a historic center for lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) communities, and is seen as a safe haven for working-class LGBT youth, especially youth of color.
As they passed the Independent Film Cinema, 29-year-old Dwayne Buckle, an African-American vendor selling DVDs, sexually propositioned one of the women. They rebuffed his advances and kept walking.
“I’ll f— you straight, sweetheart!” Buckle shouted. A video camera from a nearby store shows the women walking away. He followed them, all the while hurling anti-lesbian slurs, grabbing his genitals and making explicitly obscene remarks. The wom
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