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FEM 11 conference in London this Saturday, November 12th

FEM 11 conference in London this Saturday, November 12th

This Saturday FEM 11 will take place at Friends House in London. FEM 11 is UK Feminista’s national conference to debate key issues facing women today and how to work towards a feminist future. The conference will feature workshops by leading feminist organisations including Fawcett Society, Abortion Rights, OBJECT, Southall Black Sisters, Women for Women International, End Violence Against Women coalition, Imkaan and Women for Refugee Women. Workshops at the conference will touch on various issues such as Strengthening black feminist voices in the 21st century, Ditching Dieting: Making peace with our bodies and how to eat happily ever after, The importance of women-only organising, Ending violence against women and girls and From rape to refusal: women and asylum. The event will be concluded by a pre-election debate with the candidates for Mayor…

London event tonight: Ending Child Pornography & Premiere of Hooray for Hollywood

London event tonight: Ending Child Pornography & Premiere of Hooray for Hollywood

Tonight Amnesty UK will be hosting an event on ending child pornography and also premiering the semi-autobiographical short film Hooray for Hollywood. The event will take place from 7pm to 9pm at Amnesty’s headquarters in central London and will discuss specific action to end the ever-expanding child pornography industry. There will be an expert panel chaired by Raven Kaliana (Director, Writer and c-producer of Hooray for Hollywood). Confirmed panel members are: Donald Findlater – Director of Stop It Now Berlinda Hollows – Supervisor for Childline Dr. Jon Bird – Chair of NAPAC Please visit the facebook page of this event for more information.

(UK) Lib Dems move to challenge ‘Page 3′

(UK) Lib Dems move to challenge ‘Page 3′

One story coming out of the UK political party conference season is that of a motion passed at the Liberal Democrat conference which seeks to end The Sun’s ‘Page 3′ by restricting publications that sexually objectify women to the top shelf. The motion was led by former-MP Evan Harris who reportedly held up examples of ‘Page 3′ during a debate at the conference in Birmingham, and argued they – and the Sun newspaper – should only be stocked on the top shelf at news retailers. Harris argued that while “these images can be available for adults if they want to access them, but they should have to reach up to a higher shelf than what is at the general view for young people.” The motion…

Protest outside porn industry summit

Protest outside porn industry summit

Anti-porn activists gathered at the opening of the three-day XBiz EU suimmit to protest against the pornography industry. The industry’s treatment and portrayal of women as mere ‘pieces of meat’ was reflected in the feminist protesters staging of a ‘meat-market’, dressing as butchers in aprons smeared with fake blood and waving pretend meat cleavers. Kat Banyard of UK Feminista said: “Brutal, body punishing acts are now routine in mainstream porn and women are presented merely as a collection of body parts, deserving and desiring of pain. The pimps and porn moguls gathered this weekend are part of a global industry ruthlessly seeking new and profitable ways to carve up sexuality and trade away women’s equality.” The protest, organised by OBJECT, UK Feminista, London Feminist Network,…

Porn summit at London hotel this weekend

Porn summit at London hotel this weekend

The XBiz porn summit is being held at the London Radisson Hotel in Bloomsbury this weekend. Pimps and profiteers from around the world are meeting to plot how to expand their business and increase their profits off the backs of the violent and misogynistic exploitation of women that takes place in porn. Money at the summit is apparently referred to as ‘Pussycash’. Speakers include porn baron Berth Milton, Chairman and CEO of porn company Private Media Group, and Michael Klein, president of Hustler, publisher of Barely Legal magazine and Hustler magazine which published ‘Chester the Molester‘ and has featured spreads like “The Naked and the Dead”, in which a woman is forcibly shaved, raped, and apparently killed in a concentration camp. Feel free to call the…

Jensen Speaking Event (US)

Jensen Speaking Event (US)

Robert Jensen will be speaking about pornography in Moraga, Calafornia on October the 27th at St. Mary’s College of California. The title of his talk will be ‘The Impact of Pornography on Violence Against Women’ and will take place at the college’s Soda Center at 7pm. If you’re interested in attending contact: Sharon Sobotta, ssobotta@stmarys-ca.edu Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, and co-author with Gail Dines and Ann Russo of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality. For interviews and articles by Robert Jensen on pornography check out his Project page here, or his own website here.

Casey Anthony, Porn and Punishing Women

Casey Anthony, Porn and Punishing Women

Casey Anthony, the mother of a murdered 5 year old girl who was then tried for her murder and eventually acquitted has been offered roles in porn by both Vivid and Hustler. The case has been huge news in the US for months being dubbed the ‘Social-Media Trial of the Century’. Below are some extracts from an article written by Sady Doyle for GlobalComment. You can read the entire article here. It is very possible that Casey Anthony killed her daughter. Before we say anything else, we should say that: the fury that was unleashed over Anthony’s July 5 acquittal is based on some very understandable outrage. Anthony did not report that her two-year-old daughter Caylee had gone missing for 31 days; she lied to…

Porn Harms Campaign: Violence Against Women Week

Porn Harms Campaign: Violence Against Women Week

On Monday Porn Harms, an organisation “dedicated to providing the most accurate peer-reviewed research on the harm from pornography”, will start the Violence Against Women week of it’s ‘Be Aware: Porn Harms‘ National Awareness Campaign. The campaign which has been running since the 11th of July has dedicated a week each to different issues concerning pornography. From the 1st to the 7th of August the campaign will focus on the links between pornography and Violence Against Women. The programme includes Tuesday 2nd – ‘Straight Talk – Porn’s real effect on relationships and attitudes towards women’ Details: EDT 16.00 (BST 21.00) View live here Wednesday 3rd – ‘Former porn-stars expose the truth & violence behind the porn industry’ Details: EDT 16.00 (BST 21.00) View live here…

New ‘Clicktivism’ page and page 3 petition

New ‘Clicktivism’ page and page 3 petition

The Anti Porn Men Project has just launched a new ‘clicktivism’ page where current porn related online activism will be featured giving users the opportunity to contribute to online campaigns. The first campaign to be featured is a petition put forward by Turn Your Back On Page 3. The Turn Your Back On Page 3 campaign, which calls for an end to The Sun’s page 3 and for a socially responsible media, has started a petition on change.org. Following on from the the Prime Minister’s recent launch of an inquiry into the culture and ethics of the UK press, in response to the scandal and corruption exposed at News International, Turn Your Back On Page 3 demands that The Sun’s Page 3 is acknowledged in…

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