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SlutWalk Toronto | BECAUSE WE'VE HAD ENOUGH. Which Women Are What Now? Slutwalk NYC and Failures in Solidarity. Over at Parlour Magazine, I spotted this photo yesterday: Lord. The original reference is from a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and performed mostly by John Lennon. At the time, Lennon and Ono justified their decision openly, using both the “my black friends said it was cool” defense as well as a more substantive critique based on ideas of “niggerization” – that nigger can be redefined to include anyone who is oppressed. But can you appropriate a term like nigger if your body is not defined/terrorized/policed/brutalized/diminished by the word? I think not. The tension over the sign at SlutWalk NYC is the outgrowth of long term tensions in organizing.

I’ve been informed that one of the (Black) women SlutWalk NYC organizers asked the woman to take her placard down. As Aura Blogando wrote back in May: I’ve heard quite a few stories about SlutWalk NYC, and its racial issues from women who were involved in some way or another. Did anyone even care? Slutwalk, Slurs, and Why Feminism Still Has Race Issues. International Slutty Women's Day: A Story in GIFs. Link Round Up: Feminist Critiques of SlutWalk. Below is a collection of articles and blog posts from feminists who are critical of the current SlutWalk phenomenon from various points of view. If you’ve been following the feminist blog-o-sphere there has been a lot of talk about “SlutWalk”.

SlutWalk has become a mini-movement that was originally conceived in Toronto in response to a police officer who claimed that women should stop dressing like “sluts” to avoid assault. The folks in Toronto were rightfully upset, as the police officer’s comment is an unfortunate example of the victim blaming that assault survivors are subjected to on a regular basis. Out of the controversy, Heather Jarvis and Sonya JF Barnett co-founded SlutWalk, a Toronto based march to end “slut-shaming” and victim blaming. This has spawned numerous follow-up marches that are happening globally in cities such as Vancouver, Boston, London, San Francisco, Melbourne and Los Angeles etc. Articles & Blog Posts SlutWalks v. We’re Sluts, Not Feminists. Debates Like this: Slutwalk: To march or not to march.

Rabble.ca is a reader-supported site -- we count on donations from people like you. Please join us as a paying member (click here) or send a one-off donation (click here) to help us continue our work. "When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. " - Audre Lorde Since April, when thousands marched in a Slutwalk in Toronto in response to a police officer telling students that the best way to avoid getting raped was to avoid dressing like a "slut," Slutwalks have spread across cities in Canada and the U.S. to the U.K. and Australia. Accompanying this global surge has been a myriad of controversies about the term "slut" as well as questions about who was being left out from this new movement. I share many of these concerns.

Racist and sexist terminology like "squaw" continues to particularly demean indigenous women living in poverty. Thank you for choosing rabble.ca as an independent media source. The Ultimate Slut « rmott62. This year there has been a movement to do Slutwalk, which has caught like wildfire with quite privileged women, and has many roots with the supporters of the sex trade. It came from a good idea that no woman or girl should be raped or abused because the clothes she is wearing – or her lifestyle. That is true – but that has been easy for the sex trade propaganda machine to manipulate.

After all the Ultimate Slut is often under the control of the sex trade – she is the prostitute, she is inside violent porn, she is the escort, she is consumed by sex tourists. So if you choose to re-brand the term Slut – know you can do from a position of deep privilege that the Ultimate Slut has no access to. If you choose to say it is empowering to be named as Slut – then listen and hear women and girls inside the sex trade that are stripped of power and any voice. Slutwalk is not speaking to or for the Ultimate Slut. It is speaking over and through them. How is it possible to reclaim that? Like this: Slutwalk London: 'Yes means yes and no means no'

11 June 2011Last updated at 18:51 By Sarah Bell BBC News Organisers of the worldwide events are trying to reclaim the word 'slut' Men in hard hats paused from digging up Piccadilly to watch in stunned silence as the provocative procession marched past. They would not have dared to wolf whistle as women in stockings, bras and basques passed, clutching banners with statements like "cleavage is not consent". The women were among the up to 5,000 people organisers say took part in the UK's latest Slutwalk in London on Saturday.

The protest movement was sparked by a Canadian policeman who advised students to "avoid dressing like sluts" to avoid being victimised. Since then, thousands of people worldwide have taken to the streets to highlight a culture in which they say the victim, rather than the abuser, is blamed. Whether wearing four-inch heels with "slut" painted on their chests, or jeans and trainers, the marchers were united in their message. Double standards 'Feminism is cool'