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12 posts todayFor more from Susan Hawthorne @susanha on the torture of and organised violence against lesbians, read her novel Dark Matters: https://t.co/jsHjPU... https://t.co/1flIX0...
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12 posts todayRT @caitlin_roper: “I saw feminists and lesbians support the practice of torture because it was called BDSM...If feminists and lesbians pivot towards ‘consensual violence’ we can expect to see increased violence against women and indifference towards ...
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12 posts todayRT @caitlin_roper: "To defend such acts as ‘performative’ is an instance of moral neglect.” -Susan Hawthorne @susanha
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12 posts todayRT @caitlin_roper: “The thing about torture is that you do not know whether you will be alive at the end of the day. You do not know when it will end. It is more than just “powerlessness”; it is subjugation, degradation, abandonment and ...
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12 posts todayRT @caitlin_roper: “The practitioners of S/M turn an uncontrollable experience of torture into a game that can be stopped (but people undergoing real torture do not have the option of saying no.” - Susan Hawthorne @susanha
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12 posts todayRT @caitlin_roper: See academic defender of BDSM describing "play torture" scenario, suggesting Amnesty International documents are useful inspiration for acting out torture fantasies https://t.co/O05T2z...
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12 posts todayRT @caitlin_roper: “Practitioners of S/M are appropriating the experiences of oppressed peoples who have been tortured by dictatorial governments or who have been slaves under racist regimes or the lesbians who are tortured by fundamentalist and ...
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12 posts todayRT @caitlin_roper: “The academic acceptance – even apparent 'feminist' acceptance of torture as a game is deeply offensive. It is appropriative of people living under totalitarian regimes who do not have the luxury of saying no.” -Susan Hawthorne ...
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12 posts todayRT @caitlin_roper: An excellent critique of BDSM (“just another consumerist game”) as the eroticisation of torture and a form of moral neglect, by Susan Hawthorne @susanha (THREAD) ping @spinifexpress https://t.co/RtujMw...
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12 posts todayThis week's Book of the Week is I'm the Girl Who Was Raped, written by Michelle Hattingh: "I am the statistic that I read about. I am the thing I always feared most. I am rape." That morning, Michelle had presented her psychology thesis on rape. It ...
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