[lbo-talk] Andrea Dworkin dead

[amadeus amadeus]

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1457224,00.html
Finally there's something in the Guardian on it today.
I don't see much else in a search. Cursory glance
shows no US press.
I appreciate a lot of Andrea Dworkin, and, heck, I'm a
dude. I think like any decent thinker a lot of people
distort her, particularly with the idea that all
intercourse is rape.
--adx 
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [this was on the infoshop list - haven't seen it
> elsewhere - I'm far 
> from a Dworkin fan, but she sure had a way about
> her]
> 
> 
> From: "Judie M" <firme2306 at comcast.net>
> Date: April 9, 2005 5:53:57 PM HST
> To: <firme2306 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Andrea Dworkin
> 
> Here's a note I received this evening with some
> other personal stuff
> included that I've cut.  I checked Reuters, AP, and
> a general site that
> covers several news outlets but found nothing so
> far.
> 
> http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/
> 	Dear Friends,
> 	I just received word that Andrea Dworkin died
> peacefully in her bed
> this morning at 8, after a long struggle.
> 	I want to honor her passing by sharing with you an
> excerpt from one
> of her speeches posted at the Official Andrea
> Dworkin Website, which is a
> beautiful site:
> 	Here are the words of Andrea:
> 	I'm going to ask you to remember the prostituted,
> the homeless, the
> battered, the raped, the tortured, the murdered, the
> raped-then-murdered,
> the murdered-then-raped; and I am going to ask you
> to remember the
> photographed, the ones that any or all of the above
> happened to and it was
> photographed and now the photographs are for sale in
> our free countries. I
> want you to think about those who have been hurt for
> the fun, the
> entertainment, the so-called speech of others; those
> who have been hurt for
> profit, for the financial benefit of pimps and
> entrepreneurs. I want you to
> remember the perpetrator and I am going to ask you
> to remember the victims:
> not just tonight but tomorrow and the next day. I
> want you to find a way to
> include them - the perpetrators and the victims - in
> what you do, how you
> think, how you act, what you care about, what your
> life means to you.
> 
> 	Now, I know, in this room, some of you are the
> women I have been
> talking about. I know that. People around you may
> not. I am going to ask you
> to use every single thing you can remember about
> what was done to you - how
> it was done, where, by whom, when, and, if you know,
> why - to begin to tear
> male dominance to pieces, to pull it apart, to
> vandalize it, to destabilize
> it, to mess it up, to get in its way, to fuck it up.
> I have to ask you to
> resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have
> over women, to refuse
> to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is
> necessary despite its cost
> to you to change it.
> 		ANDREA DWORKIN
> 
> 		Speech at the Massey College Fifth Walter Gordon
> Forum,
> Toronto, Ontario, in a symposium on "The Future of
> Feminism," April 2, 1995.
> First published by Massey College in the University
> of Toronto, May 2, 1995.
> Copyright (c)1995, 1996 by Andrea Dworkin. Reprinted
> from Life and Death.
> 
> 
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