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Free-for-All Speech at CSUSM
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt UPDATE: The Koala CSUSM editor-in-chief is not a CSUSM student. See more of the faces of The Koala below. The Koala, a tabloid launched last week by some California State...
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The Cowardice of Hate
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Back in November, I wrote about returning to school, a woman of cumulative years in the throes of selecting a college major — along with thousands of teenagers. It has now been...
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BOOK REVIEW: Tornado Warning by Elin Stebbins Waldal
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Tornado Warning, a memoir by San Diego County author Elin Stebbins Waldal, will likely prove an effective catalyst for introducing an issue that rarely makes it into polite...
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Diary of a Mad Coed in her Prime: Hate by any Other Name
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Of the many things I’ve learned since traipsing off with my book bag and lunchbox to return to full-time studenthood, none is quite as dismaying as the persistence of the rape...
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What does it mean to be a feminist?
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt I vaguely recall the first time someone asked me what it means to be a feminist. I was still a kid, freshly baptized in the blaze of radical feminism. Or so it seemed, as our...
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Koala at CSUSM rings in Domestic Violence Awareness Month touting rape,...
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Warning: Adult content October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a designation first recognized in 1989. And it is still relevant. Despite the 1994 passage of the...
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH:
The Other Side of the Wire By Kit-Bacon Gressitt You’d think a survivor of an abusive relationship would lend one of the most empathic of ears to women incarcerated for charges related to domestic...
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Why didn’t she just leave?
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Picture a sere summer night in Phoenix, Arizona, circa 1982.1 I lay on a crinkly table in a cluttered ER, joking with the doc, bribing him with a promise of homemade shortbread...
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Helping domestic violence victims in Hurricane Sandy aftermath
From Feminist Peace Network: As FPN has pointed out many times before, in the aftermath of any weather disaster, women often face different needs than men. In particular, people, mostly women and...
View ArticleV-Day – Until the Violence Stops
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. Today, one billion people are rising up to demand an end to violence. Because around the globe, 1 in 3 females will be raped...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Mango Bride by Marivi Soliven
Reviewed by Kit-Bacon Gressitt Marivi Soliven, a San Diego-based author of short stories and essays, launched her debut novel this May. The Mango Bride (Penguin NAL, May 2013) is a brilliant...
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Why didn’t she just leave?
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Originally published in October 2012 by San Diego Gay & Lesbian News, Ms. Magazine Blog and San Diego Free Press Picture a sere summer night in Phoenix, Arizona, circa...
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Women’s History Month: Women in Words
The Olive Tree By Saloua Saidane For most Tunisians, an olive tree is a source of food and energy. They wait each year for the harvest season to collect the olives and transform them into an extra...
View ArticleTill death do us part: Violence against women in So. Carolina
A Special Investigation from The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. By Doug Pardue, Glenn Smith, Jennifer Berry Hawes and Natalie Caula Hauff More than 300 women were shot, stabbed, strangled,...
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Why didn’t I just leave?
By Kit-Bacon Gressitt This is a modified version of an essay originally published in October 2012 by San Diego Gay & Lesbian News, Ms. Magazine Blog and San Diego Free Press. Please join the Week...
View ArticleNFL Super Bowl 2015 Domestic Violence Ad
This was unexpectedly tough to watch. Perhaps because it’s such a contrast to the times I asked police to help me. When it’s hard to talk, it’s up to us to listen.
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The Way We Were: Life Before the Orlando Shooting
By Lesléa Newman It was a lifetime ago. The 1980s. All week long, we waited for Saturday night. All week long, we smiled and nodded and typed letters for bosses who didn’t know the difference between...
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Nowhere to Go: Shutting Out Syrian Refugees
Today is World Refugee Day: How do we respond to Syrian refugees? In recognition of World Refugee Day, June 20, 2016, Brave New Films and Amnesty International have released a short film on the crisis...
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High Dive Heart: Anti-bullying music video
High Dive Heart and Ryland and Jeff Whittington create an anti-bullying message with the duo’s new release, “Misfit.” For additional videos in High Dive Heart’s anti-bullying series, visit their...
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