Controversial Feminist Andrea Dworkin Dead at 58

Despite being among the most vilified and controversial members of the movement, many of her ideas took hold of me during my early days of feminist discovery.

Briefly, Rad Geek has a good round-up. Charles says:

Those of you who know something about Andrea Dworkin’s life know that it has not been an easy one. The words that she spoke and the lines that she drew came out of intense pain, passionate commitment, and a deep compassion for women—women who had lived through the hell that she had lived through, and women whose struggles she made her struggle every day. I can only hope that she will have the peace that she could not have in life. And that we here can honor her by carrying on in the struggle that was her life’s work.

Amen.

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I want a 24 hour truce….was an incredibly powerful speech. I have decided to post for a second time today just to get that link in one more place. Thanks!

That makes me so sad! Dworkin was an amazing writer and thinker. I’m sorry I never wrote her fan mail while she was alive. Whenever I hear people mention her I tell them to read her very challenging books instead of believing the media hype about her.

thank you for posting the links and reminding me why i spent so much time so very very angry when i was first learning about feminism. i think sometimes it’s easier to dismiss people like Dworkin (believe the distortions, marginalize her as ‘extreme’) than it is to really listen to her words and hear the truth in them. there is so much pain in her vision, and sometimes, if it’s at all possible for you, it’s easier to pretend that this vision of women’s experience in the world is just her damage rather than a shared reality.

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Susie Bright wrote a really great eulogy here. They may not have agreed politically, but there was respect nonetheless.

Anyway, I thought you might appreciate it.

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