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Samhita is a 31 year old writer and activist who just moved after a 7 year stint in San Francisco to upstate NY. She is the web manager at the Center for Media Justice an Oakland based org that provides media strategy and action for justice based grass-roots organizing groups. She has a Bachelors degree in Sociology and Women's Studies from SUNY Albany and a Masters in Women's Studies from San Francisco State focused on blogging, gender, social networking technology and activism. She is on the advisory board at Wiretap Magazine. She has written for New American Media, Wiretap, Colorlines, the Nation and the American Prospect. She has been featured in India Currents Magazine, Nirali Magazine and Alternet. In 2007 she was named a Champion of Sexual Literacy by the National Sexuality Resource Center. Samhita has been featured on multiple panels, including South by South West Interactive, Allied Media Conference, National Conference on Media Reform and Women, Action and Media, discussion, gender, race, sexuality and the internet. Samhita focuses most of her writing on popular culture, race, gender, the prison industrial complex and the romantic industrial complex.
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- I am drawing mainly from the writing of post-colonial feminist theorists that believe using "they are barbaric" as an excuse to invade countries is in fact a campaign of colonization. For more reading on the topic, I suggest reading authors
(posted to War and the Women in Afghanistan. ) - Thank you for writing this post Jos and Happy belated birthday!
(posted to Suicide ends transgender lives too) - Reading this makes me hongry. Where my noms??
(posted to More on Kate Moss and "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels") - Guillermo. I wrote about him here: http://www.feministing.com/archives/017582.html
(posted to Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: National Women's Studies Association Conference) - Marc, I don't leave many comments, but I wanted to step in and thank you for leaving yours and reminding us that all the things we write about have faces attached to them, people that are living these realities that
(posted to The Question of DADT and Citizenship. )
Responses to Comments from Samhita
- You are the prime example of why idiots like Code Pink make the rest of us feminists look bad. I don't need to lie to myself to sleep at night. In my political activism as in the military, both what (posted to The Question of DADT and Citizenship. )
- However I might feel (as a civilian who has never served) about the American military, I think it's important to fight for queer service members (including those who have already been suffered unjust separation) rather than to say, "Yeah, sucks (posted to The Question of DADT and Citizenship. )
- A little O/T, but Marc, if you don't mind me asking, why is it offensive to thank a service member (or veteran)? (Apologies if you've already addressed this and I missed it--it's something I've never heard before.) (posted to The Question of DADT and Citizenship. )
- It is a bit off topic, and I can only speak from my perspective and not anyone else's. I feel that most of the time, more than anything, when people come up to me and thank me for whatever perceived (posted to The Question of DADT and Citizenship. )
- you have no idea who I am, or what I have or have not done but sadly, i think i understand what the us military continues to do at home and abroad. and most of it ain't feminist. there might (posted to The Question of DADT and Citizenship. )











