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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Quotes

Document Information

Type: Manuscript / article draft / investigation evidence
File Size: 1.24 MB
Summary

This document appears to be a page from a manuscript or collection of writings (likely by Clarisse Thorn) included in House Oversight Committee evidence (Bates stamped 018560). It contains the header for 'Section 2: Activism and Allies,' discusses S&M feminism, and introduces a 2011 essay written for Bitch Magazine regarding grassroots organizing and the history of the 'Jane' abortion network in Chicago. It includes quotes regarding power dynamics and sexuality.

People (5)

Name Role Context
Jenny Holzer Artist/Author
Quoted at the beginning of the section.
Clarisse Author/Subject
Mentioned in a quote by an ex-boyfriend; likely the author of the document (Clarisse Thorn).
John Stuart Mills Historical Figure
Used as a comparison for Clarisse.
Heather Booth Activist
Founder of 'Jane', student at University of Chicago in the late 1960s.
Unnamed Ex-boyfriend Source
Quoted describing Clarisse.

Organizations (4)

Name Type Context
Bitch Magazine
Publisher where the referenced article was originally written.
Jane
Underground abortion network in Chicago.
University of Chicago
Location where Heather Booth was a student.
House Oversight Committee
Source of the document release (indicated by Bates stamp).

Timeline (2 events)

Late 1960s
Founding of 'Jane' by Heather Booth.
University of Chicago
March 2011
Writing of the article for Bitch Magazine's Feminist Coming-Out Day Blog Carnival.
Unknown

Locations (2)

Location Context
Location of the 'Jane' network.
School attended by Heather Booth.

Relationships (1)

Clarisse Romantic (Former) Unnamed Ex-boyfriend
Quote attributed to '~ one of my ex-boyfriends' referring to Clarisse.

Key Quotes (4)

"Abuse of power comes as no surprise."
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"I think of Clarisse as the John Stuart Mills of sexuality."
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Quote #2
"Is consent complicated?"
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Quote #3
"Jane was started accidentally by a woman named Heather Booth."
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5. What are the overarching patterns that you see within the pieces in this section? How
are these disparate topics relevant to each other?
5a. Is consent complicated?
* * *
* * *
* * *
SECTION 2:
Activism and Allies
In which we explore activism and other topics tangentially related to S&M feminism --
from sex work, to polyamory and monogamy, to the nature of masculinity.
* * *
When I think of this section, I think of:
Abuse of power comes as no surprise.
~ Jenny Holzer
I think of Clarisse as the John Stuart Mills of sexuality.
~ one of my ex-boyfriends
* * *
* * *
* * *
ACTIVISM:
[theory] Grassroots Organizing For Feminism, S&M, HIV, and
Everything Else
I wrote this in March 2011 for Bitch Magazine's Feminist Coming-Out Day Blog
Carnival. The goal was to talk about feminist "click" moments, and my entry was
predictably wide-ranging and idiosyncratic.
* * *
Grassroots Organizing For Feminism, S&M, HIV, and Everything Else
Earlier this month, my sex-positive documentary film series screened Jane: An Abortion
Service. The film tells the extraordinary story of "Jane," an underground network of
women in Chicago who provided thousands of safe abortions in the years before abortion
was legal. It was totally inspiring.
Jane was started accidentally by a woman named Heather Booth. Booth was a student at
the University of Chicago in the late 1960s when another woman came and asked her --
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