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Got this email re a new organization called Stop Porn Culture. Donate to the cause if you can.
Dear Supporters,
One of our members, Dominique Bressi, is doing an incredible
fundraiser for Stop Porn Culture. I'll let you read her own words
about her efforts. The event happens on June 22, 2008, with a
fundraising deadline of June 20.
We wish her all the best in this endeavor!
-Lierre for SPC
What I am doing:
I will be racing in the 2008 Coeur D'Alene Ironman, a distinguished
athletic event – one day, one race: swim, bike, run, 140.6 miles. I
will be racing in an effort to raise money for Stop Porn Culture, a
pioneering non-profit organization of which I am a cofounder. Stop
Porn Culture is dedicated to challenging the pornography industry and
an increasingly pornographic pop culture by working to end sexual
exploitation, sexism, and sexist portrayals of women and girls in the
media. Stop Porn Culture coordinates and presents social research
grounded in feminist analyses of sexist, racist, and economic
oppression. Stop Porn Culture affirms a sexuality rooted in equality,
free of exploitation, coercion, and violence, and brings attention to
the loss of the sacred in real life everywhere. Stop Porn Culture
insists that we face this assault with courage, that we see it, feel
it, and live it in such a way that creates transformation.
What I am asking:
Please go to my fundraising page, organized through the Ironman Janus
Charity Challenge, and donate what you can
http://januscharitychallenge.kintera.org/cda08/stoppornculture. My
fundraising goal is $44,000 which will provide a salary for one
half-time employee at Stop Porn Culture for two years. I am hoping to
secure at least 100 individual sponsorships of $140 or $1 per mile,
while seeking the balance in larger donations. I am grateful for any
contribution made in this effort to stop the commodification of women
and sexuality. Please forward this call to heart, generosity, and
action to your community.
Who I am:
As a survivor…I will fight with my last breath to end the silence.
As a woman…I will reclaim this objectified body as a whole, present
and intimate.
As a being…I will attest to the death of humanity: the loss of the
sacred by the pornographic - corporate culture's exploitive agenda.
As a psychologist…I will witness the horror suffered in the wake of
institutionalized misogyny and bear the heartbreak therein.
As an activist…I will stand strong against sexual exploitation,
enslavement, and dehumanization.
As I am…I will do this race as an act of defiance, a political act: a
testament to the life I was never meant to survive.
With Gratitude,
Dominique Bressi
