Andrea Dworkin, 1946-2005

This is strange. I first read over at Trish's that Andrea Dworkin had passed away. Someone had emailed to tell her. After doing some digging, I found a thread at The Margins and I notice that her Wikipedia entry contains her date of death. Yet I haven't seen any official statements in news publications. While I don't agree with all of Dworkin's ideas, Letters from a War Zone had a powerful effect on me, especially I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape.

UPDATE: Duh. I should have looked on the Wikipedia talk page, where someone has posted two emails sent to a Women's Studies listserv.

SECOND UPDATE: Someone on the Wikipedia talk page said: "Unfathomable that Wikipedia is the first online source I could find for any discussion of her death." Seriously. It makes me want to get more involved with the Wikipedia community.

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The Guardian

Here's an obituary with links to Dworkin's columns in the Guardian and some sites devoted to her work. See also Rad Geek's post.

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