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Author/Editor: Christine Stark & Rebecca Whisnant

Biography
Christine Stark is a poet, writer, speaker, visual artist and activist of American Indian and European ancestry. Her work has been published in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress, The Florida Review, Poetry Motel, Poetry Midwest and Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion. She is a co-editor of Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography. She has spoken nationally and internationally and appeared on national TV and NPR's Justice Talking.  She has also organized numerous community events on rape, racism, homelessness and poverty. Christine teaches Composition at a Minnesota State Community College in Northern Minnesota. Christine is currently a member of the Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition.

Dr Rebecca Whisnant, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton, is co-editor (with Christine Stark) of Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography. She has published in ethics and feminist theory and has recently been named co-editor of several upcoming volumes for the Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Association (FEAST). A longtime anti-pornography educator, she has presented her slideshow and lecture "Exposing Pornography: A Feminist Perspective" to numerous college classes, conferences, and organizations.

News
24 Nov 2009 Christine Stark Nominated for Pushcart Poetry Prize

Spinifex author Christine Stark has been nominated for this year's prestigious Pushcart Prize for Poetry for her prose poem, Click Click.

17 Jun 2009 Improved support for trafficking victims The Australian Government today announced changes to Australia's anti-people trafficking strategy to provide improved support for victim... more
18 Jun 2009 Not For Sale Media Project The Not For Sale Media Project is currently embarking on the creation of posters that raise awareness on issues of prostitution, pornogr... more


Books published by, or available from, Spinifex
Not For Sale

Out Now
Making Trouble - Tongued with Fire

Making Trouble - Tongued with Fire


Sue Ingleton

In the cold winter of 1875, two rebellious spirits travel from the pale sunlight of England to the raw heat of Australia....

Karu

Karu


Biddy Wavehill Yamawurr, Felicity Meakins, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Violet Wadrill

Beautifully written by First Nations women on Gurindji country where the fight for equal wages began. This book...

Portrait of the Artist's Mother

Portrait of the Artist's Mother


Fiona Place

I am seen by many as a danger. As having failed to understand the new rules, the new paradigm of successful motherhood.

Defiant Birth

Defiant Birth


Melinda Tankard Reist

NEW EDITION

The women in this book may be among the last to have babies without the medical stamp of approval.

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