Spinifex Press
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.

16 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 victims. The changes will e... more
17 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, pornography, and trafficking... more


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

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The Aerial Letter

The Aerial Letter


Nicole Brossard

What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself...in short, not...


Murmurations

Murmurations


Carol Lefevre

For the first time since he’d left the island he thought of the starlings massed at dusk in the winter trees behind the...


Symphony for the Man

Symphony for the Man


Sarah Brill

1999. Winter. Bondi. Harry’s been on the streets so long he could easily forget what time is. So Harry keeps an eye on...


In Defence of Separatism

In Defence of Separatism


Susan Hawthorne

In Defence of Separatism is a timely book. When it was first written in 1976, although it was an important subject of...


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