I just learned that feminist Andrea Dworkin has died, at the age of 59.
I read--and knew-- Dworkin when I was fresh out of college, say 20, and what Susie Bright has written about her rings true for me from back then--
"Here's the irony... every single woman who pioneered the sexual revolution, every erotic-feminist-bad-girl-and-proud-of-it-stiletto-shitkicker, was once a fan of Andrea Dworkin. Until 1984, we all were. She was the one who got us looking at porn with a critical eye, she made you feel like you could just stomp into the adult bookstore and seize everything for inspection and a bonfire."
Dworkin went off in a direction where I did not follow, but, geeze, she rocked.

Wired obit from April 11, 2005 here.
A memorial of sorts.