October 2010
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i fucking love empirical research and will fight to the death to defend its compatibility with an anti-patriarchal anti-imperialist radical politic
you can’t change me
Italian Government Signs Contract with Facebook;... →
iragray:
they’re working on it in california, usa as well.
the article is originally in italian. there is a google translate bar at the top to get a rough translation.
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“The hipster is that person, overlapping with the intentional dropout or the...”
– From What Was the Hipster? Via NY Mag
The essay is an excerpt of N+1’s conference about the sociology of hipsters. If you don’t read N+1, get on it. There’s a lot of smart, interesting content in their magazines.
(via modernandmaterialthings)
this is a pretty interesting article!
rebelsea-deactivated20121016 asked: I came to your page so that I could tell you to GET OFF THE INTERNET and GO BACK TO STUDYING but then got distracted by all the good things you had posted. So.... maybe my message actually is DON'T LEAVE THE INTERNET but that is very naughty of me. So here is something on the internet that could be helpful to you: http://phylab.mtu.edu/~nckelley/Focus/
I thought it would be a...
I thought it would be a...
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Bromance gets physical | Sydney Morning Heraldq →
ardhra:
This is relevant to my interests. Ignore the queerphobic comments.
BUT THEY ARE SO FUNNY
“I will not hug another man let alone kiss them, what ever happened to a good old fashioned hearty hand shake. — Mick from Coburg.”
“WTF? Mate, if you kiss another bloke, then you’re either bi or gay, not straight. And no, I wouldn’t hug another bloke (unless...
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I tend not to have the energy for certain kinds of...
ilykadamen:
quixotess:
or boycotts, stuff like the transphobic app on the iPhone or the ex-gay book in WalMart. Let me explain where I’m coming from.
I used to work at a grocery store that catered to a liberal middle class demographic, so they carried stuff like all-natural salsa, eco-detergent, and slavery-free chocolate. And they shelved it right next to all the OTHER salsa, laundry...
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almond milk in medieval english cookery →
In the Middle Ages, animal milk was, of course, not refrigerated, and fresh milk did not stay fresh for long. Most cooks simply did not use much milk as the short shelf-life of the product made it a difficult ingredient to depend upon. Many recipe collections of the time advise that cooks should only rely on milk that comes directly from a cow, something not possible at all times, and purchasing...
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“I wrote up a little summary of some of the things I often tell people who come...”
– Considering Law School? « Dean Spade (via curate)
oh man this is a really good article
Reports of nursing home assaults growing →
THE crackdown on abuse of residents of nursing homes triggered 925 allegations of reportable assaults in the past year, but few are expected to result in convictions.
The reports of the alleged assaults, which nursing homes are obliged to pass on to police, had led to six convictions, a Federal Government spokeswoman said yesterday.
Of the cases, 200 were claims of unlawful sexual contact, 48...
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also here are a whole bunch of news articles about... →
they are guaranteed to make you feel fucking sick and awful.
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can we stop talking like young people are the only...
While multiple factors have combined to produce a climate in which the fear of witches thrives, there is a consensus that at the root of the witch- hunts there is a fierce struggle for survival that takes the form of an intergenerational struggle.
It is young men, often unemployed, who provide the manpower for the witch-hunts, although often executing plans hatched by other actors who remain in...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-24) →
KRS-One (38)
Röyksopp (25)
John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey (20)
jj (18)
The Gits (17)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“One of the functions of educational institutions, is two fold: Quarantine a...”
– Sailor Holladay, http://www.enoughenough.org/2008/07/the-suspension-of-fear/ (via blackfeminismlives)
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“The disruption of social norms is not always subversive, especially in...”
– Anne McClintock - Imperial Leather (via sexartandpolitics)
africa is not one bloody country →
educate yourself with this handy tool
you are not too good for comic sans
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Wallet as a 'tell'
besttumblr:
lgbtlaughs:
Quite possibly the highlight of my day: Nurse: Is that a wallet or a cellphone in your pocket? Me: It’s a wallet. Other nurse: you carry a wallet in your back pocket? *looks around, lowers voice* are you gay? Me: Well I’m bi… Nurse: Because my sister carries a wallet, and shes gay. (a shared piece of excellence from a friend) (Submitted by bugeyedmoments)
interested...
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This chant assumes that anal sex is not pleasurable for women; that if she says yes to intercourse, you have to go further to an activity that you experience as degrading to her, dominating to her, not pleasurable to her. This second chant is a necessary corollary to the first.
Thanks to feminism, women have claimed the ability to say both “no” and “yes.” Not only have women come to...
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To Write Scam On Her Arms.
invisibilities:sugaredvenom:
So who exactly is surprised that it turns out that To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA) are disgusting sexist, homophobic douches who only really exist to scam emo kids into going to church?
I’ve been suspect of these assholes for ages, so I did some research, and it only took me seconds to find out I was right to be distrustful. Renee at omgwtflol.net also did some...
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i had a pretty difficult conversation today in which a good friend told me that she is jealous of the security my disability money provides….in my years of experience being on disability, i have had several people in my life who seemed jealous or resentful of my guaranteed monthly income. a few people voiced their opinion that i am squandering my money if i buy myself a treat with it (ie,...
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so a prominent transmisogynistic radical feminist teaches at my uni. there are few other gender studies/feminist classes and none as large as hers or taught by someone as famous. and at first I thought there was little connection between her disciples and the feminist activism on campus. like they avoided the student union women’s department because it was “too queer” (as in,...
“I’m mystified by the laziness of people looking at how she presents herself, and...”
– Joanna Newsome on Lady Gaga
“I don’t think I can grasp anymore why people choose bad food over their health,...”
– i’m not gonna tell you the (vegan) source of this classist/racist crap.
i just wanted to point out that this is crap. and that this is one reason that many are disenchanted with vegan/vegetarian/organic/natural/etc. food movements.
not because we don’t understand why/how good food is important to...
“…it is so simply true, what disability justice is saying to social justice: a...”
– Jess and Daria, from the “Letter from the Editors (What if we lived as if everyone and everything matters? Because everyone and everything does.)” in make/shift, Issue #8, Fall/Winter 2010/2011. http://www.makeshiftmag.com/
(via tarae)(via leonineclaire)
Coming out: gay friendly schools form rainbow... →
so this happened. GSAs and the like are not really a thing in most Australian schools. (well, student clubs are not really a thing full stop, at least in public schools.) so this is kind of new? which seems like cause for cautious optimism? but — I’m keen to know more about what it will actually look like.
“Talking to these girls, I began to understand that I didn’t have to be...”
– Sara Marcus: Girls to the Front. The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution.
(via thatwhiterhost)
GPOY
one thing i would like to ask tho
radicallyhottoff:
before everybody agrees that doing organizing work like: organizing a protest, organizing a rally, organizing a take over of the local government office that requires female/male to be “checked” on all forms, is too complicated/difficult/etc—i would like to ask—why is it that in the US especially we ALWAYS find that kind of organizing too difficult? why is it that we ALWAYS...
