August 2010
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Making an Island
“Creating an island can be as simple as putting a chair in a 0.50m deep sea and calling it an island. Land reclamation projects tend to create bigger surfaces to stand on, which vary from square metres to even square kilometres. Before we start building an island, we need to consider what use it will have first. Here is a list of reasons why we might want to build an island: To have...
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“Grammarians in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, trying to kind of cut a...”
– Ursula K. le Guin (via)
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Doctors remove nails driven into maid | Sydney... →
(via ardhra)
alternative title: employer abuse of women migrant workers is a) a serious and prevalent issue and b) not limited to sex workers.
this is horrifying.
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we are everywhere: harm reduction →
TRIGGER WARNING: somewhat vague mentions and descriptions of self-injury, drug use, sex work, abuse, institutionalized oppressions, but mostly just a discussion on how to support survivors of these things.
Recently I’ve been reading a lot about harm reduction and the many ways that such a…
my main thought about this at the moment is that a lot of people in radical communities are...
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as a pre-teen my parents told me that in the future I could date anyone I wanted provided they were not an architect or a Trotskyist.
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Israeli Education Ministry Approves New... →
lowendtheory:
Several months ago, a religious school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Immanuel was criticized for segregating white Jewish students from non-white Jewish students in classes.
Originally, the school was fined for this policy of racial segregation, because the school was state funded. Now, the Israeli education ministry has agreed with the white parents’ request to allow the...
“A common way to show that one has sharpened one’s critical thinking is to...”
– “Beyond Critical Thinking” at the Chronicle of Higher Education (via leoninineclaire, radicallyhotoff)
I’m really glad someone else has written this so I don’t have to. it’s really encapsulating a lot of my feelings around organising/movement at the moment. obviously...
Iraq ill-equipped to cope with an epidemic of... →
“Across Iraq, 100 psychiatrists are available to serve a population of about 30 million people, Iraq’s psychiatric association says. Many people self-medicate, and prescription drug abuse is now the number one substance abuse problem in Iraq. The most abused drug is called Artane, known generically as trihexyphenidyl but referred to in Iraq as the “pill of courage,”...
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I reckon asking only visibly gender-variant folk which pronoun they prefer is kind of similar to asking PoC and only PoC where they’re from in that it’s singling out an Othered group. but also it’s very different because we use (gendered) pronouns to refer to people all the time, and asking about someone’s race/background doesn’t usually have such a practical...
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50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies →
hoaxzine:brainguts:adailyriot:fuckyeahangryfatgrrrls:cuntofdoom:pansexualpride:transpride
reblogged for future reference
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another thing about this “curves are sexy” thing.
I really don’t think I’ve ever in my whole life thought I wasn’t sexy enough. not that I think I am universally sexy! it was just always obvious to me that what’s sexy is individual and specific. everybody is sexy to someone but nobody is sexy to everyone. I wouldn’t take it personally when someone who...
MELBOURNE: A day of workshops themed around...
faketrain:
There will be somewhere between nine and twelve different workshops & facilitated discussions that are intended to engage those that come along in continuing to talk and think about: - Different forms of consent/coercion and their relevance & presence in differe…nt communities & social groups. - How to create, build & maintain healthy relationships of all different...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-22) →
Public Enemy (16)
Matryoshka (11)
Cadallaca (10)
Timbaland (10)
The Gits (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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