September 2010
“When I first started working on this book, I told my editor that I wanted it to...”
– Jay-Z, about his forthcoming book Decoded.
Except they’re not. They are rap lyrics and are meant to be rapped. As soon as you strip them of a voice they lose a large part of their power and purpose. Jay’s lyrics on a page is no more a poem than Lil Wayne reading William Blake aloud would constitute...
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Two Quotes on Social Theory
Ashley and Orenstein in Sociological Theory (1998):
‘“Theory” (as in “social theory”) often seems remote, abstruse, abstract, and irrelevant, not to mention pretentious, confusing, and self-contradictory. We already seen, of course, that, for human beings, theory cannot just be abstract and irrelevant. Theory is an essential part of human experience precisely...
ardhra:
“My family has always eaten tofu. So many delicious varieties of tofu prepared in so many different ways! But I never ate it as a kid, rejecting it as something foreign and strange that would make me foreign and strange if I were to eat it. Do you know when I really started enjoying it? When I became a vegetarian activist and saw that White people could like it too, and it...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-26) →
Young Marble Giants (29)
The Smiths (24)
Delta 5 (16)
Blatz (16)
Circle Jerks (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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faketrain-deactivated20110925 asked: lizzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie.
coupla things. 1: when i go to type in yr blog into my browser all i have to type is "ourcat" and i'm there. i kind of know how you feel about cats (everyone is allergic, why do people have them) BUT i kind of love cats because i grew up with them and so i think this is sweet.
2. re:"ourcatastrophe replied to your post:I’m into...
coupla things. 1: when i go to type in yr blog into my browser all i have to type is "ourcat" and i'm there. i kind of know how you feel about cats (everyone is allergic, why do people have them) BUT i kind of love cats because i grew up with them and so i think this is sweet.
2. re:"ourcatastrophe replied to your post:I’m into...
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this is not really about the Feminist Body Hair...
So I shaved my armpit hair last night after a few months of growing it out and quite a valiant attempt to keep it. The funny thing is that I didn’t shave it because I was finally giving in to patriarchal shame about body hair, or whatever. I’m certainly not gonna claim that I’m immune to body shame, but I actually really like armpit hair aesthetically and feel more comfortable with my looks when...
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trigger warning (discussin' emotional abuse)
menthaspicata:
My friend wrote last fall: “I called them up years ago and said ‘you did this’ and they said, ‘shit, yeah, I’m sorry’ and read some books, told other boys to behave better. and all my friends from home have eaten it up, are so completely impressed by the good solid examples of who they could become. but none of their homework, none of who they’ve worked hard at becoming, impacts...
colossalyouthband:
song off our demo. tape will...
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also. a disturbing tendency that I’ve noticed in capital-A anarchist discourse is a resurgence of paranoia about the influence of left authoritarianism. particularly after the coming insurrection was translated into English — people started freaking out about some sort of pollution by autonomist Marxism. especially in the US I think. that fucked up anarchistnews article was full of...
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Excerpt from Notes on Survivor Autonomy and...
leonineclaire:
There is a peculiar sort of discourse which surrounds the issue of accountability in anarchist or otherwise “radical” circles - one that takes for granted that anarchist men should receive treatment distinct from other men. When, in the anarchist milieu, a man sexually assaults a woman, the surrounding community will often engage in a process designed to hold the man...
Autistic student sues over test
A 17-year-old student with autism is suing the Education Department for discrimination because his teacher refused to modify questions in his maths tests.
Lewis Walton, who received an A-plus in general maths and B-plus in maths methods in year 11, said his scores plunged in VCE specialist maths because his language difficulties meant he struggled to interpret open-ended questions that...
sweatpotato-deactivated20110502 asked: So, I DID look for original article/comments and UGH, ARGH, WTF
radicallyhottoff:
because here’s the thing. you are never too young to sexually harassed. you are never too young to be raped. you are never too young to have gender based violence and oppression forced onto you. and gender based violence as it is directed at little girls more often than not does NOT have anything to do with “girls can’t do math” or “girls aren’t allowed on the football team.”
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“Also, I am confused about the model of woman anarchybros (of whatever gender)...”
– an anonymous anarchistnews commenter in response to a lengthy written defense of two rapists that got the shit kicked out of them (via notyrcisterpress)
don’t look for the original article + comments. just don’t.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-19) →
Robyn (23)
Gorillaz (15)
Cat Power (11)
Morrissey (10)
Björk (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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schizophrenia 101
amandaw:
abbyjean:
when interacting with someone with schizophrenia, my most important tip is not to try to contradict or argue with them about the reality of their delusions or hallucinations. when i had a psychotic break due to my mania, i believed i could fly. and i say “believed,” but i really mean “knew with the certainty that you know you can type by pressing keys on the keyboard.”...
Carrier pigeons are faster than rural broadband →
modernandmaterialthings:
Carrier pigeons have won a race against rural broad band after delivering USB keys more quickly than a computer using rural broadband
Via Telegraph
please read this before you feel tempted to talk at length about the revolutionary democracy inherent in the internet.
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“David Walsh writes (September 8, 2010) on behalf of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) regarding The Stieg Larsson phenomenon, and he detects several troublesome notes, including the fact that:
“The books exhibit a type of left-wing or anarchist “vigilantism” that will not help anyone. Salander in particular is remorseless in exacting personal and...
“We’re for the coca leaf but against cocaine,” Mr Morales, a former coca famer,...”
– Coca leaves are not cocaine, Evo Morales insists - Telegraph
because of course, criminalization leads to legal control over (think drug corporations and how many of them use some derivative of the plant in their “legal” drugs)
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Reflections: Incite and Critical Resistance on...
leonineclaire:
2008
On the other hand, prison abolition efforts didn’t exactly center the problem of domestic violence and sexual violence within the community. Calls for prison abolition were often not accompanied by recognition of the needs of survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence or the need for organizing efforts to ensure safety in the community without relying on police or...
Excerpt from research on gender responsiveness and...
leonineclaire:
“As a transgender person I am indebted to generations of gender outsiders who have fought for self-determination, and I know that those struggles have most often been against to police brutality and state violence. The capacity of gender nonconforming people to organize is a fraction of what it might be because so many of us are in prison. The projects of building trans political...
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“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main...”
– Truth, Power, Self : An Interview with Michel Foucault (25 October 1982)
foucault gives self-help tips!
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sometimes I wanna say “fuck off university” and just try on dresses and have bubble baths and read novels trashy enough that I’m not worried about splashes from the bath water ruining them. then I realise that the government would stop paying me rent money and I wouldn’t have a bathroom to bathe in. also that I regularly eschew washing for 2-3 weeks (my one concession to...
“First, ACT UP was about organizing the unorganized. It wasn’t a lefty coalition...”
– The Tactics of Early ACT UP (interviews of Maxine Wolfe)
this is a really interesting link everyone
“I was saying,” continued the Rocket, “I was saying—What was I saying?”
“You were talking about yourself,” replied the Roman Candle.
“Of course; I knew I was discussing some interesting subject when I was so rudely interrupted. I hate rudeness and bad manners of every kind, for I am extremely sensitive. No one in the whole world is so sensitive as I am, I am quite sure of that.”
“What is a...
Tirade Tuesday: Tim Wise and the Problem with... →
wundagore:
Tim Wise doesn’t know his place as an “ally.” Once he saw that he was becoming more popular as an anti-racist activist, he could have made it a bigger point to direct white people to the literature of PoC, but he didn’t. He’s profiting off of work that PoC have been doing for centuries. He continues to do this, and he’s still going at it today. The least he can do is incorporate...
