January 2011
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femme femme a film
femmefemmefilm:
WHAT IS IT?
Femme Femme a Film (provisional title!) is a documentary about femmes. Featuring interviews, footage from femme events and footage of femmes performing, existing & collaborating.
I want it to be about femme as both a performative and gender identity. I want to find out what femme means to different people, how it works for them, how they think about it politically...
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Damning report on abuse//The Age →
THE investigation and prevention of the alleged rape and abuse of disabled or mentally ill Victorians in state-run and private care is woefully inadequate, according to Victoria’s Public Advocate.
An Office of the Public Advocate report - to be released today and relying on data mostly gathered over the past four years - documents 86 cases involving the abuse of people with cognitive...
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Coalition would scrap curriculum →
THE federal Coalition is prepared to scrap the national curriculum and rewrite it if it returns to government.
Opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne said yesterday that he would not sign up to the national curriculum until he was convinced it was better than existing state curriculums.
…Mr Pyne will today accuse curriculum writers of neglecting the contributions of Britain,...
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language policing, lefty politics, and imperialist...
so-treu:
somethingtoobrave:
lovelyladyplant:
[removed a whole bunch of conversation about a South African invention: a female condom with teeth]
It’s so frustrating that, once again…. it’s the woman’s job to protect herself from rape. Why on earth does anyone have to be prepared to such extremes? I am angry right now (about a lot of things, but this, too). Besides, what about women without...
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Police to lead the fight against illegal sex... →
THE Baillieu government has vowed to crack down on Melbourne’s illegal sex trade, amid fears that unlicensed brothels have flourished across the city and are being infiltrated by crime groups.
Only a few months after eight illegal brothels were shut down during a police blitz last year, the government has moved to overhaul the way laws are enforced in a bid to stamp out other ...
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Crisis in public housing//The Age →
THE scale of Victoria’s public housing crisis is revealed in government figures that show disadvantaged people are waiting up to 18 years before they are given a home.
in the meantime, the state government is redeveloping chunks of some inner city public housing estates as private market-value rentals to prevent a “culture of poverty”, i.e. class consciousness, solidarity,...
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Egypt Lies I Read on Twitter: Debunking Rumors and... →
dominickbrady:
Yeah. I’ve learned pretty quickly on Tumblr that misinformation can be passed off as truth. That Fox news map with Egypt as Iraq is a great example. Unless I find a link to a major news service or scholar and can then compare that information with other sources I’m not buying it. For my Egypt and Middle East updates I’ll be relying on 3quarks and Juan Cole. Juan Cole is a...
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to clarify:
every time this language issue comes up (see Tiara’s original post for context), a bunch of people say that there’s a false dichotomy being drawn between reforming language and “real action”. In theory I agree — it should be possible to pay attention to language and also be part of a broader social movement. but in practice… the dichotomy exists, in...
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“How can we create alternatives to the police that both empower us to keep one...”
– from the zine “alternatives to police”, by Rose City Copwatch. you can download it here. it’s scanned pages, not text, unfortunately. it’s very good and I intend to get a text version at some point: message me if you want it now.
yes yes yes yes
so many theoretically...
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Medical students are performing intrusive exams on... →
This kind of attitude is why so many people fucking hate going to the doctor. It leads to bad health outcomes; it’s bad medicine. It’s also assault. Even medical ethics recognises this.
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“When asked whether wages ought not to be left to find their own...”
– early nineteenth-century weaver quoted in The Making of the English Working Class, E.P. Thompson
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Tiara the Merch Girl: I'm starting to get really... →
tiaramerchgirl:
…mainly because it seems a little too easy.
Instead of engaging with points of view that are challenging to yours (or just even working from a very different perspective), instead of looking within yourself to see how you’re perpetuating and practicing discrimination and harm, all you have to do is pick out a word and go “Ableist! Classist! XYZist!” and dismiss the other...
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this ain't livin': Today in Irk: Podcasts and... →
champagneproblems:
And it irks me to see people now relying on crowdsourced transcripts made by people who really really like content and want to share it but can’t until it is transcribed. Transcription work is time consuming and taxing and there’s a reason it costs money, because it is work. When your content is inaccessible and other people have to make it accessible for you, you really...
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wired's how-to wiki: Communicate if Your... →
krona:
emilyswash:
Scenario: Your government is displeased with the communication going on in your location and pulls the plug on your internet access, most likely by telling the major ISPs to turn off service.
This is what happened in Egypt January 25 prompted by citizen protests, with sources estimating that the Egyptian government has cut off approximately 88 percent of the country’s...
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“More than 1,500 people in this predominantly Latino community took part in the...”
– amazed how quick erasure takes place.
California Latinos protest Arizona push to end birthright citizenship - By the CNN Wire staff
You have got to be kidding me.
From the first two paragraphs of the wikipedia page for Sí se puede.:
Sí, se puede (Spanish for “Yes, it is possible” or, roughly,...
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Third World Protest as US Spectator Sport
zuky:
I’m not a fan of the US cultural habit of turning political turmoil in faraway lands into a gawkworthy spectator sport. I came to this realization in the aftermath of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, as it gradually dawned on me that sheltered, largely clueless people who had no stake in what was happening had little business pushing their intrusive, hungry gaze into such...
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100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader →
isabelthespy:
thisbodysfabric:
absentofgrace:
Found this link over at Bitch and thought I would share it. I don’t read much YA anymore because I think I’m technically a little old for it but I might say screw it and look into these reads anyhow :)
More books!
NO ONE IS EVER TOO OLD FOR YA.
also i legitimately only clicked this (PDF file, by the way) to see if e. lockhart’s the...
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AFL player not convicted or charged, no one faints... →
caitlinate:
I can think of lots of cases where yet another football player has raped or sexually assaulted a woman. This seems to happen quite a lot. But I can’t think of a single time I’ve heard of a player being convicted of the charges laid against them. It seems I am more likely to read about police dropping charges, police not pursuing charges and the DPP not pursuing a hearing. What the...
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On The Argument That Trans Women Are Triggering
thepeacockangel:
This was written by someone I really respect, and I think it’s a fantastic fucking article on the importance of the inclusion of trans women in women’s only spaces:
When people use the old “trans women can’t be in women’s space because they are triggering” argument I just want to stab myself, or possibly someone else, in the eye with a rusty fork. You know the one: “we can’t...
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terrorbull-deactivated20110707 asked: "also can feminists please stop doing the thing where we’re like '[controversial practice involving women’s choices about our bodies] should be decriminalised so it can be monitored and regulated and controlled'"
Maybe this is silly, but could you elaborate on that more? I don't know as much about this topic as I probably should, but I've...
Maybe this is silly, but could you elaborate on that more? I don't know as much about this topic as I probably should, but I've...
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Egyptian slogans (copied from the Angry Arab) →
afghanipoppy:
octobersurpriserevolution: Dalia kindly translated those Egyptian slogans that I posted yesterday:
“ا مبارك ارحل غور أحسن بكره تموت مقتول “Oh Mubarak leave for good, or else tomorrow you’ll be killed” • الهلال ويا الصليب بيقولوا لأ يا حبيب “The crescent and the cross say “no” my love / darling” (Jonathan sent me this: “Just FYI the Habib in الهلال ويا الصليب بيقولوا لأ يا حبيب ...
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Monster
blackamazon:
All of this is inspired by
On Cartography on the SPEAK CD
and Monster Kanye West
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I over identify with the term Monster in any of it’s forms .
I think of myself as a kind of monster .
A hulking busty big assed over tall she beast ( getting fatter as we speak )
monster
And a lot of it is tied up into
language.
I speak and understand
and commune with languages...
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Cairo (Trigger Warning: Police Brutality)
imissedtumblr:
I received this via email from a friend of mine who lives in Cairo. I’m not sure entirely how safe it is for her, so I have edited her information out of it, but I am posting it with her permission. She also emailed me recently to tell me that SMS is now shut down in Egypt.
Message begins:
Hey, guys! So, as expected, Facebook and Twitter have been re-blocked over here. I’ll...
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susana chavez's blog →
I always find it really fucking sad when activists and artists who die tragically are remembered more for their death than their life. Susana Chavez was the activist against the femicide in Juarez who was found dead on jan 6. I thought Spanish readers might want to read some of Chavez’s poetry.
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Delay for new mental health laws//The Age... →
A PLANNED overhaul of Victoria’s mental health laws may be delayed by up to a year and key reforms - including a move to involve families and carers in making treatment decisions - are being reconsidered by Mental Health Minister Mary Wooldridge.
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Victoria is the only jurisdiction in Australia that allows ECT to be given without the consent of the patient and without either...
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Rents set to jump this year//The Age//Australia →
Capital city rents are set to rise by 7 per cent this year and rose faster than inflation last year, putting additional strain on household budgets, new figures show.
RP Data said rents in capital cities rose 4.2 per cent in the year to December, above the 2.7 per cent official inflation rate over the same period. Outside capital cities, rents rose 2.9 per cent, RP Data said.
see also...
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New `no burqa' mural coming to Enmore [Sydney,... →
leonineclaire:
“Sergio Redegalli said he wants to paint it on a major shopfront on Enmore Rd with the help of a local artist.
“We need more pictures depicting the suffering of women,” he told the Courier.
The owner of Cydonia Glass first got national attention in September last year when he painted the mural on his workshop wall on Station St.
But he was thrown back in to the media spotlight...
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Jan 25th - Egypt's Day of Rage, a revolution in...
picturethis-that:
So I’m back. Anti-government protests all around Egypt were scheduled for January 25th, now dubbed “Egypt’s Day of Rage”, following Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution that ran president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali out of the country and saw mass revolts to bring about political change. And due to a lack of coverage and communication means I’ve resorted to the internet.
I have an...
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To follow what's happening in Egypt via Twitter
picturethis-that:
Here
Here
Here
and Here
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How the disabled were dehumanised - Laurie Penny →
krona:
thefeministhub:
It’s official: disabled people aren’t allowed to be independent. This week, amid rows about how this country treats people with disabilities, it was announced that the government will be phasing out the Independent Living Fund (ILF), a vital stipend that allows more than 21,000 “severely disabled people to pay for help so they can live independently”. Such provisions,...
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“Ready? Sure? Whatever the situation or secret moment, enjoy everything a lot. ...”
– meta-horoscope made from the most common words in 4000 astrological predictions
via alex T
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
The Magnetic Fields (55)
Zeigeist (54)
jj (20)
Robyn (19)
Young Marble Giants (18)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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caitlinate:
The new thing I am going to be doing is trying to be a little bit more positive. I am going to be trying to not hate on everything all the time, trying to not to roll my eyes every time certain people’s names are mentioned, trying to not always start conversations with complaints, trying to not only ever talk about things in ways that “critically analyse”/tear them to shreds, trying...
