December 2011
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Earth Cafeteria//Linh Dinh
Mudman in earth cafeteria, I eat aardwolf. I eat ant bear. I eat mimosa, platypus, ermine. “White meat is tasteless, dark meat stinks.” (The other white meat is pork, triple X.) Rice people vs. bread people. White bread vs. wheat bread. White rice vs. brown rice. Manhattan vs. New England. Kosher sub-gum vs. knuckle kabob. “What is patriotism but love of the foods one had as a child?”* To...
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Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish... →
The genre-bending influence of Jewish women in comics will get a rare spotlight as the acclaimed Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women exhibition arrives at Yeshiva University Museum (YU Museum, 15 W 16th St NYC) on September 25, 2011.
Featuring original work by 18 of the most influential creators, Graphic Details showcases work of all-stars from the pioneering Wimmen’s Comix...
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How to find textbooks online for free: a post.
pompadoursandpincurls:
obsessionfull:
Textbooks are fucking expensive, and if your professor doesn’t require a physical copy (most don’t - they just want you to have the book at hand. Or maybe even not. Some professors literally give no fucks about whether you have the book or not) and you don’t mind having your copy as an electronic copy - this is the post for you!
Most textbook companies...
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Anonymous asked: "some of the toxic, narcissistic, individualistic, precious behaviours and attitudes in feminist circles.." thats some vague thinking there. Experience under your belt? you need to branch out and quit hating on your own. get out of your circles and talk to people in a non condescending way and make an effort to be thoughtful and listen to non self identified activists instead of...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Sufjan Stevens (32)
Aunt Molly Jackson (5)
Stephen Colbert & Jon Stewart (4)
Angel Haze (4)
Tangle (4)
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aunt molly jackson — christmas eve in the...
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on spelling yr women's with y's (womyn)
miswritten:
or, a-qwoc-checkin-that-turned-into-twitter-vomit-that-turned-into-a-tumblr-post.
“radical” men who spell women as “womyn” but are as misogynistic as fuck… you can change your spelling all you want, but i still see your ass. (also, being queer doesn’t give you a free pass, as some of the most cruel and unchecked misogyny is allowed to run rampant in queer spaces.)
if you proclaim...
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“And let us not forget about “safe space.” A major problem with these therapistic...”
– Joan Ward (via youneedacat)
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Wow. Stuff about the anti-political nature of... →
youneedacat:
Or, specifically, of therapy culture. I am writing a response to someone and ended up finding this old blog post of mine and quoting from one of the people quoted in it. And I got caught up reading all the old quotes again. They’re mostly from radical feminists, which is something I’m not. But the stuff they say has a lot of points that get into the way therapy culture has invaded —...
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so [TW: rape, rape culture]
missvoltairine:
this is the start of something bigger, but:
I am reading a lot lately, probably prompted by the recent revelation that Male Feminist Hugo Schwyzer is a sexual predator and would-be murderer, on accountability and the possibility for personal change and growth for people who are/have been abusers.
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excellent musings on the limits to transformative justice as...
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iPhones vs. the Police →
Is it possible to imagine a world without police? Actually it’s easy, if you’re a historian. London didn’t get a professional police force until 1829; New York didn’t get one until 1845. Before that, law enforcement was more of a private affair. Crimes at night were somewhat deterred by watchmen, who were in some cases volunteers and in others paid, but by day there was little to no...
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The struggle for the Occupy Wall Street... →
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“Liberal comics get laughs because their audience is made up of dope fiends,...”
– member of the commentariat at this terrible article
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I'm really hating geek subculture more and more
confessionsofanautisticboy:
Mostly I’m hating it because it has gone mainstream and vile. No I’m not being a stupid hipster saying that “Urgh, being a geek is sooo mainstream” (is that being a post-modern hipster?). It’s that it has a really gross feel to it.
So much of it is seemingly based on hating “people” and saying how much better and more intelligent one is than them. This is ironic...
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other things that life doesn't do that people do:
missvoltairine:
LIFE DOESN’T HOLD THE DOOR OPEN FOR THE PERSON COMING IN AFTER IT
LIFE DOESN’T TIP
LIFE DOESN’T TAKE ITS SHOES OFF INDOORS
LIFE DOESN’T NOT HOG ALL THE BLANKETS
LIFE DOESN’T QUEUE UP IN A LINE FOR THE BUS
LIFE DOESN’T RETURN LIBRARY BOOKS PROMPTLY, ESPECIALLY NOT DURING PEAK USE PERIODS
LIFE DOESN’T REFILL YOUR TANK AFTER LIFE BORROWS YOUR CAR
LIFE...
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[Voltairine]'s Guide To Not Being A Jerk In...
missvoltairine:
quixotess asked you:
This is a bit of a strange question, but I’m thinking of joining my “cultural council” at work which is like…talk about problems and stuff and try to work out solutions and then maybe present them to corporate. It’s a good time to join because there’s a new lead who I respect. It’s not exactly like a co-op or organizing for justice, but I thought there ...
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So for a 2011 recap I have to recap 2008?!?-...
blackamazon:
I usually do year end recaps and well this past week has been a doozy so lets go. I ask if you reblogged anything I said about Hugo Schwyzer/Seal Press/Feministe/Feministing/or the current paper thing you reblog this to honor my desire to at least be equally distributed as a writer as I am as an object of study
I have to let you in loved ones on a secret.
I do a lot of this ”...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
The Magnetic Fields (21)
The Clean (14)
Ladyhawke (5)
R.E.M. (2)
Sleater-Kinney (2)
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Aboriginal school plan fails//Adele Horin//The Age →
A FEDERAL government program that stopped welfare payments to Aboriginal parents whose children missed too much school has failed to produce sustained improvement in school attendance.
omg no way
my fave is this bit:
The federal government has a bill pending to introduce a third version, to begin in mid-2012, that gives parents more help before benefits are suspended or cancelled.
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re: abuse, accountability, and the possibility of...
leonineantiheroine:
ourcatastrophe:
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yeah but women of colour have been saying this kind of stuff for YEARS.
no doubt! I definitely need to read more about what other people have to say about transformative justice and specifically more of what women of colour have to say — thanks for the reminder. I’ve been thinking and talking about this for a while now and...
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TALLIDARITY
pussy-strut:
OUR DEMANDS MOSTLY INCLUDE LEGROOM
blackamazon:
So.
Remember when someone went really hard at me an a loved one about ” their hard work ” at feministe/ing and how they shouldn’t be erased and how HARD their position was and how they HOPED we “lost” social justice cause they were being denied their something or other ?
So now we have a book on dating and a site that is SO OUT OF TOUCH WITH NON SELF SERVING REALITY it...
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re: abuse, accountability, and the possibility of...
context.
there has been a lot of feminist writing about harm you might not know you’re doing. like, why you should pay more attention to your sexual partner’s non-verbal signals because they might be verbally consenting but not actually comfortable with what’s happening, stuff like that. how anybody can practice bad consent. lots of borderline stuff, lots of stuff that...
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so, reformed abusers
desliz:
I was going to post a personal account, but realized I am not ready to do that. So here’s some bullet points:
1. Many modern feminists are terrified of being classed as man-hating, prudish dykes, so there is a tendency to fawn over “reformed” men and “male feminists”. It is not surprising that many of the men who insert themselves into these spaces tend to be excellent manipulators and...
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leonineantiheroine:
Today from around 5.30pm at Pitt Street Mall, Sydney there was a candlelight vigil for the asylum seekers who drowned on the weekend.
Info below:
“On Saturday night, an overcrowded asylum seeker boat sank around 90km off the coast of East Java. While Indonesian fishing crew managed to save some of the 250+ people on board, as many as 180 asylum seekers (mainly from...
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I’m really annoyed by how many people have chosen to reblog this terrible news about the shooting spree in Italy targeted at Black African immigrants and focus on this pull quote:
“Don’t tell us he was a madman,” said one, “because if he was he would have killed whites as well as blacks”.
it’s amazing. so many people have been like “oh yes that...
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leonineantiheroine replied to your post: that’s really protestant/white, not trying to be mean, just pointing it out.
i had a dream that you blamed your ex for the downfall of feminism.
I just need this on my blog everyone
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Anonymous asked: that's really protestant/white, not trying to be mean, just pointing it out.
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anotherhookerblog replied to your post: incomplete list of things I don’t believe exist:
No 2: really?! Oooo-errrrrr
yep! this really pisses people off. sorry everyone, if you believe there is a spiritual or metaphysical connection between the moon and your cycle that’s a personal matter, but if you believe there is a literal physical effect akin to the tides then that is...
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mosshunt replied to your post: incomplete list of things I don’t believe exist:
i’m a taurus.
“Taurus is conservative, careful, closemouthed. Aquarius is unconventional, innovative, and vivacious. Taurus is lusty and passionate, while Aquarius operates on a mental plane. Neither is likely to approve of the other.”
:(
obeliskoftheapocalypse replied to your post: incomplete...
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incomplete list of things I don't believe exist:
1. God
2. the influence of the moon on menstrual cycles
3. soulmates
4. human nature
4 a). personality
5. progress
5 a). historical inevitability
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Nosaj Thing (11)
The Magnetic Fields (4)
Sokio (3)
Bessie Smith (1)
Brenda Holloway (1)
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