August 2011
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Don’t Call Them Ignorant//Lucian Kahn//Pretty... →
Here are some things I didn’t say:
“You’ve never heard of Rosa Parks?” “Wow, you’re pretty ignorant. You really should educate yourself on civil rights history. You should be ashamed of yourself.”
“You probably don’t know about her because you’re all really privileged and never had to think about things like civil rights. I can tell that you’re privileged because you’re able to take this...
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The Australian Federal Government's planned... →
phanta:
and THANK FUCK for that.
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Useful list of triggering movies, books, etc... →
januarydaze:
Here is a useful online list of triggering movies, books etc.
It mostly lists stuff like rape scenes. But also other types of assult, abuse etc.
If you’re sensitive to this stuff I hope it helps you (it’s helped me)
The author says about the list-
“This page was created because I got tired of being “ambushed” by books and movies with triggering topics. This list was compiled by...
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Snarky Offlist Abortchatter
bthny:
ocatbusmycatbus:
SOMEONE ON TWITTER asked what people in “the pro-choice movement” wished they’d known before “taking the job”, and for advice they would give to others interested. Mine, which I am keeping off of twitter because it’s too long, is “don’t bother looking for a job in The Movement because some Harvard grad already has that shit on lock, also stop assuming that you have to...
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Your favourite fag hag.
terror-incognita:
I was really over invisibility as the queer femme issue. I think a big part of that was because in my hometown I am somewhat visible, through activism and performance and also just having been around long enough in a small enough scene. More importantly I’m not threatened by being seen as straight.
Recognition can be reciprocal, but it can also be about cultural capital and...
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Ticket inspectors feared, loathed, secret research... →
“They are variously described as scary, intimidating, nasty, evil, horrible, harassing”, the report said.
“There is also a strong visual sense that people associate with [ticket inspectors]: moving in packs, black leather gloves, trench coats, big balding men.”
And in carrying out their role as ticket inspectors, the report found, people believed they were seen as...
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“Following decriminalization, Portugal eventually found itself with the lowest...”
– ten years ago portugal legalised all drugs: what happened next? tony o’neill at alternet.
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ICAAP IN SOUTH KOREA RAIDED BY RIOT POLICE
leonineantiheroine:
privilegedandgoodlooking:
I’m only just getting this from Scarlet Alliance folks on social media, but riot police have raided the International Congress on AIDs in Asia and the Pacific.
From a friends FB status “HiV + local south korea people and sex workers have been arrested at our side fighting for their rights. Riot Police were brought in to drag them out”
This...
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today i got a pottery barn catalog addressed to...
transartorialism:
so i flipped through it for decorating ideas
i saw that they have started carrying remakes of quilts from gee’s bend:
what thorough and absolute exploitation
i know that people buy prints of art all the time, but i just can’t get over this cycle of what something being “art” means, and how thoroughly it exploits rural women of color in this case.
some white folk art...
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“The Decemberists making an ‘Infinite Jest’-themed music video was actually the...”
– Chris Weingarten (via asheli)
pretty much. I find the fact that that video exists personally embarrassing.
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W.O.R.C Announcement
blackamazon:
there is no prescription
no magic potion
no code word
When you live at an intersection , where anything and anything meets, you are the only one who sees the ways the roads go .
and rape/culture is no different
When 7/10 anti gay attacks are queers of color
When being Native means you get raped most often with the LEAST chance of the charging of your attacker?
When...
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“Hello and welcome to Q&A, I’m Tony Jones. Answering your questions...”
– “We’ll take that as a comment”, Daniel Burt, The Age
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“And what, then, is to be thought of those witches who in this way sometimes...”
– from part II q1 ch 7 of key witch-hunting manual the Malleus Maleficarum (“the hammer of the witches”), by heinrich kramer and james sprenger, c. 1484 AD (trans. Montague Summers). this chapter is entitled “How, as it were, they Deprive Man of his Virile Member”.
while this...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →
Einstürzende Neubauten (11)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (9)
Nosaj Thing (7)
DJ Bedbugs (7)
Pixies (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Huge cache of looted goods found in London ...
jenniferanne:lifeaquatic:dasmotorbike:socialismartnature:
“They found a building in London full of looted goods. It’s called the British Museum.”
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“1. Describing a piece of art as being about “the failure of the American dream”...”
– small fish to fry: annoying things i will no longer stand for
so are you following dailysardines yet or what’s your problem
(via isabelthespy)
januarydaze said: i have a lesbian poetry erotica book - love death changing of the seasons by marilyn hacker. the front pic is a pomegranate. hehe. nah actually its fucking beautiful writing and hardly any of it is fruit metaphors. have you read it?
how much is hardly any...
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I just can’t take food metaphors for sex. no matter how well-crafted, I find them a) laughable, b) acutely anxiety-inducing, and c) vaguely nauseating. this is why I can basically never read erotica, esp. lesbian erotica. damn.
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She Got A Big Ego?: Thoughts on Dating with a... →
Recently, my romantic interested accused me of throwing my Ph.D. in his face. Most Black women with Ph.D.’s will know exactly how egregious an accusation that is, especially since we are hypersensitive and overly vigilant about making sure never to “throw our degrees” in the face of less-accomplished potential boos or family members.
…Dude who is a high school math teacher and has a...
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spitsink:
HUGGY BEAR- NO SLEEP
no sleep till...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-7) →
The Hood Internet (46)
Cibo Matto (11)
Loretta Lynn (11)
Jawbreaker (5)
TOKiMONSTA (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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radicallyhottoff:
and just as an angry side note: when i keep hearing about “professional feminism” and “why won’t the people in the US revolt???” i get very angry for a *reason*. organizing is a skill. it’s a skill that almost fucking anybody can do. as the minutemen and tea partiers have shown us.
but professional feminism makes it so that “feminists’ do it *for* us. in a 501c3 model. you...
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besttumblr:
…The creepiest thing about violent revolutionary dialogue is that it feels apocalyptic in the Biblical sense; that everyone likes to pray for the revolution; that folks don’t like to consider who has the most power in physical/violent uprisings (hint: it’s the strongest, not the best or the smartest or the least-oppressive); that everyone who is “good” (aka a certain type of...
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Just North of Something Important: "The market" →
barthel:
Dear journalists: please stop talking about “the market” as if it were an actual thing with concrete desires, motivations, and reasoning. As in, “the market reacted badly to the continued standoff over the debt ceiling.” This is bullshit. “The market” did nothing. “The market” is an aggregation of individual buying and selling decisions, the majority of which were presumably made...
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weird realism: Epic Fail →
thenewinquiry:
A review of The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam
By Jenna Brager
…The Queer Art of Failure sometimes embarks on a positivist project in which “failure” stands in for alternate paths to triumph, and sometimes calls for failure to be taken on it’s own terms, rather than as a “stopping point on the way to success.” … Proposing a “low theory”...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-31) →
Young Marble Giants (265)
Tracy Chapman (18)
Spider and the webs (12)
Das Racist (12)
Invincible (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Reports on suicide fit to print//Michelle Griffin... →
THE TABOO against reporting suicide has been lifted in extensive new guidelines released to the print media today by the Australian Press Council.
The journalistic euphemism for suicide - ”police said there were no suspicious circumstances” - may fade away now that the new guidelines acknowledge that reporting suicide can be of public benefit.
The guidelines, which are...
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Read Away Your Overdue Book Fines!
wingolamo:
nypl:
So let’s face reality - everyone forgets to bring back Library books sometimes. And when they do, they rack up fines. Sure, the fines aren’t that steep, but over time, they can add up. Here at NYPL, if you rack up $15 or more in fines, your card gets blocked and you can’t check out books anymore … and that’s sad. In this economy, even a small amount of money might be too...
