August 2012
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like SERIOUSLY though
everythingbutharleyquinn:
not every fucking sex worker who believes in sex workers rights and writes about it on the internet is a fucking white liberal ‘choosey choosey’ sex worker shut the fucking fuck up you ignorant fucking fuck wits fuck and it so fucking racist and classist and fucked up as all fuck to dismiss a GLOBAL LABOUR RIGHTS MOVEMENT as being the sole concern of white western women...
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bookbat:
oh god dudes on okcupid describing themselves as “sex positive”
#thanks for coopting feminist rhetoric to describe your sense of entitlement #I don’t even like that feminist rhetoric #but YOU STILL CAN’T HAVE IT
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“Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily...”
– Tony Abbott, Australian Leader of the Federal Opposition, on migrants
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hugoschwyzer:
there’s our catastrophe: brief note re: the centrality of beauty and image to “body positivity” discourses
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1. people who care a lot about their own beauty usually have strong and complicated reasons for feeling that way. feeling beautiful is not just about feeling beautiful, it’s about feeling like a beautiful person, like the protagonist in a...
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Through Deaf Eyes →
extendedmetaphor:
Hey Melbourne kids! This is a thing which is happening which you might be interested in going to.
Experience this unique performance featuring deaf writers telling their stories in Auslan. Developed and directed by the deaf community, this groundbreaking work turns the tables and challenges the conventions, as Auslan interpreters translate this beautifully expressive language...
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How websites like Racialicious reproduce the same...
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rumagin:
There is an article about Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pound the Alarm’ video doing the rounds on tumblr. I didnt think it was accurate when i first read it. Then i saw it blasted by racialicious and i felt i had to comment because it was a form of representation by dominant US racial discourse about the Caribbean that pushed our own readings of ourselves out the window.
This is the...
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“Question: Is it possible to prevent units in our building from being rented by...”
– “worried owner” on domain.com.au
the state of public comment on housing policy today, everyone
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laceninja replied to your post: julian assange: “there is unity in the oppression; there must be unity in the reponse”
How do you know for sure whether the rape allegations are true or not though?
He and his legal team have admitted that shit went down the way the women involved said it did. Their defense case is grounded in an argument that it doesn’t count as rape.
Even if...
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more on boredom →
capybaracommando:
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Man, perhaps it’s my attention span but I’m extremely suspcious of anything that doesn’t instantly make me say “boring! next!”, cause if it’s easy to focus my mind on it, it’s probably a bit of fluff and not worth it.
But that’s a different kind of boredom from boring social situations or from feminist pop culture criticism. That’s more an...
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my life got a whole lot better when I realised that boredom was a huge factor in all my personal problems.
anxiety in social situations? often grounded in being bored, and then in consequence feeling like there was something wrong with me that I wasn’t having fun at that awesome party with those awesome people.
slow self-destruction and seeming inability to stop doing really stupid...
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julian assange: "there is unity in the oppression;...
oh please
you know what a really effective way is to divide the left?
rape women
like, that is a fairly divisive thing to do, no?
if assange actually gave a shit about having a unified left he would accept the consequences of his actions and pass on the Wikileaks torch to a less grotesque human rather than transforming his political group into Rape Apologism, The Legal Fund
see also: Why...
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reallyreallyreallytrying:
a vast stone golem ＨＯＷ ＭＡＮＹ ＤＵＤＥＳ ＹＯＵ ＫＮＯＷ ＲＯＬＬ ＬＩＫＥ ＴＨＩＳ the last of his kind ＮＯＴ ＭＡＮＹ ＩＦ ＡＮＹ
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aidsnegligee:
existentialism sort of irks me.
why i am taking a course in it in the next few months?
One could almost say you’re taking the course… in bad faith
what a nauseating pun
can you change your enrolment or is there no exit?
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did you guys know that the nobel prize in economics is not technically a real nobel prize? it’s the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”. but it was never part of the Nobel bequest, and the prize is not actually administered through the Nobel Foundation. what happened was that in the late 1960s the Sveriges Riksbank (the Swedish central...
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rgr-pop:
I was wondering whether anyone knew anything about that cross that Femen cut down. Is it an Orthodox cross, or the cross of a minority Christian group? Was it a public monument? Reuters called it a “Christian cross,” which is the silliest thing I have heard. But according to RT, The Sun, and a handful of other places, it was, in fact, an Orthodox monument. You are probably thinking “to...
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also in interesting Beckett facts: "Samuel Beckett... →
André was too big to fit on the school bus, or in the family car, and Beckett was friends with his dad.
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“Ah a nice state they have me in, but still I’m not their creature, not...”
– samuel beckett, the unnameable
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“Two men waiting, for another whom they know only by an implausible name which...”
– Hugh Kenner, A Reader’s Guide to Samuel Beckett (via naranzarian)
I don’t think you need to go looking for gestapo officers in Pozzo or anything like that, but a lot of the relationship between vladimir and estragon is based on Beckett and his wife out in the countryside during the war, especially...
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"Watchdog clamps down on Facebook"...kind of →
A LANDMARK ruling that Facebook is an advertising medium - and not just a way to communicate - will force companies to vet comments posted by the public to ensure they are not sexist, racist or factually inaccurate.
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brief note re: the centrality of beauty and image...
1. people who care a lot about their own beauty usually have strong and complicated reasons for feeling that way. feeling beautiful is not just about feeling beautiful, it’s about feeling like a beautiful person, like the protagonist in a movie, like maybe you could be the hero in your own life, like you deserve to be happy, like you can be sad without being ridiculous, like you deserve to...
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From Yvette Nicole Brown's Reddit AMA
Q: What do you love about each cast member? It seems like you guys are truly a family, so there should be something that you love about everyone right?
A: I love Gillian's decency and intellect. I love Alison's talent and drive. I love Donald's creativity and gentleness. I love Danny's heart and joyfulness. I love Joel's commitment to family and generosity. I love Jim's fearlessness and kindness. I love Ken's playful spirit and loyalty. Did I miss anyone?
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everythingbutharleyquinn:
Another thing happening on tumblr of late a lot is pointing out that not all sex workers “choose” the way all the privileged middle-upper class cis sex workers who are in it for the thrill and post about it on the internet do. And about how it isn’t “empowering” for all workers.
And that’s true and I’ve posted a lot about how sex workers rights is primarily about...
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“The march I have in mind is different than the one during the Opening Ceremony...”
– a chinese/australian teenager later revealed to be John Ian Wing, in an anonymous letter to the Olympic Committee, melbourne 1956. this began the current tradition of athletes being present in the olympic closing ceremony as one amorphous group, rather than marching in order behind their own...
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I have always hated Michael Phelps and I thought it was because he was a notorious macho dick whose achievements were inflated by the insular US press, but apparently he’s the most decorated Olympian of all time and is known for being kind and polite to a fault. it’s totally just a subconscious nationalist resentment that he beat Ian Thorpe’s world record when swimming is Kind...
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the more time you spend thinking about cities, the more you hate the olympics — they cost the host city a huge amount of money for relatively little return, plus there’s always something nasty that emerges about marginalised people, esp. the homeless, being pushed out of the city to make it tourist-friendly. I don’t know if Ken Livingstone is as Red as he’s painted but if...
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“Several physical attributes particularly suit Phelps to swimming: his long, thin...”
– wikipedia profiles of athletes, you are truly the gift that keeps on giving
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well, that certainly didn’t go over well, did it
actually I was talking not about “rigour” or whatever, but about the pressure in certain feminist circles to reveal personal information, or frame every thought in terms of personal narrative, to the point where we feel disconnected from our own experiences, like we’re mining them for data points or credibility, and how a...
