February 2012
7 posts
Disability Terminology: A Starter Kit for... →
tgstonebutch:
“I thought I’d write a very brief primer on some disability terminology in US English, to familiarise nondisabled readers with the language that has arisen as disability rights activists fight for the right to self identify, to resist ableist language, and to confront problematic framings of disability embedded in the way we talk about disability. The disability rights movement is...
To My Old Master →
Gives me hope for the past. Tremendous.
harmreduction:
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a...
“”Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– - Judge Stephen Reinhardt in the majority opinion.
Well, that’s good news. In case you haven’t heard, a federal appeals court declared California’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional today.
Read more about it.
(via harmreduction)
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“Here’s what you need to know about the substantive changes in the new policy:...”
– What Actually Changed in Google’s Privacy Policy | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via mediafuturist)
This is not only a great clarification about Google’s privacy policy changes, and what the changes substantially mean for data-sharing across Google products for users, but it also offers a...
AUSTIN KLEON: “I hope you don't mind, but I stole... →
austinkleon:
Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates, on Michael Jackson:
On “We Are the World” we were all in the room together. He sort of clung to Diana Ross pretty much, but at one point I was off to the side and he came over to me and said, “I hope you don’t mind, but I stole ‘Billie Jean’ from you,” and I…
January 2012
8 posts
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FIERCE NYC: CREATING CHANGE CONFERENCE ERASES... →
fiercenyc:
CREATING CHANGE CONFERENCE ERASES LGBTQ YOUTH OF COLOR VOICES: MIC CHECK!
On Friday, January 27, 2012 at the Creating Change Conference Baltimore, FIERCE delivers a message to the LGBT Liaison to the White House, the Department of Defense, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development at “The Obama Administration and LGBT Community” session.
“Mic...
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“And I want to be in New York for a while before it’s too late. People who...”
– Stephen Elliot, in the January 23, 2012 Daily Rumpus.
This actually sums up a major conundrum in my life right now (and for the last ten years), only I already live in New York and sleep with my camera and my computer and my iPhone and occasionally my sweetie and burn my heart out with an...
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Lovely polyamory quote from Lady Harlot →
herdirtylittleheart:
“Polyamory isn’t about everyone being with other people, or always having multiple partners. It isn’t about being with anyone you want to be with. It’s not black and white. It’s about accepting the shades of grey that come with all relationships and facing them head on. With awareness and forethought. Knowing that sometimes hard decisions must be made and making them....
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“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great...”
– Dorothy Parker on Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (via satankatic)
bless this quote.
(via middlemarching)
Dorothy, I love you.
(via ouyangdan)
<3 <3 <3 Thank you, Dorothy.
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How Dare You Say No, Whore? →
sexworkerproblems:
A few days ago now (as this has been queued), there was a bit of a kerfluffle over SWP refusing to trigger warn a post that included the word rape. If you’d like to know more about what happened, you can go back and read for it. I answered more than a few angry/angsty/upset asks about it (though only a few of those were people who called me and SWP names).
It troubled me...
December 2011
12 posts
Gina: safe travels home and, finally, justice for... →
queershoulder:
Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. I am doing some crip community care/solidarity for a beloved friend today (please keep her in your thoughts as she recovers from an injury), so I will not be attending memorial events or vigils. But I am thinking of all those we have lost in community over the years. I am lighting candles, mourning, loving...
“The three films show an increasing willingness to express the subjectivity of...”
– Women, Sex and Death — From Vampires to Psychoanalysis | Culture | AlterNet
The lovely Lynn Parramore, one of my many brilliant colleagues, writes up some of her thoughts on Twilight, Melancholia, and A Dangerous Method and gets my little head going.
I was just dropping an email to another of my...
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Coke Talk: Coke Talk of the Year →
coketalk:
I’ve decided that I’m officially done living in Hollywood. I haven’t picked which sunny corner of Los Angeles will be my new stomping ground, but then again, it was never about my zip code. When I say I’m done with Hollywood, what I really mean to say is, I’m done being a kid.
Hollywood was…
I think I really love you, CokeTalk. I don’t know you, I don’t ever want...
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WE ARE NOT CONTINGENT: An Adjunct Manifesto →
adjunctmanifesto:
WE ARE NOT CONTINGENT: An Adjunct Manifesto
We are the non-tenure track faculty who now constitute two-thirds of the instructional workforce at universities and colleges across the nation. We are frequently invisible to administrators, yet we are the first professors and instructors that undergraduate students meet on their journey to becoming engaged learners. We are the...
decolonize your heart: So over it →
jaded16india:
The following post is by Numa and I as a response to Eve Ensler’s post Over It. There are some things you don’t get to be over, Eve Ensler. But if we’re going to play this game, here are some of ours.
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We are over cis white feminists claiming to speak for the rest of…
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“If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people...”
– Kathryn Schulz on the psychology of regret, a must-see TED talk (via curiositycounts)
November 2011
8 posts
Siri steers iPhone users away from Planned... →
think-progress:
Example of a typical Siri response about abortion:
Q: I am pregnant and do not want to be. Where can I go to get an abortion?
A: “Sorry, [my name], I can’t look for places in Tanzania.”
Meanwhile, despite the fact that prostitution is illegal, Siri obligingly located Charming Cherries escort service just a few blocks away.
It’s really unfortunate that ThinkProgress...
“Calling the revolution a success or failure is like deciding the result of a...”
– Hatem Rushdy, one of six Egyptians who have documented the revolution online this year, joins us for a live discussion about Egypt’s political future (via guardian)
“The historical narrative that surrounds the American Thanksgiving feast is...”
– No thanks: A little historical truth-telling about Thanksgiving - Eesha Pandit, Feministing.com, 11/23/11
Check out the full article for excerpts and links to other sources that tell the story of thanksgiving as it is rarely told in school. (via harmreduction)
Thanksgiving is a deeply important...
October 2011
12 posts
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The Tyranny Of Modern Time →
austinkleon:
Astrophysicist Adam Frank on the invention “that’s killing us”:
Your time — almost entirely divorced from natural cycles — is a new time. Your time, delivered through digital devices that move to nanosecond cadences, has never existed before in human history. As we rush through our overheated days we can barely recognize this new time for what it really is: an invention.
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the best poem I read today
By Their Works Bob Hicok Who cleaned up the Last Supper? These would be my people. Maybe hung over, wanting desperately a better job, standing with rags in hand as the window beckons with hills of yellow grass. In Da Vinci, the blue robed apostle gesturing at Christ is saying, give Him the check. What a mess they’ve made of their faith. My God would put a busboy on earth to roam among the...
“A sistah is weary…of the assumption that people of color possess unlimited...”
– Shark Fu, AngryBlackBitch (via jessicavalenti)
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Feminist Ryan Gosling →
This is deeply special. Makes me wish Ryan Gosling *would* come out as a feminist — and be able to rock the bell hooks cultural theory with ease.
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Kink Praxis: The Powwow at the End of the World →
tgstonebutch:
By Sherman Alexie
(printed in The Summer of Black Widows)
I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall
after an Indian woman puts her shoulder to the Grand Coulee Dam
and topples it. I am told by many of you that I must forgive
and so I shall after the floodwaters burst…
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Direct Action Theory & Practice for... →
THIS.
mobius1ski:
While dropping in on the #OccupyWallStreet protests a couple of times in the last week, it became clear to me that this movement could benefit strongly from a greater awareness of direct action in theory and practice. What follows is a short collection of texts that will give the reader a thorough…
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September 2011
9 posts
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"Nirvana represented something authentically new,... →
austinkleon:
Jonathan Lethem on originality:
That’s so original!” is something you say when you’re excited by something. 90 out of 100 times, it probably just means the references aren’t known to you, or they’re sublimated, they’re buried.
While Zach Baron starts this piece off with a really funny bit about Billy Ray Cyrus vs. Nirvana, it’s this bit that really got my gears turning:
“Nevermind”...
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“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a...”
– Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren (via think-progress)
I <3 Elizabeth Warren. Talk about bridging the gap.
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