March 2011
February 2011
This Is Officially Ursula Leguin Fanblog
jaded16india:
Have I mentioned how much I love Ursula Leguin? I’m sure I must have. I can’t go long without drooling all over her. Anyway, here’s her latest post that I stole from here. You can thank me later.
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The United States went to war with Germany and Japan when I was a kid of eleven. One of the things I remember is how – overnight, it seemed to me — the streets of Berkeley filled up...
Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday →
Tell us about something you wrote online this week. Please include a link. Don’t be shy - you know that we want to know all about it.
-arvan
White Privilege: Sucking the Executioner's Cock →
We recently posted a video on our tumblr feed, which demonstrates the pervasive and nauseating totality of White Privilege. The subject was addressed on DailyKos this morning, with the…
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“At some point in human history, people thought it would be a good idea to let...”
"You had sex and got pregnant, now you have to...
ginger-gal:
You smoked and now you have lung cancer, no treatment for you! You knew that would happen!
You have an STI? Too bad, whore! That can happen when you have sex!
You were in a car accident? What the hell were you doing in a car? That can happen, you know! No ER visit for you!
You tripped and fell on your face and your nose is broken? Pfff, deal with it. Walking can result in...
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WatchThis is white privilege. Period.
I’m going to fucking throw up.
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[chemsmith] Go Screw Yourself
(via chemsmith @ DailyKos)
I just want to say, if you’re a Republican, please go screw yourself.
My girlfriend has been teaching in the Middletown Ohio school district nearly two decades. Thanks to the new Republican Governor, she has been told today that her school is closing and that she’s out of a job next year. Maybe she’ll keep her job yet, but even this threat is ...
wontbecomplacent asked: this isn't a question really, but thank you for explaining body dysphoria.
Because I have always been one of "those feminists" that you spoke to. so thank you for being here, and for teaching me to understand at least a small piece of what you go through, all though I know it is something that as a cis woman, I cannot ever understand completely.
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Because I have always been one of "those feminists" that you spoke to. so thank you for being here, and for teaching me to understand at least a small piece of what you go through, all though I know it is something that as a cis woman, I cannot ever understand completely.
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teatimeisallday asked: Hello, I was hoping you would be willing to help me with something I've been puzzling over. I feel like an asshole assuming a person's gender from their appearance and using things like pronouns, etc based on my assumptions. However, I feel like it would be really rude to ask someone how they identify/their preferred pronouns if I have just met them. Is there a good way to be polite and...
jonestownprincess asked: what is your opinion of polyamory?
“Here’s my view on the US Civil War: fuck slavery, fuck the Confederacy and...”
CfP: History of neurosciences and social and... →
The first Joint Conference of Cheiron (The international Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences) and The International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN)…
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The 'pro-life' bill to legalize murder spreads to...
oh motherfuck.
(via Kaili Joy Gray at DailyKos)
While doctors the one doctor who performs abortions in South Dakota is safe for now, doctors in other states may not be.
The Iowa Independent reports:
Two bills sponsored by Iowa House Republicans could have significant public safety consequences, and perhaps the most unnerving of those potential outcomes would be the justifiable use of...
“”The key of all conduct, generally speaking, is to make every common thing...”
– - Aleister Crowley (via transversegirl)
Love is the whole of the Law. Love under Will.
Korean Gender Reader →
(Source: unknown)
1) Street harassment and respect in Korea
After a terrible Korean New Year’s, It’s Daejeon, darling! wrote the following:
I am tired of feeling so fucking…
Allow Me a Moment to Bitch: My Musings on Bitch,...
curiouserjane:
Part I: Meeting You Was Awful…
I remember the first time I met the singer/performer Bitch.
It was Camp Trans 2007—my first year.
I was one of the performers & as I was getting ready, tuning myself & my guitar I saw this tall, dreaded womyn walk through the field & up to the welcome tent. I knew immediately who it was, & I will admit that I was a little star...
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[raising my boychick] Fat and pregnant: week 13
(via the amazing Raising My BoyChick)
First — the belly pics!
Week 13 — belly has definitely “popped”, breasts may be larger
Compare with week 10:
10 weeks. Subtle changes, but uterus hasn’t yet risen out of pelvis.
Next: I talk technology and the (yes, I recognize the amusing juxtaposition here) invisible pregnant person.
Last weekend, we had our first prenatal...
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Could chess-boxing defuse aggression in Arizona...
(via Andrea Kuszewski at Scientific American)
Teleportation, cloaks of invisibility, smell-o-vision, 3D printing, and even holograms, were all ideas first imagined in science fiction—and now are real products and technologies in various stages of development by scientists. While this is common in fields like experimental physics, it isn’t as often that cognitive neuroscience and applied...
Union-busting: The War of Southern Aggression
(via modemocrat at DailyKos)
You may not realize it America, but our union and non-union states are at WAR.
Dengre had an AMAZING diary the other day illustrating some maps that show how there seems to be an interesting correlation between states that once owned slaves and states that don’t allow unions.
In case you need a refresher:
Coincidence? I don’t think so.
What people...
A Handy Guide to Appreciation of a Marginalised...
thesadnessofpencils:
Tired of being boring ol’ white? Want to add a bit of spice to your life & get hippie street cred in the same bargain? Look no farther! Thursday’s written this simple & unadulterated guide to appreciating a marginalised culture. We guarantee we’ll make an imperialist douchefuck out of you before you can say ‘antidisestablishmentarianism’, or your money back!
So,...
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Blog Note
Not that we don’t love praise (because we do), but we definitely don’t want to take credit for other people’s work here.
We’ve said this before, and it probably bears repeating. A LOT of things that we post here are cross-posted from the many blogs we love, read and follow. Every time the post is from another site, there is always a link included at the top. Just like this...
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Memo To Angry Dudes: Not All Women You Hate Are...
(Via Manboobz)
Given how much of their time they spend attacking feminism and feminists, manosphere dudes can be surprisingly incompetent at telling just who is and who isn’t an actual, bona-fide feminist; they’ve got terrible fem-dar. Case in point: Last Saturday, annoying social conservative polemicist Kay Hymowitz published a piece in the Wall Street Journal taken from her new...
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Anal Sex Should Be A Feminist Issue
(via Aag blog)
Emphasis mine:
Anal sex is painful, unsanitary, unsatisfying for women and creates unique risks for serious physical diseases (if you doubt me, go read the Wikipedia entry on the subject) because the anus is not designed for sexual intercourse, increasing the risk of torn flesh and the intermingling of bodily fluids—blood, semen, fecal matter—that can spread an astonishing...
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How To Become White (In 200 Years Or Less)
(Via Womanist Musings)
I recently started walking to the local library every day. While perusing the stacks of books, I decided to check out a few books that caught my interest, but which I would not actually spend my money to purchase. The first book I picked up was called “WOP: A Documentary History of Anti-Italian Discrimination” by Salvatore J. LaGumina. Basically, I wanted to...
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Anti-Choice Senators by State
lostgrrrls:
stfusexists:
Please reblog this list so that as many people as possible can have this information at their disposal. Call your senators every day and tell them that you stand with Planned Parenthood, and think it is shameful for them to vote to defund an organization that provides necessary health care services to one in five American women, as well as children, men, and...
“When we stop fighting our natural monthly cycles, we realize that our periods...”
– Christiane Northrup (via thesaucyscribe)
Menstrual Cycles: What Really Happens in those 28... →
ballgags-for-everyone:
I googled “why do I have food cravings” and got this informative article. Not that anyone cares. Just thought I’d share the knowledge.
Uterus POLICE?? Are you fucking serious??? →
corruptpolitics:
Goddammit Bobby Franklin.
First the attack on Planned Parenthood funding and now this: State Rep. Bobby Franklin of Georgia introduced a bill in his state last week that, if enacted, would require proof that a miscarriage occurred naturally. If a woman can’t prove that her miscarriage–or spontaneous abortion–occurred without intervention, she could face felony charges.
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We are not all Libyan
redlightpolitics:
I see this cutesy thing (no doubt with good intentions) claiming that “today we are all Libyan”.
Not only we are not all Libyan but we all hold a degree of responsibility in the oppression of Libyan people. If you live anywhere in the Western world (as I do), you have certainly benefited from the oppression of Libyans, even if you, directly, did not wish to do so. Our...
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Lady Porn Day
(via Rabbit Write)
While the material on Rabbit Write is mostly safe for work, some of the links on this page take you to 18+ only sites.
February 22nd is officially Lady Porn Day, a day about exploring porn and masturbation. Because It’s tough trying to explore porn as a girl. There just isn’t much lady-friendly stag.
At it’s heart, this is about celebrating pornography and masturbation
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“conservatives believe that the poor are poor because they earned it. they...”
“You would think the rich might care, if not from empathy, then from reading...”
– Bill Moyers (via azspot)
I think about bringing Jared Diamond’s work up every time a conservative tries to defend the growing income inequality but then I realize that the level of nuance couldn’t possibly be communicated to someone that’s already got a reflexively combative attitude toward anyone...
The War on Unions, Regulatory System, and Social... →
starblanketriverchild:
Very interesting piece that examines examples from textbooks used by religious and/or fundamentalist schools that blatantly whitewash and distort history to favor the right wing/anti-union/capitalist mentality.
“This is the tip off an iceberg that has been forming for a generation, remaining below the surface and out of the sight of Americans who are not exposed to the...
Mississippi “Odd” Damn: Or Intergenerational Black... →
dancingonembers:
Black women on the move have always been queer to the intersecting systems of oppression that rely on us staying in our interchangeable and demeaning place. “It just sounds really odd. You know?”
This is what a white male police officer said to me several times after he separated my partner and I for questioning and we both explained to him that we were driving through...
“Only white people would say something like this: “color doesn’t matter.” Um, yes...”
– DeafMuslimPunk on that same fucking pic of Angelina Jolie (*trigger warning* for minstrelsy)
i don’t wanna reblog all the commentary on that pic because there was an ableist use of the term “colorblind” in there. but so much of this is must-read stuff.
(via numol)
Click for the most ignorant...
DeTonguing The Subaltern →
This week all that seems to happen in India is the World Cup and How Incredibly Important It Is, for it is a game that involves super-important dudes with super-important dudes of other…
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A conversation with Commander X
(via IT World)
by dan tynan
February 18, 2011, 01:10 PM —
On our last episode of Thank You For Not Sharing, I spoke with Ben de Vries, wrongfully accused by HBGary security wonk Aaron Barr of being the mysterious and elusive Commander X, alleged puppet-master behind the Anonymous collective.
(And if you’re not up to speed on the ongoing saga of HBGary and Anonymous, read this, this, and...
“I stopped believing in invisible friends when I was 5. That’s why...”
