February 2012
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Euthanasia as a Feminist Issue →
A speech given in front of the US Supreme Court by Barbara Waxman Fiduccia, who is associated with Not Dead Yet, a US disability rights organization opposing euthanasia.
I am here today as a disabled feminist to speak to those women’s civil rights organizations supporting assisted suicide under the rubric of “choice”. If passed, assisted suicide policies will not in fact extend...
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“In building his case, Singer makes many assertions that he does not support,...”
– Fact Sheet on Peter Singer (via disabilityrightsstuff)
Thank you for writing this! (cpmatters)
(via duyukdv)
Peter Singer likes to argue that human beings with cognitive disabilities are not “persons”, and can therefore be killed at birth or euthanized for the greater good of society....
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Georgia Democrats to propose limitations on... →
tehsunshine:
historicalupstart:
As members of Georgia’s House of Representatives debate whether to prohibit abortions for women more than 20 weeks pregnant, House Democrats planned to introduce their own reproductive rights plan: No more vasectomies that leave “thousands of children … deprived of birth.”
Suck on that.
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“As I see it, a story of almost any kind should be like hypnosis. You fascinate...”
– Alan Moore (via planb-becomeapirate)
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Do you know Yuri Kochiyama?
ancestryinprogress:
I’m giving this woman flowers every single day that she is alive to let her know that cradling Malcolm X in her arms as he lay dying is the most powerful thing she could have done for him in that moment, in that historical moment in our lives.
You see because she was still is an ardent social rights/social justice activist—on the behalf of Japanese Americans and for the...
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“So what would our mornings look like if we re-engineered them in the interest of...”
– Neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists believe a hurried morning kills creativity. (from @rivanathans)
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“To be honest, I felt hysterical: that Victorian word for the tantrums of...”
– The Rejectionist: Special Guest Post: Meg Clark on Jonathan Franzen
I love Meg.
(via champagnecandy)
Jonathan Franzen is a dick and his books are boring. Edith Wharton was a thousand times more talented than him.
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theoceanandthesky:
milkeemountainmama:
How many feminist institutions have worked to organize local feminist groups on how to apply for and start up/run a community radio station? Did you know that the process to get a radio station was opened to the public for the first time in YEARS recently by the FCC? Did you know right wing churches have been organizing their communities?
how many...
punkisays:
Ways Gender-Privileged Men Can Challenge Sexism
meeca:
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “ho”, “slut.”
Recognize when you “zone out” when women are speaking, when you value a man’s opinion more than a woman’s, or when you ask a man for...
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46 Things to Read and See for David Foster... →
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“To tell you the truth, a lot of conservatives see Fox News as being somewhat...”
– Fox News ‘course correction’ rankles some (via ultralaser)
IT MOVED ….left? I think I am SCARED TO DEATH of these conservatives.
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………o_O they’ve created SuperFascists.
(via so-treu)
…i guess FOX News better pick up on calling Obama a Muslim and a Nazi…
it should be a...
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and since we're on the subject of white brits...
so-treu:
unaguerrasinfondo:
so-treu:
when i was at the Stax Museum they had footage of Otis Redding performing in England, and i was looking at his energy, which was just, even beyonce will all her million dollar lights can’t touch this potent shit, and i don’t know that much about the development of punk music in the UK BUT i have a hard time believing that something like punk would have...
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Emotional justice is about working with this... →
ancestryinprogress:
Amazing article on emotional justice and activist organizations, written by Yolo Aikili
Centering academia and academic methods in discussions of justice does this. You take a thing like gender equality or colonialism and you try to couch it in the same terms as mainstream academia in order to prove that it’s just as valid and true. But you end up stripping out the...
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Well, shit, everyone should just follow... →
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would it be ok that six corporations controlled...
theoceanandthesky:
really good question.
i would add that we would also need positive representation of people outside the gender binary.
One is a consequence of the other, as far as I can see. I mean: who runs those corporations? People who benefit from the current social order, right?
Regardless, the problem with monopolization of media isn’t that it makes our media crummy (although...
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where do you get your water from? do you know that...
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Women Passengers Targeted For Extra Body Scanning... →
beatyourselfup:
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Women passengers complain that TSA agents are targeting them for extra screening.
The Transportation Security Administration has a policy to randomly select people for extra screening, but some female passengers are complaining. They believe there is nothing “random” about the way they were picked.
A Dallas woman says TSA agents repeatedly asked her to...
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[Trigger Warning: Abuse] A cautionary tale for...
drdonnaatx:
When I was 19, I married my high school sweetheart. He had never hit me in anyway. Never had yelled at me. He was in the Navy and we moved nearly 1000 miles away from home. We had been married one week when he first slapped me. I forgave him. We had been married about a year when he first punched me in the stomach. I forgave him. After about a year and a half it became common for him...
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scientist: the average person spends 18 hours online per week.
me: you mean per day
scientist: what
me: what
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aportraitoftheartist-asayoungfan:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Only Ian Curtis understands my pain
Leave me alone
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Just A Quick Note to Atheists (From an Atheist)
queerhairyvag:
lettherebecramp:
thefullmetalbitch:
Being an atheist does not erase privilege. This includes white privilege.
This also includes cis privilege, CNDP privilege, and het privilege.
Seriously, being an atheist does not erase your white privilege.
Criticizing exclusively (majority) non-white religions is racist. This includes Islam.
The existence of white Muslims does...
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