February 2012
7 posts
on physically punishing your children
so-treu:
withrevolutionarycries:
nezua:
being hit as a child teaches you many things, i’d guess. mostly, it teaches you that might makes right. and as a child, you will have no argument against that. and so it is likely that you will learn it well.
being hit as a child may teach other things. but below and beyond intellect and language, it teaches you rage. because as a child, in the...
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Donate to SlutWalk 2012! →
slutmeansspeakup:
Please donate here to SlutWalk London 2012! We still need to raise over £2,000 for the sound system, permits etc. Even a couple of quid will go a long way. Donating will mean you’re helping put on a really amazing and empowering event. Donations are via PayPal, which will keep your details safe. Please share this round!
To those who have been asking, as soon as we have a date...
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Violence in Office
The Law Centre is surging with people. More and more have eviction notices, court dates and tight benefit appeal deadlines. Volunteers and staff perch in every office, trying to advise the poor and the upset. The photocopier hums as Kim meticulously turns over piles of paper and documents. A member of staff is sitting with Pierre, a shattered refugee who, it turns out, has been drinking. We...
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January 2012
27 posts
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Write to your MP to oppose the welfare reform bill... →
slutmeansspeakup:
Please join Single Mother’s Self Defence in writing to your MP to oppose the welfare reform bill in tomorrow’s vote. Poverty makes us more vulnerable to rape and domestic violence, stopping women, children and other abuse victims from leaving partners as they are financially dependent on them. The introduction of universal credit, which in many cases will mean that benefits...
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Feminism & radicalism...
Feminism has the potential to be an incredibly radical ideology because it can shift society’s values from the work of killing and conquering, to the work of caring, by placing value back on the caring work women do.
All radical thought proposes that we break down the control of oppressive governments and corporations and instead value and care for people and communities. But who values and...
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The way out of Afghanistan →
In Kabul the foreigners breathe a little easier after several months with no suicide attacks. Kabulis say that the protective blast walls and concrete barriers that line the streets are now twenty feet high, suffocating them and eating up their road and living space.
None of the attempts at rebuilding the Afghan state over the past nine years have really worked. What assurance is there that...
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“WHY DO WE FEEL REJECTED? WHY DO WE EVEN CARE? Truth is, and this is hard to...”
– No Bosses no Boyfriends: to our radical boyfriends with love.
baby-sitters girl gang: SELF-IDENTIFY AS A HATER →
hysteriarama:
I’m always being chastised for finding things boring. I can’t count the number of partners who have criticized me for that, everyone likes to think that what they love is so fascinating, nobody wants to see your boredom but these boys are so masturbatory and they drone on about their fucking music…
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The Nanny Diaries: The One In Which I Explain...
E: So what's an example of a conspiracy theory?
Me: Well, there's one about how all the presidents are reptilians from outer space.
E: WHAT?! Can I see it on youtube?
Me: Well there's nothing really to see... Except for bad CGI representations of politicians shape-shifting into snakes.
E: That sounds stupid.
E: But here's one where the guy talks about it. *watches interview with David Icke*
E: ...I'm going to tell all my friends about the Babylonian Brotherhood.
Me: What have I done.
“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and...”
– Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
A microcosm of one of the fundamental issues with the non-profit industrial complex.
(via myflagisblackandred)
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Message from the Invisible
Via UKuncut
On Saturday 28th January in central London, a brave group of disabled, sick and elderly people are going to engage in a daring and disruptive act of civil disobedience, and they’ve asked for our support. Meet at 11.30am at Holborn tube station with a charged Oyster card, ready to travel to a secret location.
Britain isn’t perfect. But our welfare state offers something that ...
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the manly 9/11 activist crew are coming to Oxford
BAR THE GATES… what am I gonna do? LMAO. G is gonna be strutting around being ginger and quoting Noam Chomsky and bitching about Alex Jones and reeling off facts about 9/11 and making everything about 9/11. Dean is gonna be hyperactive and wear brown courdroy trousers and talk about how we should all live on the land and eat out of bins. Can is gonna be walking around insulting my...
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My friend Dean just posted this status update regarding oil drilling and how we’re running out of oil: ‘Because oil and oil products are globally traded commodities a black swan event in the Middle East would increase fuel prices for everyone, everywhere. And no amount of ‘drill baby drill’ whining would be able make a difference.’
And I SO want to comment like...
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“African American women’s internal life experiences are part of the American...”
– Melissa Harris-Perry (via tobia
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i have feelings about oxford and stuff ok
Ugh dont want to go to oxford i want to volunteer at the crossroads centre
I don’t have a problem with Oxford uni itself. I mean I think that when you criticise the lack of social mobility in the UK Oxbridge is the last place people should be pointing their fingers at because it’s one of the only institutions which actively promotes social mobility. If you wanna talk about class why...
Banned Books
secretlifeofanillegalimmigrant:
I keep getting e-mails about Arizona’s outrage relating to ethnic studies. They banned the programs, now they’re trying to ban books dealing with race. What the fuck are they really trying to accomplish?
I don’t wanna be all cliche by mentioning the Holocaust because everybody already tries to connect Nazis with everything, but the resemblance to the burning of...
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ALKQN LEGAL DEFENSE FUND TOUR
sl33pcr33p:
pussy-strut:
The Greensboro Legal Defense Fund is coming your way! We’ll be taking some time to travel up the Northeast to spread the word about our comrades. Our tentative outline for events is to have a brief introduction, a film screening of the documentary Black & Gold, a discussion about the current events happening in NC, a brief history of RICO laws & more...
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http://womenagainstrape.net/success - this WILL make you cry. i seriously dream about working for WAR some day after im done with university (assuming i even get the grades to get in, but to be honest AAA kind of isnt that hard) :( :( :( why do i keep having existential crises about university anyway, i thought we’d been through this already anastasia remember that time when you were...
Unpaid Interns: Real World Work Or Just Free...
newmodelminority:
Over 1 million Americans a year work as interns. About half of them are unpaid.
Alex Footman was among them, until recently. He worked as an unpaid intern for Black Swan, a film that won numerous awards and grossed over $300 million.
Footman was hoping an internship with Black Swan would open doors in Hollywood. Instead, it has made him rethink his career plans. “This was...
“It’s enough for two prostitutes to live or work together for us to be illegal. I...”
– Sheila Farmer - Life is hard enough for prostitutes without our work being criminalised Sheila Farmer’s case has been dropped!
so i’m going to make this film with people at slutwalk against victim blaming and with advice for overcoming shame and healing after rape and with advice on how to go to the police, legal stuff etc. and ive talked to quite a few sexual assault survivors over the phone about what happened to them and what helped them heal, how the police acted etc. just cos i need to know what they’re...
logan square community response to nye sexual...
rebelrebelbatcat:
From Rape Victim Advocates:
As you may know, a young woman was beaten and raped in Logan Square on New Year’s Eve. On Monday, January 9 at 5:30 pm, Rape Victim Advocates and the Alliance of Local Service Organizations (ALSO) will convene the communityoutside the Congress Theater (2135 N. Milwaukee, Chicago) near where the young woman was found and speak out against sexual...
“[trigger warning: description of sexual assault]
Looking back, I find the...”
– SlutWalk London!: A disabled sexual assault survivor speaks out: “I had fantastic support and still felt to blame”
December 2011
8 posts
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COLOUR-BLIND RACISM: The Four Frames →
darkjez:
ABAGOND—
“Eduardo Bonilla-Silva asked samples of White Americans, most of them born between 1940 and 1980, questions about race issues. He noticed that at least half of them used each of the following four frames:
abstract liberalism – the key word here is “abstract”. Unlike Jim Crow racists, most whites now agree that all Americans, regardless of race, should have equal rights and...
How can you ever spend so much time dwelling on the past when the future is here right in front of you, when you can always make the choice to do the right thing, no matter how late it is? I can’t believe myself sometimes, all the time I’ve wasted.
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OMG I LOVE MY FRIENDS ACTUALLY FEEL LIKE CRYING
I hate it when you have to reconsider your identity as a misanthropic snarky bitch
sl33pcr33p:
what do you do when the people that you looked up to most/inspired you to adopt stances that you build your identity on backpedal and become moderate democrats
Hi Aria I’m going to suppose that this means me as I doubt anyone else has recently pissed you off in this manner, so here’s my reply/excuse, I couldn’t put it in your ask box/twitter as there’s a...
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I SMOKE A LOT BUT CAN'T GET LAID*
pussy-strut:
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no like oh my god this is my life look at this
Dear #occupymumbai
jaded16india:
I know that you are preoccupied (no pun intended) with ‘saving’ slum dwellers, with ‘saving’ poor third world women workers — yes that’s who they are in your eyes, nothing more, nothing less — and with the new fad of “occupying” things, you just want to #occupy mumbaislums; let’s just pause to think how bad an idea this is. I was at the meeting when people of the #occupymumbai...
sl33pcr33p:
GAMING THE SYSTEM: HOW THE POLITICAL STRATEGIES OF PRIVATE PRISON COMPANIES PROMOTE INEFFECTIVE INCARCERATION POLICIES
strugglingtobeheard:
At a time when many policymakers are looking at criminal and juvenile justice reforms that would safely shrink the size of our prison population, the existence of private prison companies creates a countervailing interest in preserving the...
November 2011
22 posts
svartdod:
what if i gnawed your face off when i kissed you for the first time
yeah
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…Arjun Appadurai also stresses the influence of alienation, but argues that it is [SOMEBODY HELP ME IDK WHAT TO PUT HERE GOING 4 LUNCH W/E NO H8] The 7/7 bombings, Appadurai argues,’have been traced to a group of young men linked largely by their status as nonnatives in a multicultural Britain’…
how i left my essay: what do we have here: what the fuck this is due in like a...
no time for boy’s shit. i remember how all your words used to be so powerful to me, like i’d go round my hometown exploring around the lakes and the stinging nettles and in people’s back gardens thinking about your words, just cos they made me that excited that i wanted to go around and find everything. or yeah i remember that other time with the shyness in your eyes and how...
POC Organize! || As If Bullets... →
suzy-x:
“One of the most devastating and tragic effects of the human condition under Capitalism is the psychic dissonance erected in the souls of the working class. By this I mean that people are alienated from one another and themselves. My first boyfriend kissed as if bullets were coming through bedroom walls. When we touched it was like there was a profound fear and loneliness that...
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so it’s on days like this that there are more seagulls than usual shrieking around the playground after lunch, and the nights get darker and the posters in the corridors get tackier and you stare out the windows of your abandoned state comprehensive school and your fingertips are heavy with all the manifestos you wish you could believe in. and you know you chose a path which was difficult...
karl marx pictures
I MADE THIS!
so yeah i understand why you might want a baby when you’re 17. it’s really scary how alone we are. if you grow up and your parents don’t really care, and you go to a massive grey brick comprehensive with thousands of kids and the teachers don’t give a shit, off you go to do your exams, and everything is so fragmented these days anyway - we’re all so separate from each...
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Documentary on the War in Sri Lanka →
trigger warning: torture