December 2010
Why American men should boycott American women. →
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threemeows:
heroics:
I am an American man, and I have decided to boycott American women. In a nutshell, American women are the most likely to cheat on you, to divorce you, to get fat, to steal half of your money in the divorce courts, don’t know how to cook or clean, don’t want to have children, etc. Therefore, what intelligent man would want to get involved with American...
“First, we have to ask what Western liberal values we may be unreflectively...”
– Lila Abu-Lughod, (2001). Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies, Feminist Studies 27 (1), p. 105. (via umnica)
sexgenderbody: THE SEXISM OF BLACK SWAN →
tabularasae:
Black Swan feeds into and supports one of the most destructive forms of sexism; the movie tells us that women are constantly in competition with one another—that a success of a woman can’t be appreciated and valued by other women—and that a woman’s innate sense of jealousy will…
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en Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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hideous political repression in Venezuela... →
<3 <3 <3
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That ol' bastion of inequity & avarice, Caracas'... →
I’m delighted. Couldn’t have happened to a lovelier part of the city.
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Good Morning.
desde las terrazas antiguas de Buenos Aires, Argentina
“First, we have to ask what Western liberal values we may be unreflectively...”
– Lila Abu-Lughod, (2001). Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies, Feminist Studies 27 (1), p. 105. (via umnica)
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Works Every Time.
*after a particularly enrage-ifying phone conversation with my trifflin' older cousin.
Mom: Grrrr, I am so MAD at him!!
Me: ...Hey, Mom, guess what?
Mom: What?
Me: Chicken butt.
Mom: ~*lolololololololol*~
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Picasso & Braque Go To The Movies →
A documentary about epic friendships, modern art, the technology of moving images, and the transformative aesthetics & geographies those technologies engendered in cities all over the world at the turn-of-the-20th Century.
If you can find it, you should watch it. It’s good.
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“What you are running is not a factory, it is a zoo. But in a zoo there are many...”
– Jayaben Desai, trade unionist, born 2 April 1933; died 23 December 2010
(via dontbcruel)
"Holding on to Those Who Can't be Held":... →
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“The structures of labour and power and information distribution have changed...”
– New Statesman - A response to Alex Callinicos
Bolding mine, because that’s it, really. Laurie goes on to make lovely points about fetishizing newspapers and leafleting and old-school techniques and the ridiculousness of trying to sell socialist papers to kids who are already at the protest, and who...
Let's Hear It for the Unappreciated Heroes of 2010 →
jonathan-cunningham:
Under-Appreciated Person One: Bradley Manning. While we were all fixated on Julian Assange, the story of the young American soldier who actually leaked the classified documents passed almost unnoticed. If Manning was mentioned at all, it was as to be described an impetuous, angry kid who downloaded the documents onto a CD and leaked them as a result of a “grudge” or...
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Picasso & Braque Go To The Movies →
A documentary about epic friendships, modern art, the technology of moving images, and the transformative aesthetics & geographies those technologies engendered in cities all over the world at the turn-of-the-20th Century.
If you can find it, you should watch it. It’s good.
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That ol' bastion of inequity & avarice, Caracas'... →
I’m delighted. Couldn’t have happened to a lovelier part of the city.
curate: Green Corn Rebellion + American... →
curate:
In August 1917, tenant farmers and sharecroppers in several eastern and southern Oklahoma counties took up arms to overthrow the United States government, to stop military conscription and U.S. entry into the war in Europe. Renegade Socialists, organized in their own “Working Class Union” (WCU),…
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Billions for the Military and the Ultra-Rich, Food... →
nwbtcw:
According to the Working Poor Families Project, nearly one in three working families is struggling to make ends meet because they’re stuck in low-wage jobs with no benefits.
The report says, “Although low-income working families remain mostly invisible to policymakers, these families are comprised of workers who form the backbone of our economy: working the cash registers, keeping...
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Good Morning.
Parque Central, Caracas.
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hideous political repression in Venezuela... →
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“During the AAI convention an older white man approached me and lamented how...”
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An Excerpt from Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars
(via themetropoliskid)
Billions for the Military and the Ultra-Rich, Food... →
nwbtcw:
According to the Working Poor Families Project, nearly one in three working families is struggling to make ends meet because they’re stuck in low-wage jobs with no benefits.
The report says, “Although low-income working families remain mostly invisible to policymakers, these families are comprised of workers who form the backbone of our economy: working the cash registers, keeping...
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Black In Latin America Conference @ Harvard... →
SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS, GUISE.
Some Good Morning Anti-Colonial Poetry →
“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via ifoundareason)
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curate: Green Corn Rebellion + American... →
curate:
In August 1917, tenant farmers and sharecroppers in several eastern and southern Oklahoma counties took up arms to overthrow the United States government, to stop military conscription and U.S. entry into the war in Europe. Renegade Socialists, organized in their own “Working Class Union” (WCU),…
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