October 2011
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Contributing to Islamophobia on New Zealand radio?
This afternoon I made a complaint about the quality of public broadcasting on Radio New Zealand’s ‘Afternoons with Jim Mora’ on Thursday 25th October 2011.
The broadcast can be heard at: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2501142/the-panel-with-tony-doe-and-john-bishop-part-1.asx
The offending comments can be heard here:...
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Ballerinas Dance with Machine Guns: Negative... →
What is negative feminism and anti-social queer theory? My fragmentary answer: it is a queer critique that aims to decenter positivity, productivity, redemptive politics of affirmation, narratives of success, and politics that are founded on hope for an imagined future. It’s rude politics and…
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Why You’re Not Married And Don’t Give A $#^*
After my divorce, I married myself. Photo by Paula Gould..
“They keep asking when you’re going to “tie the knot.” Never mind that you’ve launched a successful business or recently received a well-deserved promotion. Never mind that you have published a book. Never mind that you discovered a new species. Never mind that you volunteer tirelessly in your community...
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The swimmers that will go to any lengths to cool...
China is currently enjoying, if that’s the right word, a record-breaking heatwave with temperatures regularly soaring above 95 degrees Fahrenheit; 35 Celsius.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1292411/Record-temperatures-China-drive-hundreds-water.html#ixzz1cCnnqITy
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Beyond protest: Mainstreaming the movement
How beautiful is this!
“Child honouring” is my politics. I am emphatically, passionately, for the right of every child of every culture to breathe. To be loved, nourished, and protected — to be welcomed into a loving village. Ah, but how we go about addressing that right is the stuff of informed dialogue and democracy.
How we tend the primary garden — the primary...
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Watch this man
“To a reader from the world the British supposedly made, Empire belonged recognisably to the tradition of what the Chinese thinker Tang Tiaoding bluntly described in 1903 as ‘white people’s histories’. Swami Vivekananda, India’s most famous 19th-century thinker, articulated a widespread moral disapproval of the pith-helmeted missionaries of Western civilisation celebrated by...
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Polluted America: Amazingly colourful aerial...
At first glance they’re beautiful, but these incredible snaps reveal something far more ugly.
J Henry Fair’s spectacular aerial images show the devastation man has wreaked on America.
Pollution is exposed on a massive scale, creating striking vivid colours that highlight the scars of spillages, open cast mining, chemical and oil leaks, industrial decay and deforestation.
Read...
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“We’re a culture, not a costume.” STARS, a student...
“These posters act as a public service announcement for colored communities. It’s about respect, human dignity, and the acceptance of other cultures (these posters simply ask people to think before they choose their Halloween costume). Although some Halloween costumes aren’t as racist as the blackface minstrel shows back in the day, they harken to similar prejudices. What these costumes...
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Understanding Colonizer Status
Lots to think about here!
“Memmi argues that for decolonization to occur, the colonizers must leave. In most decolonization struggles, the colonized push the colonizers to go home. This is not the position I advocate, but certainly some Dakota people will express such sentiments. How will you respond to this?
If you are a colonizer rejecting colonizer status, are you were willing to...
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Beyond “Occupy”: A Reflection on the Occupy Wall...
” I suspect it is the colonially enforced corporate exploitation of the resources on Indigenous peoples’ land around the globe from which a significant portion of the wealth circulated through wall street in question is derived from. It seems to me that any contest of the way that wealth is managed and distributed can only be ethically worked out by bringing the problem of colonialism...
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Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings - audio slideshow
Utterly beautiful: Acclaimed performance artist Bobby Baker talks about her diary drawings, which chart her journey through mental illness and breast cancer, back to health
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On Their Own: Britain's child migrants 13 Oct...
So sad that children and families went through this..Glad this exhibition is happening.
“During the late 19th century Britain sent over 100,000 child migrants across the British Empire.
This exhibition reveals a largely untold chapter of migration history – that of British children who were sent to Australia and other Commonwealth countries under government-endorsed child migration ...
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When the Uprooted Put Down Roots
How fantastic is this?
“New Roots, with 85 growers from 12 countries, is one of more than 50 community farms dedicated to refugee agriculture, an entrepreneurial movement spreading across the country. American agriculture has historically been forged by newcomers, like the Scandinavians who helped settle the Great Plains; today’s growers are more likely to be rural subsistence farmers...
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the real face of white australia
Looks like amazing work:
“In the early twentieth century Australia defined itself as a white man’s country, yet the reality was something different. As well as Indigenous Australians, there were many thousands of non-Europeans, including Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Afghans, Syrians and Malays.
These are the Invisible Australians – men, women and children who, because of the colour of...
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"An Open Letter to SlutWalk NYC and its Critiques,...
An awesome challenge!
slutwalknyc:
This is an individual response.
*When I refer to women I am referring to all self-identified women.
Dear Community:
An Open Letter to SlutWalk NYC and its Critiques, from One of Your Own.
First, let me situate myself. When I say I am one of your own, here is what I mean: I am one of the organizers who brought about SlutWalk NYC, the march and the rally and...
People of Color / #OccupyWallStreet: AN OPEN... →
pococcupywallstreet:
We—two white men—write this letter conscious of the fact that the color of our skin means we will likely be taken more seriously. We write this knowing that because people of color are thought to be too biased to speak objectively on issues of race, our perspective in this context will be…
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AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives: Woman is the "N"... →
A powerful post about the gaps in solidarity..
afrolez:
In 1969, Yoko Ono coinded the term and I quote “Woman is the N****R of the World.” Shortly thereafter, she and her husband, the late John Lennon, wrote and he recorded a song with that same title.
According to Wikipedia (which is ALWAYS questionable), at that time (don’t know where…
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RIP Steve Jobs
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too...
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Whales and Mermaids
A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was “This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?” The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way: “Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their...
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Are we there yet? by Ruth DeSouza
“The neoliberal narrative of migration is that my family came to New Zealand (like other migrants) for a better life. Another explanation is that we were pulled to New Zealand as a result of the unevenness of life chances created by colonial capitalism. As South Asians in East Africa we were what Avtar Brah calls the filling in the colonial sandwich. Occupying a precarious uneasy place...
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