November 2011
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Why We Shouldn't Celebrate Thanksgiving
“The argument that we can ignore the collective cultural definition of Thanksgiving and create our own meaning in private has always struck me as odd. This commitment to Thanksgiving puts these left/radical critics in the… position of internalizing one of the central messages promoted by the ideologues of capitalism — that individual behavior in private is more important...
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Faking it is great … yeah, not really.
“Men have erections, women have… performance. Problematically, the kinds of sexual performance we see as a guide to how to be sexual aren’t necessarily accurate. Most of these come from the media – highly stylised and romanticised movie sex, or more sexually orientated pornography, neither of whic…h are particularly realistic. In this regard we ought to ignore these sources of...
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‘New Yorker’ Magazine Cover Depicts Pilgrims...
The illustration is titled “Promised Land” and it was done by Christoph Niemann, an illustrator, designer and author of Abstract Sunday, a column for the “New York Times Magazine.”
“Too often in politics, very complex subjects are being turned into sound bites, so it’s easy to take them apart,” Niemann, explained to the “New Yorker.” In “Promised Land,” he says, “I draw a parallel between...
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“The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day in rhythmic measure. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flowers.” —Rabindranath Tagore
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New Online Exhibition: The African Diaspora in the...
Over the course of nearly 2,000 years, millions of East Africans, free and enslaved, crossed the Indian Ocean in their journey to distant lands, from Arabia and Iraq to India and Sri Lanka. In India, some enslaved men became navy commanders, regents, and princes and founded dynasties.
The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World traces their truly unique and fascinating story of struggles...
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“Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more...”
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Your innocence will not save you: conservative...
Trigger warning.
Powerful and beautiful writing of her own experience of abuse. Challenges some of the contemporary advice and has this to say: “Give your children words, about themselves, and their body. Naming is powerful. Teach them that they have a right to their body, that no one, not even you, own them, or have rights to their body. That they always and forever belong to...
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Amanda Palmer: “Greetings from Sunny #Occupy”
Love this bit…”could you honestly imagine a different kind of country, where business and government run without corruption, where the wealth of the land is fairly shared, where people actively took responsibility to take care of each other instead of just trampling their way to the top as an accepted way of life? or does that sound stupid, naïve, an impossible hippie-dream? what...
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Never in History
Awesome poster by Jared Davidson who describes himself as: “wage slave, poster maker and author of Remains to be Seen: Tracing Joe Hill’s ashes in New Zealand. Jared is a member of the Labour History Project, the anarchist collective Beyond Resistance, and the Christchurch-based workers’ co-operative Katipo Books. He lives in Christchurch, Aotearoa (New Zealand).”
Jared was...
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Pickles' curry college to be served up in...
Hmm, a curry college…I’ve got mixed feelings about this, can anyone cook any kind of cuisine? Or do you bring something special to the preparation of food when you’ve been embedded in a culture, understand the nuances and subtleties of flavour combinations, healing properties, memories of chopping ginger, garlic and onions in the family kitchen etc etc. Can anyone learn how...
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Kenyan author attacks insularity of British...
Love this critique of the “rhetoric of pity”by Binyavanga Wainaina.. “We are not interested in Oxfam, we are not interested in Tony Blair, we are not interested in what Oxfam is doing for Africa, we are not interested in what aid donors are doing, we are not interested in the partnership those people have with global media to be the voice of Africa to the world,” he...
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* If you protest racism during Black Face season...
“The largely unacknowledged responsibility of the Dutch State in the transatlantic slave trade, practically absent from school history books, means that some people, still to this day, continue to be bound by chains that prevent them from exercising the same rights freely afforded to Gert Wilders. Because above all, the Dutch State has made it clear that it will protect the right of...
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WatchThis has to make you smile!
yoisthisracist:
discardtheskip asked: Is this racist? I sure hope not.
Nah dog, I already told you, all Star Wars shit is in the clear, don’t trip.
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Using The Term ‘Multiculturalism’
Loved this article
I should add that this photo doesn’t come from the article, but kind of summed up my feelings about the word “multicultural”
“we need a new age–with a new agenda–that directly addresses the structural racism” about multiculturalism: “very smart strategies are being used, ones that displace attention from issues of racial justice by speaking in terms of...
