December 2011
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The 50 Most Stunning Wall Murals From Around The...
Amazing murals:
Image: Lewis Lavoie
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Hamleys toy shop promotes gender apartheid
Thanks to this blogger Deililah (Laura Nelson), Hamleys, the Regent Street toy store in London, has stopped grouping toys by gender (pink “girls” and blue “boys” floors). Toys are going to be organized around types and interests with gender-neutral red and white signage. She says:
“Despite laws and measures to introduce gender equality of rights and opportunities in our society, there is...
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When Roller Derby Girls breastfeed
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Occupy Chanukah and Christmas
A beautiful Christmas/Chanukah message from Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun | Op-Ed against consumerism and about a new kind of spiritual movement:
“Every political, economic, legal, and educational institution must be rebuilt with a New Bottom Line that judges efficiency, productivity and rationality based on how much they help develop in us our capacities to...
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New Banksy Graffiti in London is Satirical Slap at...
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The questions an oppressed group wants answered are rarely requests for so-called pure truth. Instead, they are questions about how to change its conditions; how its world is shaped by forces beyond it; how to win over, defeat or neutralize those forces arrayed against its emancipation, growth, or development; and so forth.
Harding, S. G. (1987). Feminism and methodology: Social science issues....
Don’t expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don’t expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.
Paulo Coelho
Photo of Magnolia by Ruth DeSouza
“It seems that at last black people have abandoned our foolish dependency on the...”
– Toni Morrison. A Slow Walk of Trees (as Grandmother Would Say), Hopeless (as Grandfather Would Say). New York Times Magazine (4 July 1976): 104+. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc. Copyright 1976 by Toni Morrison.
from What Moves at the Margin; Selected Non-Fiction... 