August 2010
TransGriot: Open Letter To Michfest Attendees →
'Trek In The Park': Drama In The Final Frontier :... →
Shakespeare in the Park is a common summer event, lending outdoor picnics a touch of classic drama. In Portland, Ore., a local theater company has taken the concept from Elizabethan England to the 23rd century. Atomic Arts is midway through its second year of Trek in the Park, faithfully re-enacting episodes of the original Star Trek for an outdoor audience.
Post-Gazette: Suit charges Upper St. Clair... →
amandaw:
Trigger warning.
So basically:
High school girl goes to teacher, tells teacher that high school boy raped her. Teacher goes to principal with concerns, offers to escort girl to her transportation home instead of leaving her on school grounds unattended. Principal has a different idea: use this girl as “bait” to try to catch teenagers “having sex” after school. Will have security...
Xander Harris: Nice Guy (TM) -- random babble... →
ouyangdan:
Xander often times acts as though being such a decent person entitles him to the type of attention from women that he desires, certainly from someone, if not from Buffy herself. It certainly should entitle him to dictate who is and isn’t good enough for Buffy to devote her attention to since it isn’t going to Xander. After all, who is this Angel guy? It isn’t Xander! How can he...
article about afghan women in time magazine.
telegantmess:
aqrima:
ihatethismess:
novazembla:
herzundseele:
nezua:
herzundseele:
afghanipoppy:
jonathan-cunningham:
stfusexists:
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE.
thepoliticalpartygirl:
brooklynmutt:
The Plight of Afghan Women: A Disturbing Picture
Our cover image this week is powerful, shocking and disturbing. It is a portrait of Aisha, a shy 18-year-old Afghan woman who was...
July 2010
Some Disturbing Statistics at Questioning... →
So, about those bootstraps and rugged American individualism. How’s that working out, United States?
And that racist colonialist imperialist legacy that’s all about exploiting workers in the Global South?
Also, is there truly any job on Earth that is really worth millions of dollars, 10s of millions? 100s of millions? Is there any reasonable meaning to the concept of a single person being a...
Chelsea Clinton Wedding Cost Estimates Out of... →
radicallyhottoff:
raise your hand if your interested in chelsea getting married.
**crickets**
in other news, isn’t it interesting how all the kids of Very Rich People never seem to have many problems getting jobs? and if they are out of work for a minute—well, they aren’t at the welfare office like I am?
I mean, really—isn’t that *weird*???? I wonder why that always seems to be? **spooky...
“You know it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims families. It’s...”
– Glenn Beck (via therecipe)
this guy is my hero.
(via ihatethismess)
flip flopping joy » Blog Archive » Harry Potter... →
radicallyhottoff:
**gets on boxing gloves**
She done crossed my very last LINE.
*is entirely amused by this hott off*
Obama Administration Considers Bypassing Congress... →
telegantmess:
nezua:
herzundseele:
dominickbrady:
Excerpt via Propublica:
by Marcus Stern
The Obama administration, anticipating that Congress might not pass comprehensive immigration reform this year, is considering ways it could act without congressional approval to achieve many of the objectives of the initiative, including giving permanent resident status, or green cards, to large...
And yep
it’s now almost time for the husband to get home and I spent the better part of the day worrying about this *F*eminist and her ability to utterly miss the point instead of enjoying my day.
I’ve seriously, SERIOUSLY got to learn when to just click “delete” much earlier.
And like...
Is it just me, or do those of us with the *F*eminist training oftentimes use it just to derail the fucking conversation?
Like I feel like I just spent the better part of 2.5 hours putting together posts just to have them hand waved away with “ok let me ignore the most important parts to nitpick at the way you said this other thing cuz omfg I think you’re insulting me with it”.
...
“Guest blogger Mai’a said a lot of things in her post entitled “ain’t i a mama?”...”
– Shake the Shit Out Of ‘Em! « She Has My Eyes
Pretty good summary of what went down, and also why I’ve basically had it with Internet Feminism.
Oh, and this is worth noting for those who are still inclined to react in a knee-jerk manner instead of actually listening:
The childfree discussion...
Sometimes...
Sometimes I fear that all communication is bullshit. That all we will hear/understand is whatever we already wanted to hear/understand.
P. - in which p is a kid-hating bitch! →
Oh dear fucking gods it continues… Kill me.
““Unmarried women, 70% of unmarried women, voted for Obama, and this is because...”
– Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly - Dems Call On GOPers To Renounce Phyllis Schlafly Over Remarks About ‘Unmarried Women’.
…Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum and infamous for her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.
continue reading and audio… tpm
(via brooklynmutt)
Unmarried women:...
““Priests frequently leveled accusations of sexual magic at European women. The...”
– Herbs, Knots, and Contraception at Suppressed Histories (via ourcatastrophe) (via chelle-shock) (via shiyiya) (via telegantmess)
Immigrants Leaving Phoenix Before New Laws, Leave... →
thecurvature:
robot-heart-politics:
so-treu:materialworld:
July 29th is the day Arizona’s new tough illegal immigration law goes into effect.
As immigrants flee the state in fear of being arrested, neighborhoods are emptying and small businesses are feeling the lack of customers.
Nick Riccardi reports: “No one has measured the effect of SB 1070 on businesses, or the number of immigrants...
President Obama to Sign Law Targeting Sexual... →
thecurvature:
In the U.S., there is currently an epidemic of sexual violence against Native American women — the rate of rape against Native women is 2.5 that of all other women in the U.S., and more than one in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime. While some perpetrators are indeed Native themselves, a vast majority of the rapists (86%) are non-Natives, usually white...
“if your brand of feminism does not embrace and push to the forefront the...”
– ain’t i a mama? — Feministe (via abbyjean)
telegantmess:
challyzatb:
I will never understand why some people are more invested in defending feminism than supporting those who feminism is supposed to, and fails to, help.
I have a complicated theory about ideology as identity, and about how when we take on ideology as our identities, we perceive criticisms as personal attacks on us. Its like people acting like being called a racist is...
China: No more "shame parades" →
ihatethismess:
Police are ordered to refrain from shackling prostitutes and leading them through the crowded streets
